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Bender is a young insurance adjuster thrown into a lifestyle he knows nothing about. He has a lot to learn, and Charlie, an aging rock shop owner, and her quirky Indian sidekick, Tree, are just the two who can teach him if they can get his mind clear of lusting for Silko, a beautiful, seductive Indian maiden. Then there is the multimillion-dollar land and minerals that Bender is also lusting after.

A young teen girl is torn between proving her friend is innocent of killing his mother, and finding out why there are horse embryos growing in the rabbits she is taking care of. This is book 4 in the Jessie Crew Mysteries series. Jessie and her buddy Deboyce are tangled in a maze of intrigue that tests their friendship, and endangers their lives along with the lives of their friends and schoolmates.

Three determined women; their intuitive, snarky dog, and one shaved cat seek to solve a murder in the mobile home park where they all live.

It's 1957 in Oregon, where prejudice runs rampant. As if finding out that her best friend's dad was thrown in jail for being a Pinko Commie isn't enough, Jessie learns the identity of her own father whom she never knew existed. Even though their lives are in a turmoil, Jessie and her friend Deboyce risk life, limb, and their own freedom to try and save a trapped girl and the lives of 20 other barefoot, enslaved girls who are being worked to near starvation by a tyrant.

The story takes place in 1956 in Oregon. When authorities find out that 12-year-old Jessie is being raised in a lesbian home. They remove her and place her on a ranch where 20-some barefoot girls are treated like slave labor. The ranch owner’s boyfriend tries to force himself on Jessie, but she fights back, stabbing him with a pitchfork. She escapes with no shoes, no food, no money, and no idea where she is. She is terrified that the cops will find her and arrest her for murder.

Twelve-year-old Jessie finds out that a young teen girl was found murdered at a lumber mill log pond less than a mile from where she and her mother just moved. She sets her sights on finding the killer, not realizing that she might become the killer's next victim. It's the summer of 1956 in the outskirts of Portland, Oregon, a place and time where kids were free to ride their bikes into adventure and danger. Prejudice was rampant, and everyone had secrets.

The last thing Vi Purdet wanted to do was spend Thanksgiving weekend putting a roof on her parents' house with her two asshole brothers. There was a storm headed their way: a rain storm and a shit storm.