Mandy Chronicles

MY YEAR OF LIVING DANGEROUSLY.THE MANDY CHRONICLES, BOOK 1.Mandy Ryan's To Do List: Divorce lying, cheating rat bastard husband, Roger Survive a year in a yurt Write a book about it. MANDY RYAN is reinventing her life by taking a sabbatical from her position as wife, mother and government documents librarian. Her children are grown. Her husband, ROGER, is lusting after another woman. She hires her friend, JULIA, to be her divorce lawyer, changes the locks on her house and goes in search of the real Mandy Ryan. Mandy has a contract to deliver a book length manuscript on living the primitive life for a year in a yurt when she has never written a book, gone camping, or lived more than six blocks from a Starbucks. For optimistic Mandy, not a problem. For EDGAR, Mandy's New York editor, who wants her book to be about skinning rabbits and shooting deer, preferably with a bow and arrow, more negotiation is required. Mandy survives her year, but has a few loose ends to tie up before she can live happily ever after: Who keeps leaving moccasin prints outside her yurt?, How can she satisfy Editor Edgar's blood lust without killing small furry creatures? Why does that plane fly over her home when the moon is full? Why does HENRY, the nephew of Mandy's friend HANNAH PETERS, hate her? Mandy embraces the culture shock of life in the country complete with flash floods and rattlesnakes, and learns far more than she bargained for or can put in her book.

Mandy Ryan has two problems that are keeping her awake at night. How can Sheriff Tom Lennon be her "Significant Other" when he still lives in Juniper Flats and she lives somewhere else? And what can she do to fix the problem? The other issue disturbing her sleep is her enormous credit card debt from her year in the yurt. As a result, her current To Do List is troublesome: CURRENT TO DO LIST Go back to work at the library and start chipping away at the credit card debt. Hope for a solution to the Tom dilemma. Then she discovers her deceased friend Hannah has left her a fortune, solving one problem but creating another more dangerous one. When the wonderful windfall puts her daughter Cheryl in serious danger, Mandy's priorities are forcibly reorganized. REVISED TO DO LIST Dodge Hannah's greedy and angry nephew, Henry. Avoid nasty litigation. Protect daughter, Cheryl from serious and totally unexpected danger.

In this third book of the Mandy Chronicles, a stowaway on Mandy's book tour turns a simple trip from point A to point B into a race for survival. Somebody wants Mandy's good friend Earlene and doesn't care how he gets her. Mandy, former wife, government documents librarian, and the mother of two troublesome adult children survived a year in a yurt and wrote a book about it. She survived the problems brought on by sudden wealth and the kidnapping of her daughter. Now she has to survive her book tour, save her friend and make it back home to Carson Corners alive. No problem. Piece of cake.