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Her rival isn’t just another woman—it’s Sebastian’s first love, risen from the grave. Alexa Hart thought she had finally found her one true love in Sebastian Ravenwood. But the night of the masquerade shatters everything. Adele—Sebastian’s first love, long believed dead—returns as a vampire, seductive, dangerous, and more ruthless than anyone imagined. For Alexa, the blow cuts deep. She’s already fought to claim Sebastian’s heart against obsession, blood, and fate. Now, with Adele alive, she fears she’ll lose the man she loves to a ghost from his past. But Adele’s ...

“If you have yet to add Liu to your must-read list, you’re doing yourself a disservice.”—Booklist Marjorie M. Lui has created a most unusual investigative organization in the Dirk and Steele Detective Agency—a collection of shapeshifters, psychics, and other uniquely gifted...

Welcome to Cedar Grove where flower festivals bloom year-round, neighbors know your business, and murder has a way of crashing even the coziest celebrations. Follow florist Iris Bennett and her one-eyed cat Winston as small-town secrets unravel one mystery at a time. Once you arrive, you may never want to leave. Hyacinths & Homicide When florist Iris Bennett agrees to judge Cedar Grove’s Spring Festival flower competition, she expects colorful blooms, not to find a local businessman dead beneath his prized hyacinths. As rumors spread through town, Iris and her one-eyed cat Winston uncover...

With the companions and the jades united, Dariak’s quest should have already ended, but more work remains. As with Delminor, who assembled the jades two decades earlier, bringing the shards together led only to further devastation. To complete his quest, Dariak must solve the final complication and unite the Red Jade permanently, without destroying any more of the world around him. Only with the help of his companions can the talented mage hope to bring peace to the lands of Kallisor and Hathreneir. Only together can they uncover the truth of the Forgotten Tribe.

A Charming Fair. A Fallen Trellis. A Vendetta Years in the Making. Florist Iris Bennett and her assistant Sadie Hart are preparing to launch Cedar Grove’s very first Flower and Craft Fair, expecting blooming displays, handmade treasures, and a joyful new town tradition. Instead, the celebration stops cold when a body is discovered beneath a decorative trellis before the fair even begins. With her clever cat Winston uncovering clues and Detective Mark Cooper reluctantly beginning to trust her instincts, Iris starts digging into the town’s secrets. What she finds is a tangled web of old ...

Cast out of China, Chin knows all about how hard life in a foreign country can be, especially for a woman on her own. Given the name Jade and a job packing in the crowd as an exotic dancer at the Red Petticoat, Chin thinks she's finally carved a safe and secure place for herself when, looking out across the dance hall, she spies the son of the man who murdered her family. Panicking, she flees into the night, into the worst storm in living memory.

A flower shop, a festival and a fatal secret. When florist Iris Bennett agrees to judge the Spring Festival’s flower competition, she expects bright blooms and community cheer—not to find local businessman Howard Larrabee dead, sprawled beneath his beloved hyacinths. As whispers coil through Cedar Grove’s cobbled streets, Iris’s instincts—and her one-eyed cat, Winston—lead her into a thorny maze of lies, blackmail, and betrayals that run deeper than the town’s tulip beds. With Detective Mark Cooper at her side, and danger creeping closer, Iris must follow a trail of botanical ...

These four charming tales – Tony Needs A Friend, Charcoal’s Story, Harry’s Story, and The Prince of Tails -- are told from the point of view of lovable cats and their city and country animal friends. Each story focuses on real life experiences and explores universal themes that are resolved with understanding, wisdom, and love by the cats and a colorful group of friends that includes dogs, horses, crows, foxes, chipmunks, and woodchucks. Sweet Tales is a perfect chapter book or read-out-loud book for animal lovers of all ages - anyone who enjoys a good tale. Tony Needs A Friend: Jade ...

Jade King lives life at full speed. After over a year undercover for the DEA, she’s back in play and wants what any hot-blooded woman who’s gone a year without sex would want: an alpha bad boy who is convenient, delicious, and disposable. A fun one-night stand, multiple orgasms, and absolutely no strings attached. Right? If only.

A hometown celebration, a deadly blast and fireworks with fatal consequences. The Labor Day Carnations Festival should’ve gone off with a bang, but not like this. When a fiery explosion at the fireworks finale leaves prominent town matriarch Maxine Whitaker dead, florist Iris Bennett finds herself tangled in a mystery as layered as her floral arrangements. The red carnations she dyed for the festival now feel like a warning especially as whispers of sabotage, secrets, and long-buried grudges ripple through the town. With Winston, her one-eyed Persian cat, keeping close watch, and ...

Prepare for a journey into a world filled with what so many crave - the sweet savoring of a chocolate drop. A drop that can melt even the most troubled realities. But in this nuanced, heartrending story, before good can emerge, there is destruction, the bombarding of a people, their culture, heritage, sacred beliefs, and the very soul that drives their traditions.

The shattered shards in a shattered land... With the fall of the Prisoner’s Tower, Dariak and his companions head west toward his home kingdom of Hathreneir. The group struggles against feral creatures while striving to avoid the king’s soldiers. With each piece of the Red Jade, Dariak’s powers grow, but—as in Pindington—he can’t always control them. As the group journeys through the opposing kingdoms, each member must confront his or her past. Though they gather allies along the way, the war looms closer and peace seems ever out of reach. Only uniting the jade fragments can ...

Two kingdoms in perpetual conflict... A magical artifact with untold power... Two decades ago, the mage Delminor brought together the shards of the Red Jade in an effort to bring peace to two kingdoms that were ever at war. Instead, his dying efforts decimated both armies and scattered the shards across the lands. Now Dariak, a Hathren mage, seeks the scattered shards of the Red Jade, attempting to unify them with less disastrous results. To begin his quest, he ventures into enemy territory and encounters danger at every turn. Dariak enlists the help of others on his quest, but they have ...

A Branch, a Body, and a Festival Shattered by Secrets The grand reopening of the Magnolia Arboretum should have been the town’s crowning event. Instead, the celebration takes a dark turn when a body is discovered beneath a fallen magnolia branch, and whispers of murder scatter faster than petals in the wind. Florist Iris Bennett and her new assistant, Sadie only wanted to enjoy the festival, but Winston, her mischievous one-eyed cat, has other plans. With him pawing at suspicious trails and Detective Mark Cooper urging her to stay out of trouble, Iris is quickly drawn into a tangled web ...

The ebb and flow of power... With one jade left to reclaim, the team fractures, further jeopardizing Dariak’s quest for peace. Heading deeper into Hathreneir, he seeks the final shard. The war between the two kingdoms escalates as troops are stationed at the borders and skirmishes erupt. Time is running out for Dariak to unify the shards and make his power known to the kings. Pushing through the growing battles, Kitalla sets her personal goals aside to rebuild their team and reclaim the balance that is missing from her life. Only with the will of the jades can the companions hope to ...

The Red Jade was just a myth, its shards only whispered about among the mages... Practitioners of the magic arts pull from the elements available to them, casting complex incantations and deciphering intricate runes, making magic inaccessible except to the most dedicated learners. Wishing to unlock the secrets of magic for all mages, Delminor pursues knowledge of the elements and the secrets of the Red Jade. His efforts, however, are hindered by the ever-raging war between Hathreneir and Kallisor. The discovery of one mystical shard lights a thirst in Delminor to hunt any others in ...

A new generation... New travails... Perrios must protect the Red Jade as he faces the prospect of ruling the kingdoms of Kallisor and Hathreneir. But though the Red Jade has been safe for twenty-five years, its protections have waned. Perrios must face his errors and seek a new path. Kannik, a lightning and water mage and close friend to Perrios, joins the young heir on his quest to secure the safety of the magical relic. Together, the two must battle countless monsters, make new friends, and face the realities of life around them. Only in working together can the realm be saved. But can ...

A castle destroyed... The jades drained... With the companions and the jades united, Dariak’s quest should have already ended, but more work remains. As with Delminor, who assembled the jades two decades earlier, bringing the shards together led only to further devastation. To complete his quest, Dariak must solve the final complication and unite the Red Jade permanently, without destroying any more of the world around him. Only with the help of his companions can the talented mage hope to bring peace to the lands of Kallisor and Hathreneir. Only together can they uncover the truth of the...

Meet the bad boys of Molly Riot. They'll pluck your heartstrings with their irresistible charms - and rock your deepest desires in ways you've never imagined. North - I was a rock star in the most successful band in Miami. I had money, fame and millions of female fans; and then my world came crashing down. Julian - You know, I've gotta say, no woman has ever had such a pull on me. Fran and I can't keep our hands off each other, but the problem is, we can't let anyone else in either of our bands know about our little tryst.

This short novel, set after the events of The Book of Deacon, follows the blessed and cursed life of Jade Rinton. Stripped of her family and kept in a tall tower by a fierce dragon due to the scheming of a mysterious stranger, Jade seems to be living in a twisted fairy tale. She soon learns, though, that fate has its own ideas of who should play each part, and that family is where you find it.