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A Fourth of July parade, 89 feral cats, and a missing author. It's nothing Lia and her schnauzer can't handle.While the dog park gang trains their fur-babies to participate in Northside's famously eccentric Fourth of July parade, starving artist Lia Anderson builds a float commissioned by Fiber and Snark, the cat-rescuing knitting club who manages the career of local best-selling author Lucas Cross. Then Lucas disappears at a book convention, someone attacks Lucas's accountant, and Lia is the only one the ladies of Fiber and Snark trust to discover the truth while protecting a secret no one suspects they have.It's the dog park gang to the rescue. But can they find Lucas before somebody winds up dead?(63,000 words)

Lia is torn between loyalties when her best patron befriends a murder suspect.Lia Anderson's escape-artist foster dog shows up with a human femur, sending Detective Peter Dourson on a hunt that ends with an ironclad case against Kitty, the dead man's high school sweetheart. Lia shouldn't have skin in this game, but she helped Peter apprehend Kitty and now she feels responsible. Worse, she believes Kitty may be innocent. When Lia's best patron takes up Kitty's cause, the pressure is on for the dog park gang to uncover the truth.Curl up with Maximum Security, a romp of a mystery laced with humor, dogs, and love.(70,000 words)

Who can you trust when everything you believe is wrong?Artist Lia Anderson survived the murder of her boyfriend and betrayal by a friend, emerging from trauma with a hunky new detective beau, an exciting commission, and a straight-talking therapist to help her sort everything out. When a disturbing message raises questions about Luthor's death, Detective Peter Dourson launches a clandestine investigation into the closed case. Lia copes by refusing to accept that her world is still not safe. Neither of them realize digging for the truth will place her in the crosshairs of a killer increasingly out of control.This book concludes the storyline begun in A Shot in the Bark.(75,000 words)