An Easy Read. Curl Up And Enjoy.
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This cozy series has everything you want and more: an eclectic cast of characters, a mystery or two, and diligent detectives on duty. The detectives, feline and canine, figure it all out, but they have a dickens of a time getting the humans to understand them.
The series, Tiger Lily’s Café, is set in a Midwestern town nestled into the sunset coast of a Great Lake. The setting itself acts as a character, bringing the reader into the sights, sounds and smells of the small resort community of Chelsea.
Read the series in order, or read any book alone. Each volume stands alone with a clear beginning and a clear end.
Annie is a woman whose ownership of a prime piece of real estate and several businesses was almost a mistake. But own it, she does, and she makes the best of an idyllic situation.
With her family of rescue cats and a diverse collection of business managers, staff and friends, Annie embraces her home on The Avenue, a picturesque slice of life that embodies the best – and sometimes the worst – that humanity has to offer.
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About Me
I was raised on a small family farm in Indiana. I have an undergraduate degree in Sociology from Manchester College (now Manchester University) and an MBA from Indiana University South Bend.
In a variety of towns and circumstances, I served as a probation officer, parole agent and juvenile residential counselor before moving into administrative, marketing and fund-raising positions in human service organizations. I took a break from human services for seven years to own and operate a bar and restaurant. Let’s be honest; that’s another type of human service.
While making plans to return to my rural roots, my mother and I discovered an injured kitten at the family farm. The kitten, whose face was a mass of unhealed injuries, decided to rescue me. She wrapped herself around an ankle, started purring, and wouldn’t let go. Against the advice of my mother, I took the kitten home and to a veterinarian. The vet diagnosed road burn serious enough to take all the fur from the left side of her face, and the kitten – Tiger Lily – eventually healed and took a huge part of my heart.
Tiger Lily was joined by the rest, rescue kitties, all: Little Socks (thank you, Aunt Mary); Kali, Ko and Mo (thank you, Connie); Sassy Pants (thank you, Ant Sherwy); and Mr. Bean (thank you, Pulaski Animal Center). Later arrivals are Speckles (thank you, Tennille), Moriah, Mattie, & Little Nugget (thank you again, Pulaski Animal Center), and Percy (thank you, Winamac Town Office). They will feature in the books but will not live at the Inn. We can’t (horrors!) have 20 cats living at the Inn!
Tiger Lily’s Café rattled around in my brain – there isn’t much else up there – for all of the years since Tiger Lily rescued me, sometimes as an actual café and sometimes as a book. It was less expensive to write the book.
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