When a small-town romance festival turns deadly, the only match made is between murder and a forty-year-old secret.Sho Tanaka is trying to keep his head down. Ten months sober and shadowing a patient advocate to rebuild his career, the last thing the former ICU nurse needs is his best friend's chaotic dating festival dragging him back into danger. But when a bestselling romance author publicly implodes onstage and is found dead hours later—killed with a centerpiece...

When this odd couple signs up to be extras in a fitness video, it’s lights, camera… murder.Sho Tanaka is desperate for normalcy. Uncomfortably getting by in a tiny Texas town after prescription drugs cost him his job, the last thing the disgraced nurse needs is a former tween TV star roping him into more trouble. But his chance for inner peace evaporates when a cocky physical trainer he confronts keels over and drops dead.Levi Blue is determined that his be...

When a barbecue competition heats up, can a reluctant nurse and a former TV tween detective grill the truth out of a sizzling suspect list?Sho Tanaka is striving to support his sister, Jenny, and recover from his nursing career fallout. When they enter the Hill Country Smoke-Off, Sho expects a weekend of camaraderie and smoky deliciousness. But after a series of odd events and apparent sabotage, the comp turns sinister when a dead body is discovered in a classic Ca...

When the curtain falls, the body count risesWhen former nurse Sho Tanaka reluctantly takes on the role of Lysander in a community theater production of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, he expects his biggest challenge to be remembering his lines. But when an actor takes a deadly tumble from the rafters, Sho finds himself tangled in a web of secrets, lies, and murder most foul.With his best friend and the town mayor, Levi Blue, at his side, Sho must ...

Not all black cats are bad luck, aren’t they? Join Lowkey and Gabe on their adventures of friendship to show us that even if you are a kitty, you are still family.

This war of hearts will have no victor.JaxonMessing with Logan Kent at a college rager is the perfect way to get under his skin. But when I steal my stepbrother's girl, it becomes a different ball game. Changing the play might be the dumbest thing I've ever done.RyaKissing Jaxon Ledger to get over my best friend should solve all my problems. But when I discover they're rivals, our dynamic becomes complicated...

‘From the moment I stepped into this delightfully eerie world, I was hooked by its charming atmosphere, quirky characters and Halloween magic’ ★★★★★Poppy McMaster was supposed to be getting married, not climbing out of a bathroom window in her wedding dress…She's leaving her life behind and fleeing to the only place she’s ever truly felt like herself: the small town she grew up in, where Halloween lasts all year.But home isn’t waiting for Poppy the ...

This love we crave is worth fighting for.LoganFiguring out what's in Jaxon's head is the key to ending the war between us. The path is rife with obstacles, including the girl we share feelings for. Choosing them both might be the easiest thing I've ever done.RyaLooking at what's truly inside my heart has never been so difficult. It hurts me to see the battle raging between these stepbrothers. Loving them bot...

As labor unions and movements began to form and coalesce in the 19th century, the tensions between workers and companies led to demonstrations, encounters, and even conflicts that descended into violence. Among those, few were as notorious as the fight that took place on April 20, 1914 at Ludlow in the southern Colorado coalfields, during which two units of the Colorado National Guard had a firefight with striking miners who lived in a United Mine Workers (UMW) camp. The Guardsmen had at l...

Most scientists believe the evolution of humans has a history nearly as long as life itself. Anatomically modern humans and all other life that has existed on the planet first came about from the single-celled microorganisms that emerged approximately 4 billion years ago. Through the processes of mutation and natural selection, all forms of life developed, and this continuous lineage of life makes it difficult to say precisely when one species completely separates from another. In other wo...

Spies are a feature of countless works of fiction in which they often discover secrets on which the fate of nations hang in the balance. Reality is generally rather more mundane, as spies often gather low-level intelligence that only makes sense when it is examined by analysts and compared to information from other sources. Espionage provides clues to what the enemy is planning, but on its own, it rarely changes the course of a war. Moreover, real spies are generally anonymous, not the bol...

Samoa is a group of about 20 islands in the South Pacific Ocean, totaling slightly over 1,100 square miles, about a fifth the size of Hawai’i. The ancestors of the Samoans arrived there many centuries ago. Archaeological artifacts suggest Polynesians arrived perhaps three thousand years before the present, or perhaps even earlier (O’Connor, 2017).Samoans remained part of an isolated Pacific Ocean region for a very long time, with trade and social links with the people of the Fiji a...