Sisters, Texas

When Madison Reynolds finds herself widowed and penniless before forty, she does the only thing she knows to do-she packs up her teenage twins and moves back home with her eighty-year-old grandmother. To make ends meet, Madison opens In a Pinch Temporary Services. Her first real client is Ronny Gleason, but when she shows up for the first day of work at the Gleason Poultry Farm, Madison makes a gruesome discovery. The dead body she finds belongs to Mr. Gleason. When a local man is arrested for murder, Madison takes on the job of proving his innocence. Even though she is not a private investigator, both mothers are desperate: Lucy Ngyen to clear her son's name, and Madison to pay her bills. But as she begins asking questions around town, her interference is not welcome. With a daughter determined to go back to Dallas, a son settling into small town life, a feisty grandmother who knows all the town gossip, bill collectors calling, and now someone trying to keep her silent, Madison has no time for re-kindling her high school crush with police chief Brash deCordova. She has her hands full just trying to stay alive. If she survives her amateur investigation, Maddy has a decision to make. Will she go back to her life in Dallas, or will she build a new life here in The Sisters?

Madison Reynolds is rebuilding her life, one obstacle at a time. Madison's newest client at In a Pinch Temp Service is a suspicious wife, up against a formidable foe-the lovely Caress Ellingsworth, former soap opera queen. When the star is murdered and Madison is eyewitness to the deed, she wonders if the shadowed person she saw commit the crime might really be her client. Now Madison is torn between uncovering the truth and keeping her client's name off the suspect list. Caress is not the only star in town these days. With a little help from Granny Bert and Madison's best friend Genesis, the popular television show Home Again arrives, with some crazy notion about remodeling the Big House for Maddy and her twins. The problem is, Madison can't afford to buy the house, much less pay to have it renovated. No matter how tempting the offer-or how tempting the show's star, Nick Vilardi-Madison sees it as just another block that will not fit. Even if she manages to stack the blocks in a semblance of order, even if she climbs her way up and reaches for the sky, what happens when the stars fall?

Now that Madison Reynolds has agreed to be part of a reality-television home remodeling show, she barely recognizes her own life. The show is an instant success, bringing cameras and reporters right to her doorstep, eager to chronicle her every move in the small Texas town. With In a Pinch Temporary Services hovering on the thin line between prosperity and extinction, Madison takes on another quirky case, this one concerning a property dispute. Complications turn a simple mission into all-out danger, and once again Madison finds herself embroiled in an intriguing mystery. Now work is interrupted at the Big House, ghost stories abound, more secret passages have been unearthed, and someone is trying to scare her away from her new home. What she needs is another session of Brash deCordova's unique 'river therapy' . . . not to mention the kiss that eludes them with frustrating regularity. What she gets is another round of stipulations and complications.

Things in The Sisters are heating up, and Madison Reynolds is in the hot seat. When a local woman dies in a most unconventional way, In a Pinch takes on the quirky case and once again, Maddy finds herself in the middle of a would-be murder investigation. Even with the help of her grandmother and best friend Genny, this case may be too hot to handle. Things really start smoking when Cutter's grandfather, rodeo legend Sticker Pierce, returns to The Sisters and tries to rekindle a romance with old flame Belle, aka Granny Bert. And Maddy's latest brush with death prompts Brash to finally make his move. With renovations almost complete and the love of a good man behind her, Maddy is ready to tell the world: I'm home again, and starting over.

By all accounts, everyone loves Genny. So why does someone want her dead? There's something special about Genesis Baker, owner of The Sister's popular New Beginnings Cafe. With her dimpled smile and twinkling blue eyes, Genny has practically the entire town eating from the palm of her hand. But Genny is hiding a secret. Despite her sunny disposition and golden touch, there is heartache in her past, and heartache, they say, comes in threes. Heartache Number One: An unwelcomed customer shows up at New Beginnings. Apparently, the restraining order against him has lapsed. Heartache Number Two: Genny's arch nemesis from high school returns to town. Twenty years has done nothing to mellow the bitter feud between these two women. Heartache Number Three: As Genny finally acknowledges her feelings for a younger man-sexy firefighter Cutter Montgomery-memories of her first love come back to haunt her. On top of it all, someone is stalking Genny, determined to make her life miserable. As it turns out, being kidnapped is only the beginning of her troubles...

Madison Reynolds can't wait for Christmas this year. Rebuilding her life as a single mom hasn't been easy, but after a challenging twelve months, she's excited about the holidays. She and her twins have settled quite nicely here in The Sisters, renovations on the house are complete, her business is slowly growing, and, best of all, Chief of Police Brash deCordova is in her life. The tinsel begins to tangle when someone targets the community for a series of "Christmas Crimes." Torn between solving the rash of burglaries and shutting down the gambling ring that's active in the area again, Brash does the only thing he can: he hires In a Pinch to help with the investigation. Finding the common link between cases is like finding the bad bulb on a string of lights. The frustration mounts when Madison and the Angel Tree she's involved with fall victim to the crimes. Brash has plans of his own for the perfect Christmas. With the help of a new jewelry store, he thinks he's found just the right gift for Madison, until the Grinch strikes again. Who has time for being kidnapped by men in Santa suits and bad beards? This is one Christmas that no one in The Sisters will ever forget!

Will a case of mistaken identity be the death of her? Madison Reynolds is looking forward to a few days of rest and relaxation. Her best friend Genny is judging a celebrity bake-off near DC, so it's the perfect opportunity for a girl's getaway. With fun-loving Granny Bert in tow, the trio heads to the very heart of the Intel community. A mix-up at the airport leaves Madison with the wrong luggage, and a last-minute change in accommodations lands them at The Columbia Inn at Peralynna. How can they know its ties to the spy world will soon spin them into its web? The stories of espionage and agents are intriguing, but too incredible to be real. The Texans know nothing about secret codes and counterintelligence. They've never heard of The Lilac Code, or the illusive agent-for-hire known simply as Kalypso. Back home in The Sisters, a drama is unfolding that involves Madison's precious twins. She's raised them to do the right thing, no matter the consequence, but will their quest for justice put them in danger? The twins risk everything to save their school, while deep in spy territory, Madison and Genny race against the clock-and the elements-to save Granny Bert's life.

It's the most anticipated wedding of the year in The Sisters, when Madison Reynolds and Brash deCordova finally tie the knot! Wedding preparations are underway, but the aisle to the altar gets rockier by the minute. Though the community's support is humbling, their enthusiasm soon hijacks the wedding. Squeeze in a suspicious death during a Texas Independence Day celebration, the needy new widow Madison befriends, and the unscrupulous politician trying to unseat Brash as chief of police, and the path seems littered with obstacles. Madison will move mountains to marry the man of her dreams. All they really need is each other, their children by their side, and a preacher to make it official. The couple opts for a private ceremony followed by a public celebration. It's the perfect Wildflower Wedding, but who knew it would end in a killer reception? Cantankerous Nigel Barrett hired In a Pinch Professional Services to find his estranged family, but it takes more than a home DNA test to find his next of kin. Madison suspects he was searching for an heir, but when the wealthy rancher is killed at their reception, she'll settle for finding someone to attend his funeral.