"It's a steamy summer Ottawa day when Cate is called out to the nitrate facility to investigate an apparent suicide. The eerie building is filled with deteriorating nitrate film that could literally spontaneously combust. When Cate's life is threatened by a stray spark, she suspects that the suicide might be murder. Despite pressure from the police to pronounce on cause quickly, Cate is bloody-minded enough to keep investigating. Whether she's looking...

The heartwarming story of the unlikely friendship that forms between an Egyptian nobleman's son, Kaffe, and Sari, a slave girl from the Sinai region. Together, they come to understand each other's cultures, learn the traditions and farming methods of the people who live along the Nile, uncover foul play during a bullfight, find themselves in danger while seeking adventure, understand Egyptian beliefs about the afterlife, and ultimately solve the mystery...

Five years after working for the Office of Strategic Services with Nick, whom she gets close to until the World War II' end brings with it an act of deep betrayal, former spy Evelyn, now working as a PI, finds herself back in Nick's orbit when her latest case brings the war to her doorstep.

"Despite having a handsome fiancé, a sparkling engagement ring, and an upcoming dream wedding, life isn't quite coming up roses for Jillian Green this Valentine's Day. Instead it's coming up calla lilies--purple ones to be exact--and an unusual bouquet delivered to Jillian at The Chocolate Shoppe Bakery has her wilting with anxiety. Although friends and family thornily insist that the flowers are from Jillian's betrothed, Hunter Greyson, the unsettled...

Sugarcreek is a wonderful place anytime, but especially at Christmas if you ask Cheryl Miller. And this year is extra special because her husband, Levi, has been asked to help construct a live nativity set for their church. But tragedy strikes on the very first day when Rudy, the actor playing angel, falls from the roof of the stable. The police discover that the set was sabotaged, and they arrested Levi, who not only built the stable but has a long-standing...

"The Summer Santa Sale at Holt's Department becomes a Christmas nightmare when sales clerk Haley Randolph finds a murdered elf in the store's giant toy bag. Haley, a crazed fashionista obsessed with designer handbags, could find herself 'bagged' if she doesn't untangle this mystery quicker than Saint Nick can slide down a chimney. But Haley has another problem: Can working with hot private detective Jack Bishop put her on Santa's 'naughty' list?"--Page...

"In this propulsive follow-up to The Best Bad Things, Alma Rosales (and her alter ego, Jack Camp) is back as a stevedore and part-time opium smuggler"--