His loss will bring him the greatest gift… Her love.

Marcas Matheson’s life has spiraled out of control. A fatal illness has ravaged his clan, taking not only his parents and his wife, but so many others of the clan, it’s being called the curse of Black Isle. Worse, as heir to the chieftain, now Marcas must be both leader and savior to his people–but they are losing faith in him. Already there are murmurs that his poor decisions brought the curse, causing him to doubt his own ability to head the clan. But when his small daughter takes sick, Marcas has no problem making a decision: he must find a healer–one gifted enough to save his little lass’s life. And he will beg, barter, or steal one if necessary

Franki’s first Mardi Gras is murder…

Francesca “Franki” Amato is a straight-shooting rookie cop in Austin, Texas, until an embarrassing 911 call prompts her to take a job at her best friend’s PI agency in New Orleans. But Franki soon learns that solving crime in The Big Easy is no Bourbon Street party. Case in point, her first investigation involves the murder of a beautiful boutique manager who was strangled with a cheap yellow scarf, and her primary suspect is her client. When Franki’s not on the clock, she hopes to get cozy with a handsome bank executive named Bradley, but her meddlesome Sicilian nonna has other ideas about who she should date. As Mardi Gras approaches and the boutique mystery deepens, Franki must decipher the odd ramblings of a voodoo priestess, or she could end up single—and the next strangling victim.

Tabitha Darling runs her dream cafe in the heart of Hobart, when she’s not glamming up with her friends, perfecting the ultimate dessert, and avoiding all the local police officers who want her to feed them.

She never meant to investigate a murder. Not even when a dead muso was found in her building. Not even when the cute Scottish blogger asked for her help. Not even when a string of weird trap-themed crimes spread across the city…

Tabitha’s world is coffee, cake and gossip. Murder was never on the menu. But as the coincidences build up around her, it’s starting to feel really personal.

Will she figure out the deadly truth a trifle late?

A West End starlet and her aristocrat husband are hosting an anniversary party at their Buckinghamshire home. With a guest list from Who’s Who, it’s the most fashionable event of the season. Young sleuth, Lottie Sprigg, is excited to accompany her employer there; even if she feels a little out of place.

All visitors to the house are keen to explore the tricky maze. How long will it take to find their way out? It’s a challenge everyone takes on. Until one unlucky person never finds their way out at all…

A murderer has struck in the maze! With the help of her four-legged friend Rosie, Lottie investigates. But as the case twists and turns, it’s not long until she finds herself at a dead end. How can she find her way out of the puzzle? With the killer still at large, it proves to be a dangerous undertaking.

An unforgettable memoir about one woman’s story of overcoming neglect in the U.S. foster-care system and finding her place in the world.

Drawing on her experience as one of society’s abandoned children, Regina Louise tells how she emerged from the cruel, unjust system, not only to survive, but to flourish . . .

After years of jumping from one fleeting, often abusive home to the next, Louise meets a counselor named Jeanne Kerr. For the first time in her young life, Louise knows what it means to be seen, wanted, understood, and loved. After Kerr tries unsuccessfully to adopt Louise, the two are ripped apart—seemingly forever—and Louise continues her passage through the cold cinder-block landscape of a broken system, enduring solitary confinement, overmedication, and the actions of adults who seem hell-bent on convincing her that she deserves nothing, that she is nothing.

2021. The Bulero family owns one of Earth’s richest corporations. As the Buleros gather for a reunion at the family mansion, an industrial accident plunges the corporation into a crisis, which eventually brings the world around them to the brink of disaster. Vilified, the Buleros flee to a space colony where young Richard Bulero gradually realizes that the only hope for humanity lies in macrolife—mobile, self-reproducing space habitats.

A millennium later, these mobile communities have left our sunspace and multiplied. Conflicts with natural planets arise. John Bulero, a cloned descendant of the twenty-first century Bulero clan, falls in love with a woman from a natural world and experiences the harshness of her way of life. He rediscovers his roots when his mobile returns to the solar system, and a tense confrontation of three civilizations takes place.