Magic is drawn from life. Stored in bone. Unlocked by runes. In the impoverished fishing village of Dimmitt, magic means survival. One gifted child could rescue a family from hunger, or be claimed as a weapon for the crown. Fifteen-year-old Nara has never been announced as gifted. She shouldn’t possess magic at all. Yet she […]

They say there are blessings from disasters. One is starting over. The hurricane gave Viola Valentine the chance she needed to leave her dead-end job and loveless marriage. But the storm also blew open a psychic door, one that Viola had worked hard to keep close. Her first day in her new job as travel […]

College journalist Adele Plank has been granted a rare interview with one-time bestselling author, Decklan Stone. He is a man largely withdrawn from the world following the tragic death of his young wife twenty-seven years earlier. Adele ventures to the writer’s remote, private-island home in the beautiful San Juan Islands, and there begins a journey […]

What does a wine shop owner know about solving a murder? Absolutely nothing! But when Noelle Knight finds herself at the top of the suspect list, she’d better get a clue, and fast! In Mermaid Bay, a sun-soaked little town in the Florida Keys, secrets run deep, murder comes calling, and a clever black cat […]

Hollywood came to New Mexico. And murder was in the script. Charlie McGinley makes a living killing people. On paper, anyway. From his New Mexico ranch, Charlie writes hard-boiled detective mysteries, when he isn’t fighting writer’s block, his publisher, or his bad habit of stumbling into trouble. Big trouble. Then Hollywood comes calling. Charlie sells […]

It was spring in the Midwest and the perfect storm was brewing. A scientist of considerable renown, Dr. James Conroy, Jr., was leading a grassroots movement to improve access to medical treatment in the United States. At the same time, a group known as the Crusaders for Common Sense was rallying around the cry, “Stop […]

An annual harvest festival. A charming small town. And a celebration where nothing seems to go right. Brookhaven’s beloved Apple Harvest Festival is supposed to bring the town together. Instead, a string of increasingly baffling mishaps threatens to tear the celebration apart. And when one of those mishaps nearly costs someone their life, City Archivist […]

Can a forward-thinking woman help the police solve a murder in a backward-thinking town? California, 1903: Smart, inquisitive, and a firm believer in the new progressive reforms, Adele Gossling seeks a new life after the devastating death of her father. She flees San Francisco for the small town of Arrojo, planning a life of peace […]

New Year’s Eve 1999: A savage crime. An abandoned infant. A cold case buried in the shadows of time. Twelve years have passed since the lifeless body of a baby girl was discarded like trash in a Dumpster. Reporter Samantha Church, locked in a brutal legal battle to win back custody of her own daughter, […]