When Laura DeMarco, the aspiring and ambitious chef and owner of one of the ten top restaurants in Napa Valley kissed her husband Nick goodbye before she left for work, she had no idea he would mysteriously disappear. More mysterious is the impasse the police and FBI faced when they were unable to locate Nick in any database. He simply did not exist. How can someone just disappear? Yesterday she was sharing her life with her loving husband, and now she finds herself in unfamiliar territory...

In the still shadows of the confessional, the penitent kneels and makes a bone-chilling disclosure: Bless me father, for I will sin.... Slowly, tauntingly, the man describes his murderous past -- how he stalked his victim, worked his way into her life, and then took that life in a violent rage -- and his plan to kill again. Only this time, he has raised the stakes in his twisted game, daring authorities to catch him if they can. This time, he has revealed the name of his next inte...

A lawyer survives an attempt on his life, a medical examiner uncovers murders in Napa Valley, and a woman hunts down a killer with her drone in this collection of three pulse-pounding thrillers from the world's #1 bestselling author.The Lawyer Lifeguard with Doug Allyn: Are you the lawyer who got blown up with his girlfriend? Defense lawyer Brian Lord survived the car bomb that killed his fiancée. Out of work and ...

The small mountain town of Nugget, California, is way off the beaten path. But somehow it helps the lost and lonely find a new beginning in life—and in love. . .One solitary day at a time is the only way cookbook writer Emily Mathews can restart her life—and cope with consuming loss. Still, the former city girl is finding all kinds of odd inspiration and advice from Nugget's proudly eccentric residents on everything from new recipes to opening her heart again. Especially when it co...

NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author Kathryn Shay spent five years riding fire trucks with a large city fire department, eating in their firehouses and interviewing hundreds of America's Bravest. Read the firefighter romance novels that resulted from her intense relationship with firefighters!“I'm a firefighter at heart so I loved the fact that the story outside of the romance was so researched and the author was very knowledgeable. The stories make the romance even better!!! I couldn...

Every instinct Mimi Capurro had said to turn the client away.She took the money anyway.By morning, someone was dead, the DEA was at her kitchen table, and Mimi was staring down a case that had nothing to do with a cheating husband — and everything to do with the life she thought she already knew.Turns out, she didn't know half of it.What a Meth is the fourth book in the Gotcha Detective Agency series — and the one where everything goes up in...

It isn't exactly the perfect first date...While Miki and Carter were supposed to be romantically watching the sunrise from the Ruby Bay lighthouse, Miki spots something far more alarming - something in town is on fire!The two of them rush down to find that the local souvenir shop, run by Carol Murphy, one of the most respected women in town, has been torched.Miki doesn't think too much more of it, until it turns out the shop's owner has been arreste...

Searingly honest, beautiful, and full of fragile urgency, The Myth of You and Me is a celebration and portrait of a friendship that will appeal to anyone who still feels the absence of that first true friend.When Cameron was fifteen, Sonia was her best friend—no one could come between them. Now Cameron is a twenty-nine-year-old research assistant with no meaningful ties to anyone except her aging boss, noted historian Oliver Doucet.When an unexpect...

In the latest in this New York Times bestselling series, matrimony and murder collide as San Francisco book-restoration expert Brooklyn Wainwright walks down the aisle...Brooklyn has it all covered. She's triple-checked her wedding to-do list, and everything is on track for the upcoming ceremony with the love of her life, security expert Derek Stone.Not everyone has been as lucky in love as Brooklyn. Her old library college roommates Heather and Sa...

USA Today best-selling authorFor those who love humor as well as fast-paced mysteries, the "Stuff" series seven book collection has it all. Combining the stumbling shenanigans of James Lessor and Skip More, two twenty-something ne'er-do-wells trying to succeed as crime solvers produces laugh-out-loud moments while delivering a great mystery. For any fans of "the Hardy Boys" these books are a must read to witness them "all grown up".

When wealthy landowner, Marcus Bramwell, stops to help Emily rescue a poor little abandoned Westie, he rescues her as well. Her scheming Spanish boyfriend left her penniless and Marcus offers her the job of housekeeper at Rosemoor Hall, his English manor house. He gives her a home, a job, and hope for the future. But what she really yearns for is his heart. Can a penniless housekeeper persuade Marcus that not all women are like his cheating ex-wife?

From reporter to witness on the run…The next exciting Military K-9 Unit storyJust before the K-9 training center explodes, reporter Heidi Jenks spots the bomber—and now he wants her dead. While military explosives expert First Lieutenant Nick Donovan doesn’t trust journalists, it’s his duty to protect Heidi. And with a killer circling closer, he and his bomb-sniffing K-9 are all that stands between Heidi and someone planning to silence her for good.