Third in the Richfield & Rivers Mystery Series

Pages: 240
Pub Date: February 2008
ISBN-13: 978-1-60282-004-3
ISBN-10: 1-60282-004-X

Why can’t Teague Richfield and the lesbian love of her life, psychic astrologer Callie Rivers, get away together without “the otherworld” following them?

Teague and basset hound Elmo head for Sedona and the sensual arms of Callie Rivers, where Teague envisions taking lesbian love scenes to new heights. But their romantic reunion is interrupted by unearthly forces and a dangerous journey into the metaphysical realm. A provocative female shaman from Callie’s past involves the duo in shape-shifting, disembodied attacks, the murders of Native American women, and a spiritual battle that takes place on a level even higher than the mystical red rocks of Sedona.

But Callie is focused on why a young Vegas showgirl is on the ghoul pool list; and who’s behind the hotel’s darkest secrets, a place where murderers and kidnappers are indistinguishable from theater performers and hotel staff, and where Callie and Teague ultimately become the targets of sexual blackmail.

Stellium in Scorpio is the passionate reuniting of two powerful women on the glitzy Las Vegas Strip where everything is an illusion and love is a gamble.

          2008 Golden Crown Literary Society (GCLS) Finalist 

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