The world can wait

  (1) Last gift - a pair of jeans to my sister in rehab (2) Sally Fields would play me in a film (3) Last meal would be filet mignon (medium well) and scalloped potatoes just because I like them (4) Cats or dogs? Too tough to call, but cats are much easier to care for (5) Thing to remove from my daily routine: Nothing. Really. I like my routine. (6) Coffee, coffee, coffee. No question. (7) One word description: taciturn (8) One thing to change: I'd be less shy. (9) Favorite color: purple (10) Car: White Honda Civic   If marooned on a desert island, I'd take 8 different violin concertos, the longest poetry collection that I could find, and a sheepskin throw.   Blurb:      One unlocked car door, one glance to the left, and suddenly impoverished retiree Muriel Smith is hurtling down the road at an alarming thirty miles per hour!      Will the teenage carjacker really shoot to kill? Muriel can't die yet. Not until sh...

  Blurb:   High school sophomore Charlotte Masterson isn't smart enough to be a nerd, musical enough to be a band geek, or pretty enough to be popular. But when the handsome quarterback unexpectedly asks her out, she becomes part of the in crowd. It's every girl's dream come true. Too bad she still has to depend on good old Rodney, teachers' pet, for rides. Too bad her mother is so unreasonably strict. A ten PM curfew? Just because she lied? It's not fair. But maybe there's more to other people than Charlotte realizes. And maybe she doesn't even know everything about herself. When Charlotte Masterson gets a life, life gets interesting. Excerpt   “It’s your own fault, Charlotte.” Mom’s digging wet clothes out of the washing machine. My fault? How can she possibly think that? Mom continues. “We had simple rules, and you didn’t follow them. You not only didn’t follow them; you lied to us. That’s what I hate most of all. The lying. How can I ever trust you...

Blurb:      One unlocked car door, one glance to the left, and suddenly impoverished retiree Muriel Smith is hurtling down the road at an alarming thirty miles per hour!      Will the teenage carjacker really shoot to kill? Muriel can't die yet. Not until she's accomplished something to make her daughter proud. Not until she's seen her great-grandchild, the unborn baby her granddaughter isn't sure she wants to keep.      It seems Muriel is running out of time. Especially if her survival depends on her driving skills! Excerpt:      “When the car starts moving, you’re going to steer it toward those trees. Try to get the car into the grove without hitting anything. Do you think you can do that?”      Muriel was pretty sure she couldn’t. Then Kevin’s words from earlier in the day came back to her. Your driving ability’s the only thing keeping you alive….” Sure, I can do that...

One unlocked car door, one glance to the left, and suddenly impoverished retiree Muriel Smith is hurtling down the road at an alarming thirty miles per hour! Will the teenage carjacker really shoot to kill? Muriel can't die yet. Not until she's accomplished something to make her daughter proud. Not until she's seen her great-grandchild, the unborn baby her granddaughter isn't sure she wants to keep. It seems Muriel is running out of time. Especially if her survival depends on her driving skills! Muriel and her carjacker find themselves on a wild adventure that has them both falling "victim" to Muriel's curious prayer life. Amazon UK   Amazon US I LOVED this book. Yes that's loved all in capital letters.  This is an amazing story. All Muriel asked God for was someone to mow her lawn. She didn’t quite get the answer she was expecting. At least not the way she wanted it. So nice to see a story where the heroine is much older, with real aches and ...