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Romeow and Juliet is the first in a cozy mystery series set on Madrona Island, a fictional island within the San Juan Islands off the coast of Washington State. As a fourth generation islander Caitlin Hart is struggling to make her way as the economy and culture of the island evolves toward a tourism based industry. Cait lives in a cabin on her aunt's oceanfront estate where she helps her aunt run Harthaven Cat Sanctuary.

The Crosswells are celebrating Grandy's birthday (we don't discuss her age unless we are willing to be cursed with warts in unspeakable places) with a big party at Coven House, and I'm in charge of the cake. My name is Ruby Crosswell, and I'm a newly re-practicing witch. Not only that, but I can turn into a cat. It’s one heck of a trick, but don’t ask me how I do it. I’m still working on the logistics. When a vampire interrupts the celebration, the sweet and powdered festivities turn bloodsucking.

She came to settle an estate. The cats had other plans. Clara Mercer is good at two things: managing projects and not looking back. When she inherits her Aunt Evie's Victorian estate in Whispering Falls, Pennsylvania, she arrives with a six-week timeline and zero intention of staying. Sell the property, hand off the key, and get back to her career. Simple. Except there's a body on the creek trail. A ward system built into the walls of the house that hums when she touches it. Thirteen shelter cats living at the local vet clinic because the Sanctuary roof caved in and nobody stepped up. And ...

In Willow Creek, history isn’t just preserved—it’s protected… sometimes fatally. When respected historian Harold Whitcomb dies after a fall near the town’s historic root cellar, most call it a tragic accident. But Cynthia Harper—former NYC strategist turned small-town B&B owner—has learned that Willow Creek’s calm exterior often hides careful rearrangements. With her golden retriever Duke sniffing out tension as reliably as crumbs, Cynthia starts asking inconvenient questions about missing archive pages and a trust tied to valuable land. The town’s polished Historical ...

Maddie James has arrived in Daybreak Island, just off the coast of Massachusetts, eager to settle down and start her own business - and maybe even fall in love. When a stray orange tabby pounces into her life, she's inspired to open a cat cafe. But little does Maddie know that she's in for something a lot more catastrophic when her new furry companion finds the dead body of the town bully. Now all eyes are on Maddie: Who is this crazy cat-whisperer lady who's come to town?

Pet sitter Daphne Templeton has a soft spot for every stray and misfit who wanders into the quaint, lakeside village of Sylvan Creek. But even Daphne doesn't like arrogant, womanizing Steve Beamus, the controversial owner of Blue Ribbon K-9 Academy. When Steve turns up dead during a dog agility trial, Daphne can think of a long list of people with motives for homicide, and so can the police. Unfortunately, at the top of the list is Daphne's sister, Piper - Steve's latest wronged girlfriend.

Murder Never Tasted So Sweet Ivy Sinclair thought life in Maplewood, Maine, would be quiet—newspaper columns. Dog walks with her beagle, Watson. Friendly neighbors and cozy town traditions. But when the fiftieth annual baking competition begins, celebration turns deadly. Luna, a sharp-tongued judge, collapses—poisoned before dessert was served. The police might ignore Ivy’s instincts, but she trusts her gut—and Watson’s bark. A strange bottle of mead, a cryptic note, and a victim with far too many foes tell her this case is anything but simple. Luna was notorious for feuds and ...

Vivienne Rose, owner of Desert Doulas, arrives home from work to find cops swarming the place and a body floating in her pool. Her silver fox next-door neighbor, mentalist Rex Redondo, admits that he’s the one who saw the body and called the police. But his involvement in this is far from over. When the police stop investigating the case, due to a personnel shortage, Viv calls on Rex and his roommate, ex-marine Sutton Greer, to help her track down the killer.

Small-town Southern cozy mystery with a sheriff sleuth Something borrowed, something blue . . . and something deadly. Sheriff Kenni Lowry’s wedding day should be about vows, cake, and finally catching her breath. Instead, her wedding night is interrupted by a visit from her ghostly Poppa—and...

Viv and Rex's plans to return to community college and get their PI license hit an unexpected snag when their instructor, a seasoned private investigator, winds up dead the first day. Now, instead of studying for midterms, they’re cramming to crack the case.

Three days in the mountains. No satellite signal. No sign of life. When Gemma Hartley’s pager sounds before dawn — MISSING PERSON, 72 HOURS OVERDUE — she and her legendary German Shepherd Kira are in the truck within twelve minutes. That’s what they do. That’s what they are. But what Gemma expects to be a routine search becomes something else entirely when Kira finds Alexis Mercer’s body at the base of Devil’s Ledge — and the evidence points not to accident, but to murder. Fresh from Minneapolis and still carrying the grief of a SAR operation gone wrong, Gemma came to Elk ...

Baby Protection Mission When a baby is targeted, can a K-9 team keep him safe? When his sister is kidnapped, rancher Cade McNeal will do anything to prevent his baby nephew from being next. Now Officer Ashley Hanson and her K-9 partner are on the case, and it’s up to them to track down the...

Best in show. Worst in character. Dead by morning. Maggie Fontaine didn't plan on solving a murder. She planned on baking dog treats, hiding from her past, and pretending everything was fine. But when a champion handler drops dead at Savannah's most prestigious dog show, poisoned by a product that should have been hers, she's suddenly suspect number one. With a by-the-book detective who doesn't trust her, a charming bachelor who might be too good to be true, and a rescue mutt whose nose is sharper than any forensic lab, Maggie must clear her name before the real killer makes her next batch ...

London, 1941. Polly Hope is bravely working as an air raid warden during the Blitz when she saves the life of the charming Freddie Fairbank. Over a thank-you breakfast at the Ritz, he asks Polly to help requisition a sprawling English country house for the war effort. Petherbridge Hall has grand rooms, lovely views and will be a perfect nursing home for injured troops, if they can only persuade the family to give up their house. But then they find the lord of the manor dead behind the gardener’s shed.

Colt’s first case as a newly hired county detective is anything but routine. A shocking murder, a web of buried secrets, and three long-forgotten cold cases left behind by his predecessor collide in ways Colt never saw coming—and solving the present crime may depend on unlocking the past.

Three witches and their magical cats solve paranormal murder cases in the mystical town of Wonder Falls. From 3x USA TODAY Bestselling Author Harper Lin. When Marie Elderflower, a distant cousin of Aunt Astrid, passes away from natural causes at only age fifty–four, the Greenstone women...

Three witches and their magical cats solve paranormal murder cases in the mystical town of Wonder Falls. From 3x USA TODAY Bestselling Author Harper Lin: It’s Christmastime, but something strange and sinister is in the air. Treacle, Cath’s courageous black cat, can’t see what it is, but he...

When journalist Julia Wright and her golden retriever Cooper are stranded by a blinding snowstorm, they take refuge in the grand but slightly crumbling Halcyon Manor Inn — expecting cocoa, creaky floors, and a quiet night out of the weather. Instead, they find a house full of secrets. With the inn’s nervous owner and a gallery of suspicious guests — including a theatrical actress with a flair for drama and a brilliant but temperamental mathematician — tensions rise as fast as the snowdrifts outside. Then one guest is found dead in a locked room… with the only key inside. As power ...

It’s the annual Locharran Highland Games and Ally McKinley has never seen her little village so busy or excited. Everyone’s enjoying the Scottish dancing, the bagpipes, and cheering the competitors on. But there’s a hitch in the proceedings when champion challenger Archie Armstrong drops dead in the middle of tossing the caber. Rushing to the scene, Ally is the first to spot that Archie’s death was no accident–this was murder!

Three retirees. Three dogs. One body at the bottom of the town wishing well. Somebody's wish definitely did NOT come true. When a storm cracks open the hillside beneath Carraway, Colorado's old wishing well, a generation of tossed coins come tumbling out—along with the remains of someone who went missing nearly fifty years ago. The bones belong to Karen Briggs, a girl who vanished on prom night in 1974. The town buried her memory. The mountain buried the rest. Lorraine Mercer sat two rows over from Karen in freshman English. She remembers the red braid, the big laugh, the doodles she left...