Muddy Mouth

<p><strong>A Fourth of July parade 89 feral cats and a missing author. It’s nothing Lia and her schnauzer can’t handle.</strong><br />While the dog park gang trains their fur-babies to participate in Northside's famously eccentric Fourth of July parade starving artist Lia Anderson builds a float commissioned by Fiber and Snark the cat-rescuing knitting club who manages the career of local best-selling author Lucas Cross. Then Lucas disappears at a book convention someone attacks Lucas’s accountant and Lia is the only one the ladies of Fiber and Snark trust to discover the truth while protecting a secret no one suspects they have.</p><p>It's the dog park gang to the rescue. But can they find Lucas before somebody winds up dead?</p><p>(63000 words)</p>