Alison Henderson
Romance and Mystery Fiction with Warmth and Wit
Weston, Missouri, 1865
After losing her father, brother, and husband to violence, a pregnant young widow wants nothing more to do with men and their guns. Will she reconsider for the determined lawman who comes to her aid when she needs help the most?
Ozark Mountains, 1866
Como Bluff, Wyoming, 1879
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When the only daughter of the town judge chases her runaway fiance', a disillusioned ex-outlaw, deep into the Ozark Mountains, what could possibly go wrong?
A dedicated paleontologist discovers more than she bargained for when a not-quite-dead body turns up at her dig site. Her troubles compound when the handsome stranger awakens convinced she's his two-timing fiancee'.
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Things aren’t going Madelyn Li’s way. Her bodyguard agency is on the brink of bankruptcy, her grandmother keeps trying to marry her off, and someone is trying to kill her latest client. All she wants is to safely escort thriller writer and former CIA agent Carter Devlin on his cross country book tour and collect her check.
Light the fire, heat the cider, and lose yourself in this collection of ten short holiday romances. Each story is set in a different fictional small town, from coast to coast, Maine to California. Sometimes humorous, sometimes poignant, they're sure to warm your heart and put you in a holiday mood.
When insurance investigator-turned-photographer Izzy Munro finds a vintage brooch tucked behind the sofa cushions in the cottage she inherited from her great-aunt in picturesque Carmel-by-the-Sea, she never suspects the little pin will precipitate a cascade of events that culminate in the discovery of the body of a prominent local jeweler, hanging from the bell tower of the historic Carmel Mission.
Suspects abound, from the victim’s widow and stepdaughter, to a trio of shady jewelers known informally as the Cartel. The police are stumped, so Izzy’s boyfriend, an investigator with the DA’s office, enlists her aid as a volunteer consultant. With the help of trusty friends and three cheerful garden gnomes, Izzy uncovers secrets no one could have imagined. But when confronted by the killer, she must rely on quick thinking and her indomitable Burmese cat, Bogart, to survive.
Zoe Hargrove’s first solo assignment as a bodyguard is off to a rocky start. She’s expected to work undercover as a personal chef—a potential disaster since she can barely burn water—and her culinary assistant will be the client’s latest invention, a robotic sous chef named GRAMPA. There’s also a dangerously handsome chauffeur who looks more like a prize fighter than a car jockey, and Zoe suspects he’s hiding secrets of his own.
Kidnapping. Extortion. Antiquities smuggling. Add one light-fingered, bad-tempered monkey, and it’s all in a day’s work for novice bodyguard Casey Callahan when she’s hired to protect the five-year-old niece of a handsome archaeology professor.
Desperate to escape her abusive fiancé, sculptor Laurel McDowell loads everything she owns into her VW Beetle and heads for the sanctuary of her family home in Big Sur, where she lands a job in an art gallery and begins a new life.
After her ex’s body washes up on the beach, Laurel finds herself dragged into a scheme involving money-laundering Russians, a pair of amiable biker gang members, and a good-looking government number-cruncher who’s more comfortable in a T-shirt and shorts than a suit.
When Sage McDowell’s old nemesis is murdered, she’s drawn into a plot involving a sinister drug cartel, a shady restauranteur, and a sexy winemaker. Sometimes aided, sometimes hindered, by a gang of delinquent goats and a pair of heroic turkeys named Wilbur and Orville, she must find the killer before becoming the next victim. Welcome to mayhem in paradise!
Glassblower Angelica McDowell has aspired to be a full-time artist since she was a child growing up in Big Sur. However, the discovery of a desperate young woman on her doorstep and the murder of her shady landlord threaten to drag Angelica into the dark underworld of human trafficking. Her only hope is to her only hope is to join forces with a darkly dangerous FBI agent and his irrepressible pug.
Izzy Munro can take a hint. After being laid off from her job, dumped by her fiancé, and ousted from her home—all on her fortieth birthday--she packs up and heads south to the picturesque village of Carmel-by-the-Sea. When a local chocolatier is murdered practically in her lap, she enlists a quirky trio of friends and a pushy Burmese cat to help catch the killer.
Izzy Munro's budding photography business gets a big boost when she's asked to photograph a holiday wedding at a grand old seaside hotel. Everything goes perfectly until the best man disappears after the ceremony, and his tuxedo-clad body is found floating in the bathtub of his room. Who could have wanted him dead--a swindled client, a secret lover, the father of the bride? No one is off the hook.
