Jordan McAllister dreams of becoming a popular sports columnist but gets stuck in a po-dunk town writing personal ads for a small time newspaper. When she’s offered a chance to fill in for a local food critic off on sick leave, she jumps at the chance rationalizing that it’s one step closer to her dream. However, when a dead body is found underneath her apartment stairwell with her name and number along with it, she becomes the prime suspect, as well as the main course on the murder menu.

Lauren Parker lost everything when her husband died, including her reputation. Determined to leave her painful past behind, she heads out west, with her heart hardened and suspicious. Yet, when a violent storm leaves her homestead in need of repairs, she reluctantly accepts a newcomer’s help, in exchange for reading lessons and a few home-cooked meals. Despite her best efforts to keep her distance, Lauren soon finds herself drawn to the handsome stranger and her heart slowly thaws in his presence.

If only she knew that her love blooms under a web of lies…

Ryan Clark arrives in town with a singular purpose: to find Lauren Parker and complete one last job to secure his sister’s safety from a ruthless gang. Despite his reluctance, he enters Lauren’s life under pretenses, seeking her late husband’s hidden treasure.

Burned out by high-profile murders in New York and his love life splashed all over Page Six, homicide cop Charlie Crawford heads south and signs on with the Palm Beach PD. After months of petty crimes, he’s first on scene to find a man hanging from a banyan tree. Prime suspects are a hedge-fund billionaire with a thing for young girls and a bartender with a sketchy past and a ten-out-of-ten creep factor. Right in the middle of it all is Crawford’s girlfriend, a beautiful, conniving gallery owner, ready to do whatever it takes to move up a bracket or two. Add to the mix a sultry real estate broker who knows where all the bodies are buried, a gorgeous forensic cop often one step ahead of Crawford, a Mutt and Jeff combo of stone cold killers and you’ve got Palm Beach Nasty.

Eleanor has always wished for true love, but she has no other choice than marrying Miles, a man she knows nothing about. To make matters worse, her new husband will soon leave for his first trip. When he returns, he’s even more handsome than she remembers, but still a complete stranger. Now that he is finally back home, Miles will find himself longing for something more than the sea. Will he finally find a place to call home in Eleanor’s eyes? Could Eleanor and Miles make up for the lost time and eventually fall in love?

A wounded man finds redemption with the help of a single mom and a rescue dog…

Haunted by a tragedy, former U.S. Marshal, Jack seeks comfort in a small town in the Sierra Mountains, taking on the role of a deputy sheriff. But peace remains elusive as nightmares of his devastating loss follow him across the country.

When Jack moves next door to single mom Maggie and her troubled teenage daughter, he finds unexpected companionship. As he navigates the complexities of his new life, an enigmatic rescue dog becomes a catalyst for his healing.

Sparks fly between Jack and Maggie, and their connection deepens, offering him hope for a fresh start. Yet, shadows of Jack’s past threaten to shatter the fragile peace he’s found, testing his resolve to protect those he’s grown to care for.

I’ve always been a sucker for a guy with muscles and a handsome face. If that makes me sound shallow, maybe I am. I’ve never had a real relationship, unless you consider the guys in my Marine Corps Recon unit. I had a great relationship with those guys. Yeah, yeah, I know we’re splitting hairs. These days, long after my retirement from active duty, the only kind of relationships I really do now are with fictional characters.

I love to read, and lately, I’ve been frequenting the pages of my favorite blog, Bestreads, to escape my real-life job, one I’m not very well suited for. One reviewer on there—Nightcrawler—absolutely slays me. He always makes me laugh, steering me clear of some of the worst trash out there when I’m not trying to earn money as a bounty hunter. Maybe someday the right man will come along, and he won’t simply be a book boyfriend.

Someday.

When Harriet Mahoney first sees it, Isabel Krug’s bed is covered with sheared sheep and littered with celebrity biographies. Unpublished, fortyish, and recently jilted, Harriet has fled Manhattan for Isabel’s loudly elegant Cape Cod retreat, where she will ghostwrite The Isabel Krug Story, based on the sexy blond’s scandalous tabloid past. Unusually “talented” in the man department (“I give lessons”), Isabel revamps and inspires Harriet as they gear up to tell all, including the tangled history Isabel shares with her odd lodger, Costas. Life according to Isabel is a nonstop soap opera extravaganza, an experience to be swallowed whole — and the attitude is catching….

Set in the not-too-distant future, when space flight has evolved to the point where humanity is ready to colonize the solar system, Tales of Pirx the Pilot follows one somewhat-hapless explorer as he struggles though his training as a cadet, his career as a pilot, and his tenure as captain of a merchant ship.

In these collected stories, Pirx stumbles his way through various exploits: traveling to the moon; battling mechanical malfunctions; encountering robots; and confronting questions of ambition, evolution, exploration, experimentation, and the nature of humanity itself. And in classic Pirx fashion, he faces down each dilemma with charm, curiosity, courage, and intuition.

One of our foremost authorities on Mediterranean, North African, and Italian cooking, Claudia Roden brings her incomparable authenticity, vision, and immense knowledge to bear in The Food of Spain. The James Beard Award–winning author of the classic cookbooks A Book of Middle Eastern Food and A Book of Jewish Food now graces food lovers with the definitive cookbook on the Spanish cuisine, illustrated with dozens of gorgeous full-color photographs that capture the color and essence of this wonderfully vibrant nation and its diverse people, traditions, and culture.