Olympian Brenna Battle once had the fire. Now, she’s just burned out—and burned by love. She’s ready to retire from competitive judo and pursue a new dream in a new town, with her biggest supporter, her recently divorced little sister, Blythe. But on their first day in town, Blythe falls for local sleaze-bag reporter, Ellison Baxter, and their small-town welcome is stained by Baxter’s murder. The weapon—Blythe Battle’s hair brush.In this fast-paced, fun cozy mystery, Brenna, the pr...

Jannika Peterson arrived in Grangeton, New Hampshire, with a broken heart and a new job managing the local bookstore. She has a gift for pairing readers with the perfect books, but her matchmaking skills don’t extend to her love life. Love doesn’t stand a chance against her well-protected heart.Eighteen years ago, Lee Thompson was Jannika’s summer camp counselor, and Lee has never forgotten the beautiful girl with the unusual name. Still healing from her wife’s sudden death, Lee ho...

Former Olympian and Arizona native Brenna Battle’s crazy dream of running her very own judo school for kids in tiny, historic Bonney Bay isn’t exactly off to a great start. She has a grand total of one student signed up, but she’s determined to succeed even if it means going door to door. Brenna’s search for judo recruits takes her inside the infamous haunted Reiner House, where she befriends a confused old man named Harvey, and finds herself at the scene of the second murder since her arr...

Estlyn is good at cutting deals. The one she's working on now will get her a clean criminal record—and get her brother and incarcerated father off the hook, too. The only problem is, she's going to have to orchestrate a murder to get it done.Gavin Young wants to be governor of California, and he wants it so badly that he's willing to do anything to win. Estlyn's job is pretty straightforward: make Young look like the better candidate. But to do that, she'll have to frame an acquitt...

Eleanor Kingston is a freelance investigative journalist by day and a vigilante by night, leaving black rose in the wreckage of rescued trafficking victims. When she uncovers the truth behind her mother's death eighteen years ago—murdered by the same criminal organization still operating in the shadows—she launches a systematic dismantling of the empire that destroyed her family.Armed with a team of unlikely allies and a willingness to operate outside the law, Eleanor pursues justi...

Two weeks from retirement, Martian homicide detective Rex Caulder catches one last body in an alley — a dead man whose veins glow with something that isn't a drug. It's Whisper: a nanotech compound engineered not to get people high, but to switch off the human capacity to want. And the trail leads straight to Caulder's missing daughter. To reach her before she's erased for good, one burned-out cop has to tear through his own department, a corporate empire, and fifty years of a pla...

Four retired friends set out on the road trip of a lifetime, planning a year visiting America's national parks. What they get instead is a murder they can't ignore.When Maggie—a sharp former defense attorney—and her husband David, a retired history teacher, roll into the small town of Ashwood, Oregon, they're just looking for a place to rest. But June Holloway, desperate and worn down by five years of not knowing, asks them to look at her daughter Sarah's cold case file. Sarah disa...

A captive, wrathful Siren.A cursed ex-pirate drowning in agony.An artifact that could mean salvation for both if they can survive a journey to Hell-and each other.Vengeful Siren Zephra would give away hundreds of her bewitching kisses-and probably a few stab wounds-if it meant escaping human captivity for her ocean home. After six years trapped behind glass walls in a curiosity lounge, she sends out a cryptic call for help, offeri...

'Bursts with complexity, drama and warmth… A timely, timeless novel' Catherine Newman, author of Sandwich‘Uplifting … A warm tale of friendship’ Platinum Book of the Month'A powerful tale, well told… [with] a delightful cast of characters that you can't help but fall in love with' Fiona Davis, author of The Stolen Queen*****A warm, uplifting and empowering novel following a...

This book traces the arc of Pavla's life, from her childhood behind the Iron Curtain in (what was then called) Czechoslovakia to her eventual founding of a small but highly regarded non-profit of 25 years later: Educare-Africa. The book is told in first-person and retraces the key events of Pavla's life, including her crippling shyness as a young girl that, oddly enough, led to her becoming a professional ballroom dancer in her homeland-from which she made a daring escape as a young woman ...

Ashley is lonely and not feeling any holiday joy after the ultimate betrayal. There's only one thing on her Christmas wishlist this year – a baby. After Santa sprinkles a little magic her way, Ashley is filled with Christmas spirit several times over. Hard and unprotected.

Celebrate the LGTBQ community with this small but perfectly formed guide to Pride.What began as a protest for gay rights following the Stonewall riots of 1969 in New York has grown to become a global celebration of LGBTQ culture. In the 50-odd years since the original protest, and what is now widely accepted to be the first Pride march – Christopher Street Liberation Day, 1970 – Pride events are now attended by millions each year, celebrating how far we've come, re...