Characters and Setting Descriptions

The following are descriptions of the location setting and main characters in the novel, Murder with a Touch of Spice:

 

Cinnamon: This spice sister is a professional chef who owns her own restaurant in the Galleria area of Houston. She has a well-toned body, sparkling hazel eyes, red spiky hair, but no time for a social life. Cinnamon believes in creative expression in all areas of her life.

 

Curry and Pepper: These twin sisters are tall, shapely brunettes who turned down careers in fashion modeling to open an upscale clothing boutique in Houston, selling expensive designer clothing, as well as their own original designs. Curry and Pepper aren’t quite as bold as Sage and Cinnamon, but what they lack in spunk, they make up for in spirit. 

 

Ginger: Mother of four “spicy” adult daughters and married to her beloved husband, Mace, she’s a top-notch wedding planner. It’s part of her nature to be a caregiver. Now that her daughters are grown, she transferred her “need to mother” onto her brides, herding them around like baby ducklings; and they love it. Ginger’s wedding planning expertise is in high demand.

 

Mace: Married to “the love of his life”, Ginger, Mace is an aeronautical engineer at NASA and a proud father to his four beautiful, intelligent and resourceful daughters.

 

Sage: A criminal trial lawyer at a large firm in Houston, she is the unofficial leader of the spice sisters. She’s a spunky little fireball, with electric green eyes and a short, but shapely figure, and she’s locked in the “dance of romance” with Sheriff Jason Winters. They’re attracted to each other but can’t occupy the same space without generating a shower of electric sparks. Will they ever figure out what all that tension is about?

 

Sheriff Jason Winters: A former Houston police detective, he returned to his hometown of Clearwater, TX to run for the office of Sheriff. He had set his sights on Sage McCormick a long time ago, but it was taking a bit longer than anticipated to rein this feisty little fireball in. He felt confident, though, that she would come around eventually. Jason is a patient man. 

 

Special Agent Peter Dalton: An F.B.I. agent who is assigned to locate an arms dealer in Clearwater, TX, he loves to cook and is instantly attracted to Cinnamon. Will he return in the future to see where their relationship might go?

 

Location: Clearwater, TX (a fictional town, which exists only in the imagination of the author) is a small town, with a population of only about 22,000, but it’s location on the Gulf Coast, between Houston and Galveston, attracted the attention of wealthy real estate developers who turned it into an upscale tourist attraction with million-dollar waterfront homes, expensive seafood restaurants, huge marinas, and retail/entertainment complexes. The millions of tourists it attracts each year fosters a booming economy.

 

Read the first three chapters of Murder with a Touch of Spice on this blog.