A royal castle. A murder. The only witness? A horse.Izzy Paterson prefers horses to humans—and spreadsheets to small talk. By day, she trains horses at a Highland estate. By night, she moonlights as an I.T. consultant with a cybercrime past she'd rather keep quiet.But when a body turns up at Balmoral, the Queen’s summer castle, Izzy and her new friend Craig end up in the wrong place at the wrong time—and suddenly find themselves suspects in a royal murder.

A prize from a princess. Is it worth murder?When Izzy Paterson--horse trainer and computer geek--gets a last-minute entry to the prestigious Royal Highland Show in Edinburgh, she doesn't expect to be tripping over dead bodies. Literally.But in the competitive world of show-jumping, it seems that someone is so determined to win a coveted prize, they'll resort to murder.As the body count rises, suspicions grow exponentially and the show descends into ...

Meeting your boyfriend's mother is stressful enough without murder taking centre stageWhen Izzy Paterson—horse trainer, coffee-holic and computer geek—attends a medieval pageant, everyone performs brilliantly—until the star of the show, a Mary Queen of Scots re-enactor, drops dead.With her boyfriend’s mother, Violet MacDonald, cast as the prime suspect, the police think they’ve silenced the critics and aren’t auditioning anyone else for the part of villain. ...

A daring theft. A reputation in tatters. And a troubling trifle.Scottish horse trainer Izzy Paterson has double trouble to deal with. An audacious financial crime, and a perplexing equine enigma. The victims of both mysteries—the unconventional local vicar and a talented teenager—are innocents caught out by the machinations of dastardly villains.It's a race against time—and some wily criminals—as Izzy tries to track down the perpetrators before the reverend'...

A Secret Santa—with a secret!Security expert for a British bank by day, horse trainer at night, Izzy Paterson is a multi-tasking, dressage-riding, computer whiz with an addiction to strong coffee and a penchant for CSI on Netflix. So when she's handed a perplexing riddle by the Secret Santa at her office Christmas party, she just can't ignore the mystery.Penned by a modern-day Robin Hood, the anonymous rhyme hints at financial misconduct that could put the ...

A fatal shooting, a vexing vandal, a Christmas conundrum.It's December 1892 and at her father's first house party in the Scottish Highlands in the days before Christmas, aspiring photographer, Persi (never call her by her real name, Lady Persephone Millicent Merrit) takes a lucky—or perhaps unlucky—photograph just as a rich financier is shot. Accidentally.Or was it?When Persi finds evidence that the shooting was intentional, not a tragic mi...

8,000,000 SOLD WORLDWIDE • TRANSLATED IN 40 LANGUAGES What' s NEW in this 4th and Final Edition? • Restores original foreword by Arun Ghandi, grandson of Mahatma Ghandi, bringing you closer to the living legacy of nonviolence that inspired millions. • Two new chapters that deepen and extend core teachings. • Revised text for greater clarity and readability. • Expanded guidance on essential practices, including celebration and mourning. What is NONVIOLENT Communication? • Consciousness: a s...

8,000,000 COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDE • TRANSLATED INTO MORE THAN 40 LANGUAGES Most of us were never taught what to say when a conversation gets hard. A disagreement with your partner that keeps circling back. A tense meeting at work. A teenager who has stopped telling you anything. In moments like these, most of us fall back on the same patterns — defending, blaming, going quiet — and the relationship pays the price. In this classic guide, Marshall B. Rosenberg, Ph.D., shows there is another wa...

Years ago, Wes Stanhope fled his hometown of Charleston to escape the constraints of society and his controlling father, Colonel Robert Lee Stanhope IV. After completing medical school and building a successful practice in pediatric oncology in Seattle, Wes is called home for his mother's funeral and presented with an opportunity to build and run a children's hospital—his mother's legacy—a choice he ultimately makes despite his misgivings about his father's role as chairman of the hospital...

It took nearly two millennia for the enemies of the Catholic Church to realize they could not successfully attack the Church from the outside. Indeed, countless nemeses from Nero to Napoleon succeeded only in creating sympathy and martyrs for our Catholic Faith.That all changed in the mid-19th century, when clandestine societies populated by Modernists and Marxists hatched a plan to subvert the Catholic Church from within. Their goal: to change Her doctrine, Her liturgy, and Her mi...

THE ART OF SELF DISCIPLINEThis is your ultimate life hack guide. It's not just a book, it's your personal cheat code to leveling up in real life. Want to max out your potential and actually reach your goals? This guide's got the goods.Inside, you'll find:Next-level strats the top 1% don't want you to know A step-by-step playbook to help you boss up and design your dream life Real talk and practical tips to bui...

What’s it like being the only Anglophones settling into the rural Beauce region south of Québec City, where no one keeps a lock on their door? What kind of struggles does one encounter as a young adult living in communal housing in Peterborough, Ontario in the era of love, peace, and rock and roll? How does it feel to eke out a rugged living in a remote cabin in Brighton Beach, BC, without any experience of that lifestyle?Author William R. Marshall can tell you the answers, since t...