When the annual Seagrass Days summer festival kicks off, Ashley Adams and Patty LaFontaine are selling their French desserts and cuisine faster than they can make it.Ashley is dreaming about the future—of her business, of her new relationship—until a murder threatens to derail it all.When a vendor from the festival shows up dead, Ashley discovers he made a living selling more than just festival wares…and it may have cost him his life.Ashley gets tangled in the man's we...

Ashley Adams is catering a charity golf outing for a nonprofit that is working to cure cancer. When a high profile researcher who was only a few months away from bringing a promising treatment to market is found dead on the golf course, the victim's golf partner is charged.When Ashley learns that the suspect is her friend Ryan's Uncle Charlie, the two of them set out to find the real killer. Meanwhile Ashley's business partner Patty LaFontaine is acting strange and distant towards ...

BONUS: Recipe included.Ashley Adams is settling back into her life in Seagrass, TX after leaving a broken heart and criminal ex-boyfriend in Paris, France. Her French sweets catering company has finally landed a major job, making Ashley grateful for all that is going right – her business, her work partnership, and reconnecting with an old friend Ryan.All that changes when Ashley overhears one of the guests arguing with a strange man in the ...

Sandy Scott had it all: a beautiful country home, a successful husband, and the freedom to be a stay-at-home mom. Then the news crashed down on her like a Tsunami: her infant son Zachary not only had severe brain damage but probably wouldn’t live past his first birthday. As denial gave way to despair and grief, Sandy looked out over the new, strange world into which her family suddenly found themselves thrown and wondered if they would ever know happiness again.But it was in the ve...

Taking the nanny job was supposed to be a temporary arrangement for me.I needed money, not a full-blown life detour, with no prior qualifications, and definitely not a brooding billionaire with a too-serious stare and a daughter who hadn't smiled in months.But Ashton Cross isn't what I expected.Yes, he's powerful. Intimidating. Frustrating.He watches me like he's starving. He touches me like he's forgotten how. And I'm falling fast for a man...

Surfing came to the central Oregon coast in the early 1960s. Mostly young boys from Newport and the Agate Beach area took to the waves, without wetsuits or leashes, and taught themselves how to surf in the forbidding cold waters. Eventually forming the Agate Beach Surf Club, they discovered other surfing communities along the Oregon coast. With no modern-day technology to help them, they traveled the rugged Oregon coast in search of good and accessible surf spots. Fifty years later, the su...

Brought to you by Penguin.Sniper Elite: Origins is three original stories set in the world of the hit video game that explore the beginnings of Karl Fairburne, the Sniper Elite. In Water Line Karl Fairburn is a new recruit fighting on the front line. Battle weary, low on morale and holding a bridge in a rear-guard action to delay the German onslaught. This is where he comes to understand his place in the war. The beginning of his training for life behind t...

Pedro Gomez of ESPN was a beloved figure in baseball. His death from sudden cardiac arrest on Feb. 7, 2021, unleashed an outpouring of heartfelt tributes. He was 58, both a hard-nosed reporter and a smiling ambassador of the sport. These 62 personal essays soar beyond sports to delve into life lessons.Pedro, a proud Cuban American, was known for his dramatic reporting from Havana. Fully and fluidly bilingual, he did as much as anyone to bridge the wide gap that had...

Georgie Kaye lives every day as if it were a gift, because to her it is. She beat cancer, against all predictions, and is following her life's dream to draw portraits of the fur babies of the world.When Georgie and her twin sister Aleta arrive at an art gallery that wants to show Georgie's work, they schmooze with donors, charm the artists, and overindulge at the sweets table.Everything is working perfectly in their favor, until an owner of the gallery is killed.Geo...

A stroke of luck introduces Georgie to her favorite actor, and then thrusts her into a mystery she can't resist investigating.Georgie Kaye is waiting for a pet portrait client when she wins a day pass for a behind-the-scenes visit to a movie staring her and her twin sister, Aleta's, favorite actor, Dustin Stetson.Once on set, the feisty sexagenarian twins are enthralled watching a movie being made, delighting in the thrill of celebrity and the delectable sweets catered on s...

Start a new cozy series that will make you laugh out loud.Georgie Kaye lives every day as if it were a gift, because to her it is. She beat cancer, against all predictions, and is following her life's dream to draw portraits of the fur babies of the world. Along the way, with her twin sister Aleta and detective ex-husband Stan, Georgie runs into crazy customers, pets of all kinds, and murders to solve.Pet Portraits is a humorous, clean cozy series with no v...

When Georgie Kaye chases down a customer to get paid for one of her custom pet portraits, the client stalls but invites her on a fancy dinner cruise on Lake Michigan to make up for his delayed payment. Georgie invites Aleta and together they set sail with a cast of characters straight out of a fitness magazine.In between meeting new clients and hunting for desserts on board the ship, Georgie is shocked when one of the cruise passengers ends up dead.Georgie is determined to ...