Dusty Money is a fun, fast-paced, double-barreled love story based in Chicago. Clare Reynolds and Margaret Carlson are strong-willed redheads. Both are wrestling with love and money. Both need to succeed.

Clare Reynolds is an ambitious South Side girl struggling to climb the ladder of a downtown bank. After a once-in-a-century storm hits, she is presented with an opportunity to rapidly advance her career by securing the gold ring of a Chicago family with dusty money. But Clare must step carefully and not let love supersede money as she is swept up in a romance with the matriarch’s son. Also caught up in this maelstrom is Margaret Carlson, a high-powered, quick-tempered technology lawyer whose life is turned upside down and inside out when her hot college flame shows up the day of the big storm and she is forced to sleuth out why is he in Chicago while not falling back in love.

Amos and Ike is a fast-paced, humorous tale of friendship, discovery, and of how much we need one another

Amos is a handyman who can fix anything in life except himself. He is thirty-two years old and back in the town he grew up in after eighteen months in prison and eight long years on the road. Ike Barnes is a seventeen-year-old wrestling with his father’s death, delayed puberty, and a bad attitude. His mother can’t handle him, so she ships him off to a suburb of Chicago where a good friend has offered to take care of Ike by having him work with Amos—their caretaker—for the summer. This appears to be a good idea on paper, but Amos is opposed to babysitting this kid—he has enough on his plate getting his life back on track; and Ike, too, balks at washing windows and cleaning pools—he’s a musician, not a flunky monkey.

Mixed together, Amos and Ike are nitroglycerin, and they soon discover their chemical reaction is indeed explosive (in a good way) as they help each other with redemption, rebellion, and finding love—one old and one new.