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Jessica James is broke and counting down the days until she can defend her philosophy thesis. Desperate to get out of her grubby attic digs, she and her friends break into her professor’s office…only to find her adviser dead in the tub. Scoping the crime scene for clues, she leaves evidence that makes her both a suspect and a target. Suspecting the school's Russian janitor of doing more than sweeping the floors, Jessica mounts an investigation. Her ragtag posse helps her uncover a related date-drug scandal, and she fears she’s the next on the killer’s to-do list.

With only an old photograph to go on, Jessica James is sent on a mission by her dying mother to find a washed-up magician called the Mesmerizer. Along the way, Jessica gets way more than she bargained for when she stumbles into a black market organ ring and learns secrets about her mother that will change her own life forever.

Ivy League student Jessica James isn’t thrilled to be back home in Montana. But her boring summer break becomes a nightmare when her cousin dies at the local sawmill. Devastated by the death, she can’t help but draw connections between the supposed accident and her own father’s unsolved demise.

Jessica James is back in award-winning author Kelly Oliver's latest fast-paced thrill ride. Donors to the new world-class Chicago museum of Russian art are dropping like flies, and Jessica is at the center of the carnage. Can she track down the killer before she falls into his trap? Speaking of traps, this doozy puts Jessica in the middle of a love triangle she'd do anything to avoid. In her latest outing, Jessica once again puts her boots in the stirrups and cracks the whip on first-class entertainment.

When Jessica James wakes up half naked behind a dumpster in downtown Chicago, she thinks at first the hot intern feeding her Fiery Mule Slammers slipped her a Mickey. But after a pattern of similar incidents around Northwestern Research Hospital makes the news, Jessica realizes she wasn't raped, she was robbed. Robbed of something as valuable as life itself. The "dumpster girls" are all top of their class, attractive college students, who are drugged and dropped unconscious behind dumpsters. When rape-kits all come back negative, the police are baffled. But when the perp escalates and kills one of his victims, Jessica takes it on herself to solve the bewildering mystery and save herself and her friends as the "thief" closes in on them. Hunting for the predator, Jessica discovers secrets about her own identity that force her to rethink her past. The solution to the mystery lies in the cowgirl philosopher's boot-cut genes.

Jessica James is back in the saddle in this fast-paced and funny whodunit. Facing life as an unemployed philosopher, a pair of pocket rockets in Texas Hold 'Em sends her to Italy, where she takes a crash course in art crimes. She lands an internship with the FBI. But wouldn't you know it, her new boss is Federal Marshal Lexington Colt. Does sharing an old boyfriend count as a conflict of interest? Jessica and Lexi once again have to team up to catch a killer and solve one of the biggest art heists in history. Grab it now and start the fun.

Jessica's latest adventure takes her to the wilds of Wyoming, where she meets Federal Marshal Lexington Colt, a sort of female version of Justified's Raylan Givens. Can the two women quit sizing each other long enough to catch a serial killer? If you like strong women who take on the baddest bad guys, you'll love Cottonmouth because it is the perfect mix of suspense, mystery, intrigue, and romance.