Sick Puppy

For fans of Janet Evanovich, Sandra Brown, and Nora Roberts — the second Maggie Killian mystery, where she's back in Texas and someone is burning everything she owns.

Maggie came back from Wyoming heartbroken and ready to rebuild. New start, antique shop, dog named Louise. Simple. Then Gary Fuller, her fallback boyfriend, her backup plan, her soft landing, dies in a house fire the night she's supposed to arrive with a takeout dinner for two. The police want to talk to her. They always want to talk to her.

Her shop gets vandalized. Fake emails show up on Gary's phone, emails from Maggie threatening him, emails she never wrote. Her renter won't leave her house and has changed the locks. Someone finds a body in Maggie's shop, burned beyond recognition. Her shop itself burns to the ground.

Then Hank Sibley shows up — the man she left in Wyoming, the man she can't stop loving — drugged and tied spread-eagle to her four-poster bed while a woman she thought died fifteen years ago explains her plan to stage a murder-suicide.

Celinda Simone was Maggie's backup singer in 2002. She survived the crash that Maggie doesn't let herself think about. She's been systematically building her revenge ever since. Property damage, planted evidence, the People.com 'Black Widow' story, two murders, and now the endgame.

Sick Puppy is Book 2 in the Series. Darker and faster than Book 1, set in the Texas Hill Country that Pamela Fagan Hutchins knows as an insider. Louise the dog remains undefeated. Hank and Maggie meet again in the ruins of everything she owned.

She rebuilt her life from scratch once. She can do it again. Probably. First she has to survive the woman who's been burning it down.

Grab Sick Puppy today for your next adrenaline-fueled, page-turning mystery fix!

The Maggie Killian Series is Part 4 of Hutchins' What Doesn't Kill You Super Series.