Til Death Do Us PartTake one harried bride, her overbearing mother, a missing wedding gift, and add Bluebeard, the foul-mouthed parrot.Fold in a couple dead bodies and a decades-old missing person mystery.Now haunted souvenir shop owner Glory Martine must sift fact from fiction, find the killer, and still get to the church on time!

Follow the Money!Bayvue Estates: no bay, no view, no estates.Back Bay Bank: no money.Auditor Bridget McKenna: no longer breathing.It all adds up to trouble for haunted souvenir shop owner Glory Martine. She needs all her assets - best friend Karen, boyfriend Jake, junkyard owner Sly, and Bluebeard the foul-mouthed parrot - to solve her new friend's murder, balance the books and make justice the bottom line.

Sink, Swim, or Die!Murder in a small town, and Glory Martine's best friend Karen can’t stop herself from riding to the rescue.Along the way they enlist Glory’s maybe-boyfriend Jake, junkyard owner Sly, and of course Bluebeard, the foul-mouthed parrot who channels the ghost of Glory’s great-uncle Louis.The team of friends must unravel the clues and get Bobby off the hook before the net of suspicion closes - and drags them all straight to the ...

Before they were mothers and grandmothers, the women of the Greatest Generation were many other things.Including spies.Meet Violet and Claire.Violet, the faithful suburban wife and mother, PTA president and Girl Scout leader. The perfect image of post-war blue-collar domesticity.Claire, the privileged daughter of a diplomat. A spinster, dedicated to bettering the lives of others as a civil servant, a woman in a man's world.Two women with nothing in c...

Summer. What a great time for romance! Beach holidays. Vacations to faraway places. Even a simple weekend getaway can lead to the kind of romance that will last long after that first breathless kiss in the summer sun or beneath a starry midnight sky.Romance for All Seasons is proud to present a terrific lineup of stories sure to leave you with that wonderful ah! feeling romance readers live for! Fall in love with these all too human heroines and heroes who meet cu...

The Dame. The Femme Fatal. The Gold Digger.Did she do it? Or is she as innocent as she seems?Come explore what might be considered the darker side of the fairer sex.If you dare...Mystery, Crime, and Mayhem, Issue 10. So Criminal, It's Good!

Money, business, sports, love: All involve risk—and skill. The skilled authors in this volume masterfully exhibit both. Buckle in while a locomotive engineer uses magic in a race to avoid extinction, a game developer must outmaneuver an alien for Earth’s fate, and an exterminator risks everything to go after some really big rats. Crossing genre lines through science fiction, fantasy, mystery, historical, and mainstream, these adrenaline-pumping stories about taking risks offer nothing but ...

When an accident in the repair bay at Fowler's Auto Sales leaves a corpse under a vintage automobile, police and workplace safety investigators begin a painstaking investigation. But something doesn't seem right, and Bluebeard the foul-mouthed parrot is determined to see the truth brought to light.

Davey's Life RulesLove the ocean with all its beauty and dangerIf your high school sweetheart leaves you no choice, see Rule #1When the going gets tough, see Rule #1Don't ever ask for helpWhen he's injured, Davey still can't break his own rules, especially #1.Even for the woman he loves.Penny's Life RulesNever fall for a fishermanIf he's your high school sweet...

The Parrot Speaks!“It wasn’t an accident.”Those words warn north-Florida souvenir shop owner Glory Martine that the mysterious death of a local football star was no accident. But the tip comes from an unlikely source, her foul-mouthed parrot, Bluebeard.Stranger yet, Glory suspects Bluebeard channels her late uncle’s ghost, and the message comes from him.She must find the clues, decipher the sometimes cryptic messages from beyond, and el...

Welcome to Keyhole Bay, Florida, an idyllic small tourist town in the Florida Panhandle, where vacation just might be murder!Murder Stacks the Shelves brings together the first four books in the Haunted Souvenir Shop Mystery series in a single volume. This omnibus edition includes:Murder Buys a T-ShirtMurder Hooks a MermaidMurder Sends a PostcardMurder Ties the Knot

Readers always romanticize train travel, even if it’s just a quick commute into the city.Why?Trains are packed full of people with their own agendas, their own stories, their own need for revenge or escape.Frequently in these traveling conveyances, crime occurs. Either in the trains themselves, or on the tracks.What sort of crimes?The MCM Syndicate of writers answers this question with fascinating stories that are historic, semi-historic, as well as ...