Alice Duncan

Steamy fiction from the biggest names in erotic romanceRosie Cooper, an impoverished, self-employed landscape gardener, is booted off her job by an over-fussy client. Although it's unprofessional, she decides to visit the woman a few days later, to contest her dismissal. She arrives to find a rugged, male replacement behaving even more unprofessionally by having sex with the client in the back garden! It seems she's got competition - a rival firm of fit, good-looking blokes are targeting single well-off women in West London. When the competition's this unfair, Rosie will need all her sexual skills to level the playing field.

It's early October 1923, and three interesting things are going on in the generally dull town of Rosedale, New Mexico: the fall cattle drive, the fall rodeo, and a tent revival. Annabelle Blue is excited about the first two events. The last one might be okay if it weren't for the Reverend Milo Strickland's sister, Esther, whose ethereal loveliness has captivated all the men in town, including Annabelle's long-time beau, Phil Gunderson. Still, Annabelle pitches in and helps prepare for the rodeo, which is always accompanied by a community-wide party and barbecue. This year's rodeo and barbecue are being held at the Gundersons' ranch. And although Phil seems to hang around with Esther a lot more than Annabelle deems proper, she enjoys the rodeo with her best friend, Myrtle Hall, until one of the stars of the rodeo, Kenny Sawyer, falls ill and later dies. Shocked to learn that Kenny was poisoned, Annabelle begins to do some snooping. There is a plethora of suspects to choose from. Unfortunately, those suspects include her own brother-in-law, who appears to be enamored of a woman other than Annabelle's sister; Kenny Sawyer's erstwhile lady love; and even Annabelle's horrid twelve-year-old brother, Jack. Then Hazel Fish, the worst gossip in Rosedale becomes downright frightening.--From front cover flap.

It is 1922, and Daisy Gumm Majesty is back. Not only does she have to deal with her husband Billy's declining health and her dog Spike's obedience training, but she's been hired by Lola de la Monica, a fabulously spoiled silent-screen beauty, to be her spiritual advisor on the set of her next picture. As if this wasn't already enough, a friend asks her to find out who's been sending him poison-pen letters. Her problems only multiply when Sam Rotondo, Billy's best friend and Daisy's worst nightmare, is stationed on the same picture set as she!

Seventeen-year-old Richie Perry, just out of his Harlem high school, enlists in the Army in the summer of 1967 and spends a devastating year on active duty in Vietnam.

When a real live (or dead) spirity invades Daisy Gumm Majesty's body as she's conducting a seance and claims he was murdered, Daisy is shocked and afraid but also curious. She's a fake spiritualist, so how did a real spirit manage to speak through her? Who killed Eddie Hastings, and why did the Pasadena Police Dept. rule his death a suicide?