First in the Richfield & Rivers Mystery Series

Teague Richfield is a funny, jaded screenwriter plagued by creative self doubt, her first screenplay having been green lighted only after she’d literally been screwed by Barrett Silvers, Marathon Studios’ female head of motion picture development. New to Hollywood, Teague had yet to hear the cocktail party joke about Barrett, “First she makes you; and then she makes your movie.”

Callie Rivers is an optimistic, ethereal, drop-dead gorgeous psychic astrologer who believes in positive energy flow, cosmic predestination, reincarnation and just about everything Teague Richfield thinks is patently crazy, but is willing to try if it will get Callie in bed with her.

Marathon Studios’ president, Lee Talbot, has his creditors breathing down his neck, threatening to pull the studio’s financing; and the Marathon board of directors is about to fire Talbot for failure to deliver big box office stars. Soon the studio is cutting killer deals. Profits soar as the highest priced, most difficult, celebrities join the Marathon family.

Combust the Sun is the first meeting of these two dynamic women as they unravel the Marathon murders, amidst the growing sexual tension of their explosive relationship.

2007 Golden Crown Literary Society (GCLS) Debut Author Goldy Award Winner

2007 Ann Bannon GCLS Popular Choice Award Finalist