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Every year, Key West’s week long Mardi Gras-style festival has tourists and locals alike lining up for costumed revelry and delicious eats. Key Zest magazine has assigned Hayley to write a piece on the fest’s grab-and-go food, so she’s planning on hitting up the mobile eateries while checking out the party preparations. Hayley’s office mate, Danielle, recently elected Queen of Fantasy Fest, is also buzzing between festivities and fundraisers. But then a former royal rival gets taken out.

Hayley Snow looks forward to reviewing For Goodness Sake, a new floating restaurant that promises a fresh take on Japanese delicacies like flambéed grouper with locally sourced seaweed. But nearby land-based restaurateurs would rather see their buoyant competition sink.

On their honeymoon, the new Mr. & Mrs. Ryan Shaw made a pact: No matter the sacrifices along the way, one day they would return to Sunset Beach, North Carolina—this time to buy their own home. But that dream was not to be. Seven years into a beautiful marriage, Emily is left a widow, heartbroken, and way past caring about anything. Until a man approaches her, claiming to have something left to her from Ryan. Something secret.

Food critic Hayley Snow and her pal Miss Gloria are overjoyed to welcome Violet and Bettina Booth, aka the Scottish Scone Sisters, to Key West. The sisters will host The UK Bakes!—Key West Edition. But the same day they arrive, the bed-and-breakfast the sisters are staying in gets torched. The contest begins the next morning featuring three local bakers. One is the inn owner’s wife, Rayna, who is not only the most talented chef of the group but now a person of interest in the fire. The next night, a dogwalker discovers a body near the bed-and-breakfast.

The folk of Hampstead, Kansas, are all of a flutter. There’s a Hollywood crew in town, shooting a movie in creepy old Lockett Mansion. The leading lady emerges from her trailer and there’s a gasp of excitement. It's scream queen Laura Edwards. On day one of the shoot, Laura’s stunt double, Kay, must film a brutal murder scene. When the cameras stop rolling, Kay’s left lying in a pool of blood. The crew race over—and find there’s nothing fake about this murder!

It’s a stormy afternoon in Hampstead, Kansas. And the medical center waiting room is deserted. Except for Susan Wren and feverish little Jen Bryant. Jen is awaiting an appointment with frosty Dr Dorothy Barrington. Suddenly, a gunshot rings out, killing Dr Dorothy and critically wounding Jen. Susan couldn’t protect little Jen from the bullet. Now she will do whatever it takes to catch the elusive shooter.

Professor Carena Egersund is out walking in the woods when a dog comes bounding over. Carena looks for the owner—and spots a dead body floating face-down in the creek! A few days before her death, Lynnelle Hames was telling everyone she’d found her long-lost birth mother. Has someone killed her to keep her silent? Professor Carena may specialize in math, but something about her story doesn’t add up. Then a second body surfaces, in an equally watery grave, and Susan realizes the clock is ticking to catch a ruthless killer.

Ben said he loved me, lusted after me, and wanted to spend the rest of his life with me. From the very beginning, I was honest with him about my complicated life. He promised me the only thing that mattered was our love. I thought the future was set until..."Evie, I can't do us anymore." The day Ben walked away was the day my love life went on permanent hiatus. Men were a distraction that I didn't want or need until...tall, dark, and handsome ex-pro-football player Butler Thompson entered the picture and interrupted my heart.

Karnie works in her family's butcher shop. When Donna Amick stalks to the meat display case and tries to pressure her to leave the family business to work for her, Karnie turns her down, flat. But Donna doesn't like to take "no" for an answer. The next morning, Donna's body is found behind A Cut Above with a meat cleaver embedded in the back of her head. Detective Carmichael's top suspect is Sam Lessman, who trained at their shop and then went to work for Donna as a full-time butcher. Karnie knows it can't be him and decides to prove it.

In this powerful, straight-from-the-heart take on societal burnout, Vanessa Autrey shows listeners simple practices and philosophies to cultivate self-awareness. The Art of Balancing Burnout is a raw, well-aimed inspiration to encourage hustlers, visionaries, entrepreneurs, and stay-at-home parents alike. It is an opportunity to reflect, recalibrate, and redirect toward a happier, healthier, more fulfilled life. 

Lexi Mazur is a depressed, alcoholic pill-popper whose only joy has become her reality TV shows, often fantasizing that the people on TV are a part of her world. After her boyfriend, Steve, leaves her, she fixates on the show Socialites and its star, Magnolia Artois, following every facet of the girl’s life on social media in the hopes of befriending and becoming more like her.  

Kari Stuart is finally starting to relax into her role as the new owner of the Serenity Sanctuary and is looking forward to the various fun autumn activities in the beautiful Catskills town of Lakeview, like the annual Oktoberfest celebration. It’s time for friends and quality bonding with handsome vet Angus McCoy. Until the unexpected arrival of her unpleasant ex-husband, Charlie Smith.

This remarkable audiobook is written to help people move out of being run by their wounded emotional child to being run by their empowered authentic adult self. It chronicles shifting from living life fearfully to living life powerfully and lovingly. It will change your life.

Hana Keller is getting ready for a lovely holiday season. When she receives a rare tea set as a birthday gift, she decides to host a tea at her apartment for her closest friends. During the cozy get-together, one of Hana's friends gets word that a murderer is on the loose. Hana soon learns that the victim was Sandor Balog, a professor of Hungarian studies at the local college. With her growing psychic ability, Hana senses that she is going to be pulled into the investigation of the professor's death. With her boyfriend, Erik, on the case, Hana finds the Tea House steeped in suspects.

In a deserted park on a cold winter day, 27-year-old Kathryn Frasier is training for a marathon when she discovers a gold watch on a fencepost. Sensing that it was deliberately left for her to find, she sets out to solve the mystery behind the watch, but her orderly life is turned upside-down when it leads her to a dark family secret and a suspicion that her parents' recent deaths may not have been an accident.

Natalie is propelled through life by pica, a disorder that has her eating a wide variety of inedibles. A lowly staff worker for the local news, she follows the inane demands of the station’s senile weatherman and comes home to an empty apartment. With her mother recently killed in a tragic house fire, and her runaway brother, Eliot, missing for years, Natalie and her father Boris only have each other. When a cryptic voicemail implicates her mother’s Gypsy roots in her untimely death, Natalie begins to consider the demons that consumed her mother, and drove her brother away. 

Quantum physicist Matt Bronik is suffering from strange, violent seizures that medical science seems powerless to explain - much to the consternation of his wife, Brigid. Matt doesn't think these fits could be related to his research, which he has always described as benign and esoteric. That, it turns out, is not quite true: Matt has been prodding the mysteries of the quantum universe, with terrible repercussions for his health. And perhaps even for humanity as a whole.

Three college freshmen go missing from their rural hometown of Kelly's Falls while on Christmas break. Their cell phones, coats, and purses are left behind, but the girls have disappeared without a trace. As the days turn into weeks and the investigation grows cold, 23-year-old Buffalo police officer Shea O'Connor is called on to dig up leads undercover.

Home is the place to heal, right? That's what Dillon Michaels is hoping, at least, as she leaves her disappointing career and nonstarter love life behind to help her grieving and aging grandfather on his small Oregon farm. The only problem? Her eccentric mother beat her there and has taken over Dillon's old room. After a few nights sleeping on a sagging sofa, Dillon is ready to give up, until she receives an unlikely gift - her grandfather's run-down vintage camp trailer, which she quickly resolves to restore with the help of Jordan Atwood, the handsome owner of the hardware store.

Nathan Starr has lived an honorable life. He married a good woman, raised a family, turned their struggling farm into a thriving business, and founded a town in the process. But now, watching his children and grandchildren, he fears the next generations of Sweetheart, Montana never learned about love. Free-spirited Pansy Oppenheimer aches for her dear friend Nate. Although he stayed behind while she traveled the world, together they know this town and its secrets better than anyone. No one wishes a bright future for the Starrs of Sweetheart more than they do.