Jolenes life while growing up was one of abuse and torment. She never felt she belonged. To her, she always felt there was something missing in her life even as a small child. After hours of conversations with Jolene, I have come to the conclusion that she has proven to me she was reincarnated from Soma, a young African girl somewhere in Africa. Dante was reincarnated from Kahari. Kahari was an African warrior, so in this life, he has become a warrior in blue. Jolene was so forthcoming abo...

The New York Times bestselling author’s “trademark blend of action, earthy humor, magic, and romance is on full display” in her Call of Crows series debut (Publishers Weekly).Kera Watson never expected to face death behind a Los Angeles coffee shop. Not after surviving two tours lugging an M16 around the Middle East. If it wasn’t for her hot Viking customer showing up too late to help, nobody would even see her di...

As a Debunker, Chess Putnam is used to investigating reports of suspected hauntings and sending ghosts back to the City of Eternity beneath the surface of the earth. What she isn't used to is having suburban housewives refusing to acknowledge the presence of ghosts in their homes. There are lots of reasons why someone might harbor a spirit, and none of them are good.At least Chess has Terrible on her side. But things are never as black and white as they seem, especially not when lo...

The moment I met my sister's best friend Madison Baker, we immediately take a dislike to each other. She always thinks she's right, and worse, she usually is. We spend our four years at the academy torturing each other.Years later, she's out of the Marines thanks to a roadside bomb. If you think that means she's fragile, you would be wrong. She's stronger than anyone I know, and we still drive each other crazy, and when one of our arguments ends up in a blazing hot kiss, and then w...

THE FRIENDLIEST TOWN IN MONTANAA fresh start for her troubled daughter—that’s what widow Janelle Townsend wants to find in Bear Lake, Montana. The five-year-old girl hasn’t spoken a word in months. But when the family of two meets widower Adam Hunter and his kind daughter, Janelle’s child begins to blossom.Still, the handsome auto mechanic keeps Janelle at arm’s length. He seems to be hiding something painful—something he can’t bear to share. Perhaps their ...

New York Times bestselling author Laura Childs sends her scrappy sleuths into New Orleans' French Quarter.Is nothing sacred? The last thing Carmela Bertrand and her friend Ava expected to bear witness to in St. Tristan's Church was a crime. But now a beloved member of their scrapbooking circle lies lifeless next to a smashed statue of St. Sebastien-and a mysterious hooded figure has absconded with an antique crucifix.As Carmela and Ava are drawn de...

Caution: Sharp curves ahead!Sam Pirelli likes his women the way he likes his cars: fast and fun. He likes his life of carefree detachment. He likes driving the open road with the wind in his hair. He likes never knowing what is around the next curve-such as the gorgeous blonde with the flat tire-a perfect opportunity to show off his "shining armor"!Practically speaking, straitlaced, responsible Kara Starling is no damsel in distress. She'd come to Clearville to int...

Hannah Langdon loves working with the dead. As an embalmer at the Max Grace Funeral Home in the inner city Sydney suburb of Balmain, she considers it an honor and a privilege to prepare someone for their final resting place.But lately, there have been a couple of her co-workers have been killed in horrible accidents. The fact that these people lived on the fringes of Sydney society and had no one to mourn them doesn’t ease Hannah’s turmoil. And then she reconnects with a man from h...

New Orleans is in the throes of another fantastic Mardi Gras celebration when the party gets crashed by a murderer…Kimber Breeze of KBEZ-TV is broadcasting live from a hotel balcony in the French Quarter, interviewing locals and capturing the spectacle in the streets. But as Carmela Bertrand, owner of Memory Mine scrapbooking shop, waits to be interviewed next, someone sneaks onto the balcony and strangles Kimber with a cord, leaving her body dangling above the parade....

Winner takes it all…offFormer diving champion Piper Clark never loses. Unfortunately, if she doesn't land this lucrative contract, her diving business will fail. Worse still, it will be at the hands of her childhood nemesis, Cal Brennan–six feet of hard, rugged former Navy SEAL. So Piper proposes a wager: whoever loses the diving contract must take orders from the winner…in bed.Cal needs this contract for his own reasons. A former rescue swimmer, he may be having a few issu...

Father, Meet Son.Safe Harbor obstetrician Adrienne Cavill couldn’t love her nephew more if he were her own child. And no deadbeat dad is going to claim the little boy she practically raised and plans to adopt.Wade Hunter’s past—and future—awaits the detective-turned-PI in his California home town. He missed five years of his son’s life and nothing’s chasing him away this time. That includes the pretty doctor who’s giving his child everything—except the fath...

Never close your eyes while you’re getting a tattoo—even if you have a pathological fear of needles.All Liv Voretti wanted was a small, tasteful butterfly tattoo. What she got was her (now ex-) boyfriend’s name—the worst goodbye present in the history of the universe. With the tattoo about to be revealed thanks to a strapless bridesmaid dress, Liv comes up with a desperate plan to keep her judgmental parents from pulling their loan for her clothing design business....