Clean Mystery Suspense

A wife’s confession. A husband’s outrage. Past sins that have come back to haunt. Max and Michelle Henry were on the brink of divorce, but battled back to save their marriage and re-ignite their passion as they worked together to expose a criminal conspiracy. It’s a new beginning. Now with one game left in the season, Max is in danger of losing his job as the head football coach at Lakeside High School. It’s win or you’re out. His off the field problems are worse though. Michelle's devastating confession threatens to tear them apart for good while an unseen enemy lurks in the ...

Ready for some rest and relaxation at the end of the school year, seventh grade teacher Autumn Spencer gets on a cruise ship, hoping it’ll whisk her away to Paradise so she can clear her mind. Instead, she encounters nosy fellow passengers who won’t leave her alone, more drama than she sees in her hormonal students … and a couple of attempted murders. No matter what she does to avoid the crazies, she keeps getting thrown right smack dab into the middle of all the action.

Wedding photographer, Misty Gordon, photographs a mysterious man at a late December wedding. He disappears before she can discover his name. Next morning as she walks the beach, she discovers his body floating in the ocean. As Misty summons EMT, the man wakes but has no memory. After he disappears from the hospital, Misty discovers him aboard a million-dollar yacht. As she talks with him, two assassins try to kill them both. Is this a murder for hire, a revenge killing, or a political assassination? Is the man with no memory a drug dealer, an FBI agent, or a billionaire? Can Misty solve the...

Laurel Benson is a loyal and dedicated nurse. She may be petite, but she’ll take on anyone who threatens her patients’ safety and well-being. That feisty protectiveness creates problems when a hit and run victim lands in the ER and Police Detective Cade Resnick arrives to investigate. There’s no denying the sparks between these two, but their professions put them at odds. As Cade zeroes in on his suspect, Laurel won’t make it easy for him, not while the suspect is under her care. More than once, these two clash when Cade’s quest for justice collides with Laurel’s concern for her...

Blackmail. Chilling letters left on doorsteps. Super-personal secrets revealed. Cozy Mountain Springs is terrorized and in turmoil. There are suds in the streets! Sharon’s tearoom, The Eclectic Teakettle, is abuzz with distraught patrons. Who knows so much about so many and who would be this darned MEAN? Sharon and her husband, er… parakeet are on the case to expose the blackmailer. Can they stop them before it is too late or will their own supernatural secret and relationship be revealed to all?

Celeste escapes to the Colorado mountains after the brutal death of her police detective husband, Casper. She thought she’d find solace there, but instead, she found murder. After she witnesses a murder, she flees for her life with the killers on her trail. Days pass before she finds a truck stop and someone willing to help. Detective Blaine Crosby rescues her from the killers, only to be thrown into the chase himself as they face attacks from the ground and the air. Blaine’s unit members guard Celeste while they work to uncover the killers. Things come together for the group when word ...

Moonshine, magic, and murder. I’m definitely having a midlife crisis… I didn’t expect to be single at forty-five, but I’ve always prided myself on facing up to a challenge. A new town, a better job, and a cozy cottage of my own are all at the top of my To Do list. A new man? Right at the bottom. I’m far too busy for love. Returning to the Devon village of Crows Tor on Dartmoor brings a new lease of life for me – in more ways than one. It turns out my old school friend, Fiona, makes a secret moonshine at her whisky distillery using spring water collected under the full moon. ...

He longs for peace. She stirs things up. When the past comes calling, will he risk it all to come to her rescue? JT Whitloch can’t close his eyes without seeing the body of the woman who drowned in his swimming pool two years ago. Though he doesn’t remember that night, he blames himself for her death and walks away from a life that gave him everything he ever wanted…almost everything. His move to Crystal Creek gives him the solitude he longs for, but still he can’t find peace. Then Gretchen Moore moves to town, and she doesn’t just stir up his desire. She stirs up his past, a past...

Loretta is in a quandary. In her sixth year of Veterinarian school and an Intern at the Veterinarian Hospital, she has broken her first rule. She was not to get involved until after graduation. She had fallen for Grange, and her mind wasn’t on her studies. Luke was an excellent friend and someone she could always talk to, but was it ending up more than friendship? Life became even more complicated when drugs begin to disappear from the medication room. Cyrus, a Resident in the Emergency Room, is looking suspicious. Was he responsible? Three men have upended her life. Was Luke only a good ...

Welcome to Stellar’s Ford. In the shadows of these forests, a malevolent presence lurks. Will the innocent survive, or will the guilty hide their dark crimes forever in the wild mountain ravines? Ex-bad-boy, Rand Adams, is serious about his new faith, and about opening a wilderness camp for troubled teens. But he’s burned too many bridges. One of them is Molly Stuart, his former-best-friend’s wife. Molly blames Rand for her husband’s death, and for skipping out on the funeral. When her son lies about hanging out with a stranger, Molly has no choice but to keep the potential runaway ...

The witches of Coventry are all on edge when the crew of a famous ghost hunting show arrives in town. Coventry has been good at hiding its secrets from the world for hundreds of years, but in the deep dark corners of the web, whispers of a town full of witches and ghosts circulate among those who are true believers of the paranormal. When it's decided that denying them a filming permit would just make them more suspicious, Brighton is elected by the town council to be their official Coventry escort. Her job is to ensure they don't catch any convincing evidence of the paranormal.

Long estranged from her genetic scientist mother, artist Anna Knight is stunned at the contents of her mother’s will. Determined to ascertain the source of her wealth, Anna hires tech guru Cullen Kincaid to investigate. Details the guitar-playing Bible-teaching computer expert discovers could drastically alter Anna’s future. When mutual attraction blossoms, can she overcome her feelings of worthlessness? Will Cullen follow his heart without knowing the truth of Anna’s birth?

When a mail order bride must prove her new husband’s innocence in a murder case, their love is put to the ultimate test! Emma Jamieson moves to Texas as a mail order bride to secure a better future for herself. Her husband, Dr. Jonathan Newford, seems kind and she is sure he will treat her well. Their new marriage is put to the ultimate test of trust when a murder shakes up the sleepy Texas town. Emma must question her husband’s involvement with the crime, and she puts her own life in danger when she is determined to prove his innocence. Can Emma and Jonathan ever find true happiness ...

Bradley and Naomi Magnuson had set certain standards for their three daughters to follow: the men the girls allowed into their lives had to have an earning potential of a hundred thousand dollars per year. Ramona had fallen in love with Cordero Ocasio, a man striving to become a metal sculpture artist. Unfortunately, his yearly earning potential did not look like it would ever cross the hundred thousand dollar a year mark. Corrective measures had to be initiated, so Bradley ran him off, sabotaging Ramona’s love life. Bradley’s corporate Christmas party is set to take off, a chance for ...

Freelance writer, Lauren Halloren pens popular magazine articles extoling the comfort and security of small town America. And Evelynton, Indiana treasures its wholesome small town values. Ask anyone. Streets are safe to walk. People look out for one another. Marriage vows are treasured. Murders are solved. In this third volume of the Evelynton Murder series, Lauren, along with friends, Clair and Anita stumble over another body. The partially mummified remains turn out to be an Evelynton resident. But how, in this close knit community, could a woman be deceased for over six months without ...

Be careful what you wish for—it could lead to murder. Kindergarten teacher, Gwen McPhail, is teaching children of former students with her eyes closed, wishing something would happen… Change roars in on a tidal wave when Vance Jones dies and names her his beneficiary. A stunned Gwen comes to Candle Island to check out her inheritance, but the clannish Islanders hate her guts, the widow tags her as “the other woman,” and the dead guy who left her the mansion was a creep. Gwen's up to her neck in inconsistencies and can’t swallow the “accidental death” line. Her rugged care ...

Someone is stalking Tracy McCaffrey. Someone has gone so far as to burn her home and kill her husband. Someone has her fearing for her life. With no home, no stability, no plans, no music in her head—Tracy is drifting. But drifting is dangerous. They might come and take her kids. They use her name and her fame and fortune to exploit what is left of her band. They are turning all her friends against her. Some even believe she is responsible for Preston’s death. Is she? How can she pull herself out of depression long enough to protect her family and find out who wants her dead? At what ...

Bella’s goal is to trade her police badge for a detective's shield and she’ll have to leave Rocky Ridge to make that happen. She’s more than okay with a move. Grant's world turned upside down when he discovered he was a father. Faced with raising a spirited six-year-old alone, he paused his successful business, bought an RV, and moved to Rocky Ridge to be near his ex’s family. But parenting in a new town brings challenges he’s not completely equipped to handle. Their first encounters spark tension and misunderstanding, and Bella's concerns about Grant’s parenting choices stir up...

This was the moment in life they'd prepared for without believing anything would ever come of it...they were wrong. Danae knew before she ever heard her brother’s voice that it was bad...and it didn’t take long to find out just how bad it was. She and everyone in her family had always understood the high cost of secrets...and quickly learned that sometimes the price of truths was far more costly. It took her even less time to realize that she’d never really known true fear. She did now and knew that the heart-pounding terror she’d experienced in those handful of moments when a gun ...

Blanche White is working as a temporary cook and housekeeper for a right-wing Massachusetts gubernatorial candidate, Alistair Brindle, when someone tries to blackmail him. It's an ugly mess that Brindle's political team is eager to sweep under the carpet and that Blanche can't resist cleaning up herself...especially after a young black man is killed who knew too much about Brindle's dirty laundry. Her investigation raises dark secrets involving sex, environmental contamination, and political corruption, difficult stains that someone is trying to remove with murder.