#1 New York Times bestselling author Sherryl Woods returns with two enthralling tales of the Calamity Janesâ¦fierce friends facing challenges in life and love
To Catch a Thief
Gina Petrillo thought she was on the run from her troublesâ¦but they followed her home to Winding River, Wyoming. City-slicker lawyer Rafe OâDonnell is in hot pursuit of Gina, and he doesnât intend to let his suspect out of his sight, even though Ginaâs mouthwatering kisses are irresistible. And while Rafe is out to catch a thiefâshe just might steal his heart!
The Calamity Janes
Struggling with single-motherhood and career pressures, Denver attorney Emma Rogers comes home for a reunion with the Calamity Janes in desperate need of their support. Can theyâand her young daughterâpossibly be right that sexy journalist Ford Hamilton, the biggest thorn in her side, is actually the answer to her prayers?
Praise for the novels of Sherryl Woods
âSherryl Woods writes emotionally satisfying novels about family, friendship and home. Truly feel-great reads!â
â#1 New York Times bestselling author Debbie Macomber
âWoods is a master heartstring puller.â
âPublishers Weekly on Seaview Inn
âWoodsâs readers will eagerly anticipate her trademark small-town setting, loyal friendships, and honorable mentors as they meet new characters and reconnect with familiar ones in this heartwarming tale.â
âBooklist on Home in Carolina
âOnce again, Woods, with such authenticity, weaves a tale of true love and the challenges that can knock up against that love.â
âRT Book Reviews on Beach Lane
âIn this sweet, sometimes funny and often touching story, the characters are beautifully depicted, and readersâ¦willâ¦want to wish themselves away to Seaview Key.â
âRT Book Reviews on Seaview Inn
âWoodsâ¦is noted for appealing character-driven stories that are often infused with the flavor and fragrance of the South.â
âLibrary Journal
âA reunion story punctuated by family drama, Woodsâs first novel in her new Ocean Breeze series is touching, tense and tantalizing.â
âRT Book Reviews on Sand Castle Bay
âA whimsical, sweet scenarioâ¦the digressions have their own charm, and Woods never fails to come back to the romantic point.â
âPublishers Weekly on Sweet Tea at Sunrise
The Calamity Janes
Gina & Emma
To Catch a Thief
The Calamity Janes
Sherryl Woods
www.mirabooks.co.ukDear friend,
When I first conceived the idea for the Calamity Janes series years ago, I knew I wanted to write about a group of friends whoâd been a bit of a disaster back in high school, then taken very different paths. Now theyâre back in Wyoming for their class reunion and the chance to catch up on their lives. In a lot of ways, these women were the predecessors of the Sweet Magnolias. Iâm so delighted that new readers will have a chance to get to know them.
Back then, in addition to writing about strong friendships, I also wanted to attempt a group of books set in a parallel time frame. In other words, even though these are very separate stories, the plots overlap during the big class reunion. Only the final book continues past the last dance. It was an interesting writing challenge. As you read the five stories, youâll have to decide if the experiment worked.
I hope youâll have as much fun with the Calamity Janes as youâve had through the years with the Sweet Magnolias and that youâll enjoy the Wyoming setting as much as I enjoyed visiting that part of the country to do research for the series.
With all good wishes for lasting friendships in your life.
Sherryl
To Catch a Thief
Sherryl Woods
Prologue
The office at Café Tuscany on Manhattanâs Upper West Side was little bigger than a broom closet, large enough for a desk, a chair and a bookshelf crammed with cookbooks, nutrition reports, menus and file boxes of handwritten recipes. It could only hold one person at a time, but at the moment Gina Petrilloâs feeling of claustrophobia had more to do with the court document in her hand than the size of the space.
âIâm going to kill him,â she muttered, fingers trembling as the summons to appear for a deposition slid to the desk. âIf I ever get my hands on Bobby, I am going to kill him.â
She had met Roberto Rinaldi when they were both studying cooking in Italy. A passionate enthusiast of fine food, Bobby was an intuitive genius in the kitchen. They had struck up an instant rapport that had more to do with ingenious blends of sauces and inventive uses for pasta than lust.
Truthfully, Gina wouldnât have trusted Bobby anywhere near her bed. The man was more fickle about women than he was about ingredients. He was constantly experimenting with both. He got away with it because he was charming, impossible to resist when he tempted with either delectable dishes or devilish kissesâat least according to his many conquests.