90 Days to Score

By Deborah Coonts

In Texas, football isn't all fun and fanatics...it can be fatal.

Two years ago, I'd married for love.

Little had I known I was marrying into a threesome.

Now my wannabe ex is dead, and everybody thinks I did it.

Worse-I inherited everything...including the Roughriders, the NFL franchise the locals follow with a religious fervor bordering on a cult-like fanaticism.

Imagine, in Dallas, a woman, and worse, a Northerner, running their sainted team?

My name is Brinda Rose, and I'm a Jersey girl caught in the net of Southern pretense, privilege, and back-stabbing, with nary a rule book to guide me.

The whole city seems out for my blood.

But the NFL gave me 90 days to solve my pesky little legal issues and prove I am up to the task of running an NFL franchise. Big of them.

My pal, Lucky O'Toole sent reinforcements in the form of a long, tall, drink of Texas charm named Paxton Dane, although he's as clueless as I am in the kind of voodoo needed to fend off the coffee-klatch of bored, bitter wives of the power brokers in town.

Intent on protecting their positions (even if it means defending the scum they married) they feast on newcomers with a piranha frenzy.

As if this wasn't bad enough, I keep seeing flashes of a guy tailing me who looks a lot like my ex.

Could he be alive? The thought has me sleeping with a handgun and doubting my sanity.

With a fortune on the line and everyone from players, to coaches, to investors, to even my former father-in-law, hiding secrets and working angles, 90 days seems an impossibly short amount of time to solve my problems, and an impossibly long amount of time to stay alive.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1944831061
• ISBN13: 9781944831066
• Release Date: September 2020
• Publisher: Chestnut Street Press
• Length: 406 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Rollicking fun mystery

Brinda is having a helluva day. Her husband she just divorced is murdered. She's the prime suspect and has inherited everything, including a football franchise. Enter in a the hateful ex father in law, the team, coaches, cheerleaders, mistresses, & high society woman who all want her gone. Brinda's ex was a dick and everyone is up in arms because of the secrets he held and the blackmail he was dishing out and shady deals he was working. Brinda has her work cut out for her trying to figure out who killed her ex and why someone is trying to kill her. Her good friend Lucky O'Toole (YES, from that book series) sends her trusted P.I. Paxton Dane to help out. Adding layers to the puzzle is a person who looks like Brinda's dead husband, or is he really dead, popping up around town, an intrusive reporter, & buried secrets from the past spilling over. With their work cut out for them, Brinda & Paxton investigate while also trying to decipher the attraction between them.