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Lisa Paxton loves her job as a Private Investigator. Spying on cheating spouses is easy work that pays well. But when classmates from high school twelve years ago are now targeted by a madman who kills them in violent ways, Lisa's job description got a whole lot more dangerous. Add in a handsome ex-fling who suddenly wants to join his investigative business with Lisa's and you have a fun, spicy, dangerous short story. EENIE MEENIE MINY MO. Who's next? Rating: PG13 A thrilling romantic suspense just the right length when you don't have a lot of time to read. By a best-selling, award-winning ...

Marley Brooks is used to receiving fan mail, but when letters from one particular fan take a dangerous turn and a coworker is killed, she leaves her job and flees to Misty Hollow. Her desire to hide doesn’t come easy, as even the people in this remote mountain town recognize her. The letters continue, and Marley enlists the help of local farmer Dirk Mason, former military police.

Shea Sydney couldn’t be happier that she’d been hired on as Misty Hollow's newest deputy. She needed a reason to live in the town, and now she had the perfect one. She suspected the identity of the man who killed her father 10 years ago and believed he lived in the small town of Misty Hollow. With a badge on her belt, she had the right to ask questions. She’d find out the truth one way or the other.

Gemma Ricca overhears her groom and her father talking about his taking over of the family business. When she realizes what the family business is, she realizes how blind she’s been and flees to stay with her aunt in Misty Hollow. How can she raise her unborn child in the Moreno family? She will not allow her child to grow up in the mob. No matter what.

Brynlee Bourge wants nothing more than to spend her days among the books of Misty Hollow’s library. When her best friend coerces her into attending a Christmas fundraiser dinner with her, she says yes. All the male attention leaves her feeling like Cinderella at the ball right down to the running from the party. Only this time it isn’t because of a ticking clock. Someone paid her too much attention and she fled.

Tatym Billings’ grandmother dies and leaves her cabin and land in Misty Hollow to her granddaughter. What promised to be a new life had instead turned into a lethal inheritance as someone wants to prove Tatym is not the legal owner and will do anything in his power to get her deed. Even kill.

Clarice Jocelyn Turley Drake, CJ to her friends, can spot trouble a mile away. She’d immediately suspicious when a handsome young man trails after girls vacationing on Maui. CJ really wanted to stay out of things, being on her honeymoon, but death and mayhem covers her like a cold mist. Her new husband, Eric, wants her to settle down, start a family, and has grand plans on how to make that happen, but when trouble strikes close to home, he gives CJ full reign to use her talent for finding the bad guys along with her feisty pup, Caper.

A skincare party turns into murder and Stormi is called to save the day! When Stormi is roped in for attending a party her sister is hosting, in her latest string of "get rich quick" schemes, Stormi has no idea that the night will result in one woman's death. Her sister is devastated and pleads with Stormi to help her clear her name. Not wanting to be involved in another murder, Stormi balks...until she receives threats warning her to keep her nose out of the murder.

Married by proxy in Missouri, Annie Morgan sets off for Tombstone, Arizona, to join her new husband as a cattle rancher. But too soon she finds herself a widow with an unexpected daughter and butting heads with her handsome neighbor. Danger strikes when she refuses the courtship of a local man, maybe the very man who killed her husband. Can Annie and her neighbor fend off an unruly man who wants Annie's land and turn her hole in the ground home into a castle in time for Christmas?

Amber Murdoch's first assignment with Valor Investigations is to investigate the funds disappearing from do-gooder Logan MacKenzie. Things are not what they seem. The more she gets to know the man, the more she's convinced he's innocent. All she has to do now is prove it - a task made difficult by the fact that someone is trying to kill her. When Logan sees sweet, beautiful Amber dressed in leather and riding a Harley, he realizes his receptionist is not who she seems.

When a dead body is found face-down in a vat of chocolate inside Stormi's mother's bakery, what's a nosy neighbor to do other than find a killer? Just when she was rethinking her new writing venture of hunting down crimes in order to write about them, Stormi is thrust into another mystery. Someone wants the shop owners of Oak Meadows, Arkansas, to sell out, and they will kill to make that happen.

Seven cowboy brothers with hearts and bravery as big as the Montana sky. Romance and suspense lead the Armstrong brothers through danger and into love. Wyatt's Warrant: A gunshot pierces the winter day... A sheriff finds a woman in the woods...not a normal day in Copper Pass, Montana. Investigative reporter, Jordan Evans flees Billings, Montana with a stranger hot on her heels. Someone wants her to stop questions. When she meets the town’s handsome sheriff, Wyatt Armstrong, she finds a strong ally, especially when a local girl disappears.

She doesn’t want to carry a gun. Why would someone want her dead? Amy Oaks is content to sit behind a desk at Wife for Hire and do her investigating on a computer. When a man pursues her for nefarious means, the cozy little world she's created for herself is turned into something unrecognizable, a world she never sought or wanted. Rookie police officer Mark Fields rescues a pretty woman from being hit by a bus. When she says she didn't fall, but was pushed, he doesn't believe her until he finds out she's also been receiving threatening notes. Assigned as Amy's protection until the culprit...

A small-town Christmas romance that will warm your heart from the very first page. When small-town switchboard operator Lilly Tipton pedals her bicycle into the path of the new postman on her very first day of work, she doesn't expect to fall for the handsome, brooding Calvin Monroe — but then again, she didn't expect to fall at all. Set in the charming Christmas town of Noel, Missouri during the 1930s Depression era, The Noel Postmark is a sweet, clean historical romance filled with holiday magic, small-town charm, and a love story that unfolds one telephone call, one Christmas contest, ...

A pastor’s daughter and a stubborn rancher must fight for survival—and their hearts—when Hawaii’s mighty Kilauea erupts in 1924. On May 18, 1924, the Kilauea Volcano in Hawaii explodes with fire, ash, and molten rock, thrusting island life into chaos. Lucy Dillow, the devoted daughter of a missionary pastor, refuses to abandon her family or her beloved one-room schoolhouse, determined to record the eruption and help those in need. Jack Garrison, a rugged Hawaiian rancher bound to his land and cattle, stays behind to protect his livelihood—even as danger closes in. Thrown together ...

Christmas is no time for a mystery...or is it? Celebrate two Christmas's with kooky best-selling author and Private Investigator, Stormi Nelson as she discovers the true meaning of the season despite her family's mishaps and misadventures! Indulge in this Christmas holiday small town cozy mystery by a best-selling, award-winning author. Warning: These stories are not in any chronological order with rest of the series. You may see someone who had died or gone to jail in one of the other books.

When teenage girls vanish in the woods, a fearless search-and-rescue worker and a rugged cowboy must outwit a predator before they become his next victims. Cowboy Hazard is a gripping Western romantic suspense thriller filled with danger, betrayal, and heart-pounding action set against the eerie wilderness of a small town on Misty Mountain. Blair Oakley, a determined search-and-rescue worker, has dedicated her life to saving others alongside her loyal canine partner, Diamond. But when teenage girls begin disappearing in the dense, fog-shrouded woods, Blair finds herself thrust into the most...

CJ Turley is excited to begin her new life as overseer of Heavenly Acres, a tiny house community in the Ozark mountains. As she's handed the keys to her new house by a woman who seems far too eager to leave the job to someone else, CJ is told the community is experiencing a rash of burglaries and that she should visit the nearby park ranger for help.

Widow Sadie Mathewson wants to find love again. But when an injured pony express rider shows up at her station, love finds her in an unexpected way. Luke Stetson arrives at Sadie’s pony express station searching for his runaway brother. He doesn’t expect to have to stay, nor does he expect to fall in love with the lovely, lonely widow. Circumstances spiral out of control. Can the two come together to protect those they love and admit their love for each other?

When Phoebe Ross's employer dies, leaving her with a wedding gown, Phoebe feels she has no choice but to answer the call for mail order brides to Angel Vale, Wyoming. When she arrives, her groom-to-be is nowhere in sight. With the other brides claimed, she sets off to find her groom. He is nothing what she expected.