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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 ...

"Twelfth Night" is the second installment in the Wendover House Cozy Mystery Series. Tess has settled into her new home on Little Goose Island only to discover the house has another resident, a troubled ghost whose shocking past has been so deeply buried that she doesn't even have a name. Compelled by compassion and horror, Tess sets out to discover the spirit's identity. Dismayed at her discovery of an old murder, she gathers the descendants of those who were part of the dead woman's life-- and death. It's a Twelfth Night party that no one will forget.

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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Welcome to Hope Falls, where Autumn is in the air… "Melanie Jackson is a talent to watch." —WritersWrite.com An overturned truck on the outskirts of town has left wild turkeys running loose in Hope Falls. Chloe Boston, unofficial detective and meter maid, is set the task of rounding them up before Thanksgiving. While Chloe is hunting turkeys, she stumbles on a murder. Clues at the scene are pointing Chloe in the one direction she doesn't want to look. The chief wants both turkeys and killer rounded up by the holiday weekend. Can Chloe do the seemingly impossible and also be maid of ...

The sixth Chloe Boston bundle is 113k words and includes the full texts of books 18 through 20 in the Chloe Boston Mystery Series: "On the Beach", "Camp Chaos", and "The Davenport Caper".

The Chloe Boston Mysteries Volume 3 includes the full texts of books 8 through 10 in the Chloe Boston Cozy Mystery Series: "Red, White, and a Dog Named BLue", "Haunted", and "The Great Pumpkin Caper". "Melanie Jackson is a talent to watch." --WritersWrite.com "Red, White, and a Dog Named Blue (A Chloe Boston Mystery Book 8)" is a collection of short stories that fills in the gaps betwixt and between in Chloe's life. In the title story, Chloe's 4th of July turns deadly when she is called in to judge a baking competition at the county fair. In the story Batter Up!, Chloe gets talked into ...

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 ...

The Miss Henry Mysteries Volume 1 is a collection of cozy mystery books 2-4 in the series. It includes the novels "Landscape in Scarlet", "Requiem at Christmas", and "Impression of Bones". "Portrait of a Gossip", the first novel in the series, should be read separately before reading this bundle.

It is Edam's first Thanksgiving and living up to the spirit of the day he has generously invited several friends without family to the farmhouse for dinner-- without warning his mother. But everyone soon rallies around and they carry on with the feast in this 8th book of the 'Bedtime Stories for Children' series.

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 thirteenth book in Melanie Jackson's bestselling Chloe Boston Cozy Mystery Series is 34k words in length. "Melanie Jackson is a talent to watch." —WritersWrite.com Chloe Boston is on vacation with her husband Alex in Florida. While Alex does security work for a local hotel, Chloe pursues her new favorite pastime at the horse racing tracks. Meeting a wealthy horse owner, Chloe is drawn deeper into the world of world class racehorse breading and training. But soon a doping incident followed by a murder ruin her fun and put Chloe back on the case. Meanwhile, Alex needs help with a ...

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...

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-- ...

When Santa’s visit to the Gulch is called off due to a bad storm Butterscotch Jones has to step in and save Ricky’s Christmas.

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 ...

"Death of a Dumb Bunny" is the seventh book in the Chloe Boston Cozy Mystery Series. Someone has murdered the Hope Falls Easter Bunny, a charming and rather simple man who hasn't an enemy in the world. The town is swarming with visitors ready to march in the parade and hunt for hidden eggs. Somewhere in the crowd is a killer. Chloe and her faithful dog, Blue, must put aside their Easter bonnets and hop into action if she is stop the mad archer before he strikes again.

Death in Taigh Mhor (Jane Blackthorn Mysteries Book 3) Marry in haste and repent in leisure, or so the old saying goes. Jane is not unhappy in her own marriage but a friend from college, a young heiress, had stumbled into a dark relationship which could end up costing her life. Jane is summoned to Taigh Mhor by a desperate letter talking of malicious spirits and strange accidents. She arrives to find that the unpleasant situation has come to a sinister pass. All her wits will be needed to save her friend from the local evil that wants to see her dead. Christmas in a Cold Place (Short Story)...

When Santa’s visit to the Gulch is called off due to a bad storm Butterscotch Jones has to step in and save Ricky’s Christmas. While Butterscotch is busy in Manitoba, Miss Henry is in Quebec. She is trying to drum up some Christmas spirit while hunting for a missing lawyer. Nicodemus Smith has her hands full tracking down a lost philanthropist who fancies himself to be Santa Claus, and Jane Blackthorn is going her best to cope with a plum pudding thief who is vexing her first Christmas in merry olde England. While Kenneth Mayhew tries to restore order at the Mayhem Mansion revels, Chloe...

"Up in the Air" is the twenty-first book in the Chloe Boston Cozy Mystery Series. Hope Falls is hosting its first Kite Festival to raise funds for the animal shelter. The festival will bring in funds, tourists and a pair of feuding kite makers, one of whom ends up dead. A little investigation proves that the late Gerhardt Brandt was not a good man and had an impressive list of enemies. Can Chloe find the killer before everyone packs up their kites and heads home?