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So Damn Lucky

"Lucky’s latest lark brims with the over-the-top ridiculousness that I love about Vegas. Fans of the series will fall in love all over again, and new readers will look forward to her next escapade."

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Publishers Weekly
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So Damn Lucky

Lucky Bastard

Lucky O’Toole, the newly promoted vice president of Customer Relations for the Babylon, Las Vegas's primo Strip property, has never met a problem she couldn't handle. But when a young woman is found dead, sprawled across the hood of a new, bright red Ferrari California in the Babylon's on-site dealership, a Jimmy Choo stiletto stuck in her carotid, Lucky's skills are maxed out.
 

Lucky Catch

When a prized truffle is stolen from the walk-in in her lover, Jean-Charles’, gourmet burger joint at the Babylon and a young chef apparently killed with a smoking gun is found in Jean-Charles’ food truck on the back lot, trouble takes a sinister turn for Lucky O’Toole, the VP of Customer Relations for Las Vegas’ primo Strip casino/hotel, the Babylon.
 
And Jean-Charles isn’t answering his phone.
 
Desperate to put a lid on the body count and more than frantic over her AWOL lover, Lucky uses her Vegas contacts to search in places and in ways the police wouldn’t or couldn’t.
 
Teddie insists on riding shotgun.
 
Lucky hasn’t the time nor the resolve to say no.
 
She’s never been able to resist Teddie … not really.
 
With danger dogging their heels, Lucky finds herself falling once again under his spell as they traverse Vegas, being drawn deeper and deeper into the highly competitive world of high-end eateries and the battle for the very rare, most highly prized gourmet foodstuffs.

When Lucky’s path crosses the killer’s… will her goose be cooked?
 

Lucky Break

With Christmas a few days away, Lucky O’Toole, Vice President of Customer Relations for the Babylon, Las Vegas’s premier Strip casino resort, is in a festive mood. The upcoming wedding of her assistant to the Beautiful Jeremy Whitlock and her own engagement to her delish French Chef, Jean-Charles Bouclet have Lucky in full holiday cheer.

And even bigger celebrations are afoot. The national media is focused on the grand opening of Jean-Charles’s restaurant atop Lucky’s very own slice-of-heaven hotel. The opening gets a boost when Holt Box, a retired country-western singing legend lends a hand in the kitchen, adding mega-watt celebrity buzz.
 

Lucky’s life is humming.

The only sour note is her former lover, Teddie.

Teddie claims Lucky’s father, the Big Boss, has put an end to his return to the Las Vegas stage by handing that stage to Holt Box. Box is returning from retirement, a comeback of epic magnitude that will give the Babylon—and Lucky's career—an incredible boost.

Taken by surprise, Lucky takes the high road. Or rather, she does what she always does when life overwhelms…
 
She ignores it.

Until she finds Teddie and her father, bloodied and angry, standing over the lifeless body of Holt Box, a dagger in Teddie’s fist.
 

The media sharks are circling.
 
A Macau heavy-hitter in town, flying under the radar but making his presence felt.
 
An old nemesis of Lucky’s is out of prison and salivating for revenge.
 
Lucky’s mother is ramping up her political campaign while juggling her new twins, who still don’t have names.
 
And Christmas is racing toward a crescendo.
 

Time is short as Lucky must discover whether Teddie is a killer.

And why she still cares.

LUCKY O’TOOLE NOVELLAS

Lucky in Love

Lucky O’Toole, the vice president of Customer Relations for the Babylon, one of Las Vegas’s most over-the-top strip properties, is seriously regretting booking a reality television show,
The Forever Game,
in the hotel’s small theater.
 

Lucky Bang

Missing dynamite, an old grudge, and whispers from the past, force Lucky to delve into dark secrets best left alone. And when her father disappears, things become personal.

Lucky Now and Then, Parts 1 and 2

Las Vegas, the City of Reinvention.

No one knows this better than Lucky O’Toole, V.P of Customer Relations at the Babylon, Vegas’s newest, most over-the-top Strip property.
 
As the daughter of one of the men responsible for shaping Vegas from its ignominious Mob beginnings to its full current glory, Lucky has witnessed the constant rebirth.
 
So, when the time comes to implode her father’s first hotel, The Lucky Aces, she feels the angst, but moves on.

Until skeletal remains are found in the foundation and her father is implicated in a murder.

Then it is a race to uncover the long-buried past.
 
A past no one wants revealed, least of all the killer, who has tried to kill Lucky once before.
 
Lucky must unravel the twisted knot of lies, Mob hits, Vegas power plays, passions, and corruption.

Her father’s life hangs in the balance.

Lucky Flash

Lucky O’Toole, Vice President of Customer Relations at the Babylon Resort, one of the premier properties on the Vegas Strip, is back.
 
This time she wises-up and sends her down-and-dirty best friend, investigative report “Flash” Gordon on the trail of Johnny Pismo.
 
Pismo, a washed-up-never-been singer shows up at the Babylon singing a song about a ring of thieves stealing Vegas’ music memorabilia.
 
They replace each piece of Vegas’s music history with a fake, selling the originals on the black market.
 
Pismo even claims to have the prize piece in Lucky’s father’s collection—a large diamond ring given to the Big Boss by Liberace himself.
 

Lucky is shocked to learn he’s telling the truth.

Teddie, Lucky’s former lover, offers a few choice pieces of his memorabilia collection as bait.
 
Of course, Lucky must join the chase to protect Teddie’s treasures.
 

But can she protect her heart from him in the process?

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

M
Y mother tells me I was born a very long time ago, but I’m not so sure—my mother can’t be trusted.
 
These things I do know:
 
I was raised in Texas on barbeque, Mexican food and beer.
 
I currently reside in Las Vegas, where my friends assure me I cannot get into too much trouble.
 
Silly people. I am the author of WANNA GET LUCKY? (A NY Times Notable Crime Novel for 2010 and double RITA™ Finalist), LUCKY STIFF, SO DAMN LUCKY (a national bestseller), LUCKY BASTARD, LUCKY CATCH, LUCKY BREAK and five digital novellas, LUCKY IN LOVE, LUCKY BANG, LUCKY NOW AND THEN (Parts One and Two), and LUCKY FLASH.
 
I can usually be found at the bar, but also at
www.deborahcoonts.com
.