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Kiss
Me in
Cancun –
Synopsis:
Maya Cordova, struggling jewelry designer, wishes her wealthy
hotelier father
would just drop dead … until he does, mysteriously willing her his
ill-got
fortune. Diego Cruz, head of security for the Cordova Corporation,
jumps to the
job of keeping Maya, the reluctant heir, safe. Resigned to her
life as a reclusive
artist who’s never had luck with men, Maya meets her match in
Diego, who, after
getting burned by an overly-ambitious cheating wife, is equally
determined never
to love again. Under Maya’s spell, Diego struggles to keep that
pledge to
himself while also keeping Maya safe from a legion of would-be
Yucatan assassins
who’d rather spill blood than carry out her gangster father’s
mysterious wishes.
Should Maya trust Diego? He could be working for Marco Bragado,
her
brother-in-law, and a man who’d stop at nothing to claim her
father’s crown as the
Resort King of the Mexican Riviera. Neither Maya nor Diego have
enjoyed good
fortune in love; but a bad decision this time could literally kill
them both. To
survive, they must unite and risk everything, including their own
hearts, to break
open tribal secrets and create a new family, one forged from trust
and love.

 

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Daisy Pettles, Author
Shady Hoosier Detective Agency Series

FREE Audiobook PODCAST – Ghost Busting Mystery
PODBEAN > https://daisypettles.podbean.com

iTunes > https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/daisy-pettles-womens-comedy-mystery/id1488263292

Spotify > https://open.spotify.com/show/3iunBQfHubfLJ3jjSqYIDj

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Ghost Busting Mystery Book 1
Baby Daddy Mystery Book 2
Chickenlandia Mystery Book 3
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Indie Reader: Best Indie Humor Book 2019
Next Generation Book Awards: Best Indie Humor Book 2019
IPPY Award: Best Mystery E-Book 2019
American Fiction Awards: Best Humor Book 2019
American Fiction Awards: Finalist Best Cozy Mystery
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Maya Cordova is a reclusive jewelry designer tip-toeing at the brink of success. Diego Cruz is a heavily armed Latino hunk with a guarded heart.
 
When Maya’s gangster father dies mysteriously and makes her heir to his Mexican Riviera resort empire, it becomes Diego’s dangerous quest to protect Maya from a gang of Yucatan cut-throats who’d rather spill blood than honor her father’s suspicious last wishes.
 
Can Maya and Diego outrun bullets and disarm dark family secrets to create what each craves: a family united by love.

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Daisy Pettles, Author
Shady Hoosier Detective Agency Series

FREE Audiobook PODCAST – Ghost Busting Mystery
PODBEAN > https://daisypettles.podbean.com

iTunes > https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/daisy-pettles-womens-comedy-mystery/id1488263292

Spotify > https://open.spotify.com/show/3iunBQfHubfLJ3jjSqYIDj

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Ghost Busting Mystery Book 1
Baby Daddy Mystery Book 2
Chickenlandia Mystery Book 3
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Indie Reader: Best Indie Humor Book 2019
Next Generation Book Awards: Best Indie Humor Book 2019
IPPY Award: Best Mystery E-Book 2019
American Fiction Awards: Best Humor Book 2019
American Fiction Awards: Finalist Best Cozy Mystery
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Maya Cordova is a reclusive jewelry designer poised at the brink of success. Diego Cruz is a heavily armed Latino hunk with an equally guarded heart.

When Maya’s gangster father mysteriously dies and leaves her heir to his Mexican Riviera resort empire, it becomes Diego’s dangerous quest to protect Maya from a gang of cut-throats who’d rather spill blood than honor her father’s last wishes.

Together Maya and Diego must outrun bullets and dark secrets to create what each most craves: a family united by love and trust.

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Specify which books you are ordering and how you would like them signed.: All three. I grew up in Vallonia and Seymour, Vicki can sign them any way she wants.

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DPH House to Rent -FB AD

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FURNISHED VINTAGE ARTS & CRAFTS HOUSE RENTAL – BEDFORD — Hey Hoosiers
in Lawrence-Monroe Counties .. need a great extended stay (1 month
minimum, tho weekly may be available) fully furnished vintage bungalow
home for guests for IU reunions, extended family visits, visiting
professors, artists, and scholars or anyone relocating for a short period?

The Daisy Pettles house, a vintage 1920s bungalow in town of Bedford
Indiana, off route 37, is now available for rental. 2 Bedrooms with
laundry, kitchen, 1 1/2 bath, working fireplace, patio, free parking,
large porch, great yard and gardens.

FULLY FURNISHED, includes all utilities including lawn care .. TV is
provided for streaming online accounts like Netflix and there is both a
new DVD and BLU Ray player.

1 block from entrance to Old Milwaukee trail for hiking, pet walking,
exercise

No garage or storage but plenty of free street and yard parking.
MAX Occupancy is 4.
Pets okay.

Cozy!

Already BOOKED for Sept 2020, but open after that!

$1540 per month

Contact me at daisy@daisypettles.com for bookings and questions!

Hey, the cost is LESS than half that of booking into a local hotel and
you have the WHOLE HOUSE, laundry, free parking, linens, kitchen stocked
with staples like coffee and tea!

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Daisy Pettles, Author
Shady Hoosier Detective Agency Series

FREE Audiobook PODCAST – Ghost Busting Mystery
PODBEAN > https://daisypettles.podbean.com

iTunes > https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/daisy-pettles-womens-comedy-mystery/id1488263292

Spotify > https://open.spotify.com/show/3iunBQfHubfLJ3jjSqYIDj

————————————-
Ghost Busting Mystery Book 1
Baby Daddy Mystery Book 2
Chickenlandia Mystery Book 3
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Indie Reader: Best Indie Humor Book 2019
Next Generation Book Awards: Best Indie Humor Book 2019
IPPY Award: Best Mystery E-Book 2019
American Fiction Awards: Best Humor Book 2019
American Fiction Awards: Finalist Best Cozy Mystery
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Daisy Pettles Humor Author | Cozy Mysteries | Crime Comedy


daisy@daisypettles.com
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Daisy Pettles Prize Winners – July 2020 Grants

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Daisy Pettles, https://www.daisypettles.com, Indiana author and philanthropist, is pleased to announce the winners in the July 2020 residency and funding cycle in the Daisy Pettles Contest for Women Writers, https://www.daisypettleswritingcontest.com.

The prize competition, with a top award of $1,000 and a free, month-long residency in the Daisy Pettles Houses for Women Writers, https://daisypettleswritingcontest.com/womens-writing-residency/, a vintage bungalow located in Southern Indiana,  is open annually to older women writers, aged forty or over, published or unpublished, working in any genre (other than poetry).

Prize Winners – Older Women Writers

Grand Prize & July 2020 Writer in Residence – Sharon May – Columbia, South Carolina
Working on a southern Appalachian memoir and novel, “Hillbilly Crazy and Mountain Queer”

1st Runner-Up – Karen Ahn – Sebastopol, California
Working on a Novel, “The  Music Lesson,” where a 16 year-old musician struggles with her talent only to be haunted in her 30’s by misconceptions and doubts about past life choices.

2nd Runner-Up – Shari Benyousky –  Warsaw,  Indiana
Working on a Mystery Novel, “Then Shall the Dust Return,” a literary and historical mystery and ghost story based on a 1920s unsolved crime in Atwood, Indiana

July 2020 applicants included both published and unpublished women writers working in genres ranging across children’s musical plays, fantasy novels, literary novels, radio plays, creative non-fiction memoirs, and commercial mysteries. The writer’s grant program , open to women regardless of citizenship or residency status, attracted applicants from sixteen states in the United States as well as Sweden, Scotland, and South Africa.

A notable number of entries were submitted from older women writers and retirees in Ohio, Indiana, and Kentucky. The Daisy Pettles Writer’s House and awards program is located in Southern Indiana, close to Indiana University, Bloomington.

In addition, the following writers, all finalists in the competition, were awarded honorable mention for excellence in writing:

Women Writers Prize Finalists July 2020 Grant Cycle – Daisy Pettles House

Christina Cha – Oakland, California
Working on a collection of essays, Creative Non-Fiction, “Chaste While You Wait,” detailing family relationships and the use of memory and language to deal with grief over trauma and abuse

Brit Monica Maria Gustafsson – Sweden
Working on an English update and translation of a Swedish spy thriller novel, “The Asset”

Devin Kenney – Morristown, New Jersey
Drafting “All the Kings Horses,” a collection of non-fiction essays on addiction, mental health recovery, and single-parent mothering

Amy Lyons – New York, New York
Short story and flash fiction writer. Working on a short story collection, “Marginalia and Other Stories” with a central theme of women’s desires and regrets

Juliet Lockwood  – Grants Pass, Oregon
Working on a Speculative Fiction Novel, “The Coven,” which tells the interconnected stories of 12 benevolent witches in a Pacific Northwest coven by blending the horror, science fiction, supernatural, and dystopian genres

The majority of entrants for the July awards had yet to be published by traditional presses, yet submitted works in progress that ousted many of their top prize-winning peers. More than half of the entrants were retired from careers as diverse as factory worker, marketer, painter, retail clerk, lawyer, social worker, teacher, choreographer, lobbyist, librarian, journalist, medical researcher, English professor, business manager, and copy editor.

Grand Prize: $1,000 Cash Prize, PLUS Free 30-day  Residency as Writer in Residence at the Daisy Pettles House in Bedford, Indiana, USA, a vintage 1920s bungalow, equipped with all the amenities a women writer needs to write her heart out, undisturbed, for a month

1st Runner-Up: $250 Cash Grant; PLUS Award Certificate as Finalist

2nd Runner-Up: $100 Cash Grant; PLUS Award Certificate as Finalist

Grants were awarded based on writing talent, along with consideration of which particular writers might benefit most from the awards given the details they chose to share with the judges in their application profiles.

The Daisy Pettles Women’s Writing Competition is sponsored by Hoosier humor and mystery writer Daisy Pettles (Vicky Phillips: https://www.vickyphillips.com), in honor of her mother, June, an avid reader. June passed away in the spring of 2019, leaving her home in the care of her daughter.  Daisy is working with a team of women writers and Indiana historical preservationists to convert the home, a vintage 1920s bungalow located in southern Indiana (Lawrence County, south of Monroe County, Bloomington), to an ongoing retreat for older women writers.

The goal of the Women’s Writing House project is to discover, nurture, and reward diversity in writing and the arts by showcasing older women’s voices in literature. The project can be supported through Go Fund Me, https://www.gofundme.com/f/daisy-pettles-women-writers-house

When not occupied by a writer in residence, the Daisy Pettles House is currently open to monthly rental by any woman seeking a personal and private writing, artistic, spiritual, or meditative retreat, as well as women in groups of up to three for girlfriend retreats. For more on the house’s rental, rates, and availability, contact Cindy@Daisypettleswritingcontest.com

DONATE to the Women’s Writing House > https://www.gofundme.com/f/daisy-pettles-women-writers-house

LISTEN and Laugh along, to the free Daisy Pettles’ comedy podcast, the complete audiobook, “Ghost Busting Mystery,” Book 1 in the award-winning, humorous, Shady Hoosier Detective Agency. > https://daisypettles.com/cozy-mystery-podcast/