Mary Kate Branson will do anything for her brother, who is deployed overseas right after Thanksgiving - including taking in his mischievous cat, Lucifer. She juggles battling job woes at a bakery with dating a hot volunteer firefighter and all the preparations for Christmas ... but Lucifer has his own plans for a holiday bash.
BIOGRAPHY Award-winning author Meg Mims writes historical mysteries - westerns, Edwardian, and cozy contemporaries, plus romance novellas set during the holidays.
Meg is one half of the writing team D.E. Ireland along with another award-winning author, Sharon Pisacreta, for the Eliza Doolittle & Henry Higgins mystery series. Book 1, WOULDN'T IT BE DEADLY, was an Agatha Award finalist for Best Historical Mystery of 2014. Book 2, MOVE YOUR BLOOMING CORPSE, begins at Ascot Racecourse. GET ME TO THE GRAVE ON TIME will be third in the series.
Meg is thrilled to debut a cozy mystery series set in Southeast Michigan for Kensington Books, coming in 2017. Writing as Meg Macy, the series will feature a teddy bear shop and factory - book one is BEARLY DEPARTED and BEAR WITNESS TO MURDER will follow.
DOUBLE CROSSING won the prestigious Western Writers of America Spur Award for Best First Novel of 2012. DOUBLE OR NOTHING, the sequel, won the 2013 Laramie Award for Western Mystery. Meg also writes short stories for several anthologies for the Western Fictioneers and for Prairie Rose Publications.
Meg loves history, lighthouses, mystery and animals. Her contemporary romance novellas are: THE KEY TO THE HOLIDAYS, which includes THE KEY TO LOVE set around Valentine's Day and the sequel THE KEY TO CHRISTMAS; SANTA PAWS, SANTA CLAWS and HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS, which are set over the Christmas season and feature rescue dogs and cats.
“Never let the odds keep you from doing what you know in your heart you were meant to do.” H. Jackson Brown Jr.
Meg has been reviewing books for years on Goodreads, and now is interested in hearing what YOU think about her own.
