Ladies Courting Trouble by Dolores Stewart Riccio

Author:Dolores Stewart Riccio
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kensington Books
Published: 2006-07-20T16:00:00+00:00

“I feel as if some evil pixie is playing pranks on us!” Phillipa declared when an unknown hacker penetrated her computer and erased not only her food files but also her poem records. This was right after Heather’s Mercedes seized up with indigestion from sugar in the gas tank.

“‘Pixie pranks’ fits almost too well,” I agreed.

“I’m just hoping the Computer Doctor can salvage some of my files. But even if he can work a miracle, I’m in terrible disarray over deadlines. I have a cookbook in the works, and all my restaurant reviews—I was several weeks ahead and breathing a huge sigh of relief.”

“What about the poems?” We were sitting in Phillipa’s office drinking some divine whipped hot chocolate she’d concocted, which she called Aztec Joy-Juice, while she gazed gloomily at the monitor of a computer gone amok.

Phillipa winced. “A dagger in my heart! But I have hard copy. It will take time—time I don’t have—to re-key them, but it’s doable. I just won’t know to which journals I’ve submitted them. What a catastrophe! Oh, how I’d like to send an appropriate payback!”

“Yes, but even if you could, you can’t.”

“Spoilsport!”

I chuckled, using my demitasse spoon to scrape out the last drop of creamy, rich froth. “You’re reminding me of Freddie, who always used to complain, ‘What’s the good in being a witch if you can’t hex your enemies?’ It wasn’t easy being her mentor.”

“She has a point, you know, Cass. What’s wrong with bad things happening to bad people?”

“I know how you feel. But I believe, for us, it’s against the universal law—‘harm none.’ And those who break the law are hurt the most.”

What we didn’t know then was that the chaos visited upon Phillipa and the inconvenience to Heather were only the start. Right after Joe and I celebrated our first year of handfasted bliss with our nearest and dearest at Yule, the tricks went from dirty to deadly.

But by then my psychic vision had cleared. Always a double-sided blessing.

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