stunning.”
Maile took out her cell phone, asked Lama to smile and snapped a selfie of them with the fabulous view in the background. She attached the photo to a text to her Auntie Lei back in Hawai’i. “Finally feels like home.”
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The Miss Demeanor Series
P.I. I Love You
Story 1
Rivers don’t let rocks hold them back.
River Nightingale has decided to blow past the rocky men in her life. She’s played by the rules for too long—especially when it came to her career as a cop. She was the top closer of cases for years, but promotions in her small town cop shop went to her less productive male counterparts. River’s friends, three other women cops, are also ready to change careers. Together they leave behind their small towns, become their own bosses, and purchase a Seattle private detective agency.
Homicide Detective Gage Hamlin takes pride in his job; he closes cases and fosters justice. All that changed the day River Nightingale sauntered into his office. River has him questioning his pride, his cases, and his aversion to private detectives, especially beautiful private detectives.
River’s client thinks Gage got it wrong, and River is forced to prove Gage missed a murder. Will River and Gage find a way to play nice, or will River be forced to leave Gage behind?
Bare
Angela Ford
Story 2
Small town cop Shay Brooks is frustrated with her attempt to rise in the ranks. Thrilled ten years ago to secure a job in her hometown of Connell, Washington; she now thrives for excitement and advancement. Shay joins a Lady Cop chat room and forms a bond with three other lady cops who feel the same. Their friendship grows and when they meet in person, they decide to leave their small town lives. Shay quits her job and moves to Seattle to join her friends in their new venture to open the Miss Demeanor PI Detective Agency.
Shay leaves behind the charming community of Connell; one of the safest towns in the country. She’s thrown into the world of drugs, murder, and all the lies and unthinkable deeds the city draws.
Renee Mills hires Shay to save her daughter. Renee believes her daughter, Beth, a straight-A student; dropped out of college to strip. Her mother blames the owner of the club and drugs. Shay goes undercover as a waitress at the club in hopes to save Beth and crack open a drug operation. An inevitable mutual attraction with the bartender, Dante Pierce, is a distraction. But is he involved in the drug operation?
Murder, drugs, secrets and deceit may put a stop to their relationship before it begins.
Choreographed Crime
Jackie Marilla
Story 3
Maile Kuhiwinui is tired of her dead end job as a police officer in Hilo, Hawai’i, so when she joins a group of lady cops on vacation and one proposes opening a detective agency in Seattle, Maile goes all in. She’s excited about the prospects Seattle offers, but after the grand opening of The Miss Demeanor Detective Agency, Maile finds herself sitting on the sidelines feeling inadequate while her three partners are hired to solve cases.
Kalama Haleamau considers himself a simple guy who loves to cook. When the wahine from the Big Island starts to hang out at his Happy Hawaiian Food Truck, he figures they’d make a pretty good pair and asks her to spend time with him.
When Maile finally gets her first case, she’s thrust into a world of refined deceit as she investigates the murder of a principal dancer at the Seattle Ballet. When she discovers Kalama’s murky association with the key suspects, she’s forced to separate her feelings for Kalama in order to identify the killer.
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Golden Ribbons
Lauren Marie
Story 4
Cassie Holmes has made a big change. She left sunny, warm Arizona and moved to Seattle to join three friends in a new endeavor. They started Miss Demeanor Private Detective Agency. She wants to carry an umbrella, but is told by people around her that to live in the Northwest
Susan Elia MacNeal
Felicia Mason
Moxie North
Rachael Brownell
JIN
Michael Anderle
Ryszard Kapuściński
Howard Jacobson
George Noory
Eileen Boggess