Mylas Grey is a private investigator but don’t call him a private detective.
That title belongs to his father—not to him.

Mylas is the Chief Investigator for Senator Davis Allen, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee. His job is to do background investigations for the President’s judicial nominees, and that’s the only kind of investigation he’s interested in doing.

But then Lizzie, the Senator’s daughter, goes missing from her campus apartment.

And suddenly, just like that, Mylas finds himself back in his hometown of Columbia, Missouri, investigating her disappearance as if he were a run-of-the-mill private detective.

Nothing about the investigation is easy.

Discovering a motive isn’t easy . . .

Welcome to Oak Falls, Virginia, home to horse farms, midnight rodeos, bookstores, coffee shops, and quaint restaurants where you’re greeted like family and treated like treasured guests. Buckle up for a wild ride. Like any Southern girls worth their salt, the sweet-talking, sharp-tongued Montgomery sisters can take men to their knees with one seductive glance or a single sugarcoated sentence.

A second chance at their first love…
Leaving New York City and returning to her hometown to teach a screenplay writing class seems like just the break Grace Montgomery needs. Until her sisters wake her at four thirty in the morning to watch the hottest guys in town train wild horses and she realizes that escaping her sisters’ drama-filled lives was a lot easier from hundreds of miles away. To make matters worse, she spots the one man she never wanted to see again—ruggedly handsome Reed Cross.

My guarded, bashful boss lends a friendly hand to this damsel in distress.

I fled to Willow Creek to escape my charming but thieving ex and start a new life.

Love is the last thing on my mind, and it’s certainly not on Ethan’s radar.

He’s my new boss, a kind and bashful doctor grieving the loss of his father and a broken engagement.

But life in a small town has a way of surprising you.

A heavy snowfall destroys my roof, leaving me stranded with nowhere to go.

He offers me temporary shelter in the quaint “granny flat” behind his clinic.

As we weather the storm together, our friendship blossoms amidst the snowflakes.

Just when we start to believe that love might be possible, my past comes back to haunt me.

Hannah Bunch, the preacher’s spinster daughter, wants to help heaven along by hatching a plan to bring a shy suitor up to the point of a proposal. The Bible had Ruth meeting Boaz on the threshing field. If that worked for Ruth, couldn’t it work for Hannah? It did. It all went perfectly, except the wrong man got snared.

Henry Lee Watson likes his life—without a wife. He makes the finest corn liquor in the territory. A good business on Saturday night, does not always make a good marriage to a Sunday morning kind of woman. But it’s a shotgun wedding and he’s thinking that the starchy preacher’s daughter is maybe she’s not so starchy after all.

Lydia Carter, the eldest daughter of the Marquess of Briarwood, cared more about seeking justice for tenant farmers than ball gowns and the marriage market. Yet, as the season’s biggest social event approached, Countess Winstone’s ball, she found herself unable to avoid attending. To her surprise, a chance encounter with a half-dressed trespasser, who turned out to be the Countess’s eldest son, Joseph, ignites a sizzling passion within her. As a storm traps the guests in the manor, dangerous secrets begin to unravel, along with burning desire.

Would Lydia risk her family’s reputation by pushing the boundaries of propriety?

Lord Joseph Penton knew his mother would insist he find a wife this season. Yet, all he could think about was the feisty green-eyed nymph by the spring who had ignited his deepest desires. When he finds her again at his family’s ball, he devises a scandalous plan: offer Lydia a compelling reason to agree to a fake engagement in order to stop his mother’s meddling. However, as their scheme unfolds, Lydia makes her own sinful requests and Joseph realizes she is more than meets the eye.

Eve’s life was supposed to be about music and dance.

A vampire stole that from her, leaving her instead with a life of pain and violence and a future torn between duty and desire. Eve is determined to follow in her mother’s footsteps as a vampire hunter working for the Council of Clairveaux, using her paranormal skills to find and kill vampires.

When she finds an ancient French manuscript in her dead mother’s files, she searches for a translator. While searching for a translator, she meets Michel de Cernay, former priest, and now vampire-hunting vampire out to stop Dominion – vampire rule over humans. The manuscript tells of the death and rebirth of identical twins Michel and Julien de Cernay as vampires in 1224 France.

Michel doesn’t want this life for Eve and tries to make her forget about the manuscript, vampires and him. When he fails, he has no choice to but induct her into the secret world of vampire hunting as his Adept – his partner in the fight to prevent Dominion.

At the age of twenty, Milwaukee native Chris Gardner, just out of the Navy, arrived in San Francisco to pursue a promising career in medicine. Considered a prodigy in scientific research, he surprised everyone and himself by setting his sights on the competitive world of high finance. Yet no sooner had he landed an entry-level position at a prestigious firm than Gardner found himself caught in a web of incredibly challenging circumstances that left him as part of the city’s working homeless and with a toddler son. Motivated by the promise he made to himself as a fatherless child to never abandon his own children, the two spent almost a year moving among shelters, “HO-tels,” soup lines, and even sleeping in the public restroom of a subway station.

Never giving in to despair, Gardner made an astonishing transformation from being part of the city’s invisible poor to being a powerful player in its financial district.

Three perfect lives are about to implode…

Three estranged friends seem happy in their picture-perfect lives, until tragedy strikes, threatening to destroy everything they hold dear…

Liz, an ambitious headhunter in London, is beholden to nobody and determined to keep it that way. Emily, a homebody with a countryside cottage, seems happy to be surrounded by her family and her crafts. Chrissy, a writer turned realtor, is living the American dream in sunny California. But are their lives as idyllic as they seem?

When a long-forgotten schoolfriend unexpectedly takes her own life, the three women are reunited once more, but just as they reconnect, their lives begin to shatter. Liz discovers a betrayal that threatens to end her relationship, Emily is presented with an incredible opportunity she dare not pass up, and Chrissy’s seemingly perfect son is arrested.

Caldecott Medal-winning author and illustrator David Macaulay takes readers on a visual journey through a city’s various support systems—the many tunnels, pipes, walls, and other structures that help sustain the bustling life above. In Underground, Macaulay exposes a typical section of this intricate underground network and explains how it works.

Along with his beautiful illustrations, Macaulay presents “a straightforward yet fascinating description of the labyrinth beneath the feet of any city dweller. And what a complex covered world [he] reveals! He invents an intersection of two streets and proceeds to show what we all might find if we dared to descend through that Alice-in-Wonderland manhole” (The New York Times).

Americans have at last discovered Mexico’s passion for exciting food. We’ve fallen in love with the great Mexican combination of rich, earthy flavors and casual, festive dining. But we don’t begin to imagine how sumptuous and varied the cooking of Mexico really is.

After ten years of loving exploration, Rick Bayless, together with his wife, Deann, gave us Authentic Mexican, this now classic, easy-to-use compendium of Mexican cooking.

This all-embracing cookbook offers the full range of dishes, from poultry, meat, fish, rice, beans, and vegetables to eggs, snacks made of corn masa, tacos, turnovers, enchiladas and their relatives, tamales, and moles, ending with desserts, sweets, and beverages. There are irresistible finger foods such as Yucatecan marinated shrimp tacos and crispy cheese-filled masa turnovers; spicy corn chowder and chorizo sausage with melted cheese will start off a special dinner; you will find mole poblano, charcoal-grilled pork in red-chile adobo, and marinated fish steamed in banana leaves for those times when you want to celebrate; and exotic ice creams, caramel custards, and pies to top off any meal. There’s even a section devoted to refreshing coolers, rich chocolate drinks, and a variety of tequila-laced cocktails.

Lori Anderson manages to keep her career as a part-time bounty-hunter separate from her role as single mother to nine-year-old Dakota, who suffers from leukaemia. But when the hospital bills start to rack up, she has no choice but to take her daughter along on a job that will make her a fast buck. And that’s when things start to go wrong. The heart-wrenching, explosive first instalment in the nail-biting, bestselling Lori Anderson series.