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.
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 in picturesque Carmel-by-the-Sea. Everything is going 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? What about the catering manager or the wedding planner? No one is off the hook.
Before Izzy and her maybe-boyfriend—an investigator for the DA’s office—can narrow the list of suspects, a second death muddies the water, threatening to turn the investigation on its head. As they work to untangle the web of leads and evidence, Izzy begins to wonder if the seeds of the crime might lie deeper in the victim’s past. With the help of her trusty trio of friends and bossy Burmese cat, Bogart, she keeps digging until the shocking truth is finally revealed.
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.
