Everybody in New Haven knew the story. A Yale student vanished after a night out.Police called it voluntary. The city moved on. Zuri Bennett knew better, because she saw the girl the night she disappeared.What begins as a quiet obsession quickly turns into something far more dangerous when anonymous messages, erased footage and long-buried secrets pull Zuri into the darkest corners of New Haven. The deeper she digs, the more she uncovers a hidden world of powerful men, missin...

Major Gervase Benefield returns injured from the wars to find himself the unlikely heir to a dukedom. Unfortunately, there are many more debts than assets.Miss Sarah Strong is the daughter of a weathy businessman and an accomplished businesswoman in her own right. Although she has no desire to marry, she agrees to a marriage of convenience to further her father's business interests and the

Monterey Bay, 1942. The ocean is rough, the pay is thin, and commercial fisherman Gene Ackerly is just trying to stay afloat. But when his crewmate murders a G.I. during a drunken brawl, Gene makes a choice that threatens to drag him under the surface for good.On the run from the feds, the local PD, and his own conscience, Gene escapes into California's dark underbelly along desolate dunes, haunted highways, and finally to a fog-drenched boathouse where a deadly my...

Ring in the season with this charming short-story trilogy by internationally-bestselling authors Juliet Blackwell, Sophie Littlefield, and Rachael Herron.Darling Bay’s favorite Santa Claus has just died, but before the beloved Earl passed, he wrote a few really important letters. The letters are acting as matchmakers in Earl’s absence, and three couples get pushed together by his ribbons of ink. Merriment shimmers, hearts are gladdened, and kisses are stolen during...

Officer Darren McDaniel just wants to get his trainee through the shift without another major flustercluck. His plan for the day, teach Rookie Conklin paperwork and parking tickets. Maybe she can talk on the radio a little bit.But when a trio of frenzied meth addicts go on a wild kidnapping spree through downtown, the veteran cop and his rookie get caught in the middle of the mayhem.Violence escalates as the fugitives grow more desperate. Their spree spirals into a rampage ...

Kristian Taylor fell in love fifteen years ago. When Jake went away to college, Kristian let him go without a fight. The insular town he lives in still remembers he loved another man and so does Kristian.Closeted alone, he still hasn't come to terms with his loss. His every waking moment is consumed with misery.Apathy and inaction are the dominant forces driving him but what if he had the chance to mend his broken heart?Themes: second chance love, guilt, love at first...

In the charming city of Brookline, Massachusetts, Charles and Annie Woodworth appear to have the perfect marriage. Seven years in, they have everything money can buy: success, security, and a carefully crafted image. According to their prenuptial agreement, Annie can do whatever she wants, as long as she never embarrasses her husband.The problem? Annie has secrets.So do Evelyn and Noah. Living sort of a double life hidden in plain sight, they've managed to keep their privat...

Love the vintage- not the ghostsLily Ivory feels that she can finally fit in somewhere and conceal her "witchiness" in San Francisco. It's there that she opens her vintage clothing shop, outfitting customers both spiritually and stylistically.Just when things seem normal, a client is murdered and children start disappearing from the Bay Area. Lily has a good idea that some bad phantoms are behind it. Can she keep her identity secret, or will her witchy ways...

4:23 a.m. The phone rings. The officer on the other end says, “It’s a bad one, Darren. Can you come?”Darren McDaniel has worked dozens of homicides in his years as a detective. It’s a dark and gritty business, and he’s prepared to handle whatever it throws at him. Or so he once believed.The pre-teen girl is dead, dressed in a white princess gown, lying on a bus stop bench. There’s a steel chain clamped to her ankle. A cryptic message scrawled across the boo...

Alexis Jordan is having a bad day. Her husband left her for the pool boy. She's living in the hick town she thought she'd left behind forever over a decade ago. The rumor-mill is working overtime, and the entire town thinks she's terminally ill, criminally insane and romantically involved with the contractor working on the fixer-upper she purchased in a swell neighborhood - two doors down from the meth lab.Oh, and her mother expects her for a family barbecue.When a local bod...

When Life Seemed Its Worst, Gresham AwaitedJulia Hollis' opulent life in Victorian London crashes to pieces when her husband passes away. Worse, she is told by his bankers that he gambled away their fortune. Now, the family's hope rests on The Larkspur, an old abandoned coaching inn in the quaint village of Gresham.Driven by dread and her desire to provide for her children, Julia decides to turn the dilapidated inn into a lodging house. But can she--who was accustomed to se...

On Christmas Eve, Dorian wanders the streets looking for a companion with whom to spend the evening. He happens upon Benedict, a rent boy who solicits him. They spend an evening filled with delights of the flesh, but the conversation afterward takes them to an unexpected place.Two lonely people from different classes find more than a night of passion over a holiday.Solace contains adult content suitable for mature readers only.