Twenty-three-year-old Walter MacGregor (aka Wallie) craves adventure, her desires whetted by Sherlock Holmes tales. Her prayers are answered when her father’s rum-running brother Rory lands on the MacGregors’ doorstep, fleeing from enraged bootleggers. In quiet Gunmetal, Texas, during Prohibition, Rory’s tales of adventure charm Wallie, but appall her father, a respected judge.When a freak accident horrifies the small town, Wallie believes she sees a crime scene that shows evidence...

Kay Kendall's *Rainy Day Women* is the second book in the Austin Starr Mystery series. In 1969, during the week of the Manson murders and Woodstock, the intrepid amateur sleuth, infant in tow, flies across the continent to support a friend suspected of murdering women's liberation activists in Seattle and Vancouver. Then her former CIA trainer warns that an old enemy has contracted a hit on her. Her anxious husband demands that she give up her quest and fly back to him. How much should Aus...

The flight to avoid the killing… It’s 1968. The Cold War is hot, the Vietnam War is raging, and the women’s movement is beating a far-distant drum. When Austin Starr’s husband decides to protest the war by emigrating from Texas to Canada, she goes along, with the biblical dictate of “whither-thou-goest I will go” ringing in her ears. Leads to murder… No activist herself, Austin is homesick, drowning in culture shock, and now, her husband has been accused of murdering a fellow draft resiste...

Comedic film actress Kay Kendall, born to a theatrical family in Northern England, came of age in London during the Blitz. After starring in Britain's biggest cinematic disaster, she found stardom in 1953 with her brilliant performance in the film Genevieve. She scored success after success with her light comic style in movies such as Doctor in the House, The Reluctant Debutante, and the Gene Kelly musical Les Girls. Kendall's private life was even more ...

The definitive guide to implementing Baldrige Criteria in any organization—from the team that has worked with 18 Malcolm Baldrige Award winnersFor organizations in both the public and private sectors, the coveted Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award is the gold standard to which all leaders aspire. With this action-ready guide from the renowned experts at BaldrigeCoach, you too can master the principles of Baldrige Criteria, harness the power of performance exce...

SPY GAMES…Sammy expects a carefree summer during her internship at the US Embassy in Vienna. Competing spy rings clash in desperation and threaten her life as every Strauss waltz accompanies a murder. Is the handsome stranger she meets heading for romance or using her as a pawn?Can she figure out who’s playing the tune before the dangerous dance ends badly?BULLET BOOKSON A PLANE… ON A TRAIN…FASTER THAN A SPEEDING BULLET!Bullet Books are speed reads f...

Seven Stories.Limitless Adventure.Step into worlds of lords and ladies, knights and princesses, assassins and street rats, in this short story collection of fairytale retellings.An assassin who finds a family, a merchant lord's son who seeks adventure, a tale with a riddle, ransacked manor, and friends who may no longer be friends, and more will sweep you away into the pages of A Noble Collection.From authors Kirsten Fichter, Olivia Godfrey, Kendall Hoxsey, ...