Cozy Reads

Julien is in love with his best friend, Logan. The problem is, over five hundred miles separate them. Logan has a high paying job in Washington, D.C., while Julien runs his family’s farm back in the small town where they grew up. A long distance relationship wouldn’t be satisfying, so Julien doesn’t see the point in confessing his feelings. However, when Logan returns for a visit and announces that he’s there to stay, Julien realizes his happily ever after might not be so out of reach. Back Home Where You Belong is a sweet and steamy, best friends to lovers, MM short story with a ...

Lieutenant Ethan Hendricks’ greatest nightmare just also happened to be his grandfather’s newest business venture. Logan Hendricks is thrilled about his brand new detective agency’s first case, but things weren’t turning out the way they were supposed to, including the attempted murder of one of his brand new employees. But he figures their next case, which involves finding a missing sister, should go a lot smoother. How dangerous could it be? Ethan Hendricks wasn’t quite as confident about his grandfather’s new hobby, or that the supposedly straight-forward case of a missing ...

This Christmas, join Dawn and Debra as they unravel romance and rekindle love in the enchanting charm of Breckenridge.Dawn and Debra Taylor, who lost touch with their brother years ago, are stunned when he suddenly invites them back to their childhood hometown of Breckenridge for the holidays. They return to find a man in ruins – and the estate they’d fought over so many years ago lying in shambles. Determined to rekindle their relationship with their only remaining family, Dawn and Debra settle in for the holiday season… and they quickly reawaken fond memories from their childhood. ...

Finding a dead body in the wall of our new candy shop was strange enough, but then someone from the past returns with a pink ribbon I’d left on my very strange Christmas trip to Ohio. As a founding member of The Pink Iguana Sleuths of Witch’s Cove, I thought I’d seen it all, but I was wrong. When the sheriff’s department files this as a cold case, my curiosity gets the best of me. What else is new? It also didn’t help that my talking pink iguana is insisting that I look into it. When a corpse is fairly warm, it’s easy to come up with who wanted this person dead. Motives are ...

Regatta, a Boat Explosion, a Missing Driver, Jailed for Murder, and a Roaring House Fire. The Regatta is one of Blue Jay Bay’s annual 4th of July events that not only the whole town comes out for but their neighboring town competitors as well. When an explosion ripped a speed boat into disfigurement. The boaters all ceased their rowing at once, horror-stricken. Everyone’s eyes strained to see past the fire that blazed in the wake of the explosion. Angela and Molly stared dumbfounded. Could Angela’s brother’s good friend, who was driving the speedboat, have survived the explosion? ...

A sunny murder mystery set in a Southern California beach town. Chelsea and Ella are two coffee shop workers just trying to prosper in a coastal community. Unfortunately, bodies start to drop on their bit of beach. The two start to pick apart the local secrets in their newfound and sometimes hilarious approach to sleuthing. But their findings are so serious that the police worry for their safety. Can our baristas find the killer without getting burned? Expanded from the previously published Beach Reaper (Episodes 1-20) on Kindle Vella.

Bruce Douglas is finding a dead cow a week – with the heart removed – in the mountains of his Kohala ranch. Is this a bizarre homage to long dead King Kamehameha, or something closer to home? Private eye Daisy Williams travels to Hawaii to help her sister and brother-in-law solve the mystery. When another cow is taken, the entire ranch races out to hunt down the rustlers. Daisy, the last to leave, gets lost and is captured. Will they find her body with her heart removed, too?

Are generations of Snee-Kinsman women actually cursed, or is it just bad luck? A paranormal family saga beginning in 1860 following one family’s journey of tragedy, resiliency and triumph. Their stories are told in three short read books. Book 3 – Cracking the Curse – 1992 - to the present - picks up where Book 2 left off * Two spiteful and competitive witches place a curse on each other’s female children. * To punish his wayward daughter, an angry father casts the family curse in stone – an emerald stone. * The ring with the emerald stone is to be worn by the women of the Snee-...

Queens New York, high school principal Maria Bruno Cohen and hunky detective Joe Viola pair up again as Hassle High is struck by another series of murders in this mystery sequel. BOOK 2.

Ellery and Samantha are back on the beat! With 31,536,000 seconds in a year, what are the odds that the one minute Ellery Tinsdale and Samantha “Sam” Greene choose to break into the confidential files at the church would be the same minute Reverend John Thomas Hammersmith is brutally murdered while eating lunch at his desk? But that’s the kind of bad luck Ellery experiences since moving to the small lakeside resort founded by her distant relatives. Her and Sam’s close proximity to the tragic event makes them not only witnesses but suspects, too. And when not one, but two, more ...

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 ...

Glittering in the heart of Manhattan's elite, Penelope Paws navigates murder, blackmail, and intrigue. Known along opulent corridors as the dog walking diva, Penelope must look through the window of lies to discover why her client died before it ensnares her completely. It’s a dog-walk-gone-wrong. Pet sitter extraordinaire Penelope Paws becomes embroiled in chaos when she returns from walking her fabulously wealthy client Mr. Anderson’s dog and finds he took a fatal plunge from his posh penthouse. The question plaguing the glossed-over community is clear: was it a heartbreaking suicide ...

Fear. Anguish. Heartbreak. Selfless love. Ultimate sacrifice. All in less than a minute. Sometimes that’s all there is. Adam Manning arrives at the crime scene and quickly sees that not everything is as it seems. Neither is he. If you enjoy clean mystery romance and inspirational women’s fiction filled with love, hope, family, new and old friendships, and a mystery to keep you guessing, Stay With Me is the series collection for you. This is Book Five of the eight-part Stay With Me mystery romance novella series. Book 5 of 8.

October brings a message from Beyond The Grave... Halloween is fast approaching in the quiet Los Angeles County city of Vista Beach, home of computer programmer and tole-painting enthusiast Rory Anderson. While her painting chapter prepares to open its annual boutique house, Rory receives an unexpected email from Beyond The Grave, a company that automatically sends out messages when someone dies. “I think I have a stalker,” the message reads. “If you’re reading this I’m either missing or dead. My life may depend on what you do. Please find out what happened to me.” Haunted by ...

Now showing at the Palace: classic movies, ghostly mayhem, and murder! When Nora Paige agrees to use the Palace movie theater for the launch of a new online game, she has no way of knowing that the event will end in murder. But when one of the theater’s owners is accused of the crime, the future of the Palace could be in danger. With help from Trixie, the lively ghost of a 1930s usherette, Nora sets out to solve the crime, all while dealing with the latest manipulations from her lying ex, the meddling of a Hollywood mogul with revenge on his mind, and the mysterious delivery box of ...

When mobsters frame her aunt, one psychic dives headfirst into a criminal conspiracy. Mary Catherine, MC for short, inherited her family’s psychic abilities and a knack for trouble. When her fortune-telling aunt is accused of murdering a Russian mobster and refuses to defend herself by revealing what she saw in a card reading, it’s up to MC to divine the truth. But if MC isn’t careful, she could end up sharing a jail cell with her aunt … or swimming with the fishes. The Russian and Aunt Sophia is a madcap cozy mystery novella that could only take place in Florida. If you like ...

This Christmas, join Dawn and Debra as they unravel romance and rekindle love in the enchanting charm of Breckenridge.Dawn and Debra Taylor, who lost touch with their brother years ago, are stunned when he suddenly invites them back to their childhood hometown of Breckenridge for the holidays. They return to find a man in ruins – and the estate they’d fought over so many years ago lying in shambles. Determined to rekindle their relationship with their only remaining family, Dawn and Debra settle in for the holiday season… and they quickly reawaken fond memories from their childhood. ...

With her books sporting other people’s names, ghostwriter Jake O’Hara works behind the scenes. But she never expected a séance at a New York apartment to be part of her job. Jake had signed on as a ghostwriter, secretly writing for a grande dame of mystery fiction whose talent died before she did. The author’s East Side residence was impressive. But her entourage—from a Mrs. Danvers-like housekeeper to a lurking hypnotherapist—was creepy. Still, it was all in a day’s work, until a killer started going after ghostwriters, and Jake suspected she was chillingly close to the ...

Disappearing wasn’t going to be enough…they needed a plan…some answers…and a safe place where they couldn’t be found…and time to figure out what to do next….and why their pursuers are interested in Harper’s father…and are willing to do anything to draw her out. Now it appears that they have an unknown and unlikely ally…maybe two… Ailis Mulholland wasn’t expected…nor was the offer of assistance from her father. No one is quite certain what to make of it with one exception…Jackson Riley has known Cian Mulholland since they were kids.It’s the middle of the twenty-...

Theft of the Sapphire Wave Tiara A small town is mystified when the high-profile guests attending the Masquerade Ball drink champagne that’s been poisoned. If that wasn’t enough, they are also gassed. Guests drop to the floor in the beautiful historical Blue Jay Bay library. Molly didn’t drink, and when she saw her best friend Angela collapse along with most of the other guests, she and a few others covered their faces and ran for the exit. Outside, Molly gasps for air, coughing but feeling fortunate she escaped in time. Although some of the others attempting to exit were not as ...