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Dr. Sara Alderson thought she was securing her and her family’s future when she moved them to a small town in New York and took a job as Chief of Pediatrics at the local hospital. Unfortunately, things aren’t going quite according to plan. For one thing, she has enemies at work who resent her from the moment she sets foot in the hospital. For another, she’s visiting the dreams of an old man who’s seeing nightly visions of a storm that will wipe out the entire town. He’s convinced that the visions are true – and as winter closes in, Sara is starting to think he might be right.

Lily and her aunts, Essie and Hildie, along with their man friends, Toe and Harvey, find themselves in all sorts of predicaments, including murder right in their own shop, the Coffee Cabana. Follow along as shenanigans turn into crimes and the hot java never stops flowing.

Why is Baking Good for The Soul? Family Business: A Near-To-Home Mystery Five AM rolled around quickly. After a movie alongside her dinner, Rose had had a cozy evening in with her dog Bunny, cuddling and playing tug-a-war with the blanket and the pillows. And yet, waking up so early was always painful, no matter the circumstances. But when she remembered where she was going and why, everything became easier. She freshened up and got ready in record time, and was in the bakery by 5:45, with enough time to make sure everything was ready for the bakery to open its doors to the customers at six...

(Revised edition) Margie Vonn has no desire to investigate unusual happenings at a nursing home. But when no one else listens, Margie and her therapy dog Truman Blue work together to uncover what is going on. Throw in a not-so-hunky veterinarian, and the plot thickens. This entertaining cozy mystery novel was inspired by a real-life therapy dog. Author's note: As entertainment, this novel is not a treatise on therapy dog work. If you are interested in registering your dog as a therapy dog, please search for national organizations that train handlers. Therapy dogs operate under the rules of ...

In Cat in a Zebra Zoot Suit, feline PI Midnight Louie's roommate, powerhouse PR freelancer Temple Barr, discovers a strip club opening in a nearby empty building threatens her elderly landlady's wedding chapel business. Electra Lark's troubles go supernova with a murder charge for a death that echoes a bizarre slaying decades earlier.

Astra Newtown is torn between the life she always had on Earth and the new world and family she now has on Planet Zenray. These next five missions will show her just what being half-alien means. The Caretakers – Cozy Sci-Fi Short Stories “The Caretakers is a thrilling and heartwarming tale of heroism, friendship, and the power of hope in the face of adversity, and I would not hesitate to recommend it.” Cadet Astra Newtown and her partner, Billy, are ready to take on more challenging assignments for the Interstellar Research Group. The IRG is an elite group of aliens from across the ...

Four years have passed. Four long years since Ava and Leo have been in the same room, since he drove away with her heart in his hands and never looked back. Ava wouldn’t know how to begin to make up for all the time she’s lost with her best friend, who also happens to be the man of her dreams. Leo’s life has only grown better. Reciprocity is living the good life; a song on a hit movie soundtrack, loads of girls at every stop, getting ready to co-headline their first major tour. He doesn’t let himself think about the past and the girl he let slip away all those years ago. Ava knows ...

Heartwrenching. Everyone agreed on that but no one could ever quite make out the words…but the melody was haunting to the few who heard it…and never forgot it…Haunted houses weren’t on the schedule but while waiting out a snow storm that has them stranded after performing in Colorado, Maddie and her friends are staying at one of the city’s historic homes thanks to her father’s quick talking. Before long, they find themselves intrigued by the stories of the mysterious and haunting melody that many have heard but no one has been able to figure out where it comes from…or what it ...

In the gripping new novel from America's queen of suspense, a young woman is haunted by two murders that are closely linked - despite the one hundred and ten years that separate them. Browse more from Mary Higgins Clark.

We live on a gas station paycheck and some royalties from my side creative endeavors. I have decorated our home for almost free, used our stimulus checks to stock the pantry, put in an orchard, and planted a winter garden. We don't make much money but our life is charmed and cozy. We have no stress and recently we have reduced our work hours even more...but that is another story. How can you thrive and not be a slave to work? How can you live on one small income and one of you stay home? How do you have a full pantry, a charming home, and a sweet life while living on less than $35,000 a ...

They say small towns conceal big secrets—Holly’s learning the truth may be far more sinister… Moving to a coastal town got Holly away from the big city and corporate jobs. Little does she know she’s landed right in the middle of a mystery. As she pieces together information from the locals about the very rich Mongomery clan and their big house on the hill, the patriarch of the family dies. The suspicious circumstances regarding his death and rumors of the old man being cruel and arrogant paint a clear picture in people’s minds, despite the death being ruled natural causes. When an...

Grab a special boxed set featuring romantic detectives, Grace and Jack, and their magical cats. Magical white cat Tatania helps her human operatives solve mysteries without missing a nap. In Splendid Summer, when Grace Wentworth loses her last living relative and all her money, hot Detective and WWI Aviator Jack Brewster gets the case. Grace is learning to lead her own life instead of just following it around. Startled by Grace's lack of deference to him, Jack recognizes his romantic equal.

I thought my days of unraveling mysteries were behind me, but when the Mayor of Picklesquare calls me in the dead of night, I'm plunged into a new enigma that sends chills down my spine. A murder has tainted the hallowed halls of the Picklesquare Museum of History, and a priceless artifact has vanished without a trace. The chilling detail? The killer used magic, a shapeshifter's spell, to infiltrate the museum. As Detective Grey Thompson and I delve into the heart of this perplexing case, we discover a world teeming with historic secrets, a cast of eccentric characters harboring their own ...

Ground-breaking band Black & White was platinum before it imploded from an overdose of sex, drugs, and rock ’n’ roll years ago. Now, the Las Vegas reunion show revives the old troubles between its two divas, and efforts to sabotage end in murder. Petite PR powerhouse Temple Barr and her faithful feline roommate Midnight Louie, assisted by the Vegas Cat Pack, must sniff out clues to save the Crystal Phoenix hotel's reputation and any at-risk lives, including their own.

In the second of the Hometown trilogy, ex-Afghanistan vet paramedic Frankie McGill and resident deputy Gabe Zantos are caught up in a case of arson. A house at the end of a country road has stood vacant for years; it's occupants mice and the stray raccoon or two. When the derelict house catches fire, the only reason the Hawkesford Fire Department responds is because of the danger to the dry wheat fields surrounding it. But then not only a gunshot victim, but a charred body is found inside the house, along with evidence of a meth cooking operation. Accident, or murder?

Former soldier, Frankie McGill, has returned home from Afghanistan minus half of her left foot and with a plate in her head. After some months in medical care, she’s ready to take on the new battle of finding and holding a job. But not just any job. Frankie is a combat-trained paramedic. When all she can find is a position in the small, mostly volunteer fire department of her old hometown, Frankie is immediately plunged into much more than dealing with her own trauma and holding down a job.

Wenn sie aneinandergeraten, schlagen die Wellen hoch. Sunshine Laurie, angehende Rettungsschwimmerin, trifft auf Grumpy Lifeguard Tristan im zweiten New-Adult-Roman der Hawaii Love-Trilogie von Bestseller-Autorin Lilly Lucas. Seitdem Laurie Greenfield den gefeierten Big Wave Surfer Griffin "hip" Chipman dabei beobachtet hat, wie er jemanden vor dem Ertrinken bewahrte, steht für sie fest, dass sie Rettungsschwimmerin werden möchte.

Everywhere she looks in her retirement home, Bess Bullock finds that winter is a season for secrets. First, there is the secret of The Cross Stitch Six, a group of talented stitchers who conspire to keep a secret about one of their deceased members. Then there is Anita Gilmore, who breaks her silence to Bess about a long held belief that she is being stalked by someone in the Honey Hills Retirement Center. Even Bess’s friend, Alma Crisp, is not immune from a secret that she harbors. A secret that inadvertently puts Alma’s moral reputation at risk. Yet, the most unsettling secret Bess ...

Miss Patty is a socially awkward widow trying to get along in a mobile home and RV park in Florida. Well, kind of trying. She always seems to be on the wrong side of the crime scene tape. With neighbors, pets, and a ghost or two, she solves mysterious deaths.

Garrulous Bill Myers is too nosy for his own good. A retired investigative reporter, he is sniffing into dangerous pots of avarice and crime. When he is found dead, Nancy and the 90s Club step in to find the killer and discover what’s really going on at Whisperwood Retirement Village. Axel Cooper, Whisperwood resident, is a victim of Bill’s curiosity and asks Nancy to help him find out what happened to the family he lost in World War II. The only clue he can provide is an old family album.