Books by Lois Carroll

Torie, the owner of a costume shop in Tucson, finds an ancient-looking Native American bowl under a costume rack, and becomes embroiled in a fraud scheme dealing in such artifacts. Others standing in the way of the crooks are killed. Torie knows when they learn she gave the bowl to the police, there's no reason to let her live. The police lieutenant who investigates offers little help toward her efforts as an amateur sleuth, but he's the only one she has to count on when the murderer tries to kill the witnesses to his crimes--including her.

Sandi Cramer's TV show, Love Cookin', is nominated for an Emmy. She can't forget her early years around 1990 at the bankrupt little station in Iowa where her show began, and the man who came to town to make the station succeed or to fire everyone and shut it down. Josh Pressman saw her talent potential and a lot more. Attracted to her, he struggled to remember that small town girls like Sandi were off limits because they played for keeps. When "accidents" started happening during her show, he had to find the culprit to save the station and to protect Sandi. But when Sandi unwittingly helps the culprit, she knows Josh is left with little choice but to fire her. That will end the station and their budding love.

IN A STEW Catrine Powell and her sister were forced to leave their Utah home after their overbearing sheriff father was killed. Needing to find a job, they take a stagecoach to a town near where the new railroad is being built across Arizona Territory. Sheriff Brett Barton offers her a job running a restaurant he owns that closed when the cook was shot. This would be a dream come true for Catrine, but will he leave her alone or try to run her life like her father? SECRETS IN THE SNOW The owner of a wedding attire shop and budding designer of beautiful wedding dresses, Cynthia is a virgin at age 35 with romantic dreams about finding the right man to make her dreams come true. Her friend Anne is about to get married. Anne's fiance's older brother will do anything to stop the marriage, including proposing to Anne himself. Mistaking Cynthia for Anne on their first meeting, Snowbound with the handsome big-city businessman for the long weekend. After that weekend, they each have secrets in the snow.

Her father steals stolen gold, but she is hunted by the real robbers and held prisoner by a Pinkerton agent--close, very close.

One woman hiding from family abuse and another seeking her lost family each discover that happiness and love can grow from sadness when they don't give up the pursuit.