Diane Dephillips

By the Scruff of the Neck Diane Dephillips

Maria Magliani arrives home to a frantic call that her pizza restaurant in on fire. The saucy, recently-widowed entrepreneur speeds downtown to suspicious, smoldering ruins. On the scene, she encounters rugged, handsome Fire Marshall Clancy McClavey. The two exchange numbers. Clancy phones a few days later for two reasons-to report the findings from the fire, and to ask her out. But before their big, Saturday night date occurs; Maria discovers that she is at the center of two mysterious murders. A blend of faith, friends, and family speckle the battler-sometimes funny, but always engaging!