Love is in the Air...

Happy Valentine’s Day. It’s also my birthday week, so I celebrate a lot in February. For this week’s post, I thought I’d talk about the love interests in my series.

Delanie Fitzgerald - Sassy private investigator, Delanie Fitzgerald, is hired in Secret Lives and Private Eyes to find out if 1980s rocker, Johnny Velvet, was living incognito in rural Virginia. During her investigation, she mixes business and pleasure and becomes involved with the teen heartthrob, John Bailey/Johnny Velvet. Without any spoilers, the PI and the former rocker part ways, and he pops back into her life at the most inopportune time in Male Revues and Subterfuge when she starts seeing FBI agent, Eric Ellington.

Jules Keane - In my glamping series, Jules has known Jake Evans since she was in middle school. He worked on and off at her parent’s campground and use to tease her constantly. When he returned from several tours in the Middle East, he returned to Fern Valley and rejoined the team as the resort. Now, he’s her boyfriend and partner in his tiny house business.

I’m an 80s girl. Jules is named for the Demi Moore character in St. Elmo’s Fire, and Jake is named for the Michael Shoeffling character in Sixteen Candles.

Jade Hicks - In the Mermaid Bay Christmas Shoppe Mysteries, Jade and Sheriff Nick have been friends since middle school. They dated in high school and then went their separate ways with college and full-time jobs. Both of their returns to Mermaid Bay were timed perfectly for the pair to realize how much they meant to each other.

Cassidy Jamison - My newest series, the Pearly Girls Mysteries, launches in March. This is my Veronica Mars meets the Golden Girls stories. Cassidy inherits her grandmother’s event planning business and property in Ivy Springs, Virginia, and her grandmother’s four dear friends, Roxie, Ruthanne, Kate, and Aileen, help her with planning and decorating. The property, nestled in the Blue Ridge Mountains, has a serenity garden, glamped up former dairy barn, an amphitheater, the remains of her grandfather’s old honky-tonk, and a cave.

Cassidy spends most of her time trying to keep her business solvent, while the not-always helpful Pearly Girls try to fix her up with any eligible bachelor in the tri-county area.