By the Scruff of the Neck

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!