Vineyard Quilt Mystery

A space opera trilogy full of dark secrets, gender shifts, aliens and betrayal with a dash of romance and a slash of gore. Chardon and Halfar are leaders of their perspective race and neither seems to have a handle on how to govern. This leads to messy battles, back stabbing, massive debts and ... possibly love? Dark secrets can change the fate of an entire race. The question is can they put aside their differences in order to join forces and fix it.

Former antiquities bounty hunter, Julie Ellis, accepts a position as manager of the Quilt Haus Inn in Missouri wine country, thinking it the perfect place to keep a low profile and start a new, less-dangerous career. And it is-until the ruggedly handsome Daniel Franklin walks through the front door and asks for a room. Daniel claims to be a historian overseeing the recovery operation of a famous sunken ship that he believes to be buried, of all places, in a nearby farm field. Though Julie finds his story odd at best, news of the "treasure ship" spreads like wildfire through the small town of Straussberg, and Julie and her guests are soon caught up in the melee. The discovery of a dead body at the dig site makes it clear that someone else believes in Daniel's theory too and doesn't want the ship or its secrets unearthed. When frightening things start to happen at the inn, Julie can't help but wonder if the killer hiding right under her own roof. The book includes a free quilt pattern inspired by the story.

When Julie Ellis traded her high-stress life as an antiquities bounty hunter in the big city for the slower pace of Missouri wine country, she expected to find peace and tranquility among the beautiful rolling hills-not murder and mayhem. As the new innkeeper of the Quilt Haus Inn, Julie breathes a sigh of relief when preparations for their first quilting murder mystery weekend are finally complete. The props are set, the scripts are ready, and each guest has a role to play. But when the lights cut out, someone goes off script and a real dead body takes center stage. Every guest is a suspect in the murder and as the clues unfold, it seems they all have something to hide. Can Julie identify the killer before someone else checks out permanently? The book includes a free quilt pattern inspired by the story.