Baby Girl
7 primary works
Book 1
Cleo's mom disappears and with no other family she is all alone.
In order to survive she leaves the only home she's ever known, a run-down shack and hits the streets of the city. She can hide easily, blending into the crowds and eats scraps from the dumpsters. Her journey there spent jumping trains, running from menacing strangers and witnessing an unspeakable crime.
On the streets she meets a group of lost children led by a boy they call Einstein. For the first time, she feels like she's part of a family. The children resort to petty crimes in the name of survival. Cleo and Einstein fall in love, even as their little family falls apart.
Cleo and Einstein are ready to risk everything for a normal life and love. Will tragedy strike and deny them? Or will love and friendship prevail?
Book 2
On the run and desperate, Cleo crosses the ocean to Paris where she transforms into the glamourous Justine Holmes.
French millionaire Didier is beguiled by her mysterious and naïve charms. Her life becomes one of luxury and fame beyond anything she could have ever imagined but her past won't be forgotten. A new hazard lingers on the horizon as it threatens to ruin her new life.
In the streets danger whispers and draws near. Is this latest peril a ghost of her past or something else?
Book 3
Cleo is running again from the faceless enemies of her past and she is determined to know who it is.
The glamourous Justine Holmes becomes Shanna Nu. A moppy-headed plain-Jane searching for work in San Francisco. She lands a job at La Tige Detective Agency and uses the resources available to her to seek her enemies but instead finds the keys to her heart.
La Tige is a hard-edged detective. He's sloppy, crude and lacks in social graces but has a heart of gold. A familial bond forms between them as he shows her the affection and love she's so desperately sought. He also provides clues to the mystery surrounding her birth and biological family.
La Tige isn't the only new man in her life. Fetch with his devilish good looks and silver eyes sweeps Cleo off her feet. Their relationship blossoms until she's forced to make a decision concerning the mystery surrounding her life.
Danger lurks and every answered question leads to another unanswered one, leading her towards the dangerous truth...
Book 4
Hot on the trail of her birth and mysterious biological family Cleo lands in New York.
She continues her guise as Shanna Nu and lands a job at Briggs International owned by one of the wealthiest and most powerful families in the country. Tired of running and determined to solve the mystery she stands her ground, fighting for love and her true identity.
The once vulnerable runaway she was has transformed into a resilient young woman who's ready to take a bite out of the Big Apple.
Book 5
Baby Girl believes she has finally found her safe harbour and her Paradise in the beautiful Caribbean Island of St. Thomas, far from her dark and dangerous past. And then she gets a phone call and a call for help from La Tige, the one man she cannot refuse.La Tige is on his way to Puerto Rico, but not for a vacation. He has been hired to track a vicious "black widow" killer believed to be on a cruise ship about to dock in San Juan. Only Cleo’s unusual talents can bring her close to this cunning manipulator, and as the web of deceit tightens, everyone becomes a suspect, even the luscious and disturbing Raul. Cleo must untangle this deadly web, even as mysterious connections from her past threaten her fragile hopes for a new life and a happier future.
Book 6
Baby Girls is back... Her desire to catch a stone-cold killer has lured her back into the line of fire. Danger from the past haunts her, and in order to survive, she must make unlikely allies, and maybe allow a deadly enemy past her guard. Old friends and new adversaries surface and a mystery must be solved. All that glitters is not gold, and a badge is no guarantee of honesty... Baby Girl must lay to rest dead ghosts before she can return to the Caribbean, and the heat of Raul's waiting arms.
Book 7
Baby Girl’s adventure comes to an end, but not without several surprises and a mystery to solve alongside two unlikely candidates.On the sandy shores of St. Thomas, Cleo makes the final preparations for her wedding until tragedy strikes. She is soon faced with an astonishing revelation from her bio-dad and her life is thrust into a lingering danger. A mystery that lurks in her past. On the hunt for a serial killer, an old love surfaces, and new hope consumes her. Can she rekindle an old flame and start a new life, or will she forever be a prisoner of her past?