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Long story short—they’re in deep trouble.
The sheroes of Twelve Stories High are suspected of murders they didn’t commit. Hounded by dangerous unknown forces. Entangled in secrets and lies. And because they’re Black, they’re on their own—accused, abused, and on the run from cops as well as killers.
When Florida’s hubby demands a divorce and suddenly disappears, relocating seems her only choice. Until her newfound land is cursed, starts growing enemies like weeds, and begins to unearth a deadly mystery buried in her past.
For Cherrie, who caters boats to fund free meals to feed the homeless, being suspected of killing a media mogul on his to-die-for yacht is poisoning her future—and threatening to starve the hot new love she’s stirring up aboard.
Willow is having a nervous breakdown. Haunted by the spirit of a grandmother who exhorts her to hunt for long-lost wealth, she jets to the Caribbean on a genealogical quest for a fortune in hidden family treasure.
From a southern small-town scandal to a seat on the Hollywood casting couch to a seven-year-old in the hot seat and four amateur painters finding their artwork hung beside their neighbor's corpse, these stories and more unfold as Trouble gets spelled with a capital TEA.
This suspenseful collection of mystery-thrillers stars hard-working Black women, seven to seventy, suddenly plunged into deadly intrigue. Vulnerable and intrepid, witty and reckless, daring though often scared to death—they are ladies you'll love, respect, root for, relate to and long remember. Ordinary women in extraordinary peril proving that they're exceptional. While chasing their dreams, they get caught up in nightmares. Beset and besieged, they must go it alone, because those who are charged to protect and serve them tend to do the opposite, leaving killers and thieves hot on their trails.
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As Arrow and Tiffany produce what they hope is their latest reality TV hit, they get burned in their search for The Marriage Man when one them finally meets her match.
The Black Beauty Sketchers and Painters Club members are neighbors, but they aren’t friends—a fact that turns out to imperil them when their artwork is hung and their rival is too. The victim had dirt on each of them, and now they’ll have to dig up hers to try to save themselves.
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Spicy Brown is acing second grade—until she discovers her teacher’s corpse. Now she’s learning that even a child her age has a hard time escaping presumptions of guilt and a cut-throat out there on the loose.
These are just some of the stirring adventures of females thrust out to the edge of a structure that fails to value them. Tenacious and resourceful, they’ll do what they must to defend themselves and those they fiercely love.
Danger is lurking at every turn. Can they all survive?
