As in all my fictional stories published on my website, online, print media, and all other publications sites there is no similarity to persons living or dead. These stories are works of fiction and names, characters, businesses, organizations, places, events and incidents are either a product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons living or dead, events or locales are entirely coincidental.`
“THE CHA-CHA BABES OF PELICAN WAY is a fast-paced romp of death, passion and dark humor. Way too damn much fun!”
–Jonathan Maberry, New York Times best-selling author of Glimpse
Would you move a dead body for the sake of your best friend?
Ask cha-cha babe Celia Ewing, a sixty-five- year-old widow who has just settled into Boca Pelicano Palms, the Florida retirement community
of her dreams. When Celia’s best friend Marcy calls her and their friend Deb for help in the middle of the night, they find a naked Marcy trapped under the body of her beau, the community’s board president, Melvin. And he’s dead. The three friends secretly move Melvin back to his apartment setting off a chain of events that will threaten to tear their community apart and send them to jail. Melvin is one of a number of
residents who are dying under suspicious circumstances; and soon Celia becomes an amateur sleuth in an attempt to identify what she suspects is a serial murderer.
Meanwhile, Celia’s 32-year- old daughter, Allison, leaves her philandering husband, moves in with Celia, and begins working at Well Services, the HMO that serves the residents of Boca Pelicano Palms. Celia gains self-confidence and finds love as she tries to solve the complex crime that has also ensnared her daughter and her friends. Filled with humorous, witty observations about retirement communities, the realities of getting older, and the promise of new love, the Cha-Cha Babes of Pelican Way celebrates the deep bonds of female friendships, the desire for companionship at any age, and shows us that it’s never too late to learn how to cha-cha through life.
