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And then there were three … Ms America mysteries, that is.  I am so delighted to release Ms America and the Mayhem in Miami, in which beauty queen and increasingly confident sleuth Happy Pennington soaks up the South Beach sun while figuring out whodunit.

Alongside her beauty queen BFFs Trixie Barnett and Shanelle Walker—and with reality-show hunk Mario Suave close at hand—Happy not only solves another murder but finds herself face to face with a cranky crocodile, successfully crowns a new Teen Princess of the Everglades, endures a fraught ocean voyage aboard a luxury sportfisher, enjoys a bout or two of salsa dancing, and hears a ghost story that’s so amazing it has to be real.

It’s all in a week’s work for the reigning Ms America, who also has to deal with her parents’ shenanigans and her husband Jason’s surprising new outlook on life.  At least she’s getting along better with her daughter, but since Rachel is a teenager who knows how long that’ll last?

Click here to find out more about Ms America and the Mayhem in Miami and to read the first chapter.  I hope you love it.  Let me know if you do AND if you don’t.  I get enormous satisfaction from writing my books but I want my readers to be as satisfied as I am.  In other words, I hope you can’t stop turning the pages.  I hope you’re forced to get takeout because you can’t stop reading long enough to cook dinner; I hope you have to let the laundry go another day.  Do take a break to walk the dog, though: whatever craziness Happy and her friends get up to, our furball friends need their romps.

All best wishes. And keep reading!