Bet Your Bottom Dollar – Karin Gillespie

In “Bet Your Bottom Dollar,” Elizabeth Polk has just come off a bad engagement. Thinking that her high-school sweetheart, Clip, is the love of her life, she blissfully agrees when he proposes, only to be shattered a short time later when he leaves her a note under her windshield wiper, written on a bag from a fast food restaurant, calling the whole thing off. The next thing she knows, he’s hanging around with one of the fastest women in town. Work is the constant in Elizabeth’s life, and she throws herself into it like never before. She’s the store manager … Continue reading

Miss Julia Meets Her Match — Ann B. Ross

Miss Julia has not had a lot of luck in the marriage department. Married to years to Wesley Lloyd, she discovered upon his passing that he had been carrying on for years behind her back with a bleach blonde named Hazel Marie and they together had a son, Little Lloyd, who is the spitting image of his father. Sam Murdoch is as different from Wesley Lloyd as a man can be. He treats Miss Julia with respect, listens to what she has to say, and, he has lately revealed, he’s smitten with her and wants to marry her. But after … Continue reading

Miss Julia Hits the Road — Ann B. Ross

This is the fourth installment of the Miss Julia series by Ann B. Ross. As if it wasn’t enough that Sam hired a flirty nurse to take care of him while he recovered from a broken leg, now he has done the unthinkable. As soon as he was up and around again, he bought a Harley-Davidson Road King and parked it in front of Miss Julia’s house, and he wants her to go on a ride with him. Something is definitely wrong with Sam. He’s been sending her flowers and writing bad poetry, and he’s even taken to wearing cowboy … Continue reading

Miss Julia Throws a Wedding — Ann B. Ross

Miss Julia is not known for holding her tongue. In fact, far from it. If she has an opinion, you will know what it is, and when Hazel Marie announces that she is leaving Miss Julia’s house to go live in sin with J.D. Pickens, that venerable widow has plenty to say indeed. It’s bad enough that Mr. Pickens is hesitant to get married, but even worse that Hazel Marie thinks that’s okay! And what of Little Lloyd – isn’t that poor child ever going to have a properly legal father? But then Miss Julia gets some marvelous news. Her … Continue reading