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Tai Randolph doesn’t like tailing adulterers. Or photographing cracked sidewalks. Or staking out insurance scammers.

But being an apprentice PI means doing what she’s told, filling out paperwork, and following the rules, all the rules. It’s a bit chafing for someone whose amateur sleuthing playbook included dodging, lying, and occasional light blackmail.

But then her past comes knocking. Literally.

After a decade in the wind, Tai’s Aunt Rowena reappears, and she’s convinced someone is trying to kill Beauregard Boone, the complicated ex-felon at the heart of Tai’s twisted family tree. It’s an intriguing case, even if it means returning to the coastal islands of Savannah, Georgia, a city that keeps breaking her heart over and over again.

Not that life in Atlanta is uncomplicated. Trey Seaver—her partner in both romance and crime solving—is keeping a secret. Her new job comes with a moral rectitude clause, so she has to be on her best behavior at all times. And unless she scrapes together some extra bucks, the electric bill is going to be paid late. Again.

But in Savannah, all she has to worry about is vehicular homicide, flying bullets, and an enemy who has been laying low for a long long time.

Tai’s got a choice to make. Safety and security where the only danger is boredom? Or risk and reward where the consequences could be deadly?

“Liquor, Lies, and the Ordinal Classification of Courtship Rituals” available in both Ebook and AUDIO!

I’m very excited to announce that “Liquor, Larceny, and the Ordinal Classification of Courtship Rituals” has an AUDIO version! I’ll be introducing my new narrator in the next newsletter (her name is Mali Benvenutti, and she delivers a smashing performance). I hope the two of us will be tackling another Tai & Trey project together very soon.

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After a week of murder and mayhem, Tai Randolph is eager to enjoy an actual, honest-to-goodness, sit-down dinner date with the new man in her life, ex-SWAT cop Trey Seaver. Their very first date, in her estimation.

Trey disagrees—surely by this point in their relationship they've already had a date—but before Tai can summon a rebuttal, she realizes that something's going down in their deceptively upscale surroundings, something nefarious, and she and Trey are right in the thick of it.

Can they discover the bad guys before the bad guys discover them? And most importantly, can they manage to have a romantic evening that doesn't involve bloodshed or gunplay?

Secrets and Lies, Suspects and Spies! — Get Your Copy of Necessary Ends

Tai Randolph is no stranger to solving mysteries. With a taste for danger and a talent for amateur sleuthing, she has helped put an assortment of murderers behind bars, much to the displeasure of Trey Seaver, her partner in both romance and crime solving. A former SWAT officer with the Atlanta police department, Trey believes in letting the authorities handle complex matters like homicide.

But then the Talbot case flares back to life.

It was the crime that rocked Atlanta—actress Jessica Talbot shot dead in her Buckhead mansion and her husband, movie producer Nick Talbot, accused of the murder. It seemed an open-and-shut case…until a dirty cop's secret forced prosecutors to set Talbot free. Now, four years later, someone wants him dead, and the evidence points to the man most convinced of Talbot's guilt—Trey.

It's a situation fraught with potential disaster, the kind of case Tai relishes. With Trey by her side—and both of them in a killer's crosshairs—Tai vows to use every trick in her slightly sketchy playbook to stop a vigilante murderer from claiming a fresh victim.

Meet Tai Randolph & Trey Seaver

It all began with The Dangerous Edge of Things, the first book in the Tai Randolph/Trey Seaver series.

Though the six books in the series can be read in any order, readers who enjoy watching characters develop (especially in the romance department) will want to start with the first one. And now here it is, the freshly re-edited second edition of the e-book, including a sneak peek at the first chapter of Darker Than Any Shadow.

I’m super excited about the new covers (by the talented Karen Phillips at Phillips Covers). They really capture Tai’s energy, and the black/white/red/gray color scheme plays right into the thematic color scheming throughout the books.

You can get your ebook for Amazon Kindle, Barnes and Noble Nook, or at the Books2Read storefront featuring Apple, Kobo, Google Books, and other platforms. And as always, thanks for being a reader.

“Lockdown Blues”: A Free Story for You

It has been one of the most difficult seasons in my memory—isolating, frustrating, and heartbreaking. What is a fictional story in the face of all this real conflict? A moment of refuge? Maybe. A way to think about hard truths in safety, get our minds and hearts straight with that truth before we wade into the wide and chaotic world? Perhaps. I hope it is also a reminder that we are all connected in ways deep and strange and surprising. All connected. All of us. All.

"Lockdown Blues” is something of a locked room mystery in reverse—instead of the crime taking place in a locked room, the solving of the crime happens within four walls, with Tai and Trey stuck in his apartment on the 35th floor.

This story is available FREE for Kindle and Nook, now through all of 2020, as my summer gift to my newsletter subscribers (and to anyone who subscribes during this time—just follow the instructions when you click the link).

Be well, take care, and look out for each other.

Tai Randolph doesn’t like to be stuck inside. Not even with Trey, who can be distracting in close quarters. And especially not with spring beckoning just outside the window.

But when a simple favor turns into something more mysterious—and more challenging—Tai realizes that crime doesn’t stop during a quarantine . . . and neither does her penchant for sleuthing.

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The Tai Randolph & Trey Seaver Series