BOOKS PUBLISHED IN 2009

ANGEL’S FLIGHT

By Alice Duncan
Five Star/Cengage
July 2009
ISBN 1-59414-363-3
It's a warm August morning in 1926 Los Angeles, California. Mercedes Louise Allcutt (Mercy to her friends) is thrilled to be going to her job as secretary to private investigator Ernie Templeton—until she opens the door and discovers her mother on the doorstep. Known to her friends as Honoria and her daughters as The Wrath of God, Mrs. Allcutt is the very last person on earth whom Mercy wants to see, barring a couple of cold-blooded murderers she's met in the past few weeks.
But that's only the beginning of Mercy's latest adventure. Add a couple of phony spiritualists, a Hollywoodland gossip columnist who gets bumped off during a séance, a semi-famous starlet, and several other colorful characters, and Mercy manages to find herself in very deep waters indeed.
SIERRA RANSOM

By Emma Craig
Five Star/Cengage
April 2009
ISBN: 978-1-59414-752-4
A rough California gold camp seems an unlikely place for two lonely people running from their pasts to meet. But when Sam Ransom first sees Zenobia Gray taking after a huge, bearded miner with a ladle, then delivering a baby and comforting a bereaved man, he decides that, while she might be a fussy prude, she’s worth emulating.
When Zenobia Gray first sets eyes on Sam Ransom, she’s sure he’s absolutely not the man for her, even though he’s of great assistance.
They’re both right . . . And they’re both wrong . . . And they’re going to discover more in each other than they bargained for, along with something else: enduring love.