For fifty-something Roxy Adams, the days are drenched in
sunshine and a passion for her boyfriend, Sam Reyes. That is until he turns up
dead in the trunk of Roxy's limo and she's arrested for his murder.
Changing Lanes
A Roxy Adams Mystery Book 1
by Claire Yezbak Fadden
Genre: Humorous Cozy Mystery, Romantic Suspense
For fifty-something Roxy Adams, life is simple and
beautiful. Her days are drenched in southern California sunshine and passion
for Sam Reyes, the man she loves and shares a business with.
When Sam vanishes with their savings, leaving only a note behind, Roxy is faced
with a harsh reality. Broke and confused, she learns they never owned the
business. The actual owner will let her keep her job if she provides him
with benefits.
Convinced there’s no knight in shining armor riding to her rescue, Roxy dusts
off her chauffeur’s hat and returns to the career she trailblazed twenty years
earlier.
With a steady income, new friends, and the possibility of romance, joy slowly
replaces insecurity. Foxy Roxy is back. Life is wonderful and exciting once
again. Until Sam turns up dead in the trunk of her limo. And Roxy is arrested
for his murder.
Roxy paced what might soon be her ex-living room, glad her last shift at the food truck was over. She’d never have to deal with Chuck again. That was the good news the bad news drowned out. With about five hundred dollars to her name, she needed a new job. And fast. Three weeks had passed while she waited and hoped to hear from Sam. A frantic call begging for her forgiveness. Telling her everything was a big mistake, that he was sorry, and he was coming home. But no call came. Sam had vanished completely, taking with him any sliver of love she had felt for the man. Taped to her front door that morning, Roxy found a handwritten note from Flora, the apartment manager, threatening a thirty-day eviction notice. She had crumpled the paper and thrown it near the empty television stand. Along with Sam, her sixty-five-inch wide-screen now lived somewhere in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Next to the wadded notification rested a balled-up bank statement. The account where she and Sam had regularly deposited their pay held a hundred-dollar balance. Once again, the reality invaded her. Sam was gone, cleaning out their bank account and leaving unpaid bills in his wake. Roxy gulped back a tear and coiled onto her secondhand couch, stained and lumpy. She was on her own. Not that she couldn’t survive. Roxy prided herself on being a strong, self-sufficient woman. Still, she hadn’t planned on moving into midlife alone and broke. Practically in the dead of night, Sam had sold his business and left for Tennessee. Apparently, turning sixty lit a fire under him to move closer to the wife he had abandoned long before Roxy had met him. Now that their children were grown and the responsibilities fewer, Sam had happily traded the hustle and chaos of Los Angeles for back-country fishing holes and lazy days with grandkids he’d never met. At fifty-three, Roxy understood the draw of reevaluating your life, accomplishing goals before getting too old to remember what they were. She and Sam had chased those dreams together. After all, he encouraged her to abandon her career as one of the few female limo drivers in California, probably in the country. Instead, he persuaded her to join him slinging hash from his food truck on a side street near the corner of Vine and Fountain in downtown LA. Roxy groaned at the thought. Stupid. Stupid. Stupid. She’d given up pocketing hundreds of dollars in cash tips while meeting the area’s famous, wealthy, and colorful. Sam supplied everything she had missed during her early years—a steady life, a reliable partner, a consistent income. Things she never had growing up in Downey. A solidness she’d never find in the capricious chauffeuring world.
Pennsylvania-native Claire Yezbak Fadden lives in Orange
County, California with her husband and two spoiled dogs. She spends her spare
time playing with her four grandchildren and immersing herself in the words of
other authors.
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