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The summer people are gone. Harbor Springs belongs to the year-rounders - and one of them is a killer.amateur sleuth who reads houses · staged accident · resort town off-season · everyone knows everyone's businessThe summer people have gone home, and Harbor Springs belongs to the year-rounders again. Twelve hundred people who know everybody else's business -- and Ada Byrne, fifty-two, knows more than most. Twenty-three years of winterizing the great summer cottages on the b...

One tiny dog, two languages - and a hello as big as the whole wide street.Meet Milo - a chihuahua so small he fits in a teacup's shadow, with tiger-striped fur, ears like little sails, and a pink tongue that's almost always out. He says hola to everyone he meets, in English y en español. And he's been saving his biggest hello... for you.Milo is pequeño - that means small. He is smaller than a shoe, smaller than a teacup. But inside that tiny chest beats the biggest corazón ...

She can move things with her mind. Fifty strangers filmed her doing it. Now everyone wants her - caged, crowned, or weaponized.Maya Reyes is a twenty-two-year-old Chicago bike courier with a secret she has guarded her whole life: she can move things with her mind. Then she stops a runaway truck in the street, in front of fifty phone cameras, and the secret is out. By morning she is the most wanted emergent in America.The Emergence Response Bureau wants her ...

Cole Bennett knows everyone's secrets and can tell no one's.Three years after a privilege breach in Chicago Big Law blew up his career, he's the trusts-and-estates lawyer in Harbor Springs, Michigan - a quiet harbor-town practice built one will at a time. Then a dead girl, a $2.1 million charity gala, and a foundation spending ninety-four cents of every dollar on itself force him to investigate people who trusted his predecessor for decades.A small-town mystery about what t...

One little guest of honor, one whole neighborhood -- and a party that feels like a hug.¡Fiesta! The street is strung with papel picado, the trumpets are tuning up, and the banner says... MILO. It's a party for the tiniest dog in town, with music, dancing, pie-shop treats, and a medal that reads EL MEJOR PERRITO. A joyful, musical celebration -- the perfect finale for Milo's first three adventures.

Cole Bennett knows everyone's secrets and can tell no one's. When a young man's confession about a murder lands in his office, Cole's duty to his client collides with everything he knows -- and for the first time, the secret isn't money, it's a life. He cannot launder the confession, cannot steer the police, cannot save him. The final Cole Bennett mystery: the rules were never the point.

A famous shout. A fabricated answer. A keeper who checks.Calumet, in the Keweenaw, the week before Christmas. Ada Byrne has come north to open the captain's house on Eighth Street - three Decembers she has kept it, and she knows how it was, so she knows when it isn't.Her guests are true-crime writer Graham Hale and his researcher, Mara Quinn. Hale arrives certain he has solved the Italian Hall disaster of Christmas Eve 1913 - seventy-three dead after a shout of fire - with ...

A clouded title. A sealed room. A keeper who notices.In Petoskey, keeper Ada Byrne is opening houses for spring - Eleanor Ames's house on Arlington Avenue and Grayling, her Bay View cottage, where title examiner Diana Sloane is untangling a fence dispute in the deed books.In the Association's 1876 lot book, Diana finds a cloud: the terrace stands on part of an eighty-acre allotment granted to Jean-Baptiste Nadeau under the Treaty of Detroit in 1855 - patent never issued, so...

The complete Emergence trilogy in one volume - Spark, Kindling, and Wildfire, the full story of Maya Reyes across more than 240,000 words.Maya Reyes is a twenty-two-year-old Chicago bike courier with an ordinary life and a dead mother's watch that has started ticking again. Then, in front of the whole city, she stops a truck with her mind - and the footage makes her the most famous "emergent" alive. In Spark, her power ignites and everyone comes looking for her. In Kindling, three ...

Ada Byrne keeps other people's houses - and notices everything. Hired for the winter season at Boyne Mountain, she takes charge of twenty slope-side rental houses: twenty keys, twenty families' winters, turnover Saturdays, and a mountain that keeps its own counsel.When a man is found dead on the mountain, the death looks like winter doing what winter does. Ada's keeper's eye disagrees. Behind the houses she tends runs an older paper trail: a timber deed from 1919 that was never fil...

Culture is not what is written on the wall. It is what leaders make normal.What if the culture everyone is trying to fix is simply the culture leadership has been making normal all along? In What Leaders Make Normal, Deon Benito draws on more than twenty years of experience in international talent, learning, culture, and organizational strategy to reveal a simple truth: culture is not what is written on the wall. It is what leaders model, reward, tolerate, and repeat -- every singl...

A drowned historian. A house that kept the lie.Ada Byrne comes to Charlevoix for an ending: Douglas Brandt's sentencing, life for murder, closes the trial that hollowed out her spring. The keeper from Harbor Springs means to stay a quiet week - and takes the keys to the Anchorage instead.Then historian Silas Rennick is found drowned in the channel. He had called Ada the day before he died, asking what only a keeper would know about the water, and he never made their coffee....