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The perfect first date. Good food, romantic setting, good vibes. Until a woman screams and a shot is fired. As a trauma counselor, Stacie Maroni doesn’t hesitate to barge through the fray. Nor does her date, Detective O'Hare. With the case falling outside his jurisdiction, O’Hare and Stacie should simply be witnesses. Emphasis on should. As contradictory information emerges, things get complicated, and Stacie’s involved whether she likes it or not. Good thing O’Hare has her back.

Annaelise Theiss is the daughter of a German winemaker, Count Karl Theiss, and of a former Parisian aristocrat, Louisa Guerlain. The young heroine, Annaelise is torn between her mother's allegiance to the new French Regime and her father's influential thinking towards the New Enlightenment from German philosophers and the American Founding Fathers. Espionage and spying againt the emperor are everywhere.

Sadie suspects that she won’t have a happy Halloween this year, and with good reason. As the festivities sweep the islands, it seems not everyone is in the holiday spirit. Darcy, Sadie’s aunt, is calling in all her favors to wreak havoc and there are a lot of people in her debt. When loyalty lines are drawn, who will be on Sadie’s side?

When Jody Shaw is hired to be the new sheriff of Harrow Bay, a small coastal community, she’s excited to rise through the ranks and try something new. At 43, her career is everything that matters to her, besides her mother and grandmother, who move with her. It doesn’t take long for Jody to learn Harrow Bay is unusual. It’s home to all sorts of supernatural creatures, and there’s a Hell gate right at the center of town. Seriously, who thought it was a good idea to build an entire town around a Hell gate? 

When Astra takes herself and her witchy sisters to the coast for a much-needed break, she expects nothing more than a relaxing holiday. But when their cousin Amelia washes up on the beach dead, she knows there's more to the story than the police are letting on.

When Heidi hears the news that a prisoner has escaped, she instinctively knows who it is, even before the name is revealed. Twelve years have elapsed since her own escape, time enough for her family to move, recover, and start to live again.

Twenty-five-year-old Lady Millicent Smythe has come a long way since her elder brother, as her then-guardian, tried to marry her off. It was a deal he’d made when she was but 17 with his friend Sir Montague Morton MP, in return for funds. Her escape all those years ago was not a little to do with Lord Charles Lombard, a chivalrous 20-year-old army officer who found her stranded on the road and carried her to safety.

The Siren of the Seas sets sail for the much anticipated transatlantic repositioning cruise to the British Isles. It’s smooth sailing, until someone falls overboard. Millie jumps in head first to determine if the passenger's death was an accident, suicide, or murder.

Daria has fled to Orindor. She's left the man she loves to accept a marriage proposal from a man she doesn't, hoping to save the people of Gaia from her tyrant uncle. She needs the forces that Lord Danton Pontefract's hand in marriage will provide, and she's running out of time.

Janelle, a young Elven assassin, sets out on a dangerous mission given to her by the sorcerer she serves. She must kill King Elijah, or she and her brother will suffer a fate worse than death. Though the king and the assassin loathe each other at first, they soon realize they have an enemy in common. One that could destroy everything they hold dear.

At Ozma’s birth, the witch, Mombi, abducted and cast a spell on her, turning the infant into a male. Only when Ozma broke the witch’s curse did she discover who she is—the True Queen of Oz. Her freedom is short-lived when the Wizard, hungry for her power, imprisons her in a dark, brutal world, cut off from Jack and her magic. Jack, too, was stolen as a child, forced to toil as Mombi’s slave. When he believed his lover died, Jack loses himself to an array of companions, while plotting his escape from Mombi.

An old cold case bears a striking resemblance to a murder that occurred in Hallow Haven weeks ago, and now it seems that history is repeating itself in more ways than one. The police have a main suspect, but Sadie has her doubts. After a conversation with her familiar, she uncovers a new branch of her family tree that could change everything. The truth is about to come out, and it could spell trouble. Could she finally find out where her parents have been all this time?

After ten years of blissful marriage, learning of her husband’s infidelity, Erin’s world is ripped apart leaving her devastated. When a misdirected birthday gift forces her to confront her husband’s affair, her life, marriage and career unravel. Spiralling on a whirlwind of hurt, under intense pressure from her agent to rewrite her rejected latest novel, and with only her faithful dog for companionship, Erin seeks sanctuary and solace on an idyllic tidal island on the West Coast of Scotland.

Just when Sabrina Danvers thinks she’s seen it all, her commitment-phobe on-and-off boyfriend proposes—to his pregnant other girlfriend. Fed up with his behavior, she leaves him and her old life behind to start over in Washington, DC. As a counselor, she finds satisfaction in helping others cope with their personal hardships, all the while hoping to open the door to her own happily ever after....

2019…in Spain, at a remote mountain retreat center, Tyra Alström is facing her 65th birthday alone. It wasn’t always like this. In 1976, Alstrom, the band formed by her brother, and fronted by Tyra, had just recorded their first album and were about to embark on a European tour. After years of the pub, club, and college circuit, they were finally on the verge of success. And as one of the few "out" singers in 1970s rock, Tyra had never been short of admirers. But away from the spotlight, Tyra’s life was spiraling out of control.

Helen Brown’s house is filled to the brim with flowers from suitors, but she couldn’t care less about the illiterate boys in her town. When a wealthy, but simpleminded, suitor proposes, she gladly refuses him, though local tradition demands she accept any eligible match. She ignores the town’s threats and tries to pretend nothing has changed. However, she quickly realizes she is losing all the things she loves. In an attempt to ward off suitors and prove she is too clever to marry, Helen issues a challenge: Anyone can win her hand if they bring her a riddle she can’t answer.

A crumpled note handed off by a sobbing woman in a restroom, a mysterious figure lurking on the golf course, and a dead body draped over their car set amateur sleuths Emily and Henry Fox on a shady course to finding a killer. A series of recent "accidents" don’t make sense. Why did the owner of the spider web museum fall off a mountain? How was a woman with a bum hip electrocuted while crawling under her house? And don’t even start with the poisoned candy and illegally dumped fertilizer. Can the killer be stopped, or will the Fox family be written off next?

Assistant cruise director Millie Sanders is overwhelmed when her boss takes an emergency leave of absence to care for his ailing mother, and discovers she’s now in charge of the entire ship’s entertainment. As if she didn’t have enough on her plate, a family of special “guests” arrives for a last-minute cruise, which threatens to send Millie over the edge. Her anxiety turns to outright panic when the manager of the ship’s art gallery discovers several expensive pieces of art have been stolen, and she is pointing fingers at both Andy and Millie!

Jeri Bell lost everything when her former construction manager betrayed her—her company, her crew, and her contractor's license. She's been hired to build dog enclosures at Last Chance Ranch, and she needs the job and loves the atmosphere. But the ranch's grant funding might dry up if she can't provide her license. The cowboy living in the cabin next door, Sawyer Smith, doesn't want to go visit his family, but it's hard to find a date when he spends all his time with ranch animals. So he walks next door, a proposition in his back pocket for the beautiful brunette.

Losing her artisan café hurt Paloma Schlemmer more than breaking up with any boyfriend ever did. While setting new goals and planning out her future, she accepts a temporary job at a friend’s catering business on Martha’s Vineyard.