Firebrand

What's worse than getting dragged into a murder investigation because you tried to help a friend?Answer: Getting dragged into a murder investigation, drug ring, and criminal syndicate because someone mistakes you for a friend of your most despised coworker.When Eliza sees the man dead on the floor of Saul's Diner, she's more annoyed than scared. Until they all realize the man's death wasn't caused by a heart attack and Queen Bee Danielle blames Eliza's cooking. Fit to be tied, Eliza is determined to let Officer Gordon figure out who really killed the guy and put her energy toward not getting kicked out of culinary school after a reporter prints Danielle's spiteful accusations.But Eliza is Eliza, and staying out of things never works out quite the way she expects. When she is somehow mistaken for a friend of Danielle's by the people who actually killed the guy in the diner, she quickly finds herself up to her eyeballs in creepy fish, a burgeoning drug ring, scary criminals who like to put black bags over people heads before they kidnap them, and baking a three tier birthday cake at the last minute for someone she doesn't dare refuse.Eliza has never hated Danielle more, but helping her is the only way to save herself. After that, Danielle is fair game. DelSheree Gladden was one of those shy, quiet kids who spent more time reading than talking. She didn't speak a single word for the first few months of preschool. Her fascination with reading led to many hours spent in the library and bookstores, and eventually to writing. She wrote her first novel when she was sixteen years old, but spent ten years rewriting before it was published.Native to New Mexico, DelSheree and her family spent several years in Colorado before returning to northern New Mexico. When not writing novels, you can find DelSheree reading, hiking, sewing, playing with her dogs, and working with other authors.DelSheree has several bestselling young adult series and has hit the USA Today Bestseller list twice as part of box sets. DelSheree also has contemporary romance, cozy mystery, and paranormal new adult series. Her writing is as varied as her reading interests. All Eliza wants to do is escape her past and get through culinary school, but trouble always seems to find her no matter how hard she tries to not get involved. Murder, drugs, sex trafficking...there's no telling what mystery she'll stumble into next.