Clean Romantic Mystery

He prefers giving to receiving. Saving a boy’s life pays dividends he could never have imagined. Owen Adair keeps everyone at a distance. Convinced he’s an apple with a worm in it, the publishing magnate lavishes his friends with thoughtful gifts while deflecting any praise or appreciation. But when an ambitious tabloid editor discovers he anonymously rescued a child from drowning in a freezing river, he suddenly finds himself the subject of uncomfortable and unwanted attention. Reluctantly agreeing to meet the boy’s grateful mother, Owen is deliriously ill with pneumonia when she ...

Her eyes reflect fear, but looks can be deceiving. From the moment high-school principal, Judd Trudeau, sees the fear-filled eyes of the beautiful woman in Acadia Park, he knows he must tread lightly. If he wants to get close, Judd must gain her trust. But those deer-in-the-headlights eyes remain, and his need to protect her trumps his better judgment. She’s running from something. The more he learns about Selah Brighton, the more he realizes looks can be deceiving. Selah Brighton has reason to be wary, which is why she chose to hide in Bar Harbor, Maine. The fewer people who know her ...

A century-old secret. A stolen chronicle. Could unearthing their past cost them their future? When librarian Nora Winters stumbles upon a mysterious map hidden in an old book, she's thrust into a web of long-buried secrets that could change everything she knows about her hometown, Sweetwater Springs. As she delves deeper into the town's history, aided by her former flame Elliot Fitzwater, Nora uncovers a tale of love, sacrifice, and redemption spanning generations. But someone wants to keep the past hidden, and they'll stop at nothing to silence the whispers of maple memories. With a stolen...

Royalty...it was more than just a word to her. It was her life. But not for long. Marlie loved her family dearly, even when she didn’t like them very much. But their life wasn’t the life she wanted for herself. Maggie had always fulfilled her responsibilities, she’d always done exactly as she was expected to...she knew no other way. Until now...until after reading a letter from her father suggesting she visit her niece and learn how to do as she pleased every once in a while, including the joy of eating pizza at her slightest whim. The last thing Maggie expected when she showed up at ...

Can you lose a life without dying? Peter Lodge has. His life as he knows it: the cars, the wealth, the women, and the affluence all go up in flames – and he has to watch them burn. It all begins with one careless night and a stinging accusation. The life he once lived was stripped away, to no fault of his own. At the same time, Peter Lodge finally finds real peace and joy in meager places, with a woman who doesn’t know of the skeletons in his cupboard. He finds the one woman he is willing to finally settle down for; Peter Lodge finally found love. When Brenda Jameson met the brown-eyed ...

Hallie Gable didn’t know that saying yes to a New Year’s Eve party invitation would end up with her being forced on a case and stranded in the freezing cold in Greenland’s mountains. When she envisioned the evening, with her dressed in an elegant gown, and Cameron Whitlock as her companion, she thought it would be an enjoyable experience. Hallie expected it to end at midnight and she would go on her way. She had plans to go home after weeks of helping Aunt Delores at the Bed & Breakfast after she had broken her leg. Hallie had a life to get back to and now Cameron had messed up her ...

Army veteran, MASON HOOD, has a promise to keep and a demon to defeat. Fresh off the front lines of World War Two, he moves to Bluebird Valley in rural Southeast Missouri and brings the war with him. Local schoolmarm, STELLA REYNOLDS, is still reeling from the death of her husband at Pearl Harbor. To honor his memory, she vows to assist and protect any veteran who comes her way. But Mason isn’t just any veteran. When a brutal murder sets the entire valley on edge, Stella is told that Mason needs her. She rushes to his side and ends up in a place she never wanted to revisit. Torn between ...

Hallie Gable was recently dumped at the altar, so when her aunt invites Hallie to come visit her to help run her B&B after falling and breaking her leg, Hallie jumps at the opportunity to leave the city. Hallie believed the small town was exactly what the doctor ordered to heal her broken heart. However, peace and quiet isn’t what’s in store for Hallie when she ends up in the middle of an investigation and the criminals go after her. Cameron Whitlock had never involved a civilian in any of his undercover cases and he wouldn’t have this time given the choice. Now he was stuck working ...

ROSIE’S LEGACY Parker thought once she had discovered all the secrets her great-aunt had wanted her to find life would be simple. But that wasn’t the case. It seemed like everyone had an agenda these days. She just wanted life to return to normal. But what passed for normal in the small town where she was living? Something strange was going on at one of the old homes on the historic registry. Talking to the head of the Historical Society didn’t turn out so well. When the woman turned up dead, the chief of police was ready to arrest Parker. Someone was still trying to get in her house....

They’d prepared for this moment all their lives 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’d 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 was pointed at her brother...

When he believed there was little time left, there were only two people he wanted to talk to while he still could. One was the only woman he’d ever loved. And always would. Rendon was seriously wounded…in searing pain, and up until the last hour, exposed as he’d never been before. Getting himself to the little known and forgotten small town in the middle of nowhere had been a risky choice, and taken the last of his quickly dwindling strength. It was the last place anyone would think to look. He never expected to survive. After a brazen rescue, Rendon is determined to be part of the ...

Do you believe in destiny? Do you believe in fate? Destiny and fate are what most people believe shapes their lives. Peter Lodge certainly wasn't like most people. He was wealthy, powerful, and in control. Unfortunately, one night changed everything for him. When he finally had a new beginning, and a chance at a fresh start, he was about to lose it all again. After leaving his life of luxury for a quaint, private life, Peter Lodge met someone who knew nothing of his past. Brenda came into his life and gave him hope for his future. When Brenda walked out of his life, he thought that ...

Seth Armstrong made a mistake... One that could cost him his life. Sally Jo Moore has returned to Copper Pass to become the new veterinarian. She had no intention of spending time with the man she'd left behind, but when a crazed woman stalks not only Sally Jo but Seth, things are turned upside down on the Rocking 7 Ranch. Danger creeps ever closer and Sally and Seth are thrust together in order to keep those they care about safe. Now, Seth must sacrifice the one thing he holds most precious. Can they mend their broken hearts and stand united against the person who wants them dead?

Kelsey Reed, white collar crime’s favorite forensic accountant, finds the fraud behind the false front of numbers. When she takes a job in the Pacific Northwest, she’s stalked at the Portland airport; her hotel room is ransacked; and her life is threatened by a gunman. During the snowstorm of the century, Kelsey disappears. Between Jack Hopper – the attorney that hired her and falls in love with her, and Tee Boone – PI extraordinaire, she is found. Does the insanity in the O’Doul family empire reside only in the mother, or does it run through the whole family? If only Kelsey can ...

MURDER AT MORLAND MANOR, Book One in Marilyn Clay's Juliette Abbott Regency Mystery Series features clever, young Miss Juliette Abbott as sleuth. A former companion to a titled London lady, Miss Abbott has now agreed to serve as lady’s maid to one of the young ladies invited to the country estate of Morland Manor, each girl hoping to win the heart of the wealthy Morland heir. But nothing at the house party goes as planned and suddenly Juliette finds herself the suspect in a shocking murder! The only way to escape the muddle is to solve the mystery herself, otherwise she'll lose this ...

She’s waited years for this moment…for him. You can always go home…but what will you find when you do. Jonathan Hansen is about to find out. For years they’ve hidden a huge secret…an island that was home to their small town, the families and friends who live there, and the secrets they’ve kept for generations. But danger might be right beyond the water’s edge. Jonathan Hansen felt broken…but he would never break. He believed he had nowhere to go…no home, no family, no friendships or relationships to return to. But he was wrong. As he stood just beyond the island’s small ...

She doesn’t want to carry a gun. Why would someone want her dead? Amy Oaks is content to sit behind a desk at Wife for Hire and do her investigating on a computer. When a man pursues her for nefarious means, the cozy little world she's created for herself is turned into something unrecognizable, a world she never sought or wanted. Rookie police officer Mark Fields rescues a pretty woman from being hit by a bus. When she says she didn't fall, but was pushed, he doesn't believe her until he finds out she's also been receiving threatening notes. Assigned as Amy's protection until the culprit...

An unconscious man. No memory of who he is. When Meghan Miller finds an unconscious man in the alley, nothing in her life is the same again. Especially when he wakes up with amnesia and her business card is all he has in his pocket. With no money and no name, John Davidson, known as John Doe from the moment he opened his eyes, calls on the beautiful woman who saved his life. When he finds out she's a private investigator, he asks her to help him discover who he is. As bits and pieces of his memory returns, John realizes things are far more dangerous than he could have imagined. The two are ...

Minutes after his baby nephew is kidnapped, Texas Ranger Dallas Sanders traces the crime to a child-trafficking ring hiding in plain sight. As he and local sheriff Rachel Young race to expose the sinister conspiracy, they’re determined to keep their relationship professional. But when Rachel’s infant daughter is also abducted, can she and Dallas rescue the children in time...and survive to have a future together?

Suzette and her mother, Chloe – the duo responsible for discovering Al Capone’s secret tunnel in Cocoa Capone – are pulled into another tale of mystery and danger. The Labor Day weekend crowds have packed the lakeshore in Saint Joseph, Michigan as they wait for the first leg of the Tri State Regatta – the perfect escape plan for the gunman Suzette confronts inside Kiki’s Cocoa Café and Cave. Suzette is shot at and kidnapped in a tale involving Syrian Christians, Pastor Al and his alluring friend, Brutus. Amidst the chaos, Suzette is frantically working on a Cross Stitch entry for...