Celeste Adams believed she and her late husband would enjoy their golden years running The Gran Vista Hotel. After his sudden, tragic death, Celeste is left alone, deep in debt, and at risk of losing the hotel. Public relations expert Bill Matthews persuades her to market the hotel as a wedding venue, but the inaugural event ends with a groom found dead. While his death is initially deemed natural, an autopsy reveals foul play. Suspicion falls on the bride, Emma Carlyle, now a two-time widow. As family secrets surface, Celeste's investigation uncovers a shocking truth.

As both a reader and a writer, I'm a lifelong lover of the written word. After 21 years with my hometown newspaper, I ran a successful freelance business from 2009-2019 formatting ebooks for independent authors and publishers. Keeping my hand in the publishing industry helped fuel my desire to continue writing. My first full-length novel, A Soldier's Love was published in 2003. Now 20 years later, I've written books covering a variety of genres from World War II romance, ghost stories, and Old West mysteries. My current works are cozy murder mysteries set at a small hotel, owned by a 60-something widow, in the Blue Ridge Mountains. I hope you enjoy reading my stories as much as I enjoyed writing them.