Book 6 – Rescue Me
The Story Behind the Story
I am programmed (thanks, Mama) to finish chores first, then play. The problem? My chores list, in adult life, never ends.
In order to have any fun, I have to combine at least one chore and play a little while I’m completing the task. Ie.. I shop for groceries at Walmart instead of Safeway because ‘while I’m there’ I can justify picking out fabric for the puff quilt I want to sew… or check out the new styles for my wardrobe.
Joan Freed has the same problem – imagine that. Every time she wants to go camping and work on her next book, somebody – or something – stops her writing progress. She must accommodate and fulfill others needs first.
This story needed to be told because I met a man through an online dating site. We dated for a while. He lived 170 miles away with an old ‘magician’ who sucked his financially well-off students in to his hovel in the desert to learn and practice magic. When I learned what practices were being performed to make the ‘magic’ happen, I ended the relationship. And all online dating sites.
Incidentally, he never could tell me why the ‘magician’ couldn’t win the lottery instead of picking the pockets of his students.
But back to the story.
The children got into the mix because I can relate to their plight.
Did Joan and Jenny choose to do the right thing? You tell me…
Rescue Me! – Volume 6
You get murder, mayhem, adventure, and a cozy mystery that addresses the predicament of smuggled humans.
Volume 6 of the Good Grief! Series sends Joan and Jenny scampering north into the Plumosa mountains, northeast of Quartzite, Arizona. The two were determined to get a break after the intense drama of Elaine, The Hoarder had drained them, physically and emotionally.
They nestle into the Kaibab National Forest, Joan bent on completing a tiny house update and makeover, Jenny muddling through mind-boggling decisions for her next life since her last oasis was rudely invaded and she was on the run again.
All was going without a hitch, for once, until Joan noticed that food was vanishing. Then the tent that Joan had erected to hold her ‘stuff’ for the makeover was being occupied by one, then two refugee children from Central America–escapees from a magic cult several miles away. A black and white chihuahua pup appeared, and a whole new drama is launched at full steam ahead when the biker dudes who’d bought the children began cruising the area–in search of their contraband property.
This is a story of personal growth for Jenny and Joan, inauguration into a new culture for refugee children, mysteries to be solved, murder of one who needed it (it’s a cozy–it has to happen that way), and the mayhem that all the above causes–especially a little black polka-dotted chihuahua pup now named Patches.
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