A moment. A mistake. That’s all it took for Kennedy Reynolds to lose her first love and her family. She’s spent a decade traveling the world, building a life, hiding the truth, never looking back at the past–until her adopted mother’s unexpected death pulls her back to the small town–and the secret–she left behind.

A chance to make amends. That’s all Xander Kincaid wants from the woman who ran away with his heart all those years ago. At least that’s what he tells himself, until he sees her again and that old flame flares bright.

Struggling to bridge the gap with her estranged sisters, salvage her mother’s legacy, and care for the foster child her mother left behind, Kennedy finds an unexpected ally in Xander.

There is nothing I can do– my husband is dead.

My teenage son lost his father. But the will? Don’t get me started. I’m a lawyer – my four sisters are too. My hot-shot investment guy will take care of our son; he told me he would. There are so many shocks in that will. Not the least of which is a cottage in France that nobody knew existed.

As the hits keep coming, I have no choice but to rally, thanks to my sisters. I will go to France, fix up this little stone shack, and secure my son’s future. Putting anxiety, grief, ambition, and a righteous work ethic behind, I answer the call.

What my son and I find in southwest France, in a little village in the Dordogne, is so much beauty, new friends, great wine. But also secrets— a squatter, a leaky roof, a creepy wine cellar, a rude mayor, a deadly fall, and more.

A murdered opera singer, a cruise ship full of secrets, and a retired housekeeper dragged into the mess.

Hoping for a peaceful retirement after years of dedicated service, sixty-something Gemma Becker embarks on her first cruise. Too bad no one told her murder was on the itinerary.

When a despicable diva is found dead in her cabin, Gemma reluctantly teams up with the last person she ever expected to make friends with, Viv, a retired showgirl with enough charm and sass to fill the ocean.

With her furry first mate Buddy helping sniff out the clues, the unlikely duo set a course for justice…with gourmet dishes, hilarious antics, and bonding moments along the way.

A murdered opera singer, a cruise ship full of secrets, and a retired housekeeper dragged into the mess.

Hoping for a peaceful retirement after years of dedicated service, sixty-something Gemma Becker embarks on her first cruise. Too bad no one told her murder was on the itinerary.

When a despicable diva is found dead in her cabin, Gemma reluctantly teams up with the last person she ever expected to make friends with, Viv, a retired showgirl with enough charm and sass to fill the ocean.

With her furry first mate Buddy helping sniff out the clues, the unlikely duo set a course for justice…with gourmet dishes, hilarious antics, and bonding moments along the way.

One of Seattle’s most flamboyant and successful criminal defense attorneys is murdered in his office, and the case lands on the desk of homicide prosecutor David Brunelle. Brunelle isn’t about to shed a tear over the death of a longtime rival, but he has a job to do. The only things standing between him and a conviction are the facts and the law.

Once apprehended, the killer tells a story that, if true, would let him walk out the door. The dead man was everything Brunelle suspected: amoral, craven, unhinged. The killer and a friend went to him for legal help but things went sideways. Things were said. Tempers flared. The lawyer attacked his friend. He had no choice.

In the footsteps of Andre Aciman’s Out of Egypt, and Lucette Lagnado’s The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit comes Aaron Zevy’s Schlepping Across the Nile: a collection of vignettes, memoirs and stories, culled from Zevy’s first three books, which crackle with wit, brazen sentimentality and unfiltered self-awareness.

This collection adds a comic and often poignant twist to the story of the nearly 1 million strong Jews who lived in Arab lands before the second world war. But Zevy, the son of an ashkenazi father and sephardic mother adds some shtick to his recollections. His Ashkenazi side is the wry, bemused spectator of the antics and entanglements of his other half.

In Crossing the Nile, the young Zevy begs his mother to make Lipton Cup-A-Soup and grilled cheese instead of an Egyptian concoction for a Canadian friend coming over for lunch. In Shesh Besh, the grown up Zevy is terrified that the aggressive backgammon taught to him by his foul-mouthed uncles will derail a blind date.

Key Murphy is a freak, a prodigy. He has visions so real he’s diagnosed with PTSD. Key learns that his visions might be caused by a mutated gene which allows him to experience the memories of an ancestor.

Key also has a family link to The Book of Kells. Pages from the book were stolen in Ireland in the distant past. Those pages are believed to contain a fundamental secret of Christendom.

Padraig Collins is one of the wealthiest men in Europe. He was an undercover operative for the IRA. He amassed a fortune. He wants those pages. His soul depends on them. He will do whatever it takes to possess them.

She escaped a serial killer and disappeared.
But escape was only the beginning.
Now she’s facing a killer she’ll never outrun.Cameron Cooper was once an esteemed FBI analyst, known for tracking some of the most dangerous serial killers in the country. But her life changed forever when she was abducted and tortured by the notorious J-Bird, a monster who left her physically and mentally scarred. Narrowly escaping with her life, Cameron disappeared, abandoning her career and adopting a new identity in an effort to outrun her past.Years later, Cameron lives a quiet life in New York City, far removed from the horrors she once faced. But when the NYPD seeks her expertise to help capture the elusive “Stealth Stalker,” the brutal killings reignite memories she’s tried desperately to forget. As she works alongside Detective Hunter Finnegan, the case begins to feel disturbingly familiar. Patterns emerge and parallels to the past develop that Cameron can’t ignore.

The freezing winter temperatures and intoxicating effects of alcohol offer a simple explanation for Tony Mercier’s death when his body is found outdoors in the wake of a house party – but did he wind up in the garden of his own volition?

It doesn’t take DCI Lawrence Forrester and DS Rebecca Palmer long to discover that Tony was involved in heated arguments with two of his housemates during the course of the evening, nor that he had recently fallen out with a third after she dismissed him from his job at her biomedical start-up. But determining the causes of these ructions proves more challenging, with what little explanation the housemates do volunteer failing to ring true.