Kathy Krevat

Single mom and gourmet cat food entrepreneur Colbie Summers thought she’d escaped her tiny California hometown forever. But when her father needs her, she packs up her adolescent son, their finicky feline, Trouble, and her budding business. She knows change is tough—but she doesn’t expect it to be murder . . . Between dealing with her newly rural life, her grumpy, sports-obsessed father, and preparing to showcase her products in the local Sunnyside Power Mom’s trade show, Colbie has more on her plate than she bargained for. Luckily, she has her official taste-tester, Trouble, by her side to vet her Meow-io Batali Gourmet Cat Food line. Things look promising—until one of the Power Moms is found dead—with an engraved Meow-io specialty knife buried in her chest. As the prime suspect, Colbie needs paws on the ground to smoke out who had means, motive, and opportunity among the networking mothers—including a husband-stealing Sofia Vergara lookalike. And the cat’s still not out of the bag when a second violent death rocks the bucolic community. Trouble may have nine lives, but Colbie’s only got one to clear her name and stop a killer from pulling off the purr-fect crime . . .

The Trouble with Murder

Things are looking up for single mom Colbie Summers. After relocating back to her California hometown with her adolescent son and taste-testing feline, Trouble, she’s ready to take her gourmet cat food company to the next level. Until helping a teenager gets Colbie mixed up in a fresh case of murder... Trying to balance her hectic family life with her growing business—including a coveted contract with the local organic food store—leaves Colbie scrambling to keep all her balls in the air. But when a Sunnyside resident is found dead in his garage, she takes on a new role: harboring a suspected killer. The eighteen-year-old murder suspect, a former foster kid and Colbie’s part-time chef, had a powerful motive to snuff out the high-profile businessman. The real question is, who didn’t? Sifting through the victim’s sordid history unearths a cat’s cradle of crimes, including money laundering and abuse. Now, to clear an innocent girl’s name, Colbie must sniff out the truth before a killer who smells trouble goes on the attack again.

The Trouble with Truth

Nancy Holder

Sophie Camilleri

This Anthology of Short Stories for YA was published to commemorate the 10th anniversary of CCA Writers' Conference, the only free writing conference for high school and middle school students in the US. Started by a high school student and run by the Canyon Crest Academy Creative Writing Club, the conference has hosted almost 2,000 high school students over the past 10 years. "This anthology is filled with works by young writers who, without a doubt, have been told at least once and possibly very often, that they can't do it, that publishing is too hard. Yes, it's hard. Do it anyway. For the teens who worked on this book you're holding - I stand up and cheer. The world needs more good writers. Be that. Write." Jonathan Maberry, 2021.With a foreword by Jonathan Maberry, NYT bestselling author and 5-time Bram Stoker award-winner, and co-edited by club president Sophie Camilleri and authors Nancy Holder, Kathy Krevat and Greg van Eekhout, this anthology features original stories and reprints by NYT bestselling and award-winning authors and 15 past conference attendees whose stories were chosen through a competitive process. "The Sky's The Limit" showcases the creative minds of writers and the endless possibilities of what we can create when we don't allow ourselves to be held back. There is no limit to what the mind can create or imagine through writing. Your only limiting factor is yourself. Join us as we delve into the imaginings of authors new and old in the realm of storytelling.

An Anthology of Short Stories

The Sky's The Limit

Gerald Martin

Barrie Summy

Pam Clark

Carl Vonderau

Greta Boris

Barbara DeMarco-Barrett

Lauren Avenius

Cornelia Feye

Cheryl Garrett

B. J. Graf

S.J. Haworth

Kim Keeline

Melinda Loomis

Jo Perry

“This splendid collection of border fiction is haunting and intense. Bravo to San Diego Sisters in Crime.” —T. Jefferson Parker, Edgar Award-winning author of The Last Good Guy Good stories start with characters crossing borders and finding themselves in worlds filled with hurt, harm, and danger. In Crossing Borders, the first anthology from Partners in Crime, the San Diego Chapter of Sisters in Crime, fifteen stories capture moments before, during and after characters cross borders and find themselves stumbling around strange lands that abound with saints, sinners, and monsters. Crossing Borders explores that liminal space—the place where people cross from not just from one place to another, like national boundaries, but the dividing line between life/death, stability/insanity, or innocence/guilt. This anthology contains stories that look at the duality of our lives, as we cross borders between people, values, and beliefs. Join us as we explore crossings, where a character, involved somehow in a crime, must pass over a border, literally or figuratively. As Rachel Howzell Hall says in our foreword: “Be prepared to hold your breath” as we enter that special space of crossing, transitioning, change, and death. Welcome to the border. Contributors: Lauren Avenius, Greta Boris, Pam Clark, Barbara DeMarco-Barrett, Cornelia Feye, Cheryl Garrett, B. J. Graf, S.J. Haworth, Kim Keeline, Kathy Krevat, Melinda Loomis, Gerald Martin, Jo Perry, Barrie Summy, and Carl Vonderau.

Crossing Borders

Kathy Krevat

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