Lowcountry Mysteries series by Lyla Payne( #1, 4, 5.5, 8-9.5)
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Overview: Lyla has long had a love of stories. A few years ago she decided to put them down on the page, and even though Lyla has a degree in film and television, novels were the creative outlet where she found a home. When the idea for Broken at Love (my first New Adult title) arrived, Lyla couldnt wait to try something new and shes hooked. In her spare time, Lyla watches a ton of tennis (no surprise, there), plays a ton of tennis, and dedicates a good portion of brain power to dreaming up the next fictitious bad boy wed all love to meet in real life.
Genre: Fiction > Mystery
1. Not Quite Dead (2014)
A broken engagement sends Graciela Harper crawling back to Heron Creek with her tail between her legs, but finds the sleepy little town too changed to set her life right. Not even her budding drinking problem can obscure her Gramps’s failing health, or erase the mental picture of her first love happily married to her childhood best friend. To top it all off, she’s having a heck of time convincing the town’s dashing young mayor of her unfit-for-dating status.
When the ghost of 18th century lady pirate Anne Bonny starts insisting on a near daily audience, Graciela has to confront something else she never expected – being certifiably nuts at twenty-five years old.
Her brand new "I don’t give a crap" attitude makes it easy to dismiss the mysterious threats that seem to be tied to her search for more information on the long dead pirate, but when her family becomes a target, Gracie knows she needs to find out why the ghost insists on being a constant, reeking companion.
If Graciela can put aside her prejudice against people without a pulse, she may discover that Anne Bonny’s problems are intricately linked with her own. The past harbors answers could help the cantankerous spirit find closure, but she is, after all, already dead. If Graciela doesn’t move fast, she might find herself doing the haunting, instead of the other way around.
4. Not Quite Gone (2015)
Life in Heron Creek is looking up for Graciela Harper, despite the fact that every ghost within a fifty mile radius seems intent on sticking to her like glue – and not the weak Elmer’s kind, either. But with a sexy boyfriend, her old friends back in her life, and a great job prospect at one of the oldest plantations in the country it’s hard to complain…even if her new boss is said boyfriend’s mother.
Things don’t stay uncomplicated for long as not one ghost, but two show up at Drayton Hall. One wants closure, which Gracie thinks she can handle, but the other seems to know more than she should about the centuries old voodoo curse on Gracie’s own family.
As she digs deeper into the past of not only the plantation grounds, but Beau’s family tree, surprising secrets claw their way to the surface. With Mrs. Drayton breathing down her neck, a shift in her abilities, Amelia’s custody case taking a turn for the worse, and the sudden appearance of her decidedly not dead father, Gracie has her hands full.
She might be able to tackle all of those things with the help of a friend or two – some breathing, some not – but there’s one crossroads Gracie doesn’t see coming. It’s the choice between family and romance, and she’s not the only one being forced to make it.
5.5. Quite Precarious (2015)
With point-of-views from Beau Drayton, Brick Drayton, Lindsay and Leo Boone, Amelia Cooper, Melanie and William Gayle – plus a surprise – this novella tells the story of what takes place (away from Graciela) the night NOT QUITE CLEAR ends.
8. Not Quite Alive (2016)
Graciela Harper is starting to realize that life would not be the same in Heron Creek without at least one mystery dogging her heels, and with her father’s family secrets slowly coming to light, she’s certainly not short on them. What she doesn’t count on is the revelation – both from her old outlaw friend Clete Raynard and the Heron Creek PD – that someone is out to get her, in more ways than one. When a quite personal ghost shows up as well, Gracie knows that she’s got her hands full. She also knows that until she solves one or all of the mysteries on her plate, no one in Heron Creek – including the people she loves the most – will be able to move on with their lives. What’s left of them.
9. Not Quite Free (2017)
Graciela Harper would like nothing better than to nurse her broken heart and hide from the world, but some problems get bigger the longer they’re left to sit. She’s about to stand trial for her father’s murder, and whoever killed him did a thorough job of setting her up. And, to make matters worse, a sinister new ghost has taken to following her around.
If Gracie wants to avoid being wrongfully convicted, she’ll have to solve her father’s murder herself. The few clues she’s found indicate a connection between his death and his ability to see ghosts, a talent that has manifested in generations of Fourniers. With the help of her half-brother, Gracie follows the thorny branches of her father’s family tree, seeking answers. But the more they learn about the Fourniers, past and present, the more it starts to seem as if their father’s violent death wasn’t an aberration.
Gracie has found her way out of plenty of fixes, but she fears this one might finally take away her freedom – or her life.
9.5. Quite Dubious (2017)
This is a short novella told from alternating POV’s. It is my hope that the addition of the novellas will serve to enrich the stories told in the Lowcountry Mystery full-length novels.
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