Offers advice on how to entertain without becoming stressed, presents a list of pantry staples, and features over 150 recipes for good, creative, simple party food.

For everyone who likes to eat well, Merser proves, once and for all, that good cooking doesn't have to mean spending excessive time in the kitchen. Emphasizing easy-to-find ingredients and no special preparation skills, these 150 recipes combine the sophistication today's consumers have come to expect with the convenience they desire.

Unlike her previous eight Murder Mystery-Romance novels — this book is strictly Fiction — Romance. She started writing right after her 77th birthday. To-date she has nine novels published. Ilsa’ Revenge Marcello & Me Love of Two Sisters Biarritz Beach/Resurrection of a Divorced Woman Love on a Farm Love Reigns Till Death Second Time is Magic Biaritz Beach on West Coast Love is Definitely Greek to Me

The second novel from the critically acclaimed writer of Pike, which was nominated for France’s prestigious Grand Prix de Littérature Policière crime fiction award and “easily rivals Larry Brown’s most renowned novels” (Spinetingler Magazine). In the tradition of Cormac McCarthy and Larry Brown comes a haunting story about men, their fathers, their sons, and the legacy of violence. For Patterson Wells, disaster is the norm. Working alongside dangerous, desperate, itinerant men as a tree clearer in disaster zones, he's still dealing with the loss of his young son. Writing letters to the boy offers some solace. The bottle gives more. Upon a return trip to Colorado, Patterson stops to go fishing with an old acquaintance, only to find him in a meth-induced delirium and keeping a woman tied up in the bathtub. In the ensuing chain of events, which will test not only his future but his past, Patterson tries to do the right thing. Still, in the lives of those he knows, violence and justice have made of each other strange, intoxicating bedfellows. Hailed as “the next great American writer” (Frank Bill, author of Crimes in Southern Indiana), Benjamin Whitmer has crafted a literary triumph that is by turns harrowing, darkly comic, and wise.