Katie Brunswick is an eleven-year-old girl who lives with her parents and two younger sisters in a small Canadian town. This summer, she’s hanging out with her friends, an all-girl group who call themselves The Posse. Katie is a competitive swimmer and her other favourite thing to do is read mysteries. Imagine her excitement when a whodunit turns up in her neighbourhood.Katie peeks through a dirty window in a deserted house and spies a body! While she’s figuring out who was murdere...

Deep, mysterious, beautiful . . . dangerous . . .Women and the sea have been tied together in myth and story from the beginning of time. Tales of women being drawn to the sea or being left on the shore, waiting for their men’s return, have been passed down through the ages.But what mysteries lie beneath the sparkling placid waters? What power drives the wind and waves crashing against the shore? There is transformation and exaltation—magic—in the ocean and women al...

Heart-rending, happy-ending romances to enhance your holidays!Family get-togethers for the holiday season can sooth our emotions or savage our souls. No one knows us better than the family and friends we choose share such times with.In each of these seven delightful short romances, our heroes and heroines find going home for this season even more of a heart-wrench, for true love challenges their deepest held beliefs.Going home for the holid...

Katie Brunswick is an eleven-year-old girl who lives with her parents and two younger sisters in a small Canadian town. This summer, she's hanging out with her friends, an all-girl group who call themselves The Posse. Katie is a competitive swimmer and her other favourite thing to do is read mysteries. Imagine her excitement when a whodunit turns up in her neighbourhood.Katie peeks through a dirty window in a deserted house and spies a body! While she's figuring out who was murdere...

Five out of this world short stories that include a dragon, a zombie, a vampire and epigenetics to give reality a kick in the butt for a minute or two.

Just in time for Christmas 2022 comes this boxed set of eight charming stories of love, family, and miracles. Each Belle has contributed a tale set in the festive season--one just long enough to fit in between tasks at this busy time of the year. The tales are unrelated, except by the festive season.Some have been written for this collection, some are made-to-order stories never before published, some have been used as fan giveaways. All are delightful.So watch for the oppo...

Forced to leave the family home a fortnight before Christmas!While her employer and friend lay dying, Emme promised Mirabel Youngwin that her five young daughters would stay together, vowing to herself she would never be parted from them either.Now, two years later, the children's father has also passed. Thrown out of the family home, Emme must find somewhere for her and her charges to stay until their new guardian arrives—when they will most likely be taken to sta...

Grace Banks is much looking forward to her first Christmas at the Home for Desolate Ladies. As its proprietress, she is keen to bring comfort and joy to the gentlewomen who have taken refuge there, and also enjoy the festivities herself. However, the sudden arrival of a visitor threatens her plans, for she and he are not strangers.Edward, Duke of Tavistock, is searching for his young cousin. Winifred went missing after departing Bath under a cloud of gossip, and there is reason to ...

A Christmas in ManchesterMiss Evelyn Allen has led a quiet life in Worcestershire her twenty-one years as the devoted daughter of Pastor Joshua Allen and his wife. She always assumed she'd wed one day since her siblings had all done so, but no man had ever appealed to her in a way that she felt she could look across the breakfast table at him forever.Until he came into her life…The Duke of Manchester never expected to be left robbed and bleeding in the road miles fr...

As the village of Reabridge in Cheshire prepares for the first Harvest Festival following Waterloo, families are overjoyed to welcome back their loved ones from the war.But excitement quickly turns to mystery when mere weeks before the festival, an orphaned child turns up in the town—a toddler born near Toulouse to an English mother who left clues that tie her to Reabridge.With two prominent families feuding for generations and the central event of the Harvest Moon festival...

Dancing into the arms of love?Marcus, Lord Hawthorne, vowed never to fall in love, the past having taught him that marriage can only ever lead to heartbreak. So, how has he allowed himself to be tricked into being leg-shackled to Faith Whitworth, the daughter of a scheming businessman who wants entry to the ton?Marcus's solution for dealing with his unwanted wife is to keep her at Deer Park, his country estate, while he stays in London. But when he returns at Christmastime,...

A Waltz with Destiny NovellaKidnapped: His Bride-to-BePenelope Ashurst is a dutiful daughter, but wishing for just one adventure before she submits to marriage to the stuffy old viscount her father has selected, she sneaks off to attend a society masked ball. There, she dances and shares a secret kiss with a handsome blond stranger. Her heart is stolen! How can she find a way to come face to face with this mystery man once more?When Ranulph Rochefort, Earl of Monfor...