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From Melanie Jackson, Best-Selling author of the Chloe Boston Mystery Series. The sixth book in the Butterscotch Jones Mystery Series is 27k words in length. "Melanie Jackson is a talent to watch." --WritersWrite.com The time had come-- Butterscotch was ready to tie the knot! Plans were under way for the festivities and then the Mountie got called away on a dangerous case. Butterscotch was sure she could cope but, as the saying goes, man plans and the gods laugh. They laugh twice as hard at frantic brides. Will the Mountie be able to wrap up his case in time to get back to their wedding-- ...

The sixteenth book in Melanie Jackson's bestselling Chloe Boston Cozy Mystery Series is a 27k word collection of 5 holiday short stories. "Melanie Jackson is a talent to watch." —WritersWrite.com In "Mystery in the Footlights" someone is trying to sabotage the Hope Falls Halloween production of Macbeth. Fortunately Chloe is working on constructing the sets so she is available to apprehend the villain. In "Over the River" Chloe and Alex must battle the local wildlife for their dinner when they decide to celebrate Thanksgiving in an aunt's remote cabin in the woods. In "The Dentist" Chloe ...

This fifth volume includes the full texts of books 14 through 17 in the Chloe Boston Cozy Mystery Series: "The Sham", "Murder by the Book", "Cornucopia", and "Make Over".

The fifth book in Melanie Jackson's bestselling Miss Henry Cozy Mystery Series. "Melanie Jackson pens a sumptuous modern gothic." --Booklist Autumn is the perfect time to be in Napa. The grapes are being harvested and one can enjoy the last of the summer sun while sipping wine and taking in an art show. Yes, Napa is perfect. Unless your host ends up murdered out in his own vineyard and the suspects without alibis include friends, loved ones, and a possible rogue NSA agent who wants help from Juliet Henry. Mystery Series Chloe Boston Buttersctoch Jones Wendover House Miss Henry Jane ...

Juliet Henry, water-color artist and retired agent of the NSA, wouldn't stack up her knowledge of the human heart against the great romantic poets, but she knows a thing or two about human avarice and stupidity. It comes as no great surprise when the small artists' colony of Bartholomew's Woods ends up with a dead resident.

From Melanie Jackson, Best-Selling author of the Chloe Boston series comes "Gone South", the third installment in the Butterscotch Jones Cozy Mystery Series. Butterscotch receives a call from the states informing her that her father is dying. But is it a genuine deathbed call for reconciliation or a trap? In either case, Butterscotch solicits the help of Detective Chuck Goodhead to sneak over the border to see her father. Chuck risks his career to aid her and from that point on, chaos reigns. "A light, fun read with an eccentric cast of characters who bring the village of MacIntyre's Gulch ...

The Book of Dreams is a dark fantasy anthology containing all three books in the trilogy. It includes the novels "Metropolis", "Meridian", and "Destiny". "Melanie Jackson is a talent to watch." --WritersWrite.com The First Book of Dreams: Metropolis What dreams may come before you shuffle off the mortal coil... Troubled by night terrors? Need someone to bodyguard your dreams? Have a loved one who has slipped into a coma and the doctors can't explain why they sleep, or offer any hope of bringing them back? Then call Hypnos Inc. and ask for Nicodemus Smith, the dream retrieval expert. Though ...

This is a short story set in the Narcoscape of the Book of Dreams series. It is named "Dreaming of a White Christmas" and was originally printed in the collection A Cozy Christmas. In this brief installment, Nicodemus Smith has her hands full tracking down a lost philanthropist who fancies himself to be Santa Claus. Enjoy the yuletide oddness with Nic and the gang no matter what the season. I'll see you on the dreamside, ---Melanie

An Unwelcome Visitor A ghostly hound stalks Noltland Castle. For years, such appearances have signaled doom for the clan Balfour, and there is little reason to believe this time will be any different. Wasn't their laird cut down while defending the Scottish king, leaving a boy to take a man's place? "The Night Side delivers in spades... a seasoned storyteller, Jackson delivers another entertaining story." ---Fresh Fiction Frances Balfour has done all she can, using guts and guile to keep her cousin safe in his new lairdship, but enemies encroach from all sides, and now the secluded isle of ...

Do you remember your scariest Halloween ever? James Henderson does. It was the year he turned ten. What started out as a sensible plan to collect the most candy while trick-or-treating soon turned into a terrifying adventure for James, his two friends and his kid brother, Ricky.

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Hans, the donkey, has been let go from his job at the petting zoo and goes to Bremen Town to seek his fortunes at the music festival. Along the way he meets an unemployed dog and cat and another fellow musician who happens to be a rooster. At the outskirts of Bremen Town they are approached by a hare who wants to help a kind farmer who has been kidnapped by thieves. The musicians agree to detour from their new career path long enough to take part in an adventure.

The Miss Henry Mysteries Volume 2 is a compendium of books 5-8 in the cozy mystery series. It includes the novels "Blue Period", "Memento Mori", "Eye of the Beholder", and "Drowning Pool". The wine country is a great place to visit, unless there's a corpse in the vineyard. From Napa Miss Henry travels to Los Angeles for the opening of the Memento Mori Museum. After escaping the mummy in Los Angeles, Juliet gets caught in a huricane at a folk festival. The quartet ends with Juleit in Mexico taking on a job for her former employer. Mystery, murder, and mayhem abound in the delightful ...

"Haunted" is the ninth book in the Chloe Boston Cozy Mystery Series. Initially suspended from the Hope Falls Police Department, Chloe takes on an urgent case for Alex and finds herself playing ghost buster. Haunted is an action packed, cliff hanger of a cozy. You've come this far, why not go all the way?

This is a retelling of Cinderella, one of the classic bedtime stories for children. Even a Cinder Mouse wants a chance to go to the ball, and with the help of godmother bat with powerful magic and some loyal bug friends, Cindy will have her chance to meet Prince Darcy.

The road to true love is made rocky with horse thieves, highwaymen, former fiances, and a very determined Bow Street Runner. "Melanie Jackson is a talent to watch." —WritersWrite.com With the letter breaking his engagement, Stephan Kirton's hopes for respectability and happiness went up in smoke. It was inevitable that his travels abroad and "interaction with the lower classes" would put him beyond the scope of polite society. That and he was born a bastard. Ormstead Park was a place for dancing and flirting, for drinking and gambling, and for less innocent sports. It was a place where he...

Mayhew in Scotland (Kenneth Mayhew Historical Mysteries Book 5) Kenneth Mayhew has returned to the soggy, ancestral acres of England to visit kith and kin. But a little bit of extended family goes a long way and Kenneth and Bentley soon escape the auld lang syne by heading north to Scotland. But things are not peaceful over the border and Cill Fhinnein House where they are staying seems to be living under the pall of witches' curse and the ghost of her demon dog. Kenneth knows he must lend a hand to help his beleaguered chum, and ghost hunting is more fun than shooting grouse in the rain. ...

Welcome to the Gulch... funny things happen in the middle of nowhere. When the mafia plane exploded, that should have been the end of troubles McIntyre's Gulch, but the government only became more interested in The Gulch and RCMP detective, Chuck Goodhead. Butterscotch Jones has other woes besides. A giant skeleton has been discovered outside of town and Sasquatch Watch is on the way with reporters and an anthropologist. Can she get rid of them before someone ends up dead or the town's past ends up exposed? This includes the bonus short story "Don't Eat Possum In The Fall". "A light, fun ...

Evil forces were on the rise, and Io was part of a secret association dedicated to stopping them. Lutins were replacing society's bigwigs and no one was safe. The only solution was to infiltrate the menace, travel beneath the Motor City into the hordes thronging Goblin Town, rendezvous with Jack Frost and uncover the plot. Melanie Jackson writes "Romance for those with a yet for something different." --Romantic Times The quest would lead to the monster band SEXXX and then to Horroban, the goblins' never-before-seen king. It would force Io through labyrinths of vice; challenge every aspect ...

Who is Damien Ruthven? In 1816, Lord Byron stayed at the castle of Dr. Johann Dippel, the inspiration for Mary Shelley's Baron von Frankenstein. Trapped there by a lightning storm, he was approached by the doctor and promised a cure for his epilepsy. The "cure" changed him forever. And is he "Mad, Bad, and Dangerous to Know?" In the 21st century, Brice Ashton wrote a book. Like all biographies of famous persons, her's on Lord Byron was sent to critics in advance. One Damien Ruthven responded. He contacted Brice from New York suggesting her work contained two errors—and that only he could ...