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Her Dream Gig: Write an article about a haunted campground. Pitfall: Killer wants her dead. The assignment combines her love of traveling and camping with her loyal Lab/Husky mix, Rascal, and the intrigue of investigating haunted locations. The Old West-style Arizona campground, Forgotten Oasis, has a picturesque setting, but a deadly threat looms beneath the surface. While Wren digs into the mysteries of the Forgotten Oasis, she finds herself at odds with the young, widowed county marshal, whose protective instincts both frustrate and captivate her and with the snarky resident ghost who ...

Vigilante Justice: Librarian Style Maggie Sloan survives an explosion and begins the slow process of healing with the help of her unusual team. When her world is shattered by a heart-wrenching murder, Maggie's team trains her to fight to win, whatever the cost. Her grief and rage transform her from prey to relentless hunter, and her brilliant observational talents threaten a complex criminal scheme. As Maggie closes in on the truth, she realizes she's on the trail of a mastermind, a dark puppeteer of serial killers, whose intellect threatens to match her own. It all comes down to kill or be...

Welcome to the world of Ruthanne Thompson. Socialite. Speakeasy owner. Unlikely nemesis of a criminal syndicate. Ruthanne, a bold young socialite, turns her family estate into a thriving speakeasy, but her success draws the ire of a powerful crime syndicate with ambitions to control the state. When her husband enters the political arena, the stakes skyrocket. The syndicate can't afford the scrutiny of a politician they don't own. Ruthanne joins forces with unlikely allies to bankrupt the criminal ring and to crush their political clout. But the deeper she digs, the closer she comes to ...

Wren and Rascal leave Arizona for her second writing assignment: a haunted campground in Texas. A killer wants her dead. Wren has never left a project unfinished, so she reluctantly leaves Arizona and the cute town marshal for her next assignment: a haunted campground in Texas. After she and Rascal discover a body in the woods, it’s obvious who the killer is, isn’t it? Even the ghost tells her not everyone is who they seem.

Donut Lady, an amateur senior sleuth, sifts through clues. The serial killer squirms under the heat of exposure. It’s time for Donut Lady to die. Karen O’Brien moves to her hometown in south Georgia and buys a charming, old-fashioned donut shop, complete with the owner's dog and cat. However, shadows and terrifying nightmares from her twelve years in prison disrupt her new life; or are they trying to help? Her struggle to adapt to civilian life becomes even more complicated when the boy no one cares about except her suddenly disappears from his sketchy living conditions. While Donut ...

Wren and Rascal arrive at her third haunted campground writing assignment in the mountains of Tennessee and disturb the lair of a killer. Wren and Rascal check in at the Tennessee campground that has no history of being haunted except for the ghostly sounds of stock car races at night. As the feelings deepen between Wren and Justin, the town marshal who waits for her in Arizona, she’s tempted to write a quick summary then leave Tennessee until she stumbles across a body. While she pieces together fragments of old and new clues that reveal an ongoing crime, a ghost warns her of danger. The...

Just one more haunted campground... Wren reluctantly agrees to write a bonus article for the travel magazine about a haunted campground that is on the way to Arizona. The campground is beautiful, and the people are welcoming. Is this last campground in Louisiana finally the only one with no ghosts or murderers?

Power grid collapses; only Major can stop the conspiracy to overthrow the US government. The price of failure is death. Major Elliott’s quiet life on the farm with his dog and 17-year-old granddaughter abruptly changes when a nearby electrical substation explodes. He suspects the local attack foretells of a more ominous, widespread outage and shifts his priorities to safeguard his family. When the US power grid fails after a cyberattack, and the economy crashes, people are facing the stark reality that it’s the end of the world as they know it. Society collapses, and Major’s farm ...

Wren’s fourth and final writing assignment: a haunted campground near a Florida beach. Wren and Rascal, her protective Labrador Retriever, arrive at a nearly abandoned, neglected campground. Wren discovers clues to a cold case in old letters. Are the new murders related? The ghostly pirate Captain warns Wren of danger; the killer plans Wren’s untimely demise.

Only Riley, vet tech and dog whisperer, can identify the serial killer. The obsessed killer stalks her; Riley must die. Riley has a gift: she talks to and understand animals. After her employer abruptly closes the clinic where she has always worked, Riley and Toby, her rescued German Shepherd, move to her hometown for a new job. Did we mention the cute deputy? It's awkward. As one murder follows another, she discovers her unique connection with the seemingly unrelated deaths can lead her to expose the murderer’s scheme. When she gets too close, the desperate killer escalates his attempts ...

Only Riley, vet tech and dog whisperer, can stop the attacks on the rural community. Riley is on the killer's list: Riley must die. When newlyweds Riley and Ben move to the region where Ben is the new GBI Crime Scene Investigator, Riley is offered a position to accompany a veterinarian on farm visits. Her first day is a disaster. A farmer's cows were poisoned; the veterinarian is incompetent and refuses her help. She leaves the office at the end of the day, unsure whether she quit or was fired, but she’s the only one who can stop a psychopath’s obsessive attacks on the quiet farm ...

Major and Aimee Louise set a trap for a human trafficking ringleader; their enemy plans an ambush. If Aimee Louise doesn’t stop the killer, Major will die. Major’s old enemy is the mastermind behind the entire conspiracy: the electrical system’s imminent destruction, the scam to steal farms, and kidnapping children of law enforcement officers to force the parents into compliance with his schemes. Major and Aimee Louise set a trap for the egotistical criminal with Major as the bait; his enemy plans a deadly ambush. If Aimee Louise doesn’t stop the criminal, Major will walk into the ...

Autistic and orphaned, Aimee Louise sees the world differently. And now, the world is falling apart. She doesn’t see faces...only clouds. Swirls of joy, flickers of sorrow, ominous storms of deception. But the most important cloud of all is the one that signals danger. When a transformer explodes nearby, Aimee Louise senses it’s more than an accident. It’s the first crack in a crumbling world. As the nation’s power grid collapses and chaos spreads, the farm where she has found refuge becomes a battleground. A ruthless criminal, hungry for control, believes the key to stopping him is...

Riley Malloy, vet tech and dog whisperer, stands in the way of a desperate criminal. Easy fix. Kill Riley. After a former coworker dumps a feral cat inside a carrier on Riley’s porch with only a cryptic note attached, the coworker is murdered. Riley is the last person alive who can identify the criminal. Riley is attacked, kidnapped, and left for dead. Ben, the cute deputy, and Toby, her rescued German Shepherd, are desperate to find her. Riley clings to life: she does not intend to die.

Only Riley, vet tech and dog whisperer, can stop the mastermind who murders farmers for their land; killer’s plan: Riley dies. Riley is offered a part time position with a vet who visits farms. Her dream job! But a killer turns her dream into a nightmare when farmers who are desperate to use their equity to save their farms are murdered, and friends are left for dead. Riley’s on the killer’s list: next to die.

Riley, vet tech and dog whisperer, races with death to save a friend’s husband, but is she racing to her own death? The killer waits: Riley must die. As Riley searches for her friend's husband after he disappears, one of his coworkers is murdered, and Ben's former girlfriend gives Riley the reports she stole from her boss before he was killed. After Riley receives a text from a previously unreliable source warning her to be careful, she is the only one who can puts together all the pieces, if she can survive. The murderer closes in for the kill.

Riley Malloy, vet tech and dog whisperer, suspects her father’s death seven years ago was not an accident. Her enemy waits for an opening to kill Riley. Riley Malloy is the only person alive who can solve long-ago murders and expose the crimes of an international ring. Complication: Riley doesn’t realize the significance of her grandmother’s letter or the documents she finds or how desperately her unknown enemy watches and waits for an opportunity to destroy the evidence and kill Riley.

Someone wants Maggie dead. Maggie Sloan, former librarian with the fierce spirit of a warrior, accepts an assignment to find a missing spy who trusts only her. Simple enough, until she is shot and friends are murdered. Maggie and her partner, Larry, a police officer from her hometown, reel as the shockingly vicious attacks escalate. They struggle with the disturbing clues that point to the guilt of everyone they meet, and their trust and reliance on each other grows deeper than Maggie realizes. (He falls first.) How many more will die before Maggie and Larry expose the ruthless enemy’s ...

A chiseler preys on the kind-hearted. But Jenna's vengeance? Bless his heart. Jenna didn’t plan on chasing criminals when she inherited the Peach Blossom Retreat in Georgia, but when a friend is attacked and left for dead by a scammer who thrives on sympathy and deception, Jenna takes a bold step: she infiltrates his online groups to expose him. The deeper she digs, the more she realizes his schemes are darker and more dangerous than she imagined. Can Jenna outwit the ultimate manipulator before he destroys more lives, including her own?

A deranged serial killer targets the vulnerable Maggie. Her life depends on seeing what no one else does. Maggie navigates through the clues behind twenty years of suspicious deaths at the hand of the legendary Ghost of Wicked Hollow. Even though she has tragically lost her eyesight, she sees beyond the fog that has shrouded a serial killer from discovery for years. The murder targets her to die.