Thanks! addamms2!

Your help was invaluable. The author was Angela Pearson and she wrote 5 books in the series. I was able to get 4 of them as e-books from olympia press but unfortunately the missing one is "The Whipping Post". I had read these 4 and until seeing them available, had forgotten about them. So it was with great anticipation that I started re-reading them after all these years.

Again many thanks...