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Seven Cities of Greed

The hand carved, Spanish leather journal, Jacqueline Tracey buys at a Chicago book auction, is supposed to lead to an adventure in New Mexico for her and her friends. Instead, it almost leads to disaster when they find themselves followed by a modern day Conquistador, who will stop at nothing to get the journal and the secrets it holds.

 

Pedro’s journal said the expedition began in February of 1539, with the priest, Marcos De Niza, leading the search for the Seven Cities of Gold. Pedro made the journey disguised as a priest, but his journal entries reveal he was anything but holy.

 

Four hundred and sixty years later, another group of adventurers gets ready for the search. Nicole Jordan, retired Chicago Police officer and owner of a struggling detective agency, gathers maps, based on the journal and they prepare to go to New Mexico.  Jackie has additional reasons—a few demons still sleep under her childhood bed.

 

Samuel Barnes is furious that someone has his journal, and uses his wealth and influence to track and follow the group to the Land of Enchantment. As Nicki’s maps bring them closer to the treasure, Barnes draws closer to them. A show down is all that can stop the man who wants to be the Emperor of Cibola.

 

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Monet's Palette

The screams are hers. They have to be, she’s the only one there, but why is she screaming, and why is there Alizarin Crimson paint splattered all over the back of the van? Then comes the pain, and with it, the knowledge that, though she’s breathing, her life is over.

 

An accident crushes the hand that Rayna Hunt painted with for thirty years. Not everyone believes that’s a bad thing. A few years earlier, Ray discovered a forged Claude Monet acquired by assistant curator at the Stratford Museum, Richard Keller. He believes she ruined his career and sets out to destroy her.

 

Rayna, her students, the curator, and a Chicago Police detective recovering from her own loss, go to work to stop Keller from stealing masterpieces and killing Rayna.

 

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Flowers for Her Grave

Twenty years earlier Louise Vandenberg came home to find her husband dead and her six-year-old daughter gone. Finally able to put together enough information to figure out who did it and why, she committed suicide—or so it was thought.

 

Small towns thrived on gossip, and Tracy Kendall, Raccoon Groves own gossip columnist was a pro at dishing the dirt. With the aid of Kate Chandler, retired beauty queen and town florist, secrets are uncovered and nasty accidents begin to happen to the two investigators.

 

Only when Tracy and Kate organize a garden party for all those involved do they find out what really happen the night Kimberly disappeared and her father died. No one could have guessed the truth.

 

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Fatal New Development

Six decades after a 1945 diamond theft and murder in Chicago’s Union Station, the event threatens to destroy the Saint Boniface community. The development firm of Hamilton and Morley has set their sights on the neighborhood, to replace the single-family brick bungalows with condominiums. Residents receive warning if they don’t sell at the offered price, they’ll have the area declared blighted and take control by eminent domain. The homeowners refuse to sell.

 

The presence of developer, Jayne Hamilton, has little to do with building condominiums. Generations of her family were a part of the community that did nothing to help her or her mother. For Jayne, revenge is the strongest incentive, but should she discover where her grandfather hid the diamonds, she’d be willing to take those too. It matters little that she’ll have to bulldoze over blocks of houses and the church her grandfather built.

 

Joanna Quinn ends her self-imposed seclusion when she finds her attorney murdered. For two years, she grieved the death of her husband and partner in the Quinn Detective Agency, but now there’s trouble in her neighborhood, Saint Boniface. The number of seemingly unrelated deaths and accidents increase and she investigates the players and the deadly sixty-year-old game they play. What she finds is that a small bag of stones is responsible for the suffering of a great many people.

 

 

The Murders Grimm

When literary agent Louise Denning rejects a manuscript called ‘The Murders Grimm’, she doesn't know the author will someday seek revenge.

 

Louis retires from her agency, moves from Chicago to a small town in Northern Wisconsin, and begins writing her own books. Jeremy Prince sees her face in the local bookstore, and remembers her rejection. He blames her for the unhappy condition of his life and begins harassing her using Grimm Fairytales as his guide.

 

Before Sheriff Molly Townsend can find him, Jeremy kidnaps Louis and intends to torture her to death. The sheriff, the community, and Lou’s sister, Victoria, do everything they can to keep that from happening.

 

 

Search for an Empty Grave

In 1945, two weeks after the detonation of the first nuclear bomb in ‘the valley of the dead man’, New Mexico’s Jornada Del Muerto Valley, Gil Eaton works with a crew to put a fence around the site. At ground zero, he uncovers ancient bones, pots and other items worth a fortune. Gil feels the site is haunted and after helping a friend hide everything, decides he wants nothing to do with the relics. With the sudden death of his friend, they remain untouched until his own death, when Gil’s sons find his journal and his secret. They don’t take his fear of a curse seriously, and soon after they reclaim the valuable relics, both brothers are dead.

 

Twenty-five years later, Renee Eaton finds a letter from her mother in their Fifth Avenue apartment. It has taken Renee ten years to face going through her mothers personal belongings. In the letter, Rose explains what Renee’s father and uncle had done years earlier, and that she believes there is a curse on the family. She had planned to go back to New Mexico, find the remainder of the stolen articles, and return them to the owners. Rose died before she could complete her mission and Renee promises to carry on her mother’s quest.

 

With the help of her cousin Julia, and Julia’s husband Bob, both Archeology professors at UNM, and her aunt Katherine, who runs the now flourishing Eaton Ranch, the E-Bar, Renee searches for the artifacts. A few greedy ranch hands learn about the relics and slow Renee’s efforts as they attempt to find the old pots. Complicating things even more, a visiting professor and another archeologist think Renee’s group is looking for the mythical treasures of Victorio Peak. They will do whatever it takes to beat them to the estimated two billion dollar fortune.

 

 
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