It’s Tara Linley’s birthday and the New Mexico attorney is spending it alone, until her best friend shows up. Donna Ecold has brought a bottle of champagne and a drop-dead gorgeous, much-younger lover, Bill Hamilton, to the party. The couple settles into the guesthouse for a good long stay, but Bill Hamilton wants more from Tara than hospitality. He needs a lawyer. Tara finds out too late that he is a madman and her representation is irrevocable. To protect her friend and save her own career, Tara must play a deadly game of cat and mouse. But as the Albuquerque winter chills, Tara Linley finds herself at the mercy of Bill Hamilton, her dangerously unstable client, a man who grows more psychotic by the day.

Johnny Miracle is in love… but not with his wife.
He’s going to divorce Mary, and he has leverage. He knows her deepest, darkest secret, and he’s going to use it to take all her money, her beloved vineyard, and everything else she holds dear.

But Mary isn’t the weak woman her husband thinks her to be. And now that she’s learned a few unforgivable truths of her own… she’s motivated.

Johnny is going to pay… with his life.

But there are others with a score to settle with Johnny. And in the deadly game of retribution, there’s no knowing who will survive.

Welcome to the Sunny Side Up Diner, where the pancakes are fluffy, the bacon is crisp, and murder should not be on the menu…

Jax Tapman has lived in the same small town her whole life. On one hand, it’s helped her dream of buying the local diner with her best friend come true, and their newly opened business is hopping. On the other hand, it means everyone knows her, and she pretty much never gets away with anything. There are a lot of expectations that come along with being the town darling.

So, when Jax finds a dead body behind her Aunt Hildy’s restaurant, surely no one will truly believe she did it, right?

Wrong. The victim was strangled with swag from Jax’s diner, and suddenly every eye is squarely on her, town darling or not! Enter Eliot Taylor, Aunt Hildy’s new cook and a former cop who grudgingly agrees to help Jax clear her name and save the diner’s reputation.