Summer. What a great time for romance! Beach holidays. Vacations to faraway places. Even a simple weekend getaway can lead to the kind of romance that will last long after that first breathless kiss in the summer sun or beneath a starry midnight sky.Romance for All Seasons is proud to present a terrific lineup of stories sure to leave you with that wonderful ah! feeling romance readers live for! Fall in love with these all too human heroines and heroes who meet cu...

Before they were mothers and grandmothers, the women of the Greatest Generation were many other things.Including spies.Meet Violet and Claire.Violet, the faithful suburban wife and mother, PTA president and Girl Scout leader. The perfect image of post-war blue-collar domesticity.Claire, the privileged daughter of a diplomat. A spinster, dedicated to bettering the lives of others as a civil servant, a woman in a man's world.Two women with nothing in c...

Money, business, sports, love: All involve risk—and skill. The skilled authors in this volume masterfully exhibit both. Buckle in while a locomotive engineer uses magic in a race to avoid extinction, a game developer must outmaneuver an alien for Earth’s fate, and an exterminator risks everything to go after some really big rats. Crossing genre lines through science fiction, fantasy, mystery, historical, and mainstream, these adrenaline-pumping stories about taking risks offer nothing but ...

Glory Martine has inherited her uncle's Florida souvenir shop, one stuffed with collectibles, mementos of times gone by--and ghosts--who, like her customers, refuse to let go of the past. But things take an even more unexpected turn when a local football hero dies far too suddenly and suspiciously. Now, Glory has to uncover the truth before someone makes her history...

The old becomes new again as fifteen talented authors go back to the lurid pulp titles of yesteryear through today’s rich, nuanced storytelling. Enjoy original tales featuring rebel angels fighting a heavenly enforcement squad, a cop whose life might depend on ordering the right deli sandwich, and a wizard who has just three days to pay off the loan on his tower or lose his very soul. Whatever your taste in stories, Recycled Pulp is sure to have something that will amaze, surprise...

Welcome to Keyhole Bay, Florida, an idyllic small tourist town in the Florida Panhandle, where vacation just might be murder!Murder Stacks the Shelves brings together the first four books in the Haunted Souvenir Shop Mystery series in a single volume. This omnibus edition includes:Murder Buys a T-ShirtMurder Hooks a MermaidMurder Sends a PostcardMurder Ties the Knot

A Haunted Souvenir Shop Mystery from the author of Murder Sends a Postcard--featuring Down-Home Dinner Menus.It’s winter in Keyhole Bay, Florida, and while the tourist trade is slow, souvenir shop owner Glory Martine is busy with her best friend’s wedding. But between managing preparations, the bride’s in-laws, and a haunted parrot named Bluebeard, Glory makes plans to catch a killer.As her friends Karen and Riley approach their wedding da...

When an accident in the repair bay at Fowler's Auto Sales leaves a corpse under a vintage automobile, police and workplace safety investigators begin a painstaking investigation. But something doesn't seem right, and Bluebeard the foul-mouthed parrot is determined to see the truth brought to light.

Davey's Life RulesLove the ocean with all its beauty and dangerIf your high school sweetheart leaves you no choice, see Rule #1When the going gets tough, see Rule #1Don't ever ask for helpWhen he's injured, Davey still can't break his own rules, especially #1.Even for the woman he loves.Penny's Life RulesNever fall for a fishermanIf he's your high school sweet...

It’s the height of summer tourist season and Glory Martine is busier than ever running her souvenir shop, Southern Treasures. The shop’s parrot, Bluebeard, is becoming quite the celebrity among tourists—little do they realize he’s the bird-host to a ghost…Residents of Keyhole Bay, Florida, are dismayed when Bridget McKenna, an auditor in chic attire, arrives to assess the local bank’s shady dealings. Curious about the new arrival, Glory brings dinner to Bridget at her temp...

THIS JUST IN:The Promise by Annie Reed AND Cold Hands, Warm Heart by Joslyn Chase have BOTH been chosen for inclusion in the 2022 Year's Best Mystery Stories!AND The Missing by Leah R Cutter was listed on the honor roll in the 2022 Year's Best Mystery Stories.It might be that one case that never closed, that always haunted you.Or perhaps one that someone dumped in your lap, because new evidence has brought it back to life.A...

Readers always romanticize train travel, even if it’s just a quick commute into the city.Why?Trains are packed full of people with their own agendas, their own stories, their own need for revenge or escape.Frequently in these traveling conveyances, crime occurs. Either in the trains themselves, or on the tracks.What sort of crimes?The MCM Syndicate of writers answers this question with fascinating stories that are historic, semi-historic, as well as ...