Retired super-spy Delphine Lougheed is nothing if not gracious, especially when family comes to town. So when Marge Flandersโthe mother of her son-in-law and possible former jewel thiefโannounces she and her new boyfriend Willard are visiting Southern California for a trip to Disneyland, Delphine offers to pick them up from the airport.
But Willard disappears without a trace right after deplaning, and Margeโs vacation turns from fun to frantic quicker than you can say โgiant diamond.โ Delphine would rather skip it all and go ballroom dancing, but now she must use the skills she honed during decades of espionage to help track Willard down. She enlists the help of friend and fellow former super-spy Kenji Yamamoto, and the three of them set off for the not-so-seedy underbelly of Orange County.
In the process of tracking down Willard, the trio discovers the love of Margeโs life may not be who she thought he was. Worse, if they canโt locate him, she'll end up having to payโliterallyโfor his transgressions. On the lookout for senior swimsuit influencers, inept bookies, and alimony-seeking biker ex-wives, Delphine, Kenji, and Marge search for their missing person. But they just might uncover far more: the realization that itโs never too late to find adventure โฆ and lifelong friends.
Andrea lives in Oklahoma but grew up in Southern Californiaโand the latter will always be home in her heart. In 2016 she left a job in finance to pursue a career in anything other than working for somebody else. She has been freestyling it ever since. With age comes wisdom, or at least a few more stories to tell, and in 2018, Andrea began self-publishing quirky novels with the intention of brightening her readersโ day. When sheโs not trying to get her own words onto a page, Andrea edits other peopleโs writing, teaches a little yoga, and starts knitting projects that sometimes get finished.
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