Ghosts of the past…The very case that made Brodie leave the Metropolitan Police returns to jeopardize his private inquiry business, his relationship with Mikaela Forsythe, and perhaps even his life.Ten years earlier, after Brodie refused to divulge the name of his source in a murder case, Chief Inspector Abberline threatened to have charges brought against him for withholding evidence. The case might very well have won Abberline the coveted new title of Com...

Murder, betrayal, revenge... and two people bound together across oceans, and time.She has had the dreams since she was a small child, her parents killed in a shipwreck in the treacherous waters off the coast of Cornwall. The dreams are from another time and place, and a man who waits in shadows. They are an elusive memory that leave her with questions but no answers.Now a young woman, on the eve of her marriage to a man she doesn't love, a mysterious stranger enters her li...

SECRETS, PASSION... SEDUCED! 1870's San Francisco was a place of soaring promise and seductive temptation. For Boston beauty, Allison Caulfield, it was also a city of secrets. It was where the father she had never known was murdered. She had come to San Francisco to discover the truth about her past, instead she found herself swept up in a firestorm of mystery and intrigue as she struggled to find her father's killer. She could trust no one--certainly not Dalton Malone, the handsome, notor...

★**“This solemn and serene volume should be considered a first purchase. Essential for most collections, and with its wildlife-centric art, it’s also a perfect read-aloud for Earth Day.”—School Library Journal, starred review**A lullaby of reconciliation and reclamation, celebrating the ancestral relationship between Indigenous children and the land that is forever their home.Under glowing morning sun and silvery winter moon, from speckled frogs cr...

DAZZLINGLili McKendrick is a dazzling star of the San Francisco stage whose exotic beauty hides a bitter past. But when a famous actress is found dead, it is Lili who is suspected of murder.DANGEROUSGray Harper has built a vast shipping empire in the waters off the California Coast. Feared by many, known by few, he conceals his scars behind a black silk mask, living dangerously in the night shadows of San Francisco.DECEIVEDFrom the magnificent mansions ...

A DANGEROUS PASSION.The gaslit streets of Victorian London were no place for a lady like Jessamyn Hamilton. There was a madman on the loose. He had killed before. He would kill again. But she was determined to find her missing sister. She disguised herself as a common working girl and followed her only clues into Whitechapel's darkest alleys and darkest secrets.Devlin Burke didn't have time to find her sister--he was on the trail of a killer. But as the two cases began to in...

London, 1889 — Murder, mystery, and two people in a most unlikely partnership.She's an unconventional lady who has traveled the world, practices the art of self-defense most excellently, and has an interesting tattoo in—ahem—a very unusual place.He's a former member of the Metropolitan Police, now a private investigator, who grew up on the poverty-ridden streets of Edinburgh and has worked the dangerous back alleys of London's notorious Eas...

Mikaela takes on a case alone when Brodie is pulled into a new investigation for Sir Avery and the Agency.Her inquiry services are requested by the wife of a prominent London surgeon after he has disappeared, while Brodie is sent to track down rumors of a planned attack in London by the anarchist known as the Black Hand.It is a time of dangerous unrest across the whole of Europe, and they realize the two cases may be connected when the doctor is found murde...

London, 1890—It's a New Year, but murder never takes a holiday.The past reaches out to the unlikely investigative team of Angus Brodie and Mikaela Forsythe when a man she was once engaged to marry seeks her assistance to find his young runaway son.However, a simple case of following the clues left behind becomes far more as the search unravels her former fiancé's secrets.Mikaela is determined to find the answers, and yet Brodie can't keep his mind o...

A promise made, a love stronger than even death itself... It began like a dream that slowly washes over the senses, teasing, promising with half-formed images. The cool shadows of Ombre Rose surrounded her and she felt herself drifting. All about she heard the murmur of the leaves, the sigh of the breeze through the overgrown vines and flowers... 'Promise me... ' The words came from somewhere...she couldn't seem to remember where. It was then she felt it, or perhaps only imagined it, the l...

What is real or only an illusion?Ghostly images appear and float across the stage, objects levitate into the air, and a beautiful assistant disappears inside a glass box, then reappears inside a second glass box. All while the audience at the Crystal Palace, including amateur investigator Mikaela Forsythe, watch the performance.Is it real? Can the audience believe what they see?Then, an evening with her friend, Theodora Templeton, attending the one-...

A severed foot. Fingerprints left on a wine glass. A secret cipher code. The scent of orange and cinnamon left behind by the murderer.Mikaela Forsythe, adventuress, author, and now private investigator, is back. She is pulled into a deadly case that may just see her friend, actress Theodora Templeton, sent to prison for murder when a severed foot is found in her bed, and a high-ranking official has gone missing.Is it a crime of passion or something far more...