True Love Club
Red Calendar Mystery #1
Charlotte Detective Red Calendar’s life is in shambles. Gina, love of her life, has left her. She’s been demoted from Sex Crimes to Cold Case because she shot that kid in the alley, a “justifiable” shooting. Has she lost her nerve? The shrink sends her to ride a desk.
So Red has nothing to lose when she reunites with her BFFs at their 30th high school reunion, where they revive the True Love Club. The five lonely, diverse women have little in common but a desire to leave their failed relationships behind, so they join DATESCAPE, never imagining that their Internet profiles will attract the attention of a deranged serial killer.
As her friends are brutally attacked, one by one, Red is assigned to investigate. At the same time, Gina reenters her life, dangerously distracting Red as she tracks the relentless murderer. When Red realizes that she herself is the psychopath’s ultimate prize, she fears she won’t live long enough to enjoy her second chance at love. She must overcome terror, find her courage, and do mortal combat with the most vicious, elusive enemy of her long career.
LOST GIRLS CLUB - Red Calendar Mystery #2
When the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, rocked the world, the sudden disappearance of sixteen-year-old Ashley Morgan from a classy neighborhood in Charlotte, North Carolina, was hardly headline news. Twenty-three years later, Ashley’s sister, Jessica, approaches Detective Red Calendar of the Cold Case Unit with an impossible request: Can you find out what happened to my sister?
Red is in a bad place, devastated by her breakup with her longtime lover, Gina. Red thinks the powerful attraction she feels toward Jess, a divorced mother of a teenage daughter, is as impossible as Jess’s request. Yet Red reopens Ashley’s cold case and learns that Ashley was one of seven lost girls gone missing from 2000 to 2002—all presumed dead at the hands of a serial killer who was never brought to justice. By the time Red realizes that the attraction she feels for Jess is mutual and they begin a passionate affair, the investigation heats up and awakens dangerous old ghosts. Clues lead Red to Fun Zone, an abandoned nightclub where Ashley and her friends used drugs, gambled, and sometimes got pimped out to older men. Red discovers a “haunted” gravesite in an abandoned reform school that produces the bodies of most of the lost girls.
After Red and Jess come under fire from a now-elderly serial killer, Red learns about a secret sisterhood of women helping women escape abuse via an Underground Railroad network, with safe houses throughout the Southeast. The sisterhood sends Red and Jess to the sultry streets of New Orleans. There, with the pressure on, both personally and professionally, Red wonders if Ashley’s story will ever be told, and who will live to tell it?
When the law fails to hold the guilty accountable, is vengeance justified?
Detective Red Calendar is just getting her life back together after a very difficult case and beginning to take the next steps in her blossoming romance with single mom Jess Morgan when Jess’s sixteen-year-old daughter, Ronnie, a champion lacrosse player, is caught with a performance-enhancing drug in her gym bag.
While Red tries to support Ronnie, the city is rocked by two bizarre assassinations: an abusive husband is shot dead after a controversial acquittal, and an unidentified young woman is gunned down near a suspect accused of killing his infant child. Red uncovers similar cold cases: A fraternity brother who had drugged, raped, and drowned a coed was found dead in his swimming pool. The mastermind of a Ponzi scheme who ruined countless lives was murdered after being released from prison, thanks to the false confession of a co-conspirator.
As Red investigates these killings, current and cold, she doesn’t realize that a secret society of female avengers, all victims of abuse, has been orchestrating vengeance for years while living in plain sight as pillars of the community. When Red starts putting the pieces together, she moves to the top of the avengers’ hit list.
While trying to help Ronnie in her personal life and not knowing who to trust in her professional life, Red only hopes to survive long enough to enjoy her own new life with Jess and Ronnie.