When architect Elise Springer’s father is injured, she immediately leaves San Francisco to care for him. The last person she expects to encounter in her Pennsylvania hometown is her childhood friend Lucas Fisher. Lucas is investigating his brother’s death, and Elise can’t resist lending a hand.
Lucas longs for the close family ties he never had. He’s back in Scranton to set up a classic car restoration business and build a future. The torch he carries for Elise burns brighter than ever, but before he can declare his love, he must obtain the legal rights to adopt his nephew—and prove his brother’s death was no accident.
As they unearth clues pointing to find a murderer and a missing stash of money, Elise faces a dilemma. Is her career on the West Coast the key to her happiness, or is it an animal-cracker-eating four-year-old and his handsome uncle instead?
Award-winning author Judy Ann Davis began her career in writing as a copy and continuity writer for radio and television in Scranton, PA. Throughout her career, she has written for both industry and education.
She writes both contemporary and historical fiction and is best known for “writing romance with a touch of mystery."
Many of her short stories have appeared in various literary and small magazines, and anthologies, and have received numerous awards. Nineteen of them are now collected in UP ON THE ROOF & OTHER STORIES.
To date, she has written five novels and six novellas. Her latest novel, WILLIE, MY LOVE, was a finalist in the American Fiction Awards and the NEST Awards (National Excellence in Story Telling.) Her historical series include RED FOX WOMAN and UNDER STARRY SKIES. Set in the 1868 Colorado Territory, RED FOX WOMAN was a finalist in the International and USA Book Awards.
FOUR WHITE ROSES, a cross-genre romance and mystery with a touch of paranormal, was a finalist in the Georgia Romance Writers’ Maggie Awards, Book Excellence Awards, and American Fiction Awards
When Judy Ann isn’t behind a computer, you can find her looking for anything humorous to make her laugh or swinging a golf club where the chuckles are few. She is a member of Pennwriters, Inc., and Romance Writers of America. She divides her time between Central Pennsylvania and New Smyrna Beach, Florida.