Twirling the flower stem between his thumb and index finger, he absently plucked the petals one by one and watched with vacant eyes as they drifted to the ground at his feet. “…loves me . . .?” This question relentlessly plagues the characters of Margarita on the Rocks, a southwestern love story and horseback adventure novel set in the beautiful Superstition Mountains of Arizona.



Relying on an ancient Indian sage to guide him, Michael Conner embarks on a perilous journey in his search for love in the mining town of Globe. Regrettably, the woman who has captured his eye, Margarita Miller, the alluring waitress from Joe’s Café, is married. The long absence of her husband and support of their friends leads them to engage in a deep friendship. After tortuous months of holding back, they finally commit to each other under the desert stars and explore their love in a sizzling affair.



But they ultimately face a series of twists and turns to disrupt their utopia and threaten their lives—mistaken identity, clandestine pacts, dangerous subterfuge…even murder? What says the daisy when the final petal falls?