Hallie's Comet
by Denise Dietz

Hallie O'Brien is a successful artist, renowned for her Degas-like paintings of ballerinas.

Except for a short stint in Paris, she has never lived anywhere other than New York City, so she is puzzled and dismayed when she finds herself filling her canvasses with unfamiliar subjects; a comet that hovers above a mining town, a late nineteenth-century parlor house/bordello, and the parlor house inhabitants.

She knows that two of the inhabitants are called Lady Scarlet and Knickers, and that the mining town is Cripple Creek, Colorado, but she can't fathom why she has also painted a portrait of her "perfect man," a man who doesn't exist, a man she has dubbed "Gabriel."

Hallie hopes a visit to Colorado will solve the mystery, but when she meets Gabe Quinn it deepens instead.

Gabe is a successful Glamour Photographer. As a photo- journalist, he traveled all over the world until a serious leg injury cut short his globe-trotting.

Bitter from the loss of his chosen profession and the fiancé who couldn't deal with his injury, he is in no mood to serve as host to a "ballerina artist."

However, upon meeting Hallie O'Brien, he feels as if he's met and loved her before-during another lifetime.

Together, Hallie and Gabe explore Cripple Creek. Together, they solve the mystery of Hallie's paintings. And, together, they discover a love that cannot be destroyed by time or space.

Other Books by Denise Dietz

Killer Tails
8 Pawsome Cat & Dog Cozy Mysteries

Eye of Newt

Fifty Cents For Your Soul

Denise Dietz's Bio

When Deni was in the third grade, she wrote her first story, THE PENCIL WHO GREW UP TO BE A STUB. Although the assignment was to write a one-page story, using an ink pen, Deni wrote a five-page story, first-person...and she used a pencil. Whereupon, she received a failing grade for not following orders. Just like her heroine Jenny, in STARS OF FIRE, and her fictitious diet guru, Ellie Bernstein, Deni doesn’t follow orders unless they make sense.

Years later, after Deni had enjoyed a short-lived singing career and acting career, she sat at her typewriter, flexed her fingers, and pounded out her first culinary mystery: THROW DARTS AT A CHEESECAKE, inspired by her part-time job as a Weight Watchers lecturer. In the Walker, then Worldwide, then Kindle novel, diet club members are getting killed off at goal weight and eating as if their very lives depended on it. The second book in the series, BEAT UP A COOKIE, revolves around a group of M*A*S*H* addicts and is dedicated to Alan Alda.

Switching to a computer, Deni hit the bestseller list with FOOTPRINTS IN THE BUTTER — an Ingrid Beaumont Mystery co-starring Hitchcock the Dog. She followed that success with her stand-alone, FIFTY CENTS FOR YOUR SOUL, her “reluctant witch mystery,” EYE OF NEWT, and the 3rd and 4th books in her diet club mystery series, CHAIN A LAMB CHOP TO THE BED and STRANGLE A LOAF OF ITALIAN BREAD.

Cloning herself into historical saga author Mary Ellen Dennis, Deni wrote THE LANDLORD’S BLACK EYED DAUGHTER, STARS OF FIRE, HEAVEN'S THUNDER, and THE GREATEST LOVE ON EARTH.

Married to Aussie/Canadian author, Gordon Aalborg, whom she met on-line through a writers loop, Deni, with Gordon, collaborated on a romantic suspense, FINDING BESS, and moved to Vancouver Island, where they were adopted by a chocolate Lab named Magic.