Cozy Home

Three dates, a golf cart with a shark fin on top, and a con man.... Lily and her aunts find themselves with dates to the same function. Little do they know the event will end with some unfortunate soul staring into the great beyond. And as they say, hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.

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 ...

Tizzy Donovan is having a run of bad luck. A bakery delivery gone wrong. A bar fight with an old classmate. The discovery of a dead body in the cemetery. Texas Ranger Ridge Cooper’s luck isn’t much better. He’s finally gotten his first solo case, and it’s in the podunk town of Brownsboro, Texas. But when he meets local beauty, Tizzy, he thinks his luck is about to change...until she becomes the prime suspect in his case!

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.

Sweet Home has become inundated with unholy sightings and turned over tombstones in the old cemetery. And if that wasn't enough, Essie and Hildie aren't talking to anyone, even Lily. All the seniors seem out of sorts, but of course that's normal for Toe and Harvey. Find out what happens when Lily; her best friend, Jules; and her gorgeous boyfriend, Eli, take matters into their own hands when the town starts spinning out of control.

Book two in the Heart series. Can the path of true love ever run smooth? Wedding bells are chiming in the village of Clunderton, but will it be happy-ever-afters all around? Rebecca Cavendish thinks not. All she’s feeling is shame and remorse since her affair with property mogul, Edward Hardwicke, whilst in another corner of the village, Louise Edwards is slowly coming to the conclusion she might not be in love with husband, Johnnie, anymore. Meanwhile, Lottie Hardwicke is resisting the urge to do what she does best…interfere. When Edward’s son, James, turns up announcing Hardwickes...

Sweet Home has been inundated with munchkins of all ages. Most are visiting their grandparents during the summer break, much to Essie's chagrin. But when burglaries begin occurring on a steady basis, and one of their own dies during a robbery, the entire town is looking at each other and at the kids.

When one of Sweet Home's seniors is conked on the head and left for dead, it's time for Lily and Jules to figure out the who and the why. But with the holiday markets in full swing, a group of gypsies in the middle of the fracas, and a sick Miss Pickles the cat, the girls and Officer Eli have their hands full.

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.

Traci Simmons has been fired from another job, and must decide if it's time to give up her home and start fresh in another town. But when her elderly neighbor dies mysteriously, she is pulled into leading a crusade to save the neighbor's urban farm and find the killer. Through her new and unexpected relationship with these invisible people, Traci faces her own insecurities to learn what home really means.

(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 ...

Come to the hills of the Ozarks and meet Maggie Porter and her dogs - a champion Labrador Retriever, an aging Cocker Spaniel, and a Beagle retired from federal service. Maggie has returned home to reopen the family dog kennel business, where she's plagued by problems from the start. Serious trouble arises when a gossip-loving employee turns up dead holding an heirloom locket belonging to Maggie's mother.

A purr-fectly planned tea party leads me on an ominous quest to unmask a killer in Willowbrook, where crumpets and murder collide. Unexpectedly returning to my eerie hometown, Willowbrook, I find a dark underbelly of bad business and good lies have been concealed. I randomly inherit Blue Manor and its secrets, which turns me and my cat Whiskers into amateur sleuths. James, the cute town detective, welcomes me to town. At the same time, he receives a call that crumbles the plot of one killer and reveals another. Now I’m entangled in a deadly dance where the clues are steeped in the shadows...

Traci Simmons has been fired from another job and must decide if it’s time to give up her home and start fresh in another town. But, when her elderly neighbor dies mysteriously, she is pulled into leading a crusade to save the neighbor’s urban farm and find the killer. Through her new and unexpected relationship with these invisible people, Traci faces her own insecurities to learn what home really means.

Christmas is coming – and so is love. Love is in the air this Christmas, and three couples are finding that working at the holidays comes with an unexpected benefit – a soul mate. This holiday anthology includes three previously published novellas, together for the first time in one collection. Each steamy story features a midlife couple, an alpha male, an independent woman, meddling friends, and a guaranteed happily ever after. Dating Santa: A Hot Workplace Seasoned Romance Forty-year-old Samantha has never had much interest in falling in love. Her troubled childhood taught her that ...

For fans of Terry Pratchett… Bartholomew Whitlock, mild misanthropist and warlock extraordinaire, has been working in the acquisitions department of The Bearded Syndicate for over a century—and he’s exhausted. Ready to retire, he fakes his own death and retreats to the suburbs with his fluffy demonic familiar. They’re convinced nobody would go looking for them there! But there’s one problem—Bartholomew isn’t the only magical fugitive in the area. A vampire lives nearby, and too much magical activity is bound to attract attention. One of them has got to go. Bartholomew is ...

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 ...

Bess Bullock knows about clues. After all, her career as a policewoman has made her more than qualified to help her fellow residents at the Honey Hills Retirement Center solve their various personal mysteries. But when one morning a tray of delicious, buttery croissants heralds the arrival of a fantastic new chef at Honey Hills, Bess is immediately curious as to why such a talented cook would lavish his amazing skills at a senior citizen home rather than a fancy four-star restaurant. She decides to investigate and stumbles upon a decades old mystery of family pride, stolen jewels, and ...

Avery Barks and her fun-loving golden retriever, Chevy, are suddenly thrust into the middle of murder mayhem. In order to prevent murderous arsonists from invading their small mountain town, Avery will have to rely on her keen instincts to catch a murderer.

Cowboys sind Serenas persönliche Red Flag. Die Aquaristin im California Coastline liebt das Tauchen und die Arbeit mit den Meerestieren. Als bei der lang erwarteten Geburt der seltenen Haibabys plötzlich der neue Futtermittellieferant in das Becken springt, um Serena vor dem vermeintlich gefährlichen Hai zu retten, ist sie außer sich. Noch mehr, als sie begreift, dass sie zukünftig mit ihm zusammenarbeiten soll. Dabei wünscht sie sich so viel Abstand wie nur möglich zwischen ihr und dem charmanten Kanadier.