(NAPSA)—Three best-selling authors have teamed up to bring readers a trio of tales the way only true Southern belles can. (MIRA Books, $6.99) is an anthology that features a story by each author set in her home state—Louisiana GET engene| (Jennifer Blake), ee JENNIFER Florida (Heather M. BLAKE Graham) and HEATHER Georgia (Diana GRAHAM Palmer). Blake shows how a “Bad Benedict” and a good witch work some magic on the E mob in “Adam.” A murder investigation brings Adam Benedict, a high-tech information retrieval specialist, to Turn-Coupe, Louisiana, and into the bailiwick of Lara Kincaid— practicing witch and niece of Benedict’s #1 suspect. Graham tackles the oft misunderstood subject of later love in “A Night in Paradise.” When Mike and Mary, two octogenariansliving in Paradise, Fla., announce their plans to wed, it stirs apprehension in Mike’s grandson, Max—who gets his stars crossed, thinking that it’s Mary’s gold-digging granddaughter Aurora that Mike intends to marry. Aurora schemes to give Max his comeuppance by continuing the charade, but Max is not above fighting back by pushing the farce as far as it willgo. In Palmer’s “Garden Cop,” newly appointed FBI agent Curtis Russell returns to his small Georgia hometownto visit his mother, but soon finds himself in a battle of wills with one of her neighbors—over what may or may not be marijuana plants. Taking matters into his own hands, Curtis ends up with more than tomato on his face, especially when he discovers that “Marijuana Mary”is an assistant district attorney— and that they’ll be working in the same building! is available wherever paperbacksare sold, or through www.mirabooks.com.
