Tea for Three

Tea for Three

Trish Jackson

Romance / Mystery & Thrillers / Humor and Comedy

What does a redneck private investigator from small town Alabama have in common with a retired British academic and her young event planner? The answer is -- absolutely nothing -- not even their use of the English language.A fictional vignette about a meeting between the characters in romantic comedy HAVING A BALL by Rhoda Baxter meeting up with Redneck Twila Taunton from KICK ASSITUDE by Trish Jackson.Redneck private investigator Twila Taunton is following a trail of clues that lead her to England and the fancy home of retired Oxford academic Evelyn Blackwood. Stevie Winfield is just starting out on as an event planner, and is busy planning Evelyn's charity ball. When Twila, Evelyn and Stevie sit down to have tea together, they come to realize the only thing they have in common is the English language, and even that seems to waiting to trip them up.
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Neelie's Story

Neelie's Story

Trish Jackson

Romance / Mystery & Thrillers / Humor and Comedy

Neelie Nelson fears the worst. Her husband has been gone over a year on a dangerous assignment to infiltrate a powerful drug cartel in Mexico. Her hands shake uncontrollably when she unwraps the crystal ball. What will she do if she sees his death?Do you believe fortune-tellers can really see into the future in their crystal balls?Neelie Nelson finds her grandmother irritating beyond belief. She's always going on about being a true Gypsy. Whatever.Everything changes the day she brings out the crystal ball, with its hypnotic sparkling and the strange magnetic pull.After her grandmother's death, Neelie packs the crystal ball away, and doesn't look at it again until she is desperate to find out what has happened to her husband. Instinctively she knows something is terribly wrong, and her hands shake uncontrollably when she unwraps it and feels its vibration once more.What will it reveal in its deep, swirling core?
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Arlette's Story

Arlette's Story

Trish Jackson

Romance / Mystery & Thrillers / Humor and Comedy

Psychic Arlette Xylander's life changes when her mysterious Aunt Lucie, whom she has never met, dies, and bequeaths two things to Arlette--her country home on the banks of Bayou LeGue, and an ancient spell book.Arlette Xylander suffers a difficult and dysfunctional childhood, which is further complicated when she discovers, in a terrifying manner, that she is psychic. Arlette's life changes dramatically when her mysterious Aunt Lucie, whom she has never met, dies, and bequeaths two things to Arlette--her country home on the banks of Bayou LeGue, and an ancient spell book. Then, on the same day she meets hunky Andre Rossouw, her doctor tells her she's suffering from a terminal disease. She displays all the character traits of her star sign, Aquarius, being feisty, eccentric, freedom-loving, flirtatious, rebellious and unpredictable, and she determines two things; to beat the odds of the disease, and to have wild and passionate sex with Andre.
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All in a Day's Work

All in a Day's Work

Trish Jackson

Romance / Mystery & Thrillers / Humor and Comedy

Redneck P.I. Twila Taunton is bored--until her cousin calls and tells her there's a gator in the kids' playground at the small, country town's school.It's a quiet day at the Redneck Detective Agency and Twila Taunton is just sitting chewing the fat with her receptionist, LaMercy Howard.A phone call comes in. It's Twila's cousin, Ena."You'll never guess what's going on at the school," she says. "There's a gator in the kids' playground.""So did they call Deputy Billy-Bob?" Twila says."They can't get him, he's out of town.""Okay. I'll go over there and see what I can do," Twila says. She picks up her keys. Her dog, Scratch is at her heels as she takes the porch steps two at a time and heads for her truck...
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