Moon Through The Magnolia

by Kate Sweeney

Cass O’Banion was tired. Tired of donning the judicial robes for more years than she cared to count. Tired of watching the endless stream of humanity parading by her bench. Tired of Chicago politics and tired of wondering what exactly she wanted out of life. Honestly, Cass was just plain tired—she had insomnia. So when her grandmother, Miriam O’Banion, gave her the option of moving to the sleepy town of Sombre Lac in southeastern Louisiana and start up a law practice, Cass jumped at the chance. She had hoped to forget the last parade of malcontents, in particular Regina “Dev” Devereaux who annoyed Cass to no end for some reason. But that was not to be and as luck would have it Cass was out of luck which thrilled Dev, and thus further annoying Cass. Dev was happy, Miriam was happy. It seemed everyone in Sombre Lac was happy to welcome another O’Banion back to the bayou. Other than the alligators and insect life the size of a Buick, how different could this bayou town be from Chicago? Cass O’Banion was about to find out, with Dev’s help of course—which was annoying.

228 pages, Kindle Edition

First published June 1, 2012

About the author

Kate Sweeney was the 2007 recipient of the Golden Crown Literary Society award for Debut Author for She Waits, the first in the Kate Ryan Mystery series, which was also nominated for the Lambda Literary Society award for Lesbian Mystery.

The second in the series, A Nice Clean Murder, was nominated the Lambda this year for Lesbian Mystery, and is a nominee for GCLS award in the Mystery category. Her novel Away from the Dawn released in August 2007 is also nominated for the GCLS award for Speculative Fiction. She is also a contributing author for the anthology Wild Nights: (Mostly) True Stories of Women Loving Women, published by Bella Books.

Born in Chicago, Kate resides in Villa Park, Illinois, where she works as an office manager—no glamour here, folks; it pays the bills. Humor is deeply embedded in Kate’s DNA. She sincerely hopes you will see this when you read her novels, short stories, and other works.

Reviews

[Mirtha Siblesz · Rating 5 out of 5]

Sweet story!

Very sweet story! Right amount of romance. Two very strong personalities with a very well developed plot. A job well done!

[Bib · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book was quite of disappointing after the author's last book, Love At Last. The romance between Cass and Dev started kindda late in the book, and most of time Cass was really vacillating between Renee and Dev...finally decided on Dev as she is close by and Renee went missing in action. Just my two cents, but I generally like Kate Sweeney's works.