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Trickery, Trauma, and a Ticking Clock — Tai Randolph's Halloween is Starting Off with Bang

Tai Randolph hates clowns. Even on Halloween.

She hates burly men with attitudes even more, especially when they’re blocking her way into the ER where her partner Trey is recovering from a bullet wound, the consequence of hurling himself unarmed and alone into an active bank robbery.

Except that’s not what happened, not exactly.

As the stories spin and unravel and the facts shift and change, Tai realizes that Trey is keeping a secret. Maybe even more than one. With the clock ticking ever closer to an impossible deadline, Tai must use all of her detective skills—both state-sanctioned and otherwise—to track down an armed and dangerous gunman on a night known for trickery.

Because to solve this confounding crime, she must first outwit her own partner.

"Toil & Trouble" is a Tai & Trey story that takes places after Crooked Ways, where Tai is now solving crimes professionally, as a licensed PI. Her “boss” is sexy, rule-driven, and smart enough not to refer to himself as her boss.

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Tai Randolph doesn’t like tailing adulterers. Or photographing cracked sidewalks. Or staking out insurance scammers.

But being an apprentice PI means doing what she’s told, filling out paperwork, and following the rules, all the rules. It’s a bit chafing for someone whose amateur sleuthing playbook included dodging, lying, and occasional light blackmail.

But then her past comes knocking. Literally.

After a decade in the wind, Tai’s Aunt Rowena reappears, and she’s convinced someone is trying to kill Beauregard Boone, the complicated ex-felon at the heart of Tai’s twisted family tree. It’s an intriguing case, even if it means returning to the coastal islands of Savannah, Georgia, a city that keeps breaking her heart over and over again.

Not that life in Atlanta is uncomplicated. Trey Seaver—her partner in both romance and crime solving—is keeping a secret. Her new job comes with a moral rectitude clause, so she has to be on her best behavior at all times. And unless she scrapes together some extra bucks, the electric bill is going to be paid late. Again.

But in Savannah, all she has to worry about is vehicular homicide, flying bullets, and an enemy who has been laying low for a long long time.

Tai’s got a choice to make. Safety and security where the only danger is boredom? Or risk and reward where the consequences could be deadly?

“Liquor, Lies, and the Ordinal Classification of Courtship Rituals” available in both Ebook and AUDIO!

I’m very excited to announce that “Liquor, Larceny, and the Ordinal Classification of Courtship Rituals” has an AUDIO version! I’ll be introducing my new narrator in the next newsletter (her name is Mali Benvenutti, and she delivers a smashing performance). I hope the two of us will be tackling another Tai & Trey project together very soon.

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After a week of murder and mayhem, Tai Randolph is eager to enjoy an actual, honest-to-goodness, sit-down dinner date with the new man in her life, ex-SWAT cop Trey Seaver. Their very first date, in her estimation.

Trey disagrees—surely by this point in their relationship they've already had a date—but before Tai can summon a rebuttal, she realizes that something's going down in their deceptively upscale surroundings, something nefarious, and she and Trey are right in the thick of it.

Can they discover the bad guys before the bad guys discover them? And most importantly, can they manage to have a romantic evening that doesn't involve bloodshed or gunplay?

Meet Tai Randolph & Trey Seaver

It all began with The Dangerous Edge of Things, the first book in the Tai Randolph/Trey Seaver series.

Though the six books in the series can be read in any order, readers who enjoy watching characters develop (especially in the romance department) will want to start with the first one. And now here it is, the freshly re-edited second edition of the e-book, including a sneak peek at the first chapter of Darker Than Any Shadow.

I’m super excited about the new covers (by the talented Karen Phillips at Phillips Covers). They really capture Tai’s energy, and the black/white/red/gray color scheme plays right into the thematic color scheming throughout the books.

You can get your ebook for Amazon Kindle, Barnes and Noble Nook, or at the Books2Read storefront featuring Apple, Kobo, Google Books, and other platforms. And as always, thanks for being a reader.

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The Tai Randolph & Trey Seaver Series