Fresh start? Check. Quirky neighbors? Check. Finding a dead body? Absolutely NOT in the plan.Forty-something divorcee Anne Freemont traded her high-pressure city life for the charming mountain town of Carolan Springs, Colorado. Her plan: renovate a Victorian fixer-upper, breathe some fresh mountain air, and enjoy zero drama.Then a runaway chicken changes everything.When Anne's goofy and sweet neighbor, Kandi, is accused of murdering the neighborhood...

A cozy mystery where Texas grit, homemade pie, and quiet faith meet small-town secrets.Hospice nurse Christie Taylor trades hospital hallways for hay bales and returns home to Texas, thinking she’s there to rest, help Pop, and finally have time to try out some pie recipes. What she finds instead is a community with long memories, a mystery that keeps pulling her in, and people who became family before she’d quite noticed it happening. Set against the warm, wide...

Sunday at 11 a.m. remains America's most segregated hour—but healing won't happen in the pews alone.In this timely and hopeful book, pastor Nathan Walton calls readers to embrace a multiethnic lifestyle between Sundays. He argues that it's not enough to have a diverse-looking church if we live separate lives the rest of the week. When advocacy for justice doesn't lead to relationship, and when diversity is performative rather than embodied, true multiethnicity rema...

A Relaxing Pet-sitting Gig in Mexico... Until Danger Strikes at DawnViviane Masters is celebrating her sixties with a new lease on life as a globetrotting pet-sitter. But her inaugural assignment in a sleepy ex-pat town in Mexico turns sinister when threatening notes appear at the casa.Against her daughter’s wishes, the spunky senior has embarked on this adventure seeking excitement and freedom. But Viviane quickly senses a dark undercurrent in the seemingl...

besieged by the trials of a tumultuous childhood, marked by the departure of a loving mother and the shadow of a narcissistic stepmother. Alongside her sisters, Jean and Desiree, Ashley endured the hardships imposed by their stepmother, Lenna, grappling with the complexities of such toxic relationships early in life. The loss of her father, Dale, at the age of 49 to an overdose, and her younger sister, Desiree, at 21 due to spina bifida, brought profound sorrow and challenges. Ashley's jou...

Ashton Walton is an ordinary teenager whose world completely shatters when his best friend, Tyson, is found brutally choked to death inside a locked bedroom. Overhearing the baffled local detectives call it an "impossible crime" with zero physical fingerprints and localized fire scoring, a desperate, traumatized Ashton takes matters into his own hands. That night, he breaks into the cordoned-off house and steals a flawless, vintage hand-carved puppet named Alistair left at the scene, convi...

Chicken Culprit Small-town cozy mystery: Runaway chicken + grumpy sheriff + nosy new neighbor = the fresh start nobody planned for!Cordial Killing Victorian Inn cozy mystery: College reunion + blizzard + murder = page-turner!Honey Homicide Colorado arson mystery: Suspicious fires + wrongly accused sheriff + amateur sleuth with zero authority = combustible chemistry and a killer on the loose!Perfect for reade...

Nola Soto trusts numbers because numbers do not flirt, lie, or decide what she is allowed to know.At twenty-nine, she is a sharp, career-driven pension investigator sent from St. John’s to Marystown, Newfoundland, to examine a disturbing claim: disability payments are still moving through accounts tied to Barrett Tate, an Iron House MC member officially declared dead three years ago. One clean audit could strengthen Nola’s path toward management. One mistake could damage the profes...

Piranesi meets Swordspoint in an elegant relay race through fantasy Venice from Hugo award-winning author Jo WaltonThe Serenissima is built from mist and belief, a mythical shadow sister to Venice and crossroads of the nine worlds.When a laborer called Tiry has a dream that Serenissima will have a doge, and that they will marry the sea, he tells it to a fortune teller named Khadsha. She tells her apprentice, a gondolier called Taddeo, who ...

Times are hard. Perhaps not quite hard enough for Arthur to awaken from his long sleep, but other characters from mythology and history may still be here to lend a hand. Are you having trouble with an unscrupulous landlord? Is your village or wildlife reserve being threatened by a multi-national corporation? Is funding being cut for the very services that allow your community to thrive, or function at all?Throughout history, from the Chartist movement to the formation of the NHS vi...

ER nurse Madeleine English has built her life around rules, competence, and never needing anyone enough to be abandoned again. Twenty-three years after her father vanished from her childhood, she still carries one certainty: his motorcycle club mattered more than coming home.Then a badly injured biker is dumped on a desert highway and brought into her emergency room.Junior Cuevas is Black Mesa MC’s feared Vice President, a man known for keeping his head when everyone else l...

Seventeen-year-old Gabriela Davila has one goal for the summer: survive it without getting attached to anything.Her parents’ marriage is coming apart back home in Maine, and while they decide what their future looks like, Gabriela is sent to spend the summer with her grandmother in Bellweather Cove, a small Nova Scotia fishing village where everyone seems to know everyone, the tides control half the day, and privacy is almost impossible.Gabriela plans to work, keep her head...