Maryann Miller

What do you do when grief slams you in the gut and brings you to your knees? Jenny Jasik's life changes in an instant, when her son is killed in an automobile accident. She is a Confidential Informant: an undercover member of a drug task force. Jenny only reports to her supervisor, Detective Steve Morrity, and can never tell anyone else what she's doing. There are days she is not sure she can hold it all together. But when she looks into the face of her daughter, she knows she has to try.

What do you do when grief slams you in the gut and brings you to your knees? Jenny Jasik's life changes in an instant, when her son is killed in an automobile accident. She is a Confidential Informant: an undercover member of a drug task force. Jenny only reports to her supervisor, Detective Steve Morrity, and can never tell anyone else what she's doing. There are days she is not sure she can hold it all together. But when she looks into the face of her daughter, she knows she has to try.

Mature love can sometimes be the best love. When she worked with Detective Steve Morrity two years ago as a member of a drug task force, Jenny Jasik couldn't deny the pull of a very strong attraction that went both ways. Then the case ended, but they both realized it was still too soon to act on the chemistry. Emotional wounds were still too fresh and raw, so they had followed their heads, not their hearts. Now, they've tossed logic out the window, and they're ready to give love a chance. But when Jenny's flower shop is burglarized and Steve's boss reminds him that it is against policy for an officer to date a victim of a crime, is it a sign it's not meant to be - or can they find happiness together? This is the large print edition of One Perfect Love, with a larger font / typeface for easier reading.

Mature love can sometimes be the best love. When she worked with Detective Steve Morrity two years ago as a member of a drug task force, Jenny Jasik couldn't deny the pull of a very strong attraction that went both ways. Then the case ended, but they both realized it was still too soon to act on the chemistry. Emotional wounds were still too fresh and raw, so they had followed their heads, not their hearts. Now, they've tossed logic out the window, and they're ready to give love a chance. But when Jenny's flower shop is burglarized and Steve's boss reminds him that it is against policy for an officer to date a victim of a crime, is it a sign it's not meant to be - or can they find happiness together?

Mature love can sometimes be the best love. When she worked with Detective Steve Morrity two years ago as a member of a drug task force, Jenny Jasik couldn't deny the pull of a very strong attraction that went both ways. Then the case ended, but they both realized it was still too soon to act on the chemistry. Emotional wounds were still too fresh and raw, so they had followed their heads, not their hearts. Now, they've tossed logic out the window, and they're ready to give love a chance. But when Jenny's flower shop is burglarized and Steve's boss reminds him that it is against policy for an officer to date a victim of a crime, is it a sign it's not meant to be - or can they find happiness together? This is the large print edition of One Perfect Love, with a larger font / typeface for easier reading.

What do you do when grief slams you in the gut and brings you to your knees? Jenny Jasik's life changes in an instant, when her son is killed in an automobile accident. She is a Confidential Informant: an undercover member of a drug task force. Jenny only reports to her supervisor, Detective Steve Morrity, and can never tell anyone else what she's doing. There are days she is not sure she can hold it all together. But when she looks into the face of her daughter, she knows she has to try. This is the large print edition of One Small Victory, with a larger font / typeface for easier reading.

A Quest For LoveAt just 4 years old, Evelyn Gundrum's happy world is turned upside down. Abandoned by her mother, she is shipped to an orphanage run by the terrifying Sister Honora. Evelyn grows up amidst hardship and heartbreak, plagued by unresolved emotions that follow her into adulthood as she seeks answers in a sea of questions. Will her uncertain path to self-discovery lead to happiness?

A Quest For LoveAt just 4 years old, Evelyn Gundrum's happy world is turned upside down. Abandoned by her mother, she is shipped to an orphanage run by the terrifying Sister Honora. Evelyn grows up amidst hardship and heartbreak, plagued by unresolved emotions that follow her into adulthood as she seeks answers in a sea of questions. Will her uncertain path to self-discovery lead to happiness?This is the large print edition of Evelyn Evolving, with a larger font / typeface for easier reading.

A Quest For LoveAt just 4 years old, Evelyn Gundrum's happy world is turned upside down. Abandoned by her mother, she is shipped to an orphanage run by the terrifying Sister Honora. Evelyn grows up amidst hardship and heartbreak, plagued by unresolved emotions that follow her into adulthood as she seeks answers in a sea of questions. Will her uncertain path to self-discovery lead to happiness?

A Quest For LoveAt just 4 years old, Evelyn Gundrum's happy world is turned upside down. Abandoned by her mother, she is shipped to an orphanage run by the terrifying Sister Honora. Evelyn grows up amidst hardship and heartbreak, plagued by unresolved emotions that follow her into adulthood as she seeks answers in a sea of questions. Will her uncertain path to self-discovery lead to happiness? This is the large print edition of Evelyn Evolving, with a larger font / typeface for easier reading.

A Quest For LoveAt just 4 years old, Evelyn Gundrum's happy world is turned upside down. Abandoned by her mother, she is shipped to an orphanage run by the terrifying Sister Honora. Evelyn grows up amidst hardship and heartbreak, plagued by unresolved emotions that follow her into adulthood as she seeks answers in a sea of questions. Will her uncertain path to self-discovery lead to happiness?

*** Small Stories With Big Hearts ***Pulling from her 30+ years of hospital ministry, Maryann Miller has created a book celebrating the patients who blessed her life so abundantly by allowing her to share their grief journeys. Filled with anecdotes and testimonials about death and dying and faith and living, it is also very much a memoir of her personal growth through ministry and how that growth impacted her own path through grief.

From award-winning author, Maryann Miller, comes a new book that takes a humorous, and often irreverent, look at parenting with stories drawn from her own life as a wife and a mother. Many of these stories were first told in the weekly column Miller wrote for a Dallas suburban newspaper when she was known as the Erma Bombeck of Plano. An honor Miller was happy to hold for a number of years. What on earth do a dead tomato plant and a paycheck have in common? In this book, Miller answers that question while sharing a survival guide for parenting a large family, while vainly keeping body and mind intact. From School Daze to Summertime Blues, and everything in between, the book airs the Miller laundry with all the holes and missing buttons. She answers important family questions such as: What's for dinner? Who wrote the dirty words on the wall? Can we really pee in the woods? Do the kids really like the dog better than Mom? Readers of the humor column, from which this books comes, delighted in The Great Lasagna Caper, the fits of tantrum that demolished a telephone, The Lawn Wars, who is and who isn't Socially Acceptable, and the crazy dinnertime conversations. Those readers could relate, as will mothers and father and kids today. Nothing really changes all that much in family dynamics. Just the names are changed to protect the innocent. COMMENTS FROM READERS: "I was reading Maryann's book while riding in the car and my husband and son wanted to know what was so funny, so I told them. The story of the neighbor bringing the twins home is hysterical." Jane St. Romain "Maryann's quick wit and honest insight provide all of us a nice chuckle as we can all relate to what it's like to be part of a family. Whether you relate remembering what it was like to be a sibling. or what it is like to be a mother, this book reminds us that we are not alone, and we get to smile along the way." A. Shake "This book is a wonderful and nostalgic reminder that "there are no little things." Maryann Miller writes about her family in a way that we all relate to...the escapades, the conflicts, the sweet moments that are oh so easy to miss. I was reminded how alike, yet delightfully different we are in our lives and our stories, and how extraordinary the ordinary can be. Thank you, Maryann Miller for an absolutely delightful read." Sharla Rocka

Stalking Season is a police procedural in the vein of the acclaimed 87th Precinct Series by Ed McBain, (Evan Hunter) and has been called "Lethal Weapon" with female leads set in Dallas. In this second book of The Seasons Mystery Series, Homicide Detective Sarah Kingsly and her partner, Angel Johnson are pitted against another uncanny killer while still struggling to feel like real partners. Neither wanted the pairing in the first place, and it isn't getting any better. When a young girl is killed in a cheap motel and her identity is discovered, an influential Dallas businessman brings the heat down on the department. The investigation takes the detectives inside an exclusive gentleman's club, a prestigious private school, and leads to a killer that nobody suspected.** REVIEWS **"Miller spins a tight tale that's a cut above the average police procedural.... Readers will want to see more of these engaging female cops." Publisher's Weekly." Open Season is a solid police procedural with fully developed characters and provocative social issues." L. J. Sellers, author of the Detective Jackson Mysteries"Detectives Sarah Kingsly and Angel Johnson are crisply drawn characters. The hard-edged story of racial tension in Dallas could be drawn from today's headlines. Open Season is a smart, spirited page-turner." Bruce Cook Tommy Gun TangoSTARRED Publishers Weekly Review " . . . gripping second mystery featuring Dallas, Tex., police detectives Sarah Kingsly and Angel Johnson. . . . The relationship between the women is just as absorbing as the search for the killer. Few readers will anticipate the closing twist.""So deftly plotted and paced that, although it's certainly possible to grow impatient with the protagonists' unwarranted impatience toward each other, they're appealing enough to keep the pages turning." Kirkus

Set against a backdrop of racial tension and deadly force controversy in Dallas, Open Season introduces Sarah Kingsly and Angel Johnson, homicide detectives who are unlikely and unwilling partners. When people start dying in area shopping malls, the detectives find themselves up against a killer who has his own race card to play. This is the first book in the critically-acclaimed Seasons Mystery Series, followed by Stalking Season. "Try this debut mystery by a journalist for its open treatment of current urban problems, clean prose, and realistic depiction of women working together. For readers who enjoy Robin Burcell and fans of police procedurals." Library Journal"Open Season is a solid police procedural with fully developed characters and provocative social issues." L. J. Sellers, author of the Detective Jackson Mysteries "Detectives Sarah Kingsly and Angel Johnson are crisply drawn characters. The hard-edged story of racial tension in Dallas could be drawn from today's headlines. Open Season is a smart, spirited page-turner." -Bruce Cook - Tommy Gun Tango" Miller spins a tight tale that's a cut above the average police procedural in this first of a new series introducing Dallas police detective Sarah Kingsly." Publisher's Weekly

Death sneaks in the back door of the peaceful town of Twin Lakes, Texas and nothing is ever the same again. Homicide detective, Barbara Hobkins, is thrust headlong into the investigation. A product of the "new direction" in law enforcement, her strength comes from a degree is psychology and an intuition that has served her well. But will that be enough when up against a sadistic killer? Her partner, Keith Reeves, wants nothing more than to solve this case so he can have one normal night at home with his family. He fights the pressure to nail somebody, any somebody, to satisfy the powers above. The suspect, Royce Wertco, is a teenage punk; capable of the numerous petty crimes he's been convicted of in the past, but not murder. Barbara knows this with every fiber of her being, but can she prove it? Convinced the real killer is also responsible for a series of murders in Dallas, Hobkins tracks him to his seedy hidey-hole. There, her investigation turns into a chilling race for her life, and she almost becomes a victim of "Doubletake." REVIEW: "The Twin Lakes Police Department has just had two murders, very close together. The modus operandi is not exactly same for both, but certain observations at the scenes suggest the authorities shouldn't rule out a single perpetrator. Both victims are female. Barbara Hobkins and her partner Keith Reeves are assigned the case. As the story progresses there is some speculation on, and disagreement about, whether there is one killer or two. It also seems that the case may mimic one from another jurisdiction. Just what kind of murderer do they have on their hands? To complicate matters, Barbara is attracted to Gene, Tom's best friend and the principal of the high school that is peripherally associated with both cases (Tom is the widower of Barbara and Keith's first victim, and of course a prime suspect). In fact they become an item, which is definitely not a wise decision for the primary on a case. The book is well plotted and it is obvious that the author is an experienced writer. The ending is quite satisfying and surprising. However, the characters are not well fleshed out. They don't inspire loyalty or compassion; one doesn't miss them when story is finished, isn't left yearning to visit with them again. The one character who belies this observation is Tom, and that is because his reactions and feelings following Susan's, his wife, death are very well done. He is in a complete and utter state of despair and his pain encompasses the reader." ----Martha Hopkins for Reviewing The Evidence