The truth about a small-town scandal unleashes one wildly unexpected romance.Millie Parkman Dayton is still healing from the fatal car accident that claimed her husband and turned her into the focus of local gossip. But when she's thrown together with the sexy rancher who shares in her tragic past, new rumors begin to fly in Last Ride, Texas.Single dad Joe McCann is focused on running his ranch and raising his daughter. He has no desire to help Millie unearth his late wife's past, especially if it means revealing painful secrets. Until his daughter teams up with Millie and the widower cowboy finds himself agreeing to help them with their project—and opening the door to a deep attraction he thought he'd never find again. Last Ride, TexasBook 1: Spring at Saddle Run Views: 693
When a five-foot-nothing lawyer's client goes missing, nothing will get in the way of her efforts to find him—not even a violent terrorist cell, a trained assassin, and an opioid-trafficking ring. You guessed it. Sasha McCandless-Connelly is back. When Sasha's client is a no-show for his federal sentencing hearing in a bulk money smuggling case, the presiding judge is not amused. He gives her the weekend to locate the guy or face the consequences. She tracks down her client in a remote West Virginia town, but it's not the end of her problems—it's just the beginning. He's being held hostage by violent men who are convinced he's the key to eight million dollars that have gone missing from a terrorist organization's coffers. After a day passes with no word from Sasha, an increasingly worried Leo leaves the kids with a friend and heads to West Virginia in search of his wife. He arrives only to end up... Views: 693
Elspeth McGillicuddy is not given to hallucinations. Until she witnesses a murder at Paddington Station. But did she? No victim, no suspect, no other witnesses. In fact no one believes it really happened at all. Except her friend Miss Jane Marple, and she's returning to the scene of the crime to discover just exactly what Mrs. McGillicuddy saw.
Also published as: What Mrs. McGillicuddy Saw Views: 693
They say that travel broadens the mind...
When socialite Maisie Frobisher heads off on a cruise to India in search of adventure, little does she know what form it will take.
First some jewellery, then an important document goes missing from an ambassador’s cabin. If that document gets into the wrong hands, there will be trouble. And it’s definitely in the wrong hands...
Maisie already has her suspicions of a fellow-guest at the captain’s table. However, when he turns out to be a police inspector travelling incognito and takes over the investigation, Maisie’s nose is put firmly out of joint. Then a crime of an entirely different kind rears its head, and Maisie finds that the past she is trying to escape from just won’t let her go...
With less than two weeks until the ship reaches port, can Maisie put aside her prejudices and learn to work with Inspector Hamilton? Can they trust each other? And most importantly, can they find that document before it causes an international incident?
All At Sea is the first book in the Maisie Frobisher Mysteries series, set in the mid-1890s. Views: 693
Emma Andreyev assumed her husband would give up his unpredictable role as the Actuary when they reestablished their marriage. That was her first mistake.Thriving on risk, Rohan misses the signs of danger closer to home and puts his relationships in peril. Ever present is Christopher Dolan who offers Emma friendship despite his reputation as fickle and untrustworthy. About to make her second mistake, who should Emma trust; the serious, logical Russian or the Irish seducer?Struggling to build a new life in the sleepy town of Market Harborough, Emma finds solidarity in the strangest of places and loyalty where she least expects it. Her work as the archivist at a local school unearths a deadly historical nightmare, leading to hurried bargains, bloodshed and the death of a family member.Her biggest mistake is believing that truth should always be revealed. Sometimes, family is more important. The notion of man-made truth is subjective and circumstance forces Emma to hold her past up to... Views: 693
I'm Barbara Gold. Age: 70. Height: 5'5". Eyes: blue. Hair: gray. Weight: none of your business. Specialties: Undercover surveillance, small arms, chemical weapons, Middle Eastern and Latin American politics. Current status: Retired widow and grandmother.Retired secret agent Barbara Gold's biggest challenge is finding a birthday present cool enough for her teenage grandson... until a dead body drops into her shopping cart inside Cheerville's new high-tech big-box store.Suddenly, Barbara is pulled back into the action and thrill she used to love in her working years—CIA involvement, shadowy figures, mysterious deaths, missing loot, and a chance for her to make a difference.Read the hilarious 8th book (30,000 words) in the Secret Agent Granny mystery series. Views: 692
Daphne Templeton's sister Piper is getting married—and their mother is getting carried away. She insists on hiring Sylvan Creek's top event planner, Abigail Sinclair, who proposes an Independence Day theme complete with Statue of Liberty-inspired bridesmaid dresses. With all the bickering among the families, Daphne's glad her only duty right now is pet-sitting for Abby's cat, Ms. Peebles. But there are some fireworks coming that aren't part of the ceremony. The Poconos will never be the same . . . At a tension-filled dress fitting, the abrasive wedding planner is found strangled by a garter—a weapon both borrowed and blue. Now Daphne's services are required not just for organizing the big day, but for figuring out whether one of the in-laws is an outlaw . . . Includes recipes for homemade pet treats! "Doggone charming from start to finish!" —Cleo Coyle, New York Times bestselling author on Death by... Views: 692
Victoria Gilbert’s third Booklover’s B&B Mystery, a treat for fans of Mary Daheim and Kate Carlisle, finds owner Charlotte Reed and her former spy neighbor, Ellen Montgomery, pitted against a tea-party poisoner.Booklover Charlotte is delighted to welcome an eclectic group of guests to Chapters Bed and Breakfast for a book club retreat focused on fairy tales and classic children’s literature. But when one of the guests is poisoned at a Mad Hatter tea party, Charlotte realizes she’s fallen down a rather unpleasant rabbit hole The victim – an opinionated busybody whose jewelry store sold original designs, along with some possibly “hot” merchandise – had plenty of enemies, spurring Charlotte and Ellen to offer their well-honed investigative skills to assist the local police. But as they delve deeper into each of the guest’s stories, they realize all of them had a motive, and the means, to close... Views: 692
Smitty is 13. It is the summer when he and his friends enter high school, the time when all the awkwardness of youth begins to shift and all those things that seemed simple are actually complicated. But Smitty is okay. He has his friends on his baseball team, and he and his sort-of girlfriend seem to want to hang out. But then the New Kid hits that homerun and everything changes."The ball seemed to be something other than an object struck by a wooden bat and sent sailing through the air over the park; it was more like a bird, something with an intelligence of its own, or like time itself moving as we stopped to gaze and wonder." That's how Smitty, 13, shortstop turned pitcher, describes the home run that the New Kid hit. Everything, Smitty says, was just fine before that hit. After the hit, his whole world, even the budding romance with Sandy Miller, seems to change, and the changes leave Smitty bewildered.It's a summer in the early 1960s. Smitty and his pals are entering high school. The story examines those changes through the prism of one spectatular baseball hit. It is also a story about kids playing summer baseball, their joy, their youth and friendship. Views: 692
Cori and crew are off for a well-deserved vacation to visit her cousin Destiny at the Enchanted Coast Resort, a premier paranormal destination.It's not all sunshine and rumrunners, though, when Santa's hat is stolen.Can Cori and Destiny find the hat before the Christmas Spirit is lost for good? Views: 692
