Showing results by narrator "Shirley Ponthieu McCoy" in All Categories

Anything can happen on a Mardi Gras day in the countryside. Fleeing an obsessive boyfriend, Suzanne Hudson arrives in tiny Port Jefferson, Louisiana, to inventory the antiques of an antebellum home. Full of moonlight and magnolia dreams, she soon finds her job boring and the master of the manor, George St. Julien, dull and awkward. Everything changes during the Mardi Gras ride when Suzanne is playfully abducted by a masked man on a white horse and the famous Magnolia Hill silver disappears shortly thereafter.

Finding a large hole on one’s property is one thing; finding a body in it the following day is quite another. Rona Murray’s business has just recovered from suspicions of her involvement in a woman’s drowning near her property when this wayward corpse appears. To prevent another round of cancelled business orders and gossip, Rona decides to find out what, when, how, and why the man was there. No need to learn who: It’s Shawn, her friend’s brother.

Finn Hale has fire in his blood. He is its lord but not its master. If he can’t learn to control his power, he will go insane. For years, he has searched for someone who will restore the balance and peace he and his kingdom once had. Now, Finn has found her. And she is more beautiful than he could have imagined. Lyssa Jensen was born with a dangerous ability; she can create snow and ice. When she caused an unnatural winter to fall, she fled her fractured kingdom. Now known as the Snow Queen, Lyssa lives alone in her frozen mountain palace.

Dr. Thomas Avery is the last direct descendent of Merlin the magician. He is the most powerful mage on the planet, but is he the only one? Thomas enlists scientist, Dr. Jessilyn Matthews, to help him find out. Yet, it is not just a desire to discover whether he is the only person on earth with magical power that drives him.

Seven-year-old Casey Lillian Ingram wants one thing for Christmas. Her mommy and daddy back together. She never expected to meet Santa, but when she does, she seizes the opportunity to ask him for the one present she has to have. When he tells her that such a thing is beyond his power, Casey does not take it well. Not at all used to hearing the word no, she steals his sleigh and heads to the North Pole, knowing her parents will follow. Also hoping they will rediscover their love for each other and for her along the way.