Susan Page Davis

"Journey now to Tuscon, Arizona, and into the Superstition Mountains of 1866, where a chance for escape takes two unlikely allies on a romantic adventure along a desert trail. Since orphaned at age twelve, Carmela Wade has lived a lie orchestrated by her uncle, pretending to be a survivor of an Indian kidnapping and profiting from telling her made-up story on the speaker circuit. But as she matures into adulthood, Carmela hates the lies and longs...

"When Jan and Blake and Elaine Cook arrive at Lancaster Community Church to prepare for the Mother-Daughter tea, they discover that the historic white clapboard building has been broken into. Have the cousins stumbled on to yet another mystery? At first, it appears that nothing was taken, but it soon becomes clear that something valuable -- dating back to the very founding of maine and part of Pastor Mike's family hictory -- is gone. And then another...

Emily Gray returns to visit Baxter, Maine, after seven years of building a career as a journalist in the city and simply seeks rest in the slow-paced small town. As if reuniting with old flame Nate Holman isn't exciting enough, when the two of them take a box of groceries to an island resident, they find him dead inside his cottage. Can Emily's nose for news unravel the homicide at Blue Heron Lake?

Sarah is busy with preparations for her wedding when a woman brings her a beautiful, hand-embroidered antique quilt that holds an intriguing puzzle. Beatrice received the quilt from an unnamed donor. Adopted as a baby, Beatrice wonders if it could have come from her birth mother. Sarah agrees when she notices a rebus--three bees on one of the squares--which stands for "Beatrice". If Sarah can decode the other squares, she suspects they will lead her...

"Hiram Dooley's sister Gert is about to leave him to get married--if Sheriff Ethan Chapman would ever propose; his sister-in-law, Rose, thinks Hiram should marry her, since they're both widowed; and the woman he truly loves, Libby Adams, is blind to his regard. Schoolmarm Isabel Fennel has a different problem--a man claiming to be her uncle came to town...and then disapeared. She's afraid her father may have killed him and buried him behind the barn....

"Portland, Maine, police detective Harvey Larson and the Priority Unit investigate the disappearance of a software designer and he meets a young woman who will change his life as he attempts to save her from the same grim fate that claimed her co-worker"--

"Even as Jan puts the final touches on her wedding plans, mystery still swirls around the tearoom. While searching for the perfect wedding gift for Jan and Bob, Elaine and Nathan stumble upon a distinctive antique teapot at Mainely Bargains. Nathan feels certain it's the one that's been missing for 150 years from Hannibal Hamlin's historical family tea set that once served President Lincoln. After Nathan purchases the teapot, Elaine and Jan set out...