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Clara Presley is the queen of autonomy, a self-help phenomenon who built an empire on the philosophy of independence. But even the strongest walls have structural flaws, and John Carrington is a specialist in finding them.A world-renowned psychologist with a debonair British veneer, Carrington doesn’t just study human behavior; he deconstructs it. When their paths first collide in the neon haze of Las Vegas, Clara’s attraction to Carrington is a singular lapse in judgment. A year later, it’s a life...

In Frosted With Fear, the first delicious mystery in the Deadly Delights Cozy Culinary Mystery Series, pastry chef Rosie Hart finds herself in the middle of a real-life crime scene when a celebrity baking judge drops dead after sampling her lemon cupcakes. Set in the charming town of Sweet River, this culinary cozy mystery mixes mouthwatering recipes, small-town gossip, and a generous helping of whodunit suspense. With her café under fire and her reputation on the line, Rosie must sift...

2009. Olathe, KansasA real estate mystery short story.Trimmed hedges. Minivans. Quiet streets at ten in the morning. Nearly every suburban street looks the same as the next.But behind the front doors, the Great Recession is doing its work. Layoffs. Maxed-out credit cards. Proud men staring out kitchen windows of houses they can no longer afford.Real estate agent Cal Brink is feeling it, too. Sales are down thirty percent, and he's working nights at a camera store to cover an assistant...

Tony Nestler has spent the last two years trying to get the attention of his President. She needs to understand the vulnerability of the nation's power grid.It's a complex problem that will take time to work through but the consequences of ignoring the risk could cause the death of most of the population of the United State of America within a year.Nestler, the Secretary of Energy in the Werner Administration, is seemingly making great strides in helping people to understand...

‘Fans of Lee Child should start reading Magson right now!’ Booklist Strap yourself in for a roller-coaster ride in this first explosive Harry Tate thriller.Please note this book was previously published as Red Station. Forced into exile. His loyalties tested. MI5 officer Harry Tate turns rogue.A routine stakeout goes wrong. Two civilians are shot dead. Harry is forced into exile to the Red Station: a remote outpost in the Balkans.No explanations. No appeals. No way back.But exile isn’t the end...

Willa Chance has just inherited her grandmothers bookstore... little does she know it comes with a couple of mischievous ghosts and a mystery solving cat! When a body is found behind her store, Willa finds herself embroiled in a twisty mystery where she discovers that Mystic Notch... and her cat ... are not as they seem.

History was not finished with him...Churchill never intended to choose Penn McGavell.Yet when Britain needed one man for a mission that could alter the course of the First World War, he did.It was a decision both men would come to regret.And for Penn, a mistake that destroyed the future he thought was his.Relegated to the far-flung outpost of Zanzibar, Penn goes to war.A war of redemption that carries him from East Africa into the heart of Lawrence of Arabia's revolution...

She thought she'd buried her old life. Then she turned the photograph over.Six months after her divorce, former investigative journalist Julia Mercer comes to Sand Dollar Cove to disappear—to drink her coffee on the sand at dawn, to stop being the woman who couldn't let anything go.The little Cape Cod beach town is exactly what she needs: lighthouse and dune grass, a café that knows your order, and seven women past fifty who pull an eighth chair into their morning...

In the first book of this bestselling mystery series, criminal investigator Larry Macklin is faced with a mutilated corpse that he suspects is tied to the smokey ruins of an old home in his rural North Florida town. The difficulty for Larry is that the arson case is in the hands of an investigator who despises him. On top of all this, Larry must navigate the difficult relationship he has with the sheriff ,who is not only his boss but...

When a solar flare kills the grid, Barb Harper turns her farm into a fortress. Protecting her sister from ruthless raiders and a brutal winter requires more than supplies; it takes a killer instinct. The old world is dead. To keep their land, Barb can’t just hide. She must fight.