Wicked Weaves — Joyce Lavene; Jim Lavene

Hail ye, hail ye, and welcome to the Renaissance Village. Here, Jessie Morton, an assistant professor at a local college, spends her summers honing her skills and finding the lady, lord, or serf whodunit. But this time she gets tangled in a deadly weave...

NOT FOR THE FAIRE OF HEART

Jessie has been working the Renaissance faire every summer since she graduated from college. Now that she's studying for her Ph.D., it's not just work; it's research. This summer her apprenticeship is with Mary Shift--a skilled basket maker with a dark past.

Things appear to be going without a hitch, until a man is bid a deadly fare-thee-well and Mary's signature weave is found wrapped around his neck. It's up to Jessie to spring Mary from the stocks of the Myrtle Beach police station. Yet innocence is hard to prove in a place where there's a fine line between reality and good theater--and history is bound to repeat itself...