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The 1953 death of Bertram Warren was ruled an accident, but Detective Jerry Keating believed Bertram was murdered by his young wife, Cora. He also believed that their daughter, ten-year-old Meghan, saw what happened. When Jerry tried to question the girl, her mother called the chief of police, and they told Jerry to back off. Some sixty years later, Cora dies, and she leaves her house on the shore to her only living relative, a young woman named Mariah Kimball. Mariah has never heard of Cora Warren and refuses to believe it when she learns that Cora was her biological great-grandmother. ...

Step inside the room in Grandma's house. What if there was a locked room in our grandparents' house that gave you a glimpse into their past? A mysterious room that held their secrets, their hopes, and their dreams? When Tiffany Warren is sent to pack up her grandmother's house, she finds a locked room on the third floor, but where is the key? After searching the house from top to bottom, she finds the key and opens the door, and what happens next changes her life forever. The Room in Grandma's House is a short, fantasy story of about 12,000 words that can be read in under two hours.

Libby the Psychic Dog is a series of cozy mysteries intended for adults, but the series is suitable for all ages. Things are quiet at the mobile home park, and Percival, whose spirit resides in Libby, the psychic dog, is enjoying a nice snooze on the sofa with his Mama when something rouses him from his nap. He shuffles to the porch to find Herbert, the cat, at the screen door, and he's troubled. Herbert saw something that reminded him of his human life, and he's afraid someone in the park might be a danger to the other residents. As Herbert pours his heart out to Percival, the pudgy ...

A teen forced to make a difficult choice and the boy who loves her. 1986 - James Huxley, the only son of the Earl of Dorley, loves to spend his time in the attic of the manor house reading fantasy books. In 1986, his summer plans include rereading the Lord of the Rings trilogy, so when his father tells him they will have a guest for the summer, and that he expects James to entertain her, James balks, until he sees their guest – a lovely girl his age named Mia. At sixteen, James has never had a girlfriend, but he falls head over heels for the seductive American. They spend the summer ...

A Sweeping Saga of the Truelock Family Jedediah Truelock surveyed the land he'd won in a card game. He could never imagine the sprawling mansion that would replace the tiny cabin he had built for his new bride. Generations of Truelocks would leave their mark on the little Cape Cod town of Eastham: Joseph, a seafaring man with a nasty streak; Lawrence, who owned slaves, drank, and gambled. He ignored his son and his wife, Sonya, who wrested control of her errant husband's fortune to hold onto the family mansion; And Lawrence's son, Stephen, a thoughtful, intelligent man who falls in love ...

In 1957, Harold Bender was tried and convicted for the murder of Brenda Stern. Sixty years later, his public defender becomes convinced that Harold was wrongly convicted. He sets out to prove it with the help of his grandson and a trooper from the PA highway patrol. Their investigation leads them to Alaska, where they learn that the truth behind Brenda's murder is far worse than the wrongful conviction of an innocent man. Originally called Circumstantial Evidence.

1882 - When her stepmother is murdered, Lady Felicity Armstrong learns that her yearly income will barely cover the cost of food, but she has a secret. While the manor house called Rosendale is being inventoried to cover her stepmother’s debts, Felicity discovers something in her birth mother’s dressing table that gives her hope of a brighter future. She also has a plan, which she hopes will bear fruit, and deliver her from a life of poverty. Two years later, she is struggling to survive. Her young maid, Millie, a plucky urchin whose devotion to her lady is irrefutable, has taught ...

Hank and Josie own a small nursery in Mays Landing, New Jersey. They have three kids and a house with a mortgage. Josie has worked hard making and selling wreaths to make money for Christmas presents. Two days before Christmas, while she is collecting pine cones for her wreaths, she finds a woman named Helen lying in the woods behind her house. She is bruised and beaten, but won't let Josie call for help.

What happens when an English lord is reincarnated as a pudgy terrier? Lord Percival Plep was a hero in the war to end all wars, but when a bullet ends his life, he wakes to find that he has been reborn 100 years later as a dog! When Lord Plep is adopted by an elderly woman he calls "Mama", he settles into a comfortable life of watching movies and sharing Mama’s snacks. He also gains a reputation as a psychic dog when he finds eyeglasses and keys for the aged residents of the mobile home park where Mama lives.

A lonely, grieving woman, a quaint cottage by the sea, a mysterious painting on the wall, and the power of love. When Meg's sister dies, she is devastated. The last of three children, Meg misses her siblings and has never felt so alone. She's an author, but her emotional state hinders her writing ability, and she can't sit in front of her computer without trembling. A trip to Port Revere, MA, recalls memories of the summers spent there with her family when she was a girl, and Meg decides to buy the Christmas Cottage, an abandoned little house on a bluff near town. She refurbishes it and, ...

Emma Novak owns a demanding cat, one of a bonded pair that lost his brother when Emma lost her husband to a brain aneurysm. She has drawn comfort from the cat’s presence, but a year after her husband passed away, Emma is still fighting the urge to stay in bed and hide her head under the covers. Her younger sister, Glenn, is also Emma’s best friend. Glenn is divorced and lives in Cherry Hill. Their love for each other is absolute. The women meet once a month and drive to a nursing home in Toms River to visit their mother, Vivian, who suffers from Alzheimer’s. While Vivian doesn’t ...

Kevin Chandler lives next door to Bill the butcher - the meanest man in town. Bill's son, Dylan, bullies Kevin and his friend, Ben. One night, on his way home from Ben's house, Kevin sees Dylan going into the ramshackle garage behind the Butcher house and he thinks he hears a dog whimpering. The Butchers don't own a dog and everyone knows Dylan hurts dogs, so Kevin decides he must find out what's happening in that garage.

What if the world ended overnight and everyone died but you? How would you cope? What would you do to take care of yourself when there is very little food left in your cupboard and no clean water coming out of your faucet? And you have a little dog who must eat and drink, too?

Don't Look Back is a sweet, clean Victorian story. Hannah Dawes loves to paint. She dreams of being a great artist. Her sand sculptures and paintings win her acclaim in her local community of New Beach, New Jersey, but when circumstances take her away from the Jersey shore, she must learn to love the sprawling vistas of High Bend, Colorado. Strangers in a strange land, Hannah and her family travel across the country to live with Hannah's Uncle James, a bachelor rancher whom Hannah has never met. Life on the ranch is hard, and Hannah misses her old home, that is until she starts to pain the ...

This is Mel’s first vacation in 3 years. She is looking forward to lying on Clearwater Beach and spending Christmas with her friend, Lisa, but first she has to check on her Aunt Audrey. After landing in Tampa, Mel drives to Largo and knocks on Audrey’s door. A young man answers and his vague answers regarding Audrey’s whereabouts set Mel on a quest to find out just what happened to her absent aunt. She files a missing persons report and a handsome young deputy named Conner offers to help her. As they follow the clues - a curious canine, a nosy neighbor, and a couple of con artists –...