In 1923 fourteen-year-old Perfecta makes the decision she won't be perfect any more. A face-off with her father, Primitivo, the sheriff of the small Northern New Mexico town, seems to do the trick. But what now, with her mother never leaving the rocking chair at the front window and her father ignoring her? Surely even their harsh Catholic God doesn't think that dancing, smiling and laughing are sins? But Perfecta knows that falling in love with the twenty-two-year-old blue-eyed Presbyterian Isaac Martinez is a sin. When Isaac leaves for California, she promises to wait for him. But has she escaped one prison only to be trapped by another?

Rosarita is tired of all these religious wars and the politics and the manipulative newscasts. She creates her own faith-one in which ALL religions work together to save the earth. But things don't always go as planned, and The Great Creator calls a meeting of all the deities - STATUS CRITICAL. Will they be able to save the earth from the mishaps of four temperamental goddesses? Or will the residents of Earth cause the whole plan to crumble? Robin Martinez Rice, author of Imperfect and Sisters in Pieces has created a funny little tale of doom and gloom. No matter what you believe in, you will find something in this story to make you spit, laugh, or groan. www.robinmartinezrice.com

Meet Miriam, Callie and Phoebe Foster. Three sisters who haven't spoken in years. When Miriam accuses her younger sister, Phoebe, of killing their mother, the battle is on. Miriam knows that Phoebe got away with murder, literally, and she refuses to accept her sister's behavior as normal. Ever-pleasing Callie, mother-to-all, tries to keep peace between her two sisters. She's used to being in the middle of the constant battles, and now, with a husband and four children, she is better than ever at problem solving. But even Callie can't ignore it when Phoebe makes a play for her husband. Doesn't her sister have plenty of husbands, make that ex-husbands, of her own? Sisters in Pieces, twenty tales of life, love, murder and intestinal distress, will bring the Foster sisters together once again. Robin Martinez Rice, author of Imperfecta, returns to enchant her readers with these stories of family interaction and angst. As a retired therapist, her years of looking into the psyche of her clients has contributed to the mystery and reality of Sisters In Pieces.