Operation Quickline

There's still time to change the road you're onWhen the head of Operation Quickline, the ultra-secret organization that Lisa Wycherly and Sid Hackbirn work for, sets up a sting at the resort belonging to Lisa's parents, Lisa and Sid are fit to be tied. But telling Dale O'Connor no is not possible.Summer hire Dusty Simpson is the target, and Sid and Lisa reluctantly take on surveilling him while working the same jobs they had as teens. Sid's working the restaurant at Wycherly's Family Resort. Lisa is head of housekeeping. Even their son Nick is hired to bus tables.But then an old nemesis shows up, and the sting becomes nothing like what Sid and Lisa thought. The nemesis is killed and it looks like a trap was set for Dusty. Not to mention that a computer disk with critical data has disappeared.With her academic career in a questionable state, Nick awash in adolescent angst, and her father getting too close to her secret double life, Lisa can't help pondering her life choices.

The job was a nuisance. The target was a disasterSid Hackbirn never knew his mother Sheila. When startling new evidence in Sheila's murder shows up, Sid isn't terribly interested until Stella, the aunt who raised him, becomes hellbent on finding out who killed her sister over thirty years before.As undercover agents in a top-secret organization, Sid and his wife Lisa Wycherly have the skills to investigate, but then get assigned to watch a congressman who was one of the main suspects in Sheila's murder.With the congressman trying to make Sid into the son he should have had, and Stella recklessly diving into questioning suspects, Sid and Lisa are up to their armpits in a case that stands little chance of putting the demons of the past to rest. Anne Louise Bannon is an author and journalist who wrote her first novel at age 15. Her journalistic work has appeared in Ladies' Home Journal, the Los Angeles Times, Wines and Vines, and in newspapers across the country. She was a TV critic for over 10 years, founded the YourFamliyViewer blog, and created the OddBallGrape.com wine education blog with her husband, Michael Holland. She also writes the romantic fiction serial WhiteHouseRhapsody.com. She and her husband live in Southern California with an assortment of critters. Sid Hackbirn and Lisa Wycherly are partners in a super-secret organization designed to pass information around. Keeping ahead of the various bad guys out to get them is the easy part. Learning to live and work with each other when their respective values are completely opposed, that's the trick.

Christmas time is here. Not so much happiness and cheer. The Christmas season may be Lisa Wycherly's favorite time of the year, but December 1989 is shaping up to be the worst ever. First, her husband, Sid Hackbirn, gets the shock of his life when an old high school buddy turns up unexpectedly, triggering Sid's terrifying memories offighting in the Vietnam War. Worse yet, the encounter pushes Sid and Lisa into investigating three crooked Federal agents while trying to hide their own top-secret work from their family and Sid's other friends. But there's a family problem too. Lisa's nephew Darby may be heading for trouble thanks to his exceptional talent as a violinist. A persistent agent is courting the 16-year-old, as are any number of girls. With Darby determined to stand on his own two feet, the rest of the family is worried that the boy is about to get himself into the kind of trouble adults can't handle. With Darby's ego spinning out of control, and each attempt to capture the crooked Feds going ever more disastrously awry, Lisa's merry little Christmas is turning into one deadly mess. Anne Louise Bannon is an author and journalist who wrote her first novel at age 15. Her journalistic work has appeared in Ladies' Home Journal, the Los Angeles Times, Wines and Vines, and in newspapers across the country. She was a TV critic for over 10 years, founded the YourFamliyViewer blog, and created the OddBallGrape.com wine education blog with her husband, Michael Holland. She also writes the romantic fiction serial WhiteHouseRhapsody.com. She and her husband live in Southern California with an assortment of critters. Sid Hackbirn and Lisa Wycherly are partners in a super-secret organization designed to pass information around. Keeping ahead of the various bad guys out to get them is the easy part. Learning to live and work with each other when their respective values are completely opposed, that's the trick.