Nancy J. Parra

Making the most of her unemployment, event planner Pepper Pomeroy helps her sister's boyfriend, Warren, set the stage for a perfect marriage proposal aboard a private jet, but things go disastrously awry when she stumbles upon a dead body in the hangar's ladies' room. Original.

Engaged in Murder

When her bakery's grand opening is marred by the murder of a local wheat farmer, Toni Ryder, who makes allergy-safe, gluten-free treats, must stop a crazed killer who is trying to shut her down - permanently. Original.

Gluten for Punishment

When her grandmother, who is accused of murdering her arch nemesis Lois Striker, decides to solve the mystery herself, stirring up the town's dark secrets, gluten-free baker Toni Holmes must save her from herself before she ends up in jail - or dead. Original.

Murder Gone A-rye

The author of Murder Gone A-Rye and Gluten for Punishment returns to Oiltop, Kansas, where gluten-free baker Toni Holmes has to separate the wheat from the chaff to clear her brother of murder... It's never a good time for a crisis. Toni's busy whipping up gluten-free holiday treats when a murder forces her to put baking on the back burner. A dead man has been found in the bathtub of a local inn--in a room registered to her brother, Tim. With her sibling now a prime suspect in a mysterious homicide, Toni is determined to find out who set him up. But she's about to get some unwanted assistance from former investigative journalist Grandma Ruth, who won't let anything slow her progress in running down a killer...

Flourless to Stop Him

In the new Perfect Proposals mystery from the author of Bodice of Evidence and Engaged in Murder, a country club wedding reception becomes the scene of a baffling crime. The wedding for Pepper Pomeroy's sister Felicity starts with dearly beloved but it ends with dearly departed when Ashley, the bartender Pepper befriended earlier in the evening, drops dead from a lethal nightcap. Authorities think it's just a tragic accident. After all, who'd want to kill a virtual stranger at a country club wedding reception? That's what Pepper wants to know. A search into Ashley's past reveals a twisty path of secret sororities, well-connected enemies, and an unsolved slaying still shadowing members of high society--including a filthy-rich battle-ax whose demands for the services of Pepper's Perfect Proposals are starting to sound more like veiled threats. Pepper's business may be booming but continued success means outsmarting a mysterious culprit who's still wedded to the idea of murder.

Newlywed Dead

Amelia Morgan dreams of a handsome prince who would take one look at her and fall in love. Together they would find a dynasty of magnificent horses and live happily ever after. What she never counted on was her baby brother losing her beloved stallion to a slick card shark. Desperate not to lose her dream, she gambles that the threat of marriage would cause the card shark to cut and run rather than go through with a hasty marriage to a total stranger. Alex Laird is no dummy. He calls Amelia's bluff, fully expecting her to jilt him at the altar. Then the question of the horse's ownership would be indisputably his. These two stubborn foes go through with a hasty marriage, neither willing to let go of their claim to the horse. Stuck with each other for the time being, each comes up with a plan to secure their future. Unfortunately, their goals are once again at odds. For a while, Alex decides an annulment is the answer to their predicament. Amelia takes a different tact. She believes the only way to see her dream come true is to make Alex fall in love with her. The struggles that ensue become more than a battle of wills. It becomes a battle of the heart where dreams are won and lost at the turn of a card.

The Bettin' Kind

Lillian Picken discovers the perfect solution for the problem of being a female entrepreneur in the 1870s. She invents a husband, Donovan West, and convinces the townsfolk that he will return as soon as his army commission is up. The ruse works, until the day a man comes to town claiming to be Donovan West.

The Counterfeit Bride

In the new Perfect Proposals mystery from the author of Bodice of Evidence and Engaged in Murder, a country club wedding reception becomes the scene of a baffling crime. The wedding for Pepper Pomeroy’s sister Felicity starts with dearly beloved but it ends with dearly departed when Ashley, the bartender Pepper befriended earlier in the evening, drops dead from a lethal nightcap. Authorities think it’s just a tragic accident. After all, who’d want to kill a virtual stranger at a country club wedding reception? That’s what Pepper wants to know. A search into Ashley’s past reveals a twisty path of secret sororities, well-connected enemies, and an unsolved slaying still shadowing members of high society—including a filthy-rich battle-ax whose demands for the services of Pepper’s Perfect Proposals are starting to sound more like veiled threats. Pepper’s business may be booming but continued success means outsmarting a mysterious culprit who’s still wedded to the idea of murder.

Samantha heads for Wyoming to prove to her father that she is a serious newspaper reporter. But she is hindered by the overprotectiveness of a cowboy who owes his life to her father.

Nancy J. Parra

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