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When Dr. Eliza Bennett accepts a short-term consultancy at a quiet Midwestern museum, she expects spreadsheets, provenance reports, and long nights alone with data. What she does not expect is a body in the conservation lab. Nor does she expect to become the prime witness in a murder investigation that smells faintly of linseed oil, forged masterpieces, and professional jealousy. As the museum reels from the shocking death of its formidable head conservator, Eliza finds herself pulled into a web of ambition, counterfeit art, and secrets worth killing for. The suspects are polished, powerful...

Katherine Zhao has done everything right. Her grades are flawless. Her behavior is compliant. Her Risk Score is nearly perfect. Then the system flags her anyway. Overnight, Katherine becomes an anomaly—marked by a silent red warning only the algorithms can see. Teachers look at her with pity. Classmates look at her with hunger. And when explicit images of her body—images she never consented to, never posed for—begin circulating through the school, the system doesn’t ask who created them. It asks how she reacts. Her fear becomes data. Her anger becomes proof. Her humanity becomes the...

The Truth Has Never Been More Inconvenient. In the harmonious capital of Planet X, King Xander and Queen Lyra have spent twenty years building a beacon of interspecies peace. But a storm is approaching in the form of their distant cousins: The Pinocchios. Armed with a genetic "condition" that causes their noses to grow with every falsehood, Elena and her daughters arrive under the guise of celebration. But behind the sideways smiles and awkward navigation of the castle’s reinforced doorways lies a secret: they aren’t just here for the party—they’re here to invade. As the lies pile ...

He sells stories for pocket change. Until the stories start answering back. Felix Marrow survives on the margins of a glittering theme park empire, hustling tired tourists with whispered legends and forbidden tours. Once a legendary late-night radio voice, now a man sleeping on rooftops, Felix knows how to spin a lie so smooth it feels like truth. But when the myths he invents begin to manifest—lights flickering on cue, abandoned rides awakening, ghosts speaking in his own voice—Felix realizes the park isn’t just listening. It’s responding. As a viral video turns him into an ...

When the dead won't stay buried and mirrors crack from the inside out, Red Tell's most unusual detective agency is the town's only hope. Former psychologist Kathy Miller knows better than most that monsters are real—she lost her career proving it. Now she leads the Birds of Paradise Detective Agency from the sentient, ever-shifting halls of Avery House, alongside a team the world tried to forget: Ramona, a rebellious witch fleeing her powerful coven; Orpheus, a ghoul who found humanity in grave moss and poetry; and Neena, a sharp-tongued ghost librarian murdered under mysterious ...

At Sunny Meadows Retirement Estate, nothing exciting ever happens. The tea is lukewarm. The walls are aggressively beige. And Bingo is mandatory. So when Arthur Penhaligon—quiet resident, forgotten accountant, presumed harmless—notices that the Bingo numbers aren’t random, no one pays attention. No one, that is, except the people who were counting on him not to notice. Because Arthur isn’t just another retiree. He’s a former intelligence analyst whose mind was chemically dulled for a reason. And the Bingo game? It isn’t a game at all—it’s a coded broadcast using a Cold War ...

When textile historian Eliza Bennett is invited to a secluded Louisiana hunting camp to examine a rare collection of Acadian brown cotton weavings, it feels like long-overdue validation for her life’s work. These are not museum curiosities—they are living artifacts of survival, displacement, and resilience, hidden deep in the bayou and guarded by one of Louisiana’s most powerful families. But Eliza doesn’t arrive alone. By her side is Merlin—a sharp-tongued, world-weary orange tabby who talks, judges relentlessly, and has solved more murders than most small-town police departments...

When a quiet small-town pharmacist discovers her cat and horse have opinions—and voices—her life is about to get a whole lot more dangerous. Caroline Helmar has always preferred the comforts of routine: carefully labeled glass bottles, steaming cups of tea, and the predictable heartbeat of Greenhill. But everything changes the day her sarcastic orange tabby, E.M., and her dramatic psychic horse, Topper, reveal what they really are: Familiars bound to a long line of magical Guardians… including her. And her first assignment arrives fast. A beloved librarian is attacked. A priceless ...

Ava Montgomery has built a perfect life— a flawless home, a pristine garden, and a reputation rooted in control. Then something takes root in her. What begins as a stubborn weed in her prize-winning garden becomes an invasive presence beneath her skin. Ava’s body changes. Her hunger shifts. Her rage grows greener, older, and far more patient than she is. As the lines between woman and wilderness blur, Ava discovers the terrifying truth: some plants don’t just grow in soil—they colonize. While her teenage daughter races to save what’s left of her mother, Ava is drawn deeper into a ...

UNFORGETTABLE AND ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS SECRETS AND SLEUTHS A Multi-Author Cozy Mystery Collection Mysteries, secrets, and amateur sleuths—this collection has it all! 🔹 Quirky detectives & lovable sidekicks 🔹 Charming small-town & high-society settings 🔹 Secrets, blackmail, and hidden pasts 🔹 A talking cat solving crimes?! 🔹 Clean, heartwarming mysteries with HEAs From posh high society events to charming village scandals, these determined detectives—including one paranormal cat!—travel the globe to right wrongs, expose blackmail, and uncover murder. Slip into something ...

When Professor Eliza Bennett arrives in Montréal for a prestigious textile expo, she expects icy sidewalks, a flawless keynote, and maybe—just maybe—a flirtation with a handsome dressage instructor. What she does not expect is murder, corporate espionage, and a smuggling ring stitched into the seams of luxury winter coats. Luckily, she never travels without backup. Merlin, her imperious, sharp-tongued, orange-and-white feline companion, may look like a pampered celebrity cat, but behind the green eyes lurks a razor-sharp mind. When a warehouse shelf collapses—conveniently crushing a ...

When a priceless Revolutionary War banner vanishes from the Smithsonian, one brilliant textile scientist and her impossibly arrogant cat must unravel a 200-year-old conspiracy hidden in silk and secrets. Dr. Eliza Bennett came to Washington D.C. for one reason: to deliver an academic lecture and return to the safety of her New York laboratory. She definitely didn't plan on her consulting partner—an orange-and-white cat named Merlin with a superiority complex and inexplicable deductive powers—knocking over spools of thread to reveal clues, or on stumbling into the theft of a national ...

Merlin never wanted to go to Tulsa. Then someone turned a murder into a cover-up—and framed the wrong man. When world-weary, supremely judgmental cat detective Merlin accompanies textile scientist Eliza Bennett to Tulsa for what should be a quiet museum consultation, he expects boredom, bad air conditioning, and an unacceptable lack of seafood. Instead, he gets fraud, black-market artifacts, a suspicious oil dynasty, and a dead man in a dressage barn. As Eliza is pressured to authenticate a priceless textile collection, Merlin quickly realizes something is very wrong: the rugs are too ...

The Keys are calling. Merlin demands you answer. When Professor Eliza Bennett receives an unexpected invitation to the International Silk & Sustainability Summit in sun-drenched Key West, she thinks she’s in for a quiet conference, a bit of sightseeing, and maybe a few six-toed cats. Instead, she and her snarky, orange-and-white feline partner, Merlin, walk straight into a tropical storm of sabotage, secrets, and a very real ghost story. The moment they arrive, nothing is as it seems. A shredded 1930s wedding veil, a trail of red clay that shouldn’t exist on the island, and a gold cigar...

When a priceless Aztec textile goes missing and a museum director drops dead in a lecture hall, textile historian Eliza Bennett and her imperious, snarky, orange-and-white feline consultant, Merlin, are thrust into a tangle of high fashion, lethal dyes, and horse-soaked secrets. From the glittering lobby of the Gran Hotel to the dusty arenas of Club Hípico and the neon chaos of Xochimilco, this romp fuses scholarly sleuthing with cat-powered chaos. Think forensic yarn-pulling, midnight canal chases, a billionaire with a spider-web of influence, and a killer who wears riding boots. Witty, ...

He doesn't do mice. He does vibes. Meet Merlin, the prescient New Yorker cat who knows that beige candy is a character flaw and that his human, Eliza Bennett, has a "galloping toward trouble" look. When Eliza takes a consulting gig at a "haunted" Southern museum, Merlin is dragged into a high-stakes mystery involving toxic pralines, a vengeful socialite, and a ghost who might actually be helping. Forced to crawl through dusty vents and endure flirtation from a charming horse trainer, Merlin uses his nose for metallic thread and weaponized clove oil to help Eliza find a hidden ledger before ...

When a celebrity chef loses everything, he makes a deal with the underworld. The price? His soul. Lorenzo Finch was once culinary royalty—an award winning hef with a legendary palate and a hit TV show. But after a spectacular fall from grace, he's reduced to filming a desperate web series in the Irish countryside when his van breaks down on a fog-shrouded road. That's when the Dullahan finds him. The headless horseman of Irish legend offers Lorenzo an impossible bargain: compete in seven supernatural cooking trials, and win back everything he's lost. Lose, and spend eternity as a taster ...

Step into a world where ancient textiles whisper deadly secrets and a talking cat holds the key to a murder mystery. Dr. Eliza Bennett, a brilliant textile historian, finds her quiet academic life shattered when a renowned tango dancer collapses dead on the dance floor of Buenos Aires’s famed La Sombra Apasionada. Dismissed by police as a heart attack, Eliza’s astute feline companion, Merlin, insists it was poison, hinting at a stolen poncho and a powerful, secretive family—the de la Cruz dynasty—on the vast Argentine Pampas. What begins as a reluctant investigation to clear an ...

In the ancient, tea-scented lanes of Uji, Japan, forensic scientist Eliza Bennett arrives for a prestigious symposium. But the quiet ache of grief for her lost friend, Keiko, soon gives way to a chilling mystery. Her keen scientific eye—and the even sharper wit of her sardine-loving, theatrically opinionated feline companion, Merlin—sense that something is profoundly amiss. A cryptic message on a shrine’s prayer plaque—"The wisteria remembers the thread of the thief"—sparks Eliza’s investigation. The centerpiece of the symposium, an exquisite kimono meant to honor Keiko’s ...

Who needs a police K9 unit when you've got a cat like Merlin? This isn't your average cozy mystery. It's a high-stakes, high-desert thriller starring an academic textile expert and her talking cat. Dr. Elizabeth Bennett's world turns upside down when her presentation on ancient weaving leads to a New Mexico gallery owner's murder, exposing a massive, deadly operation of art fraud and cultural exploitation. From meticulously crafted fakes to hidden ledgers revealing millions in illegal sales, this duo navigates a world where every beautiful piece could hide a dark secret, and even a genius ...