Fatal Fiction

When kindergarten teacher Charli Rae Warren hightailed it out of Hazel Rock Texas as a teen she vowed to leave her hometown in the dust. A decade later she's braving the frontier of big hair and bigger gossip once again . . . but this time she's saddled with murder!<P>Charli agrees to sell off the family bookstore housed in a barn and settle her estranged dad's debt--if only so she can ride into the sunset and cut ties with Hazel Rock forever. But the trip is extended when Charli finds her realtor dead in the store strangled by a bedazzled belt. And with daddy suspiciously MIA father and daughter are topping the most wanted list . . . <P>Forging an unlikely alliance with the town beauty queen the old beau who tore her family apart and one ugly armadillo Charli's intent on protecting what's left of her past . . . and wrangling the lone killer who's fixin' to destroy her future . . .