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Gillespie Field Groove Featured
When nurse and fledgling pilot Lucinda Rhodes hires guitar-playing private detective Rolly Waters to track down a Stratocaster guitar owned by her deceased father, Rolly is thrilled to take on her case, especially when he learns the guitar’s original owner may have been Jimi Hendrix. But Gerry Rhodes’s reckless personal history leads to more questions than Rolly and Lucinda have bargained for, as ...
Final Arrangements Featured
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On paper, it was a great idea. Ginger Barnes would chauffeur her mother’s dear friend, fierce floral competitor Iffy Bigelow, to the world-famous Philadelphia Flower Show in time to perfect that day’s “Sew What?” entry. In return, Gin and mother Cynthia w ...
P. I. Apprentice Featured
P. I. Apprentice (Dev Haskell Private Investigator Book 34) Private Investigator Dev Haskell is visited by Melissa Carter, the daughter of a former friend. Both her parents were killed in a hit-and-run ‘accident’ a few years earlier. She has strong doubts it was an accident and asks Dev to investigate. He grudgingly takes on the case, but the more he learns the more he’s convinced Melissa is on to ...
After the Storm Featured
Life was never going to be the same again…friends had become family and strangers became friends…all in the midst of a storm like no other and the aftermath that no one could have ever predicted. Jess and Max find their relationship takes an unexpected and life-changing turn…Brian decides on a risky mission that no one can talk him out of…and Sara struggles with the knowledge that among those resp ...
History, Mystery, Murder Featured
Maggie Quinlan has hit rock bottom. A failed marriage to an abusive ex, the termination of yet another job, and the sudden death of her beloved father—what more could happen? After her beautiful and wealthy cousin, Angelique, has everyone’s DNA tested and the cousins find which historical family they share their DNA with, a trip to England is called for. However, it seems as though trouble has tag ...
Stalking the Moon Featured
Viviane's life is tough enough, but then a supernatural monster begins killing her friends. Have her hallucinations come to life? Viviane Rose has lived with auditory hallucinations all her life. Despite this, she has a good job as the manager of the laundry at Vince Malum Residential Living Center, a long-term care facility for the mentally ill. She works there to be near her catatonic mother and ...
LETHAL Featured
A teenager with no one to turn to must make a choice: save her classmates from a brutal school or defeat a sinister conspiracy to reshape the world. Hildi doesn’t have much left. Her life is a struggle against illness and to free herself from her wheelchair. The lone bright spot is her lifelong friend. So when he mysteriously disappears, she'll do anything to find him. When clues lead her to a mys ...
ANOINTED Featured
ANOINTED...(NEW RELEASE) After unexpectedly inheriting the British title of Lord of Mogford after the suspicious death of his father, Lord Reginald Muggs, investigative reporter Maxwell Muggs heads out to steamy Baton Rouge to battle with the despicable, self-anointed bishop of a cult-like church. On arrival, Max forms an intriguing partnership with the lovely Annabelle Muffet, a fiercely determin ...
Lost in Little Havana Featured
Each brush with death Makes their shared desire harder to ignore Detective Roni Lopez has been keeping a secret from Detective Trey Gonzalez her whole life. When his partner is gunned down in a Miami Beach nightclub, she has a new secret to keep. Trey can’t know that she’s working for Internal Affairs—just like he can’t know that she’s always loved him. But when their lives are on the line, she ha ...
Dark Revenge Featured
Thirst for revenge lies deep in the human soul.
Dr. Fern Adams seeks revenge on the man who murdered her sister, and she’s prepared to abandon her Hippocratic Oath to punish her sister's killer.
Hero fireman, Jose Alvarez, has sworn revenge on the woman whose testimony sent him to jail. He’s willing to step outside the law to clear his name.
Deep in the shadows, an unkno ...
The Girl Who Killed You Featured
From USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Amy Vansant - the most fun you can have holding a Kindle Reader!
When Mick and his retired military gun-for-hire “fixer” service is hired by a United States Senator to find his missing son, he enlists the help of his daughter, Siofra “Shee” McQueen. An experienced tracker, Shee quickly ...
On New Year’s Eve in The Sisters, Texas, anything is possible. Madison and Brash deCordova are hosting a masquerade party, so a bit of mystery and drama is expected. Murder, however, seems a bit drastic, even with Madison’s knack for finding dead bodies. The victim is Anastacia Rowland, owner of the new café in town directly competing with New Beginnings. Madison’s best friend Genny owns New Begin ...
The Bulls-Eye Killer Featured
Smart. Sexy. Single. And a knack for trouble, either finding it or it finding her. Introducing Pepper Jackson. In her mid-forties and recently divorced, she’s every bit as tough as she is drop-dead gorgeous. A Neighborhood Watch patroller, member of the Crime Busters book club, and advocate for finding forever homes for shelter pets, Pepper is an active, outspoken member of the community. Although ...
Frosted Croakies Featured
’Tis the season for great folly…walawalawalawalala…ribbit. The tree is up. The stockings are hung. And Christmas tunes are making me jolly. Obviously, everything is about to go sideways.
Catrina Flaherty Series Featured
"Catrina Flaherty is a kick-ass female PI whose mission in life is to help women who can't help themselves. Her practice caters to abused women, divorce, rape, and sexual harassment. Come see her play with the big boys."
Pineapple Lies Featured
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Funny, clean, small-town, sleuth novels—with a touch of romance. The heartwarming relationships between young and old and the quirky world of loveable characters will make Pineapple Port Mysteries your new favorite series!
As an orphan adopted by one of Florida's 55+ communities, Charlotte ...
The Spiricom Featured
She was killed on their wedding day…but he couldn’t let her go. Tall, handsome Dr. Spencer Py was a well-respected environmental scientist...until the limo crash when a treacherous Maine road took away his new bride Melanie and left him in a wheelchair. He is racked with despair over his failure to save her until the fateful night he discovers plans on the internet for the Spiricom, Thomas Edison’ ...
A Dagger Among Friends Featured
When murder comes to Harvest Falls, amateur sleuths abound. But the killer’s game pits friend against friend, and everyone’s in danger of a final turn.
A DAGGER AMONG FRIENDS is an amateur sleuth mystery novel with humorous elements. It plays on cozy mystery tropes and flips them on their heels.
"a fun amateur sleuth read!" - Amazon reviewer
Charlie Goode is struggling t ...
Cozy Mysteries in a Small Town Where Everyone Is Having a Worse Holiday Than You Young attorney JD Thompson looks forward to a quiet Thanksgiving week when a raging storm floods Central Texas, confining him and his partners to the Victorian mansion where they work and live. The fine print of their agreement with the house’s owner kicks in, and he and his partners must run a disaster shelter for ...
Pineapple Valentine Mystery Featured
USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Amy Vansant finds romance deadly in the latest installment of the fun, thrilling, twisty Pineapple Port Mysteries!
When Matchmaker Lady Venus drops dead on the Pineapple Port community center's stage during a Valentine's event, Charlotte and the new detective agency she's started with her fiance Declan are called to the scene.
As dange ...
Caffeine Before Curses Featured
When a movie shoot ends in murder, a caffeine fix might be the star’s only hope. Skye O’Malley’s grandmother always told her she inherited the Sight. But other than an occasional message from a blob of tea leaves or a vague dream, Skye doesn’t think she’s anything special, since she can’t even predict which of her coffee-shop customers will order hard-core black or fancy frou-frou with extra fo ...
Death in Paris Featured
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WINNER of the 2022 Independent Publisher Book Awards Bronze - the IPPY - Best Mystery & Thriller eBookMàiri Maguire teaches in top schools all over the world, but on days like today she wishes she had never left Glasgow! 8:10 a.m. on 15th August 1970. They’ve only been in Paris one evening. but this morning Lianna is in jail, charged w ...
Border Field Blues Featured
"A potent dose of sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll" (ForeWord Magazine) Murder, sex, politics, and classic rock guitar collide in this original and compelling mystery set in the backcountry along the San Diego-Tijuana border, when a violent encounter between a young border-crosser and an angry bandit creates a secret and shocking bond between the boy and the bandit’s dumbfounded daughter. But when re ...
Defenseless Featured
A murdered woman, a powerful politician, and a witness who’s no longer willing to stay in the shadows. Eighteen years ago, Bela Houseman became a loose end. The powerful man who murdered her mother knows who she is and exactly what she saw that night. Giving up everything she’s ever known, including her own name, is the only way to protect herself. Now, as the lead cyber security expert at HICC ...
Brandon Foxworth, an ecology professor at the University of Virginia, and his wife are watching their two children chase lightning bugs in the back yard when suddenly all the lights go out. Three days later, Taylor Grant, a reporter with the Richmond Herald, stumbles coming down the stairs of his front porch and lands on his backside in a flower bed full of dead flowers. Following the subsequent d ...
The Jungle Within Featured
19-year-old Pace Howell's life is a history of making mistakes, even flunking out of his freshman year of college. But everything changes when he meets Sage, who shows him that serving others just might turn his screwed-up life around. When they go on a church medical mission to the Amazon, Pace learns about a healing liquid — made from the eggs of a mythical creature — that could save a sick chil ...
The Girl Who Was Forgotten Featured
"Think Stephanie Plum goes to Florida. With Jack Reacher. Highly recommended.”— ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Carmen Amato, bestselling author of the Detective Emilia Cruz police series and 30-year veteran of the Central Intelligence Agency.
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The world of Attorney Mylas Grey changes forever one Saturday morning in May. Unfortunately, he isn’t prepared for the situation, the consequences, or the danger, and he sure isn’t prepared for the female distraction. He isn’t prepared for the situation . . . Mylas always thought the owner of the McKinney Law Firm, where he’s employed, would outlive him, so when the owner suffers a fatal hear ...
Kilty As Hell Featured
"This series is getting better and better." - Amazon Reviewer
Catriona is having a strange year. First, she found a dazed Highlander on the Hollywood studio lot where she works as a fixer and now it seems she and that big hunk of haggis are supposed to save the world from corrupted time travelers bent on destroying humanity.
She doesn't remember ...
The Girl Who Wants Featured
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A wildly entertaining, wholly unique tour de force of action, psychological drama and wit from USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Amy Vansant.
Shee wants a home.
Shee McQueen grew up skip tracing and hunting military criminals with her fathe ...
Ever wonder how the Founding Fathers were able to pay for an Army and the basic resources required to sustain the new fledgling nation? Did they have access to a vast treasure? How did a ragtag set of Patriots defeat the largest military in the world? Our story picks up right where the first book in the series, The Secret of Eden and the New World, left off. Once again, Nathanial Briggs is a seemi ...
Senior Martha, her fluffy white puppy Teddy, and their roomie Pru, who is an assistant librarian, meet Chantal the fortune teller in the small Californian town of Gold Leaf Valley. Pru is reluctant to get her fortune told, but Martha can’t wait! When they stumble across a dead body outside the senior center, Martha declares that their senior sleuthing club is on the case! While interviewing ...
Vendetta in Viera Featured
A much-loved President is publicly assassinated just before a major Presidential election. His running mate Amena Winston becomes the first female black President as a result. But during the lame duck session, nine of the President’s nemesis and enemies begin dropping like flies. Every single law enforcement agency in the country scramble to solve these murders while dealing with international bur ...
Leashed Featured
Jack has some ‘splainin’ to do! That's right! Callie Lassiter's normally well-behaved Great Dane Jack has run off and done the wild thing with the neighbor's dog. It must be puppy love! It's doubly embarrassing since she's a professional dog trainer. Of course, the neighbor would have to be hot, hot nightclub owner bad boy Owen McKay, just the kind of man Callie is determined to avoid. Owen’s comf ...
Angel of Mercy Featured
A Mystery Novel About Dignity in Life and Death: Veterinary surgeon Jim Briggs has assisted the suicides of ten Chicagoans. Briggs is an angel of mercy to the residents of the Lazy Acres homeless community. He cares for their dogs for free and provides those in need with a pain-free exit from the city's harsh winters and brutal life on the street. About to leave Chicago for a new job in Portland, ...
Killer Dead, Victim Alive Featured
The serial killer is dead; the expected seventh victim is alive, and the Santa Monica detectives and the FBI agents are shaking their heads. “Who-done-it” meets “why-done-it.” The result: A twisty mystery, spiked with psychological and cultural implications, all playing out in sun-drenched Santa Monica. Police Detectives Mollie Granger and Greg Nichols respond to a call near the world-famous pier. ...
A Case of Murder by Monte Carlo Featured
Laurel Benson is a loyal and dedicated nurse. She may be petite, but she’ll take on anyone who threatens her patients’ safety and well-being. That feisty protectiveness creates problems when a hit and run victim lands in the ER and Police Detective Cade Resnick arrives to investigate. There’s no denying the sparks between these two, but their professions put them at odds. As Cade zeroes in on his ...
A Day for Bones Featured
Bones litter the street…
A catastrophic flood in Ellicott City leaves more than damaged buildings in its wake: a human skeleton now lies scattered along Main Street. Did a colonial settler wash out of his grave? Or is it murder? As Detective Lieutenant Rick Peller and his team investigate, the descendants of James Ferring, a local business icon from a bygone era, become ...
The Skull Keeper Featured
Best friends on social media, Allysa and Morgan share a love of three things: thriller novels, true crime, and keeping secrets from each other. As soon as Allysa asks Morgan to be her plus one at a funeral, Morgan jumps on the first available flight. Burying the dead might unearth the truth about what happened to Allysa’s brother twenty years earlier. She’s never believed he simply left town wi ...
Pineapple House Hunter Featured
Pineapple Port Mysteries by Wall Street Journal and USA Today bestselling author Amy Vansant, is a funny, clean, and gore-free small-town, female amateur sleuth series, but with all the pulse-pounding excitement of a detective thriller.
When Declan and his uncle Seamus find a dead woman in the master closet of a house for sale, Seamus hopes that means he'll get a deal...but private dete ...
Secrets and Spies Featured
After the sinking of the Lusitania in 1915, New York society writer Louisa Delafield and her assistant Ellen Malloy join in the hunt for German saboteurs who are employing biological and chemical warfare on American soil. The spies have infiltrated all levels of American society, and they’ll do anything from churning out propaganda to cold-blooded murder to keep America from helping the allies. Ca ...
Fashion victims and fabulous felines – can Lauren, Annie, and Zoe discover who killed a local fashion designer? While serving plenty of cupcakes and coffee, of course! Lauren Denman, cupcake baker and owner of the Norwegian Forest Cat Café, along with her fur baby Annie, and her cousin and assistant Zoe, thought it would be a very quiet day, when they receive a strange request. A girl called Tabit ...
An Air Of Deceit Featured
A cozy mountain town with elemental magic that goes back generations. A hereditary witch strengthening the powers within her since childhood. A magical family and a newfound cat familiar to stand by her as she builds a close knit coven of her own, solves the suspicious nature of her grandmother’s death, and steps up to become the foremost elemental witch of the mountain region. Autumn assumed sh ...
Even a well-planned vacation can go astray… With week-long plans at the beach, Brash deCordova makes it clear to his wife Madison: no snooping, no stirring up trouble, and absolutely no mysteries. This week is about resting, relaxing, and spending time with family. They’re staying at The Mermaid’s Retreat on Bolivar Peninsula, where the upper Texas Coast promises sunshine, sand, and ...secrets? ...
Keep Your Doors Locked Featured
An escaped prisoner. A woman running from her past. National news coverage is the last thing Sara needs. After a troubled and abusive past, Sara Jennings has found a semblance of tranquility in her life. Buying an old farmhouse at the edge of nowhere has brought her the peace and solitude she so desperately craves. The property comes with history. Better yet, it comes with the promise of a fu ...
Codename: Parsifal Featured
The Spear of Destiny. The Roman Legionnaire’s lance that pierced Christ’s body as he hung on the cross. Legend claims whomever possesses it will become a great conqueror. But if they lose it, they will lose everything—including their lives. Shortly before WWII, Hitler stole the spear from a museum in Vienna. In the last weeks of the European war, he lost it. General George Patton orders an America ...
A Deadly Combo Featured
What do boxing and vintage trailers have in common? Meet Raquel (AKA Rocky) Nelson, a retired single woman with an attitude and love for boxing. Sisters Rocky and Bridget are enjoying each other’s company at a vintage trailerfest until they stumble over a corpse. The dead guy is none other than the local trailer restorer Bridget was overheard threatening to kill. Mounting evidence leads police ...
Unbaked Croakies Featured
My name is Naida Griffith and I’m a sorceress. I actually found that out not too long ago. I’ve lived with an undefined something burning in my belly for a while, feeling as if something wasn’t quite right under my skin. Then, on my eighteenth birthday I started getting headaches. Bad ones. And random stuff started following me around. Recently I was approached by a group called the Société of Dir ...
Murder at the Galliano Club Featured
In 1926, thanks to Prohibition, it’s hard to find a beer in Lido, New York. But trouble is always on tap at the Galliano Club. Social hub for the Italian immigrant community, the Galliano Club serves bootleg beer and Luca Lombardo’s signature sandwiches to workers from the city’s copper mills. The club means everything to Luca, who arrived in Lido with nothing left to lose. He’ll do whatever it ta ...
Pineapple Cruise Featured
When Mariska trades the brisket she won at “meat bingo” for three tickets on the new Gulf Voyager cruise ship, she, Darla, and our detective Charlotte enjoy a ladies' cruise to Key West. But when passengers start dropping like anchors, they find themselves afloat in the middle of the Gulf of Mexico...and a murder mystery.
Charlotte notices th ...
What if delivering the mail was a matter of life and death? Somebody kills a postman in Quake City while he’s delivering the mail. Laconic private investigator Danny Ashford suspects the police will bungle the investigation—they usually do. He joins forces with headstrong investigative reporter Deepa Banwait to track down the killer. But when a second murder follows close on the heels of the first ...
Heather Stanton is used to spinning anything negative that comes her way into gold, but now both her personal and professional lives have hit a glitch, so she cuts her losses and boards the first train out of town, leaving it all behind. Heather never expects to run into her independent, free-wheeling Aunt Julia in a speck on the map called Willows Bend. Nor does she expect the turn her life takes ...
Quantum computers are the next big thing. A router capable of allowing those computers to talk to each other, securely and near instantaneously, will be worth billions of dollars. As the first “Quantum Router” nears completion, the lead inventor is murdered. When the surviving creator doesn’t believe the story of his ‘suicide’, she hires Trace Conner, a master Ninjutsu instructor, for protection. ...
As the chatty classroom of kindergarten children excitedly awaits the final bell to release them for the weekend, Chloe, racked with exhaustion, desperately attempts to keep her eyes open. Nervously staring at the battered wooden desk, her six-year-old mind becomes fixated on the sound of the room's ticking clock. Emaciated and sleep-deprived, she reluctantly surrenders her consciousness. The inno ...
In a desperate moment of hope, a single number saved her life. Then a complete stranger opened his home offering safety, yet Grace knew danger surrounded them...when the pain allowed her to think clearly. But she knew she needed him to stay alive because someone wanted her dead.
Suspect Santa (Dev Haskell Private Investigator Book 33) Private Investigator Dev Haskell gets a call from Tubby Gustafson. There’s a car waiting for Dev just outside his office. If he doesn’t want to take the ride, he’ll have to drive himself to the Emergency room. Dev decides whatever he was involved in can wait and is driven to Tubby’s mansion. Turns out Tubby wants any and all information on e ...
Scandalous contents of a hidden box reveal a secret life, a missing woman, and a dark truth deftly concealed by someone in the family. One woman embarks on a quest for truth but the truth may cost her her life. Explore the intense atmospheric Ella Perri Mystery Series from book award finalist, Krissy Baccaro. Families have secrets. Some are locked, sealed, and taken to the grave. Others beg to be ...
My Gran used to say, “There are times when the only way out is a lead pill.” These are stories when things got that bad. A Lead Pill is the second collection of short stories from a HARD PLACE. Stories of loneliness and betrayal, of false hope and shattered dreams, of gifts and regrets, of love and accidental kindness. Each story follows separate paths that lead to the understanding that sometimes ...
Elizabeth O'Connor is an Irish-Italian stunner who has it all, intelligence, looks and drive. Her one flaw is that she is in love with bad boy Henre Pierre, a handsome loudmouth who has to have one up on the world at all times. A con artist by trade, money, power and greed are his drugs of choice. But this time, he went too far and Elizabeth becomes the victim. Her life is plummeted into an abyss ...
If anyone can tell the difference between monsters and humans, it’s Dahlia Nite. For nearly a century, she’s hunted one to protect the other; safeguarding humanity from the creatures that slip through the torn veil between the worlds—creatures like her. But the lines are blurring. As people begin mutating and combusting on the streets, Dahlia realizes a strange affliction has descended upon Sentin ...
When 18-year-old student Stephanie Cooper investigates the mysterious circumstances surrounding her great aunt’s death, she discovers a painting thought stolen by the Nazis and destroyed during WWII, hanging in the home of the intriguing James Knox, guitarist with indie band, The Fury.
Now, as Stephanie gathers proof to unmask a thief and possible killer, she discovers that someone does ...
Delve into the world of vengeance, retribution, and bioterrorism as Lily "Devil" Devillier and Commander Darius Washington join forces. As each day passes, they come to realize that relying on one another might be their best option. Their journey unveils a plot rooted in Lily's homeland, one that could trigger a global war, and only their combined efforts can avert the impending international cris ...
Pat’s fledgling private investigation company, PIP Inc., has a promising new case. Pat is still wearing a wrist cast after breaking her arm in a confrontation with a killer, so when she’s hired by the City of Watsonville to unearth the identity of an older woman who died in her bed, she’s delighted that her next job promises to be a simple computer-based research project. Why is it that things are ...
Dog Gone is the Tale of Two Tail-Chasers Private investigator Dev Haskell’s new lady friend Maddie comes with strings attached: the loosely-knotted tie of her short black silk kimono, and the leash to Morton, her handsome Golden Retriever. It’s always a sexy mystery when Dev’s on duty, but this caper takes a turn toward buddy adventure when Dev agrees to pet-sit. On their first evening stroll, Dev ...
What if you had all the all the time in the world? Would you become a better person? Or worse? And what would you do with all that power? Unexpectedly, Jason Crane goes from having his anticipated three score years and ten, to having only six months to live, then to having FOREVER as immortality beckons. Jason Crane behaves like he's God - well, he does joke that his initials are JC, but Jason's n ...
A young woman of mixed Asian American parentage has lived in seven different countries and is anxious to find a place she could call home. An unusual sale of rare medieval manuscripts sends her and Nathan—an art journalist who moonlights as a doctor—on a quest into the dark world of stolen art. For Clarissa, these ancient manuscripts elicit cherished memories of children’s picture books her mother ...
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The Night Cometh: 20 Fantastical Short Stories that will make you think about heaven, hell, life, death, and ...
NEW RELEASE -- Pre-Order now for $2.99 -- 40% off -- Delivery to your Kindle November 22nd. Be careful what you wish for . . . Rory McEntyre is a lonely trusts & estates attorney who plays the hero inside video games. Then, his old flame, Monica, walks into his office with a $60 million winning lottery ticket and a world of trouble. Monica’s husband, Tom, is dead, apparently from a self-inflic ...
Dora Stephens can’t refuse this case. When she witnesses Sheila, the aunt of her best friend, stagger out of the hospital and die from a traffic accident, Dora’s private eye instincts kick in. Something’s not right. Sheila had no known enemies… but someone wanted her dead. Digging into the circumstances of Sheila’s death leads Dora on a devious path where she encounters lies, drugs, betrayal, and ...
Down Wind and Out of Sight is a genre-bender. On one hand it’s an utterly original suspense thriller, populated with unforgettable characters and loaded with bizarre twists and quirky science, that takes the reader on a roller-coaster ride from the Australian outback to a top-secret US government research facility and into the astonishing electronics lab of an adolescent autistic savant. On the ot ...
Fran Williams never intended to be a travel writer but circumstances made her life take a surprising turn. Now, needing to put the past behind her and desperate for a fresh new start, she finds herself assigned to attend the Mayward Literature Festival as part of a group of journalists. It’s not long before things take a turn for the worse and Fran, teaming up with tourist board guide Harry, finds ...
Love and betrayal—the ingredients in any crime of passion. But how dangerous can desire be? For the women in these tales, falling in love may prove to be deadly.
"Readers who love strong women and terrific writing will applaud this anthology." —Barbara Nickless, Wall Street Journal and #1 Amazon Charts bestselling author
A woman betrayed. A marriage trashed. A body in the lake. Less than two weeks before police slap handcuffs on Olivia Mercier’s wrists. When divers discover Shauna Wylie’s body, encased in a barrel of concrete in Donner Lake, Olivia is of two minds. The death of her former best friend traumatizes her. At the same time however, Shauna is the reason Olivia’s husband lives in a bachelor pad. Now ...
Laura Valorian is an emergency room physician who, while attending a medical conference in Orlando, Florida, stumbles one evening across a victim of homicide—a woman she knows. The dead woman had hidden money in the nearby psychic town of Cassadaga—money that other people desperately wanted.
When Laura becomes a suspect in the crime, she and Alec Dupree, a private investigator and frien ...
When sixteen-year-old Madison Brenna goes missing from her home in Arizona, her mother, Faith, reaches out to the half-sister she has never met, to ask for help. Her half-sister, Brenda Corrino is a former police detective who currently works as a private investigator in Connecticut. When Faith asks her to travel to Arizona to investigate her daughter’s disappearance, Brenda agrees to help, even t ...
Only the invited get to stay. Only the lucky ones get to leave. When Katrina Darlington lost everything, she turned to a stranger for help. Desperate and grieving, she trusted the hand of friendship and travelled halfway across the world to a very private island. Blue skies, blistering sunshine, and luxury on a scale way beyond the average person’s means. The perfect place to start again, surround ...
American Resistance fighter, Caroline Grayson, can “see” the war against the Nazis in her mind. After discovering an American soldier behind enemy lines, she must choose between one lone soldier or the lives of those trying to escape the tortures of the Nazi death camps. Called to defend his country, Stuart Williams finds himself on the front line against the Nazi war machine. When an intriguing R ...
When you pull up stakes, make sure you don’t get stabbed in the back. Self-taught in the arcane arts, hedgewitch Selena Marx is comfortable doing divination for West Los Angeles’ anxiety-ridden housewives, lawyers, and aspiring actresses. Her biggest challenge? Avoiding Lucien Dumond, leader of the Greater Los Angeles Necromancers’ Guild, who views her as fresh meat to add to his harem of slavishl ...
Rebecca suffers a series of petty crimes that coincide with the resurfacing of an ex-girlfriend. A figure from Leo's distant past hovers in the shadows, threatening his life. As Mal and Vinn look to help their friends, what starts as two disparate investigations converge, leading them into the world of the Roma and a band of gypsy grifters. The shocking discovery of a long-buried secret lets them ...
Grace has been on the run for as long as she can remember. She doesn’t know why, but her father insists it’s the only way. As Grace clings to her mantra, 'Finish high school. Turn eighteen. Freedom.', her life in Sydney is fraught with uncertainty. With only months to her eighteenth birthday, Grace wonders if she’ll survive that long. John would never win Father of the Year. Her recurr ...
Be careful what you wish for. It drives Nicholas Harlow nuts that his employer, Edward Harlow, refuses to promote his Aunt Civility etiquette books to the public, instead opting to give lectures to like-minded societies. When Nicholas tricks his brother into a speaking event at a popular bookstore, the attendees include Edward’s former college English professor – a smarmy Lothario with his own ...
By the time the 2020 pandemic is in full swing, Marie has already adjusted to losing her partner to the cult of trumpism and her career to fickle market interests. With few options left, she moves to a neglected mobile home park near Saratoga Lake where she plans to adopt a dog and wait out the end of civilization. It doesn't take long for drama to erupt as Marie finds herself trying to coexist wi ...
When she’d run away from foster care, Layla Sandor dreamed of having a normal life, of education, a career and a family. Living and working at Stone House Inn, she’s on her way to fulfilling that dream. If only the dead would leave her alone. Bad things always happen when she allows her ability to communicate with the dead to be part of her life. A few people know about her unwanted gift and don’t ...
When Stacie Maroni, amateur sleuth, is mistakenly abducted, she fears for the life of the intended victim. The young woman, who worked at the same company as Stacie, soon turns up dead. With the kidnappers afraid Stacie can identify them, threats lurk around every corner. Add in the victim’s two friends and a tech company with a dance-oriented employee program. A quick lesson in the jitterbug prov ...
Psychic Cass Donovan must uncover the truth about long-buried secrets and recent murders to bring peace to a troubled spirit and bring justice to a flesh-and-blood killer . . . When the spirit of Ophelia Wilson turned to clairvoyant Cass Donovan for help, Cass was able to prove Ophelia’s innocence in the century-old murders of her family members—and solve a contemporary murder in the process. But ...
In bustling, affluent ancient Rome during the reign of Emperor Claudius, status matters—yet some dare to ignore it. And some dare to defy social conventions. Inspired by Jesus’s radical views, unconventional Livia Aemilia cares little about stuffy Roman dignity. She’d rather help others and solve crimes. But when her new husband forbids her from sleuthing, she continues in secret and soon learns t ...
Ripped from the headlines-- Aidan and Liam protect a friend from human traffickers. During a break in the pandemic, Aidan Greene gets a panicked message from an old college friend living in Luxembourg. Ethan Katz is a banking exec in Luxembourg for a bank owned by a family from the UAE. He’s discovered a money-laundering scheme which puts his life is in danger and local security can’t help him bec ...
Hell hath no fury like a mother whose daughter has been kidnapped by a sexual predator. Chloe Denhurst lives in the quaint coastal town of Driftwood, Oregon. Recovering from a hurtful divorce, she finally allows herself to have feelings for another man. Suddenly, her life is turned upside down by a stranger who attacks her on the street and snatches her adolescent daughter Kaitlynn. She enli ...
It's always been Gina Iovino’s dream to have her own restaurant, something upscale and cosmopolitan. When she agreed to run the restaurant and tavern at her best friend’s historic inn in Vermont, Gina grossly underestimated just how rural it was. She misses bright lights and a busy social life. The place does have one advantage: hunky bad-boy-turned-law-enforcement-officer, Sheriff Shawn Johnson. ...
When her cat hitched a ride without her, she had no choice but to tail the furry creature...
If you love bad boys who ultimately make good, you'll love this series of Hollywood mysteries. In Havoc, Rob Gigot is an ex-trust fund kid with nothing to lose, and a real desire to know how his Malibu girlfriend committed suicide by shooting herself twice in the head. In Carnage, Rob's just trying to keep his dad's rich clients out of trouble, but somebody wants him dead, dead, dead. Finally, in ...
A popular TV game show is filming in The Sisters, and everyone wants their chance to win instant cash on Dollars or Death. The final rounds are called Sudden Death but for one unlucky player, it’s not just sudden. It’s final. That’s not the only chaos taking place in Madison deCordova’s life. In a Pinch Professional Services is temping at 3 G Fun Station in Riverton, and someone isn’t playing by ...
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From Book 1: For Sabre Orin Brown, life is good; she has it all...or would have, if only she could solve the mysterious disappearance of her brother. The search for her brother and her career as a Juvenile Court Attorney collide when she defends a nine-year-old whose father will go to any length to obtain custody.
Sabre finds herself immersed in a case with too many unanswered ques ...
Sometimes what you want most is what you left behind… After her cousin disappeared without a trace, Christina Wade left rural Vermont behind. Nearly a decade later she inherits the family’s historic inn that should have gone to the missing girl. Compelled to return to the place she intended to forget, she must decide whether to sell or run the family business. An old love lures her to stay as the ...
She’s dating a mobster When Autumn Braxton, discovers Anthony Juliano is a mafia kingpin, she runs for her life. But escaping him is no easy task, his men are everywhere, watching and informing. He has the police in his pocket too, and Autumn has nowhere to hide except right under his nose. With the aid of a street kid and his insider knowledge, Autumn seeks a way out of Juliano’s fast closing tra ...
When Senator Davis Allen asks private investigator, Mylas Grey, to investigate the disappearance of his daughter, Lizzie, from her campus apartment, Mylas discovers Lizzie was keeping secrets from everyone, including her father. To decipher those secrets, Mylas returns to his hometown and enlists the help of a beautiful photographer, someone who makes him question his values as well as his lack of ...
The making of a serial killer to love...
Quick-witted and wise beyond her years, Dani Woodbury is a girl determined to prove her worth.
But first, she must adapt to a new home with a dark secret.
Dani has lost count of how many foster homes she's lived in, and at last, she has a chance at a family of her own. Her foster mother cherishes her, but her fost ...
