!!!First Place ~ IDA Winner Historical Short!!!

In the midst of his war-torn country, love posed the greater danger...

Creating maps for the Union is less than satisfying after a war-ending injury and learning his childhood friend was in love with his wife. But now...

Rebellious - Can an aristocratic lady melt the cold heart of a Russian gangster?
Ruined - She vowed she’d be no man’s doxy, but fate had other plans...
Reckless - Lady Margaret turned Lady Bootlegger…
Runaway - Can she prove her innocence before more than her dreams are destroyed?

It's 1938, and to Deidre Chance, her twin’s murder was at the hand of her twin’s ex-husband. The man’s a wastrel. A no good drunk her sister had been lucky to escape. Now she just had to prove it.

Jackson Montgomery is down to the wire in satisfying the conditions of his late father’s will within the one year constraint: making the island manor house his primary residence; and, marrying within one year of the will’s reading. As the last of the four heirs required to fulfill this ridiculous condition for he and his cousins to receive their rightful inheritance—time is running out.

But someone is bent on murder and he’s at the top of the suspect list. A man with a past as checkered as his does not bode well for proving his innocence. Or convincing his ex-wife’s sister he’s not the man she believes. But, then, she’s hiding secrets of her own.

Book 1

Award Winning Author - Kathy L Wheeler presents book 1 in A Weatherford Sisters Mystery

It’s 1937 on Montgomery Island, Stone City, Clover County, Connecticut, and heiress Josephine Weatherford’s dear, yet, controlling uncle is found dead. No one knows why. In a shocking turn, Victor’s will forces Jo, her sisters, and their cousin to return to the island and maintain the manor house as their primary residence for an entire year! Jo would absolutely refuse, but to do so, puts her sisters’ inheritance at risk. If they are to receive their due, each heir must fulfill the terms of the will. Because besides the fact of making the island their home, they must each marry within one year of the reading of the will.

The childhood horrors Jo suffered had her vowing to never marry. Not even to the man she’s been in love with since she was nine years old.

Sheriff Wyn Smith has his hands full since the island’s benefactor was found murdered. A fate the island had not suffered for over fourteen years. Now, not only has the woman of his heart returned to a home she abhorred growing up, but someone is also trying to kill her. And when news gets out that if the terms of the will aren’t fulfilled, reverting all assets to the island, suddenly everyone is a suspect—including Wyn’s own parents.

Reckless
The 1920s

Singer Margaret (Meggie) Montley needs money…fast. Her friend is in a dire situation with nowhere to turn. While Meggie is on the brink of stardom, it's not soon enough to save her friend.

Harry Dempsey is out to avenge the deaths of his father and brother at the hands of a ruthless gangster. But trouble spirals out of control when Meggie Montley shows up the night he meets his nemesis to settle the score. Saving the impetuous woman from a crime lord might be easier than saving her from her own reckless behavior.

Pampered
The 1940s

As the pampered daughter of a famous screen star, Audra Faye Dempsey prefers life in the background helping those less fortunate. Most days she volunteers at a soup kitchen in 1940s Boston's South End. But when a killer strikes, she soon finds herself caught in the crossfire.

Talent agent, Leo Frisk, represents one of the most famous women in the world, but it's her daughter, Audra, he adores. Regrettably, Audra has the insane notion he is in love with her mother.

When Leo's past presents a son he never realized he had, how will he convince Audra he is not the philanderer she believes him to be? And can he do so before the killer catches up with them?