The Devil Has Tattoos

Book excerpt: The leaves are falling, the Halloween carnival is in full swing, and someone is robbing the residents of Branson Falls, Utah. There is no rhyme or reason to the crimes, but after an elderly widow is targeted, the town is up in arms—literally, and everyone is pointing fingers straight at the owners of the new tattoo shop, Inked AF. Branson Tribune editor, Kate Saxee, isn’t sure who is to blame, but she’s not willing to let an angry mob run the tattoo shop out of town without investigating—and she’s not the only one with questions that need answers. Drake and Hawke, both serious relationship material, are very interested in why Kate has been avoiding them for weeks. Kate’s love life and the robberies aren’t the only things on Kate’s plate. She’s also being stalked by a costume-wearing gang, helping Ella with her new online auction hobby, failing to avoid The Ladies, and trying to manage her mom’s most recent antics involving an angry goat named Humperdinck. Between all the chaos, Kate discovers there is more to the robberies than meets the eye, and if she doesn’t figure it all out fast, someone might end up dead AF.