Böcker av Diane E. Tatum

When Dorie and Ross MacAvoy return from their honeymoon in Scotland, much has changed. Police Captain Riley McDonough is dating Jenny Schaefer, the waitress at the Corner Café and server at the Doll House B&B for Dorie and Ross's wedding. Dorie starts her new job at Daelin Police Department as a Liaison officer and researcher with Detectives Mavers and Akers. Ross starts a new job at the Chattahoochee Ranger Station with his new partner Felicity Johnson.When a series of church burglaries begin in Daelin, Dorie is confounded by the lab results saying the burglary suspect is a pregnant familial relative. The only female relative she knows is her mom, who has no reason to burglarize churches in Georgia when she lives in St. Louis. What is going on? To complicate matters further, a red hatchback is seen fleeing one of the scenes and strikes and kills a young boy. The driver has a brown pony-tail, like Jenny's.What is the burglar looking for? Who drove the red hatchback? Is Jenny involved? How are they related to each other?

Daelin High School alumni are returning to Daelin for a mega-reunion involving five graduating classes. Those grads who left Daelin for better opportunities than were available in their small Georgia town are often called the diaspora, the scattered ones. The first alum taken is Captain Riley McDonough's high school crush, Lucy Hendrickson. Riley and Daelin PD's finest are on the case, including Dorie MacAvoy, former reporter turned Liaison Officer. However, Dorie and Ross's pregnancy teeters precariously on viability.Will Dorie and Ross's child survive?Which alum will be abducted next?Why are they being taken?How will the police find the disappearing diaspora?

Dorie Hudson, reporter for the Daelin Beacon, is investigating a series of break-ins and burglaries across Daelin, GA. One witness identifies the culprit of an arson as chief of police Riley McDonough, escaping in a stolen purple car. Who is this look-a-like criminal who shares Riley's DNA? He is targeting all the people Riley cares about, even his dog.Dorie's fiancé Ross MacAvoy is in California working for the National Forestry Service, hoping to earn a spot in Georgia's Chattahoochee Forest come spring. Riley's boyhood best friend, Ross is also targeted when he comes home for a couple weeks during California's fire emergency.What other secrets does Daelin have to offer about Riley's Mama Mary and Ross's childhood?What secrets is Dorie hiding from herself as well as Ross?Is anyone safe in Daelin with Riley's 'evil twin' on the loose?

Ross and Dorie are planning a Christmas Eve wedding.Someone wants Dorie out of the way, permanently.Could it be his mother, escaped from Central State Hospital?Ross really thought Dorie was imagining things while he was in California, but now that he's home, though sleeping at Riley's until the wedding, she continues to see things being moved and lights on in the attic. When someone steals his credit card and sends Dorie flowers from him with it, he just has to find out what is going on. Dorie finds out the secret about what happened with Ross's mother on Ross's 5th birthday party that Riley, Emmie, Jared, Bobby, and Joe attended. Planning for a Christmas Eve wedding after their trip to St. Louis at Thanksgiving makes the timetable tight while someone wants Dorie out of the picture, permanently.

Dorie Hudson, a new journalism graduate from Virginia Tech, moves to small town Daelin, GA, to work for the Daelin Beacon as the Lifestyles Editor. Within the first weeks of her time in Daelin, she finds the town up in arms about the kudzu 'sculptures' swallowing the loblolly pines on the road into Daelin. Why won't the mayor allow the nursery man Ross MacAvoy to tear down and destroy the overgrowing vines? What's hiding in the kudzu? ¿As the mystery deepens, Dorie finds most people are like the kudzu, beautiful and polite on the outside, but dead and self-serving on the inside.

Kate Winslow inherited her great-aunt's Victorian house in Adams, Tennessee. She leaves her job on Music Row in Nashville to turn the old house into a bed & breakfast.Kate reunites with her childhood best friend (& first love) Will Bell, who decides to partner with her in renovating the house. Almost immediately strange things begin to occur, and Kate and Will suffer multiple injuries. Some suggest that the Bell Witch is at fault.Beginning in 1817, supernatural happenings bedeviled the Bell family subsiding only after the death of the Bell patriarch John Bell, Sr. The Bell Witch is the name given to that evil spirit that disturbed Adams, Tennessee. In 1819, Andrew Jackson spent a night at the Bells' (as many apparently did) to witness the acts of the spirit. At the end of the night, he is quoted as saying, "I would rather fight the British at New Orleans than fight the Bell Witch."Who is at fault for the strange happenings at Kate's Bed and Breakfast?What mysteries does the old house have to share?Are the strange happenings a figment of Kate's imagination?