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Third Grave Dead Ahead

***WARNING: MAJOR SPOILER ALERT!!!*** *If you have not read book one, stop now!*

Charley Davidson—grim reaper extraordinaire, private investigator . . . meh—is practicing her profession under the influence, caffeine and copious amounts of it, due to an extreme desire to induce insomnia. Every time she closes her eyes, Reyes Farrow, the part-human, part-supermodel son of Satan, is there. Only thing is, he’s a tad peeved. She did bind for all eternity, so it’s hard blame him. But 13 days without a wink is bound to bring out the crazy in a girl. So, when a man hires her to find his wife, Charley accepts the job with one goal in mind: Put the man behind bars, and not the wet kind. She can sense the guilt waft off him and vows to find the woman’s body and prove he’s a murderer.

In the meantime, Reyes is back in prison and none too happy about it . . . so Charley thinks, until she is carjacked by the dark-haired rake, who swears the very man he went to prison for killing is not only alive, but close by. And he wants Charley to find him.

While a visit to her old friend Rocket sheds no light on Reyes’s situation, Charley finds out the man’s wife is still alive and time is running out. Finding her before she dies would be a miracle, but she has to try. Together with the help of a fashion-impaired receptionist named Cookie, Charley sets out to bring the bad guys to justice. She just hopes Reyes is not one of them. And that she’s not hallucinating from her self-induced bout with insomnia.

Reviewer: Leslee
Review: Jan 24, 2012
Genre(s): Paranormal Romance
What's a girl to do when you have trapped a supernatural being in his body and now he is pissed? How do you cope when every time you fall asleep you end up in the arms of that hot, angry man? Well, if you're Charley, you drink tons of coffee and ignore the pesky hallucination of the creepy little girl with the knife. She wants so badly to fix things with Reyes, but she doesn't know how. To top it off, her dad

Second Grave on the Left

Charley Davidson, Grim Reaper Extraordinaire, is back in this sexy, suspenseful novel of supernatural shenanigans

When Charley is rudely awakened in the middle of the night by her best friend who tells her to get dressed quickly and tosses clothes out of the closet at her, she can’t help but wonder what Cookie’s up to. Leather scrunch boots with a floral miniskirt? Together? Seriously? Cookie explains that a friend of hers named Mimi disappeared five days earlier and that she just got a text from her setting up a meet at a coffee shop downtown. They show up at the coffee shop, but no Mimi. But Charley finds a message on the bathroom wall. Mimi left a clue, a woman’s name. Mimi’s husband explains that his wife had been acting strange since she found out an old friend of hers from high school had been found murdered a couple weeks prior. The same woman Mimi had named in her message.

--This book is available in multiple formats including audiobook from Macmillan Audio

Reviewer: Leslee
Review: Aug 3, 2011
Genre(s): Paranormal Romance
Charley Davidson is a private investigator and the Grim Reaper. From an early age she was helping her father and uncle solve homicides with her "abilities". It was quite easy; all she had to do was ask the deceased who killed them. Being the Grim Reaper makes it difficult to be nomal but she has managed up until recently. With Reyes, aka The Son of Satan, back in her life, she spends a lot of time trying to

Reviewer: Carrie Jo
Review: Jan 2, 2012
Genre(s): Paranormal Romance
In the second installment of the Grave Series, Miss Jones takes us for another thrill riding, hilarious and heart felt adventure with her heroine Charley Davidson. Being torn out of bed at two in the morning, almost stuffed in a trunk, and then having a gun pointed at your head could make any sane woman lose it within those short hours before dawn. But for Charlie Davidson, PI, Crime Consultant, Bad Ass Beas

First Grave on the Right

Private investigator Charlotte Davidson was born with three things: a smoking hot ass; a healthy respect for the male anatomy; and the rather odd job title of grim reaper. Since the age of five, she has been helping the departed solve the mysteries of their deaths so they can cross. Thus, when three lawyers from the same law firm are murdered, they come to her to find their killer. In the meantime, she's dealing with a being more powerful, and definitely sexier, than any specter she's ever come across. With the help of a pain-in-the-ass skip tracer, a dead pubescent gangbanger named Angel, and a lifetime supply of sarcasm, Charley sets out to solve the highest profile case of the year and discovers that dodging bullets isn't nearly as dangerous as falling in love.

First Grave on the Right is the 2009 RWA© Golden Heart® winner for Best Paranormal Romance Manuscript and won first in the Silicon Valley RWA's GOTCHA! Contest. It will be released in 2011 by St. Marin's Press along with the next two in the series.

Reviewer: Janalee
Review: Jan 25, 2011
Genre(s): Paranormal Romance
A true paranormal princess has been proclaimed. Bravo Ms. Jones, you have just hit the big time. Listen up, my name is Charley Davidson, and I see and speak to the dearly departed. Don’t laugh, I really do. To add to that little ditty, I am also the Grim Reaper. No, not as I take souls, more along the lines of I help lost souls find their way home. Now, I have a sexual entity consuming my dreams and n

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