Cozy Funny

"If you are looking for a sweet romance, you will love to read this. The characters are likeable and believable. I was smiling from page one over the female main character’s grumpiness and quick witted sarcasm. The male lead is the first love that too many of us let get away. Sweet story." -ARC review Welcome to Fox Valley, New Hampshire, where caustic city girls and sentimental ex-snowboarders are a match made in the mountains. Hendricks With my snowboarding career cut short, working at Fox Valley has given my peaceful life purpose. Until the sarcastic, self-centered, girl I’ve always ...

Come on in to the Breezy Spoon Diner, where murder is the special of the day! When Dani O'Shea returns to her sleepy little hometown of East Spoon Creek City after a tour in Afghanistan and buys The Breezy Spoon Diner, she plans to live peacefully, serving up great food, great conversation and down-home hospitality to the friendly locals. The Breezy Spoon is a big success, and when hunky and flirtatious fireman Mark Adams offers to rent Dani his downstairs apartment, things are really looking up.... until a dead body with a chocolate pie smashed in his face shows up in the dumpster behind ...

Welcome to the Seaside Bed & Breakfast, where getting a room can be murder!When school teacher Teri McAfee loses her job and gets dumped by her fiancee all at once, her Aunt Sam's invitation to stay at her beautiful seaside bed & breakfast on quirky little Admiral Archibald Falls Island off Florida for a couple of weeks sounds like the perfect opportunity to leave her troubles behind! But relaxing is out of the questions when a famously eccentric author and his annoying entourage descend on the B&B and throw it into chaos! And while the live guests are troublesome, when one of them turns up...

A Cupcakes-And-Crime Caper Tiffany's friends Emily and Jack are finally getting married! It's going to be the most wonderful wedding in a wonderful location. Unfortunately, not all the guests are "wonderful"... Tiffany and Stone make an unpleasant discovery just before the ceremony: Jack's ex-girlfriend has been murdered. To make matters worse, the local police are completely disinterested in the murder. Together, the duo must solve the mystery without disrupting the wedding. Grumpy Old Elwood agrees to join forces with them, along with Ian and Nanna who help throughout the wedding. Can the...

After a near-fatal adventure in another world—a world of dragons, no less—Samantha Moon is ready for her first real vacation in nearly a decade. With a little money in her pocket from the sale of a mansion left to her by her vampire sire, Sam sets her sights on a whirlwind European tour. First stop: Ireland. When a dark shadow races across her hotel suite, followed by something evil watching her son from a suit of armor, Samantha Moon is about to discover that her trip to the Emerald Isle is going to be anything but relaxing... it's going to get deadly. After all, something wicked has ...

Anna Yang needs a change. After losing her best friend in Vegas, Anna needs to find a place to heal. So, she takes a new job on Resort Island. Resort Island, a small island off of sunny Singapore, recently converted into a luxurious resort island, is supposed to have everything Anna needs. Fun. Happy faces. Uplifting environment. Safe. But just as she is about to cross the lobby, something drops right in front of her. Something large. Something … It can’t be a body … can it? Perhaps Vegas isn’t the problem. Perhaps Anna is …

Luna was shattered. Broken. Humiliated. Everything happened as some kind of a dream—a nightmare. Her entire body ached, and it felt as if some parts of her body had been ripped away by a wild beast. Luna gaped into the darkness into which he had disappeared, and the only response was silence. Would Luna confront her former lover—now her worst nemesis? Would she fight the feelings that only brought her pain? What future stretched ahead of her, after the dire mistake she had made? The austere moon sailed in the ocean of darkness, looking more lonesome than ever. For when the life of a ...

A wedding and a murder...Star football player and NFL hopeful, Michael “Bumper” Hackett is getting married. Word’s going around that it’s a shotgun wedding, and there just might be some truth to it, seeing that the bride-to-be is showing a baby bump. But before the ceremony can even get started, the poor groom collapses from what appears to be an asthma attack. Unfortunately, things aren’t always what they seem. Romaine knew it was a bad idea to have a wedding at the funeral home, but newly elected justice of the peace and sole proprietor of the Ball Funeral Home & Crematorium, ...

When Grayson and Bobbie head to the Florida Panhandle to witness a spectacle of nature, they take a wrong turn and quickly find themselves up to their armpits in arthropods. And that’s the good part of their vacation. Campers are disappearing without a trace from nearby Torreya State Park. Whatever’s stalking them soon sets its eyes on Bobbie and Grayson, too.

Thrift shop til someone drops... Going on the television show Trinket Traders was never plan “A” for thrift store owner Jessica Braun. But when business slows down, Jess agrees to one episode in hopes of picking sales back up. When a blizzard strikes and everyone is snowed in, trouble arises with the crew. By the time one of them is dead, no one can get in or out of Pine Grove. And Jess can’t get out of the mystery without getting her friends into more danger. What will she discover—about a murder and herself—as she takes on this investigation alone?

When murder crashes his vacation, can a techie in paradise still catch some waves while snaring a killer? Marty Golden is ready to kick back at the beach. When his neighbor offers free rooms in Hawaii, the software engineer is quick to round up his girlfriend, sister, and nieces for the luau of a lifetime. But his arrival at the resort turns his sun-filled hopes into hunches about homicide after he encounters a very deceased and inconvenient body. Pressured into helping, a grudging Marty uses his sharp attention to detail to hone in on a crucial clue missed by the police. But his half-...

A Cupcakes-And-Crime Caper When Tiffany and Rosie are asked to investigate vandalism at an art gallery, they don't expect to stumble upon a murder... ... but that's exactly what happens. Pretty soon, they are investigating a collective of eccentric artists and their fans - these artists might be strange, but could one of them actually be a killer? Or is the real killer lurking in the shadows near them? Praise for A.R. Winters: "The perfect balance of being lighthearted, but still a serious page-turning mystery." - Jaycie D, Amazon.com "A fun cozy mystery with engaging and entertaining ...

A Cupcakes-and-Crime CaperWhen Tiffany and Rosie are asked to investigate the death of a casino employee, they are drawn into a web of complexities. How is the murder of a mechanic tied to other, darker secrets? Meanwhile, Nanna and her friends seem to be running a scam of their own. Can Tiffany and Rosie uncover the truth before it’s too late? Praise for A.R. Winters: "The perfect balance of being lighthearted, but still a serious page-turning mystery." - Jaycie D, Amazon.com "A fun cozy mystery with engaging and entertaining characters" - lq, Amazon.com "For fans of Janet Evanovich, ...

After nearly losing everything in the most recent battle with Cullen, Eva isn’t sure how to pick up the pieces. First, there’s Mayer: Yes, he was initially working for Cullen, but when push came to shove, he protected Eva. Indeed, it’s only due to Mayer that Eva is even still free. Yet he also backstabbed her, so she isn’t sure how she should feel towards him or whether she can or should ever trust him again. Then there’s Mara—once Eva’s best friend, now things are beyond rocky between the two mermaids. All Eva wants is to resolve this feud between them, but unless Eva agrees ...

Thirteen chocolates. Thirteen heirs. One stab at a decadent fortune. Legendary chocolatier, Ulysses Chandler has died, leaving his historic Smoky mountain mansion and world-famous chocolate factory behind. Single mom, Anna Clementine, has left her minimum-wage waitress job to collect an inheritance from a man she never met. The catch? There are twelve other heirs, with twelve outrageous personalities...and one of them doesn't like to share.Readers are invited to play along with this classic whodunit, where one by one, chapter by chapter, suspects and chocolates disappear. Until, then there ...

It should’ve been the sale of a lifetime… Bridal boutique owner (and secret witch) Aria Whitmore has hit the jackpot: dress designer to the rich and famous, Zola Cates, will be holding her first ever sample sale... at Aria's store! "Winters will have you giggling into your book!" Aria prepares tirelessly for the showing, with the help of her assistant Sarah, and her wise-cracking parrot Kiwi. (Ok, so maybe Kiwi’s “help” isn’t quite so helpful…) However, when the day of the sale arrives, Aria discovers a nightmare in her normally glamorous store: the shop wrecked, the sale ...

If it came in rinds and wheels, they sold it. But can she keep the lights on when her bestie turns blue? Gertie Pratt wouldn’t call it a gift. Although her psychic senses have been dormant for thirty years, the cheese shop employee is happy she married a good man. But the forty-nine-year-old’s visions return with a vengeance when her witchy friend and boss is found dead… and it was no accident. Returning home heartbroken only to walk in on her husband in another woman’s arms, Gertie dumps her cheating spouse and pursues her dream of being a detective. But in between juggling a hunky...

A Cupcakes-and-Crime Caper A killer hides behind desert blooms… When renowned botanist, Dr Seraphina Quill, is killed during a desert tour, Tiffany and Rosie are asked to look into the truth behind her “anaphylactic” death. Wally, the tour guide, doesn’t believe her death was an accident, and neither do her ex-husband or former colleagues. When another member of the tour group is attacked, Tiffany and Rosie must move quickly before the killer covers their tracks… Meanwhile, Tiffany and Rosie hope their uneasy alliance with Elle Lindsey will lead to a permanent solution… but can ...

When an antique store owner dies under mysterious circumstances, Tiffany and Rosie are asked to investigate. It's a strange situation with even stranger potential motives; Tiffany and Rosie must act quickly before the killer strikes again... Meanwhile, the Lindseys are relentless in their harassment of Tiffany, but could they have gone too far this time? Will the terrible family members get the better of Tiffany – or is this just the beginning of the end for them?

Need the perfect man? No problem—simply create him! Ivy wanted nothing more for Christmas than to have someone to come home to, a companion to chat about her day with, and someone to show off at her family holiday celebrations. Instead of wishing on a star, she takes matters into her own hands. Ivy creates her perfect companion at Dream Droids, the premier robotics company specializing in sentient humanoids. She spends weeks with Dr. Pierce, creating her dream man. Every detail is worked out, from his appearance, personality, and even his knowledge of her life. This will be the best ...