Bücher von Catherine A Hosmer

When Florida attorney Tina Jefferson hears her mother's gasping voice on the telephone, she knows something's happened. "What's going on, Mom?" Tina asks. "You sound...worried.""Worried?" the older woman retorts. "Why, everything's wonderful, Tina, what could possibly be wrong? I play shuffleboard every day and we all have such fun."Except, Tina knows, that her mother has never played shuffleboard in her life; she's a successful, lifelong sculptress.So Tina decides to jump into her flying club's airplane and cross Florida to her mother's condo on the west coast to see what's going on. When she arrives, at first glance nothing seems changed. But she soon discovers that a gate guard may have been murdered and residents are frightened. Maintenance fees are escalating, driving some into bankruptcy, and a new crowd of malignant managers has taken over the little island, threatening residents.Using her legal knowledge, Tina tries to help, but soon finds that protecting herself from escalating danger has become the ultimate challenge.

All his life, Dan Mariner just wanted to follow in his father's footsteps, staying "on the line" as a firefighter. But after long months of healing from severe burns he received in a fire that nearly took his life--and succeeded in taking his father's--Dan is asked by his Chief to return to Yorkville, his old home town, to assist in the search for a dangerous serial arsonist. Reluctantly he agrees, planning to stay a few weeks. Soon after he arrives, however, he is quickly catapulted into the gruesome world of the arsonist as new fires become more explosively dangerous and the numbers of unsuspecting murder victims mount. With a town full of people now depending on his investigative talent, Dan is drawn into the rush to stop the pathological arsonist.