title: Kick Assitude
author: Jackson, Trish
description: Redneck P.I., Twila Taunton is back in her home town, Quisby, Alabama. She has started her own detective agency, with the most pressing objective being to find her mother's murderers and bring them to justice. She is adopted by a dog, whom she names Scratch. He rides on the back of her Harley with her and takes on the job of protecting her from from the bad guys, who will stop at nothing, even murder, to guard their secret. She juggles her love life between sexy cowboy, Tanner Ferrano -- young and deliciously handsome – who is determined to get Twila into bed with him, and her long-time boyfriend, hunky Harland O'Connor. The investigation leads her to a code -- Cyder Hill 1953. When she thinks she has cracked it, she and hard-drinking Aunt Essie make a clandestine midnight visit to a haunted mansion, mindful of the man-eating wild boars...