One of the writing challenges of sustaining a series of any kind is for the author to stay involved, interested and intrigued by her characters. Mex has me captivated, and I see no end to her stories. Here are a few thumbnails for the next healing mysteries. I’ve completed through Gypsy Chicks, and, at this writing, am smack dab in the middle of Wicked Joy.

Brigadoon Moon sends Mex way up north of everywhere, near the Callanish Stone Circle in the Western Isles of Scotland, to a production of Brigadoon, conducted by her old friend Waverley King. Mex tangles with the local sineater, a Scottish sort of scapegoat. He is obscuring a triple murder with the centuries-old battle between the witches and the Druids. Mex receives her own Druid initiation in the process. She ends her relationship with Veronica, and then proceeds to fall in love with Waverley, who is married, and whose husband approves. 

Butterfly Fan summons Mex to Kyoto, Japan and the healing of a deeply submerged
secret in her own life, the death of her only son. A one-shot production of Puccini’s Madama Butterfly commissioned by the okasan of the oldest geisha house in existence threads Mex through the Japanese Mafia and a businessman’s murder turned hara kiri. Her old friend and new love, Waverley, is astonished at the healing Mex receives through Reiki.

Chicago Valentine keeps Mex at home on Broadway. Six seemingly unrelated folk are dead all over town. Two things link them: they each had a single ticket stub to Chicago—The Musical, and a mysterious playing card. Mex delves into her own Gypsy ancestry to follow the playing cards. She dances the murderer’s dance, Veronica reappears, and asks Mex to be her bride. The Divine Right Partnership is on again.

Mattress Police places Mex in the Hudson River Valley, near her new Queen Anne Victorian house in the country (pink, of course), at a summer theatre conservatory where a leading actor in a production of Once Upon A Mattress is murdered. As she unravels the case, and the deeper truth about her relationship with Veronica, she learns the lost secret of the four grail treasures. Seraphim Groves, the leading actress in Mattress, is the transformative agent who plays the gender slide with Mex, setting her free.

Gypsy Chicks sends Mex back to New York to reclaim a piece of her long ago past: the shadowy figure of her long-absent father. Through a one-shot fundraiser by the social elite of the Big Apple for strippers who are also single mothers, Mex finds out just what part of her heart still belongs to Daddy. Seraphim plays Momma Rose in the benefit, and the two learn more about how their friendship might become the marriage of their dreams.

Wicked Joy takes Mex and Seraphim deep into their romance at last. Seraphim is cast as Madame Morrible in a sit-down company of Wicked in Boston. When the actress playing Glinda disappears, the producers bring Mex north and east to find her, hopefully, alive. Dashing back and forth between New York and Beantown, the two learn to show up for one another as true partners through Hawaiian relational technique, ho’oponopono.

Legally Bond raises questions for Seraphim and Mex as they navigate the trickster legality of marriage. It’s legal in Massachusetts but nowhere else so Seraphim accepts a gig in Boston, and the two deal with a long-distance romance while a production of Legally Blonde reveals much more than blood in the water at Harvard Law School.
                       
Rent Rx brings Mex up short as she is diagnosed with and learns to navigate a chronic disease. Mirrored by the treatment of AIDS in Rent’s East Village, a member of a bus-and-truck tour who plays Mimi is found dead on the road. Mex is brought in to unravel the maze, find the path of the labyrinth, and identify the culprit. The lesson? A diagnosis is not a prognosis.
                                               
Makropoulos Secret plunges Mex into the depths of opera with The Makropoulos Case, the story of Elena Makropoulos, a woman who possesses the alchemical formula for eternal life. Beginning with a murder in Milan at La Scala, she hopscotches through European opera houses searching for the secret of the fountain of youth. She learns that some secrets are meant to be kept secret.

Superstar Blessing leads Mex through a mystical revelation of the Passion of Jesus of Nazareth. Trekking through the holy sites in the Holy Land, Mex follows the journey of the mystical Christ as she searches for who murdered the actor playing Judas in a production of Jesus Christ Superstar. Mex discovers that what appears to be our greatest curse is often our greatest blessing. 

There are plans for additional healing mysteries based on
Taming of the Shrew, and Hello, Dolly among others.