DEATH TRACKS THE SCENT
(as Tess Baytree)
All-natural murder?
Penelope Standing has a lot going on. Her dog walking business is booming, mail deliveries give her a great excuse to snoop, and her husband’s retirement party is shaping up to be an interesting affair.
Then she finds Hippie Harold dead in his living room.
At first glance it looks like botulism might be the cause. Penelope knows better. Town crank Howard Stone, proprietor of Homespun Harold’s All-Natural Emporium, had taught everyone how to safely can their fruits and vegetables for decades. Botulism? No way!
But was arguing about organic food and recycling enough to get him killed?
Penelope’s need to track down the truth may send a killer after her!
The second book in The Penelope Standing Mysteries, available now!
THE CHAOS JOB
What does it take to recover genetically engineered sheep DNA? A nanite technician, an enemy soldier, a glitching AI, and a whole lot of chaos.
After a lifetime fighting in the Oldlander border wars, Sil Tailingstown has returned to a half-terraformed colony dedicated to the One God — with one of the forbidden older gods inside her.
If anyone finds out about the uncontrollable chaos godlet, Sil will be confined for life. So she isolates herself in the hills with some vengeful goats, suicidal sheep, and a damaged AI that is supposed to help run the farm. At least Sil has a plan to fix one of her problems — she’s spent her savings on the genetically modified sheep semen waiting for her in town.
When the package is stolen by the colony administrator, Sil decides to do
whatever it takes to make things right. Now she just needs a little help from some
friends to steal her property back — and save the colony at the same time.
The first book in the Jackpot Drift Series, available now!
SHIFT HAPPENS
Everyone has an alternate form. Lucky people never shift into it. For everyone else, there’s the Magical Probation Department.
MPD Officer Angela Jones has spent her entire career helping shifters get back into their human forms and ensuring they can manage their magical powers.
Her methods are a little unconventional, but she’s built a strong community of people who help each other. A far cry from her coworkers who would rather emulate the tough guy hero of “Shift Enforcers,” protecting the world from shifters at any cost and grabbing all the glory along the way.
Angela has mostly resigned herself to never being promoted again. But a new source of magic downtown is causing havoc. She can’t convince her boss to look into it…until a fire-breathing dragon appears.
Now Angela is being shut out of the case of a lifetime, and the city she protects is in danger of being destroyed.
When shift happens, Angela must step up…even if it means risking her own life to safeguard others.
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DEATH WALKS A DOG
(as Tess Baytree)
Now that she’s in her fifties, Penelope Standing has life pretty well figured out. Her pet sitting business keeps her busy, her neighbors are conspiring to get her boyfriend, Jake, to propose, and she has just enough free time to make the corrupt mayor’s life miserable.
Then she arrives to walk Brutus, the lovable but ill-behaved mastiff — and finds his owner, Jezza, dead.
While the police work to uncover Jezza’s past, Penelope launches an investigation of her own, talking to her clients as she takes care of their pets. Even Brutus, “temporarily” staying with Penelope and Jake, provides clues.
More than one person had a motive for murder. But only one of them is coming after Penelope…