To be published!Lola PI, Living the Vida Lola, Jan. '09 from St. Martin's Press
Look for Bingo!, a romantic fiction story in Woman's World Magazine October 2, 2007
Stay tuned for news on the sale and release of the first book in Misa's Legend Trilogy
The Chain Tree
Misa's Books
The Chain Tree -Book One in the Legend Trilogy
Chupacabra. That’s the word that’s striking fear in the people who live in the small Texas town of San Julio. Animals are being killed on the ranches on the outskirts of town, their necks punctured and the bodies drained of blood.
Delaney West has returned to her home town of San Julio desperate to find a cure for her sleepwalking. What she finds instead is the local healer--the curandera-- who warns her about chupacabra and tells her that she will die. When the animal sacrifices continue, and seem to grow more sinister, everyone begins to realize that something wicked has come to San Julio.
Driven by fear, Delaney has to learn the truth about what she does when she sleepwalks. In the process, she finds Victor Vargas, the man she walked out on twelve years ago, the same man who could push her over the edge, far away from the self-control that she desperately needs. The clock is ticking for Delaney and Vic to figure out just what chupacabra is after...
Ever since her mother tried to drown her as a child, Johanna Rios has felt cursed by the legend of la Llorona, the Crying Woman of Mexican legend who drowned her own children more than 500 years ago. Now, more than twenty years later, a young woman is found dead in the San Julio River and all Johanna's carefully controlled fears are driven to surface. Together with Ray Vargas, the principal at the high school where she works, Johanna must face the curse head-on and stop a killer before she becomes his next victim.
Dolores Cruz (Lola for short) loves shoes, chicken mole, kung fu (she’s a black belt) and her close-knit family. When her brother’s hunky old high school friend Jack Callaghan moves back to town, Lola falls hard. Now, after a year and a half as an underling at Camacho and Associates, a local private investigation firm, her oh-so-sexy and mysterious boss, Manny Camacho, assigns Lola her first big case: solving the mysterious disappearance of Emily Diggs. Can Lola juggle two men, her loving but demanding family, her PI exams, solve her all-important first case, and shop for fabulous shoes?
Stay tuned for information on the sale and release of the first Lola PI book.
When a gentle breeze dislodges a tiny seed from its sunflower mother, it sends the reluctant seed spinning through the air on a journey of discovery. Together, the wind and the seed roam over ocean and desert, garden and field. The seed must find the perfect place to call home, complete with soil, water, and sunlight.
What’s a girl to do when she finds out she’s been killed? Pinch herself to make sure she’s not a ghost, for starters. When Dolores Cruz comes home to her parents’ house to find every relative she has mourning her death, all hell breaks loose. With the help of on-again/off-again love Jack Callaghan, and juggling a new case thrown at her by muy misterioso boss Manny Camacho, it’s up to fledgling detective Lola to find out who’s behind the identity theft and suddenly wants her dead.
Stay tuned for information on the sale of the second book in the Lola PI series.