A Deadly Change of Luck
(Avalon Books - April, 2003 - ISBN 0-8034-9588-9 ) When Devonie buys a fixer-upper house through an estate sale, she expects to make a tidy little profit. What she doesn’t expect is to find a lottery ticket worth fifty-eight million dollars hidden in the house. For a brief period, Devonie and her husband, Craig, dream of what they’ll do with the money, but their hopes soon fade when the ticket is stolen before they have a chance to cash it in. Devonie suspects that the previous owner of the little fixer-upper house didn’t die a natural death, but was killed for the valuable ticket he had the foresight to hide. Her intuition proves to be right-on. She sets out on a path to find the killer, and won’t rest until she sees the murderer behind bars.