A clear, sunlit Victorian village beside Lake Michigan, with teal and rose storefronts, flowers, a pier, and a red lighthouse.
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Roxie Maxx on the Lake Michigan shore in an emerald dress
A word from

Roxie

I run a crafting colony, a small stack of unresolved grudges, and, apparently, this website. If you came here for a good story, welcome. If you came here for common sense, the bakery is two doors down (their scones ask fewer questions than I do).

Whiskey Pines looks quiet from the street. It is not. Pull up a chair, and I will tell you everything, in the order I am legally allowed to.

— Roxie Maxx, reluctant proprietor of nearly everything

A word from

Kenzie

They call me Kenzie. I run this town. Or I would, if anyone around here listened to a dog.

Roxie does the sleuthing. I do the thinking. You do the reading. It's cozier in here than it looks, and considerably more dangerous. Come in. Wipe your feet. And try not to touch anything that isn't yours. We've had trouble with that lately.

— Kenzie, Bichon Frise, reincarnated, and the only one in Whiskey Pines who knows where the bodies are. Figuratively. Mostly.

Kenzie, a white Bichon Frise in a Victorian dress and hat, beside Contessa the crowned Himalayan-Siamese cat
The cat wishes it noted that she was not consulted on this website, and finds the color palette "adequate." She brought her own crown. — Kenzie
Needled Lies by Roxie Maxx book cover New Release

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Needled Lies

A Pines & Needles Paranormal Crafting Mystery — Book Two

Roxie built twenty lakefront cottages for women who needed somewhere to belong. Now a skein of lies is unraveling inside the Pines & Needles colony—and someone wants her to stop pulling at the loose threads.

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Quiet Treachery paperback cover, Kenzie the Bichon Frise outside the Pines and Needles crafting shopPaperback out now

Quiet Treachery

A Pines & Needles Paranormal Crafting Mystery — Book One

Whiskey Pines, Michigan, 1988. A women's crafting colony on the Lake Michigan shore. A deceased member with something to say. Pages missing from the Founders binder. And a smiling attorney on the one day no one is supposed to be there. Meet the town. Stay for the trouble.

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Letters from the lake

The Whiskey Pines Journal

New release notices, dispatches from Roxie, seasonal recipes from the Crumb Cottage Bakery, and the occasional grievance from Contessa. Twice a month. No spam, just Whiskey Pines.

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