Hampshire, 1816 Garrick, Lord Westerly, has forbidden the hanging of mistletoe, yet the holiday house party at his country estate sizzles with sensual desire. And though Theodora Southern decided long ago never to marry, she has been enjoying the erotic fantasies that haunt her each night - fantasies featuring her handsome, brooding host.... Since returning from the war, Garrick has been in no mood to celebrate. But suddenly the nightmares that plague him are making way for much more pleasant dreams - dreams in which his childhood friend Theodora is very much a grown woman. The question is, has he fallen in love - or fallen under a wicked spell? Views: 62
Hold onto your corset! Julia Thom, amateur sleuth, just rode into town.
Though the 20th century is just a few years away, Julia Thom has been denied her dream of attending law school. Frustrated and feeling betrayed by those closest to her, who see her gender as a liability, Julia has started her life over as a school teacher in a tiny Canadian frontier town that has great aspirations to soon be the official middle of nowhere.
When Julia’s eldest and brightest pupil, Fergus, is accused of a crime he couldn’t have committed, his chances for a higher education are dashed. Julia refuses to see Fergus’ future destroyed and makes it her mission to clear his name.
Local police constable Jack Merrick has his hands full with this woman whose brain loves having a puzzle to solve, and whose sense of justice won’t allow her to leave well enough alone.
As Julia gets close to solving the crime, an unexpected threat comes from Fergus’ father, who believes school is for sissies, and whose fists so often do the talking for him.
From award-winning author Alexandra Amor comes a unique short mystery, rich in character and setting, that harkens back to a time when men were men and women were just as they are in the present day: smart, resilient and strong-willed. Views: 62
Huntress Chronicles Three
She can mix it up with hit men, but the target may prove to be her undoing.
Brig Monroe is a brainy security specialist with unique paranormal abilities—a geek with muscles. When it comes to the up-close-and-personal, Brig likes sex as much as the next guy, but she doesn’t do emotion, she’s amused by people who believe in true love.
Duncan Cameron is a purebred Scottish prince, and sovereign ruler of the rim planet, Ben Nevis II. The media likes to portray him as a playboy. The assassins on his trail call him the target.
When Brig is hired to fortify Cameron’s defenses, her perspective on life is put to test the instant she meets the dazzling prince. The last thing she needs is the distraction of white-hot lust when one-step in the wrong direction could mean death for both of them. Views: 62
Widowed Mary Bolton, like Miss Jean Brodie, considers herself in her prime. Not satisfied with car boot sales, dances at the bowling club and reading to the elderly, she throws herself into bellringing with gusto - much to the annoyance of her neighbours.But when the industrious Mary is found swinging from a bell rope, Jessica Brand - who only days before had threatened to strangle Mary with the very same rope - fears she will be accused. There's nothing left to do but call in private detective Agatha Raisin to untangle the web of sex, money, deceit ... and murder. Views: 62
Do you love twisty murder mysteries? Meet Tara Thorpe – the clue to a puzzling local murder has landed right on her doorstep. Perfect for fans of Faith Martin, LJ Ross and Joy Ellis.As
the sun rises, a wealthy young woman – Samantha Seabrook – is found
drowned in the ornamental fountain of a deserted Cambridge courtyard,
the only clue – an antique silver chain wound tightly around her throat.
It’s Tara Thorpe’s job to discover what happened to Miss
Seabrook – but the case becomes personal when she learns that Samantha
had been receiving death threats… rather like the one that landed on
Tara’s doorstep the night the woman died.Together with Detective
Inspector Garstin Blake, Tara tracks the killer to the dank and
dangerous fens on the outskirts of the city. But there’s something
Tara can’t quite admit to Blake about her past – and it could make all
the difference to whether they live... or die. Views: 62
When Elisa gets to transfer her job in finance from L.A. to New York, she’s thrilled. Except for loathing her new boss, the sullen but hot Chase, she loves her new life. Well, that is until she wakes up in a locked room with Chase, who accuses her of having something to do with him being abducted by armed men. What the hell?Thinking that this must all be some really bad practical joke, Elisa soon realizes it’s not, they both have actually been kidnapped. What’s worse, neither of them can figure out why because it doesn’t seem like their abductors want money in exchange for their freedom.As the hours pass, their mutual aversion morphs into an ever-growing attraction impossible to resist, and it becomes increasingly clear that they’ve been taken by a very twisted individual. Together, they must find a way to escape, or risk losing their lives. Views: 62
"Tyson grows a delicious debut mystery as smart farmer-sleuth Megan Sawyer tills the dirt on local secrets after a body turns up in her barn. You won't want to put down this tasty harvest of a story." – Edith Maxwell, Agatha-Nominated Author of Murder Most Fowl When Megan Sawyer gives up her big-city law career to care for her grandmother and run the family's organic farm and café, she expects to find peace and tranquility in her scenic hometown of Winsome, Pennsylvania. Instead, her goat goes missing, rain muddies her fields, the town denies her business permits, and her family's Colonial-era farm sucks up the remains of her savings. Just when she thinks she's reached the bottom of the rain barrel, Megan and the town's hunky veterinarian discover the local zoning commissioner's battered body in her barn. Now Megan is thrust into the middle of a murder investigation—and she's the chief suspect. Can Megan dig through small-town secrets, local politics,... Views: 62
Literary star Sasscer Hill's growing multitude of fans who have been chomping at the bit for another Nikki Latrelle Racing Mystery need wait no more! Hill's latest spellbinding, page-turning suspense story, The Sea Horse Trade, takes readers to South Florida for a wild ride on the dark side, mixing horse racing, a mysterious drug kingpin, prostitution, and a mother's brave search for the daughter she was forced to give up at birth.When Nikki works the January meet at Gulfstream Park near Miami, something about a new racehorse owner worries her. Bad enough she's expected to handle Currito Maldonista's evil-minded colt, but Nikki begins to suspect the Colombian may be a drug lord, using horses as a cover to sell his product in the United States. Worse, could he be abducting underage American girls into a network of overseas sex trafficking?Nikki's world and Maldonista's become further entwined when Nikki's oldest friend, Carla Ruben, comes to Florida to find the... Views: 62
RetailAs the nineteenth century comes to a close, the illustrious Vanderbilt family dominates Newport, Rhode Island, high society. But when murder darkens a glittering affair at the Vanderbilt summer home, reporter Emma Cross learns that sometimes the actions of the cream of society can curdle one's blood. . .Newport, Rhode Island, August 1895: She may be a less well-heeled relation, but as second cousin to millionaire patriarch Cornelius Vanderbilt, twenty-one-year-old Emma Cross is on the guest list for a grand ball at the Breakers, the Vanderbilts' summer home. She also has a job to do--report on the event for the society page of the Newport Observer. But Emma observes much more than glitz and gaiety when she witnesses a murder. The victim is Cornelius Vanderbilt's financial secretary, who plunges off a balcony faster than falling stock prices. Emma's black sheep brother Brady is found in Cornelius's bedroom passed out next to a bottle of bourbon and stolen plans for a new railroad line. Brady has barely come to before the police have arrested him for the murder. But Emma is sure someone is trying to railroad her brother and resolves to find the real killer at any cost. . . Views: 62
