The Wheel of Fortune (The Carnival Mafia series Book 1)

Former physician Jorga Volf knows firsthand the perils of plastic surgery. A rogue pair of exploding breast implants took her career, her 401K, and her life’s ambition.

Broke and homeless, Jorga is forced to return to her hole-in-the-wall hometown of Elyria. Her family owns the local carnival, but they’re more than your typical carnies. The Volfs have been the root of all things criminal in the Nebraska plains for years. Think Green Acres meets The Sopranos, but with kolaches instead of cannolis.

Jorga’s hardheaded ambition got her into medical school and away from her seedy heritage, but cost her Erick Rockford, her high school sweetheart. Now Erick is engaged, and Jorga is questioning past decisions--and the motive of his new fiancé. To complicate matters, her new boss and local bad boy Waylon Steele Jr. is determined to charm her, but his reputation rivals that of her family’s. As Jorga attempts to wiggle her way back into Erick’s life and out of Waylon’s seductive trap, she tries to reconcile with her family by joining in a mission to take down a group of methamphetamine dealers who have overrun Elyria.

Taking down a meth barn Volf style requires sequined bikinis, acrobats, and a Siberian tiger named George, but it’s all just part of a day in the life of a carnival mafia princess. However, the obvious enemy may not be the real threat to Jorga, especially as old loves and family ties collide.