He’s sworn to uphold the law.She swears she didn’t do it. The evidence says otherwise.Casey Randolph hopes to follow in his deceased father’s footsteps, serving the community with a star on his chest. He’s a shoo-in to win the election if he can hide his necrophobia—fear of dead bodies. As a young deputy, his condition posed no issues. Drunken NASCAR fans and fistfights over the Duke-UNC basketball rivalry were the extent of criminal activity. No more. Growing like kudzu, t...

A cornucopia of ten cozy mystery stories that are perpetrated during holidays from New Years to Christmas. This collection explores unexplained disturbances, college pranks gone wrong, and almost always one or more murders around a holiday. Solve these spooky crimes that lurk beneath celebratory parties and help search for the murderers. Kick off your shoes, grab a warm drink and snuggle into a blanket before you get lured onto the sparkling snow for the next crime spree.A Body...

What would you do if the undertaker’s son made a pass at you?At your husband’s funeral?Jana Byrd stuffs the cougar-hunter’s card into a box and forgets him.As she struggles to focus on one-day-at-a-time after her husband’s death, Jana acquires several dozen cards from wanna-be-lovers, friends-seeking benefits, and the occasional nice guy. All the cards remain in the Boy Box, until Jana’s friends decide they should all date again and decide to draw names from the box...

Her daughter has just flown the nest and her pensioner mum has dived headlong into internet dating - can Hattie hold on to her sanity?Hattie is a 47-year-old mother whose daughter, Layla, is just about to head off to university. She's not coping terribly well (Hattie that is - Layla seems to be coping admirably), bursting into tears at the drop of a hat.To add to the angst, Hattie's mother, Meredith, has started online dating -unfortunately it's Hattie who ...

In the depths of the Great Depression, when families struggled to make ends meet, Juliet Corson's "Twenty-Five Cent Dinners for Families of Six" emerged as a beacon of hope. This groundbreaking cookbook offered practical and affordable meal plans, proving that nourishing and satisfying meals could be prepared on a shoestring budget. With its timeless recipes and invaluable tips, this culinary guide continues to inspire home cooks today, empowering them to feed their families with dignity a...

The 9th International Symposium is the only regular meeting in the bone field to be exclusively devoted to nutrition, bone and muscle, and it allows the authors of this book to review the new scientific data, discuss new concepts, and update the knowledge on several nutrients.The Symposium provides a unique opportunity to connect health professionals, researchers and industry across many disciplines, including nutrition and dietetics, exercise science, gerontology, nursing, general...