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A Bay Corners Halloween Anthology

It's the spooky season and Rhia, Carmen and Jazz are busy with Bay Corners' first Halloween Festival. The theatre is play Irma Vepp, Carmen has yummy treats for all, and Rhia is doing costumed book signings. What could go wrong? Well, to start with there's the zombie...



The book that started it all

A Bay Corners Christmas Special Anthology

Meet Jazz, Rhia, and Carmen in the three fun holiday novellas that introduce the crime-solving trio and their more-than-meets-the-eye pets.

Book Two coming soon!

Carmen's first standalone

A Fine-Ground Murder

Carmen receives a life-changing business offer, but has to juggle an aggressive planner for the Picollo Spoleto festival and an unexpected visit from her mother, eager to teach her the ma gic she fled to Charleston to avoid. And then the bodies start piling up.

Nancy Knight

Maureen Hardegree

Author and artist Nancy Knight writes fantasy for both books and film. A founding member of the Georgia Romance Writers, she published several romance novels before turning to fantasy. A gifted storyteller and teacher, Nancy brings her love of story to all of her artistic endeavors.  

Berta Platas

Maureen Hardegree

Maureen Hardegree

Berta Platas is an award-winning author of Latina romance, as well as co-author, with Michele Roper, of the popular YA fantasy series The Faire Folk Saga, and the new By Honor Bound series cowritten with Nancy Knight. The third book of the series, Queen’s Curse, launches in September 2023. Berta lives in the Atlanta area and when not writ

Berta Platas is an award-winning author of Latina romance, as well as co-author, with Michele Roper, of the popular YA fantasy series The Faire Folk Saga, and the new By Honor Bound series cowritten with Nancy Knight. The third book of the series, Queen’s Curse, launches in September 2023. Berta lives in the Atlanta area and when not writing she plays games of all sorts, hangs out with her cat, dogs, children, and grandchildren (sometimes all at the same time). She loves to connect with readers. 

Maureen Hardegree

Maureen Hardegree

Maureen Hardegree

After years of consuming televised murder mysteries, Georgia author Maureen Hardegree discovered the joy of writing them. Her first cozy mystery novella It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Murder is included in The Bay Corners Christmas Special. The second is the 

is the upcoming stand-alone Tea Most Foul. Maureen is a past president of Geor

After years of consuming televised murder mysteries, Georgia author Maureen Hardegree discovered the joy of writing them. Her first cozy mystery novella It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Murder is included in The Bay Corners Christmas Special. The second is the 

is the upcoming stand-alone Tea Most Foul. Maureen is a past president of Georgia Romance Writers and a longtime contributor to the BelleBooks' Mossy Creek Hometown anthologies including short stories in A Day in Mossy Creek, At Home in Mossy Creek, Christmas in Mossy Creek, Critters of Mossy Creek, and Homecoming in Mossy Creek. 

Her Ghost Handlers’ six book YA series begins with Haint Misbehavin’ and follows Heather Tildy, a teenage girl with allergies and sister issues who also, often reluctantly, helps ghosts solve the problems preventing them from moving on.  Feel free to visit Maureen’s much-in-need-of-an-update website (www.maureenhardegree.com) and Facebook author page to find information on signings, events, and upcoming releases.

About Bay Corners Cozy Mysteries

 The Bay Corners Cozy Mystery series was born when three author friends shared their love of cozies and wished they had time to do a series the way they liked, with lots of books published quickly so that there would always be another one right around the corner. 

We set the stories in a corner of venerable old Charleston, South Carolina, a city we love, and the amateur sleuths are three friends and local business owners. Each book is told from the point of view of one of the friends, making the novels slightly different and fun.

Nancy Knight writes Jazz Montgomery, theatre owner and part time assistant to a bounty hunter. Her theatrical background makes her a pro at disguises, and her daring nature gets her into trouble. Luckily, her dog Elvis, a standard poodle, is there to help.

Maureen Hardegree writes Rhiannon Penrith, who inherited a bookstore and the red macaw that comes with it. Rhia has a large family that includes a trouble-prone mother. Recently widowed, she is also coming to grips with her new, unexpected life as owner of a bookstore and a colorful (in more ways than one) pet.

Berta Platas writes Carmen Acevedo, a baker who renovated a derelict building into a Cuban bakery with an upstairs apartment. The bakery is Carmen’s defiant stand against her Miami family’s magical traditions, but when she uses some of that magic to help solve a murder, she reawakes the bond with her past, with unexpected results.

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