Finding Your Mojo
Chapter One
Gloria Dalton juggled her purse, a briefcase, and a cup of coffee as she struggled to unlock the door to her new law office. Her sweaty palm slipped on the doorknob as she questioned for the hundredth time her decision to leave New Orleans and relocate to the nearby small town of Mojo to take over the practice of a dead man.
"I can do this," she murmured. "This time will be different."
All signage for the not-so-dearly departed Deke Black had been replaced with gold lettering spelling out Gloria Dalton, Attorney-at-Law. Her name across the large plate-glass window facing the parking lot for the Charmed Village Shopping Center was especially satisfying, and something she had envisioned in her mind's eye since she was a teenager.
Admittedly, she had visualized a different name . . . one ending with Riley. She smiled indulgently at the unbidden adolescent memory, then told herself it was only natural that she think of Zane Riley. Leaving the New Jersey town, where she'd met her first love, in the middle of the night without saying good-bye had been a traumatic event for a sixte ... read full excerpt from Finding Your Mojo ebook
