The Happy Racoon Said No!

What do you do when destiny isn’t turning out as planned? For Sean Doran, you make a course correction… and go home.

USA Today bestselling author Juliette Fay delivers a richly-drawn page-turner with humor, heart, and hope for finding oneself when all the tables have turned. Perfect for fans of Jonathan Tropper and Marisa de los Santos.

Sean Doran has spent twenty years as a nurse in Third World war zones and natural disaster areas, fully embracing what he’d always felt was his purpose in life: to do as much good as possible with whatever time he has. With a 50% chance of carrying the gene for Huntington’s Disease like his mother, he’s never married or had children, and has kept his relationships casual. But when Sean begins to question the basis for his life’s work and burnout sets in, he is reluctantly drawn back home to Massachusetts.

There he discovers that his steely elderly aunt, drama-loving sister, and quirky nephew are having a little natural disaster of their own. Sean soon finds himself parenting a misunderstood boy, falling in love with a woman from his past… and realizing that the bonds of love and loyalty might just rewrite what he once thought he knew about destiny.

** The Craig Crime Novels can be read out of sequence or as standalone novels.
Location briefs and character biographies are included at the back of each book. **

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About the book

When events from Belfast’s troubled past occur again decades later, the worst is feared and the Belfast Murder Squad is called.

They find a quiet Belfast bookshop and a distant country linked in unexpected ways, and idealistic youth sadly misled.

A hilarious, modern romantic comedy inspired by Jane Austen’s Persuasion.

There are some perks to being a rock star. The money, the adoring fans, the grammy — rubbing it in my ex’s beautiful face.

Five years ago, April Rain dumped me after her celebrity father convinced her I wasn’t rich or famous enough to date a pop star. Now everything has changed. She’s left the spotlight and I’ve made a name for myself.

I don’t mind watching her squirm as I flirt with her friends at my beach house or catching her sneakily check me out when she thinks I’m not looking.

The only drawback? We’re expected to sing a duet at my best friend’s wedding. How am I supposed to write a love song with the woman who broke my heart? How do I keep pretending that I’m over her?

TERSON REILLY is never one to follow rules blindly, and it costs him.

Running illicit cargo on Algran Asta got him deported to a homeworld he doesn’t remember. A homeworld that doesn’t want him; a homeworld with more rules than he can stand. When he breaches the colony’s strict boundaries to rescue the crew of a downed spacecraft, his daring unwittingly threatens to expose Nivia’s dark secret — a secret the colony leadership and a powerful criminal cartel will do anything to keep.

Ignoring the rules this time could cost him everything…

Malfred Murd is an out-of-work jester with a chip on one shoulder and an infuriatingly optimistic magpie on the other. But when he gets mistaken for a hero, it’s a mock-magical comedy of errors!

“Just when you think you know where it’s going, something even better happens” — Kindle reader

Jester. Juggler. Joker. Jerk. Malfred Murd might be talented, but he’s undeniably abrasive — and he’s pushed the limits of humor right into a ditch.

Sacked from his cushy gig on the Royal island, Malfred is left playing bootleg shows in dirtwater towns where crowds are scarce and meals are sparse. His only fan is an intellectual magpie who thinks he’s helping when he steals a bag full of shinies.

But the bag belongs to the ruler of a country that, just like Fred, is deep in Royal disfavor. And as our former funnyman blunders into her desperate plan to save her people, all three Hells break hilariously loose!