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In Oakhaven, grief doesn’t just break your heart. It freezes your blood. Sheriff Robert Carpenter survived the tragic death of his daughter through ruthless clinical detachment. He keeps his world ordered, relying on science, logic, and absolute control to keep the pain locked away. But when a catastrophic concrete mill collapse kills six men in his small Ohio jurisdiction, the limits of his logic are tested. The dead are returning home for dinner. When widows begin falling into profound, freezing catatonia, whispering to the empty air in sub-zero living rooms, Carpenter suspects a carbon...

There's never been a better time to get wrapped up in a mesmerizing collection of cozy mysteries than right now! This bundle contains sixteen cozies from the Daisy McDare series including: * The Deadly Legal Affair * The Deadly Directorial Affair * The Deadly Real Estate Affair * The Deadly Rock Star Affair * The Deadly Restaurant Affair * The Deadly Secret Affair * The Deadly Rival Affair * The Deadly Radio Affair * The Deadly Political Affair * The Deadly Dinner Theater Affair * The Deadly Floral Affair * The Deadly Judicial Affair * The Deadly Fiery Affair * The Deadly Crazy Affair * ...

How did Ford Motors use Lean development to pull off one of the most impressive corporate turnarounds in history? Largely by avoiding the mistakes that so many companies make when in a death spiral. They looked beyond manufacturing efficiency to change the very fundamentals of how they developed vehicles. In Designing the Future, Lean product development expert James Morgan and world-renowned Lean guru Jeffrey K. Liker reveal why so many companies have achieved only moderate success with Lean in operations, with a limited impact on their overall business. 

This boxed set features seven Daisy McDare Cozy Creek mysteries including: - The Deadly Art Affair - The Deadly Legal Affair - The Deadly Directorial Affair - The Deadly Real Estate Affair - The Deadly Rock Star Affair - The Deadly Restaurant Affair - The Deadly Secret Affair Welcome to Cozy Creek, a quaint tourist town nestled along the Pacific Coast. Daisy McDare is busy nursing a broken heart, trying to build up her interior decorator business, and baking cookies when murder strikes Cozy Creek. At first she leaves the investigation to Chris Crumple, the local bumbling police detective. ...

Do you love cozy mysteries that feature delicious desserts, smart sleuths, and clever cases? Then this is the collection for you. This boxed set features ten incredible cozy mysteries including: * Deadly Resentment * Killer Finale * Murder and Salt Water Taffy * Death, Divorce, and Dessert * Novel to Die for * The Deadly Political Affair * The Deadly Dinner Theater Affair * The Deadly Floral Affair * The Deadly Judicial Affair * The Deadly Fiery Affair Buy a copy of Cozy Creek 10-Book Set right now!

Daisy McDare's vacation plans go awry when a washed-up rock star turns up dead and the local detective thinks Daisy's cousin Addison is the killer. Daisy arms herself with cupcakes, one-liners, and plenty of spunk to find the killer before her cousin goes to jail for a crime she didn't commit.

He engineered a cure for death. The cost was his own mind. Dr. Mark Standish, a leading AI architect, has achieved the impossible. Using decades of unstructured digital footprint data, he has successfully synthesized the consciousness of his late mentor into a flawless emulation. The “Lazarus Build” is a triumph over the messy inefficiencies of biology. Death is no longer a certainty; it is simply a hardware failure waiting to be patched. But the patch has a thermodynamic cost. When the facility’s indestructible titanium servers begin to rapidly rust and the concrete walls crumble, ...

SOME DISCOVERIES SHOULD NOT SURVIVE THE THAW. Dr. Colin Henderson is a disgraced polar archaeologist running out of time. Terminally ill and desperate to restore his ruined reputation, he embarks on a solo, one-way expedition to an uncharted caldera on the jagged edge of the Ross Ice Shelf. His objective: to prove the existence of an ancient ruin that cost his former team their lives twelve years ago. What he finds buried in the ice is not a city, but a flawless, non-Euclidean geometry carved into ancient basalt. And the geometry is moving. Armed with a lifetime of empirical logic and an ...

In the suffocating dark of Saqqara, the past isn't buried. It’s hungry. Dr. Chloe Sutton is an archaeologist paralyzed by her own history. After a catastrophic excavation collapse ruined her mentor, she operates under a single, unbreakable rule: leave no trace. She is an invisible observer, obsessively documenting ancient ruins without ever disrupting them. But forty meters beneath the Egyptian plateau, her perfect environment is about to forcefully disrupt her. While mapping an undiscovered antechamber, Chloe finds her exit replaced by a seamless, freshly mortared limestone wall. Then ...

A RENEGADE PRIEST. A POSSESSED MERCEDES. AND THE MOTHER OF ALL MONSTERS. Father Thomas O’Neill is the Vatican’s Chief Exorcist, but he doesn’t use holy water. He uses a Glock loaded with rock salt, a pack of Turkish Royal cigarettes to mask the scent of sulfur, and a 1979 Mercedes-Benz 450SEL 6.9 that runs on high-octane petrol and the Wrath of God. Thomas just wanted a sabbatical in Provence. He wanted wine, cheese, and silence. But when the Pope calls on a secure line, the holiday is over. The Codex Carnis—the Book of Flesh—has been stolen from the Vatican’s oxygen-starved ...

A dead car. A storm that won’t end. And a house that is begging to be heard.Merrin Hill isn’t looking for a story. Three years ago, her ambition cost a teenage girl her life, and Merrin hasn’t written a real word since. Now, she hides in the obituary pages of a dying local paper, living by a single, unbreakable rule: Do not get involved.But when her car dies on a flooded backroad, Merrin seeks shelter in Kestrel Cottage.It seems like a sanctuary. The fire is lit. The table is set. But the stew in the bowl is rotting while it steams, and the dust on the floor is undisturbed by human ...

Precision is the only thing keeping them alive. But on Sedna, the math is starting to lie. Julian Fletcher is a man of absolute order. As Lead Engineer of the mining vessel SCV Arkwright, he has spent twenty years suppressing the variables he cannot control. His world is governed by 60 Hz frequencies, hydraulic tolerances, and a meticulous professional record that hides a devastating secret. But when the Arkwright lands on the blood-red tholins of asteroid 90377 Sedna, the vacuum begins to talk back. It starts with a 0.021% variance in the landing struts. Then, a figure in a vintage, ...

Survival is a science. Until the science breaks.Ryan Hollingsworth is a master of the Canadian backcountry. When a lethal Category 4 blizzard traps him thirty miles off the grid in the Mount Robson wilderness, he doesn't panic—he calculates. Seeking shelter in an isolated timber cabin, he finds a raving, paranoid hermit barricading the doors against a monster he claims "tracks the isolated." Ryan dismisses it as drug-induced cabin fever.Then the roaring fire in the iron stove instantly dies, and the ambient temperature drops to absolute zero.The thing that violently breaches the cabin ...

How did Ford Motors use Lean development to pull off one of the most impressive corporate turnarounds in history? Largely by avoiding the mistakes that so many companies make when in a death spiral. They looked beyond manufacturing efficiency to change the very fundamentals of how they developed vehicles. In Designing the Future, Lean product development expert James Morgan and world-renowned Lean guru Jeffrey K. Liker reveal why so many companies have achieved only moderate success with Lean in operations, with a limited impact on their overall business.

She came to the Florida Keys to write a comeback novel. She didn't know she was the story. Sarel Ford is exactly $412.08 away from total ruin. Once a literary icon, she is now a cautionary tale of bankruptcy and writer’s block. She has thirty days to draft a masterpiece in a secluded, rotting cottage in Islamorada, or she loses the last shred of her dignity. All she needs is quiet. All she needs is control. But the cottage has other plans. On her first night, Sarel wakes up to find her word count has doubled. The new text is brilliant, terrifying, and describes her own nightmares with ...

The Vatican’s Chief Exorcist doesn't just fight the darkness. He keeps it caged inside his own mind. Father Thomas O’Neill is a man defined by absolute control. A former archaeologist turned Vatican exorcist, he relies on cold, academic discipline to hunt demonic entities across the globe. But his rigid routine serves a much darker purpose: it acts as a psychological vault, keeping an ancient, world-ending singularity trapped within his own subconscious. His only tether to humanity is Ezekiel, a sixty-pound ginger tomcat who serves as his biological EMF detector. When Ezekiel is ...

The traffic made her late. The temple made her history.Dr. Garrick Kestler is a man of footnotes, not feelings. A sixty-three-year-old retired professor of archaic dialects, he has spent his life decoding the past while ignoring the present. Now, standing under the stifling white preservation tent of the Temple of Apollo in Greece, he has one last chance to fix his relationship with his estranged daughter, Maren.But Maren never arrives.Instead, the modern world simply… stops. The cicadas go silent. The construction lights die. And in the suffocating heat, Garrick finds a backpack lying in...

In this school, the most dangerous thing you can do is look the other way. Lauren Whittaker desperately needs a sanctuary. After a career-ruining scandal, securing a teaching position at L'Institut Montherlant—an elite, highly secretive alpine finishing school in Switzerland—offers the perfect escape. Headmistress Jacqueline Fletcher demands only one thing in exchange for the lucrative and secure position: absolute compliance. No disruptions. No questions. But the centuries-old building is hiding a secret built into its very bones—an engineered cold legacy everyone pretends isn’t ...

In a place of holy sanctuary, reason is the deadliest trap. England, 12th Century. Master Ranulf is a scholar of absolute empirical certainty. Summoned to the isolated, sinking fenland Abbey of St. Jude to investigate a series of terrifying manifestations, he brings the weapons of the Oxford lecture halls: physics, logic, and a fierce disdain for superstition. He expects to find frightened monks, ergot poisoning, and mundane sabotage. He finds an ontological nightmare. The Spectre of Eadwulf is no mere phantom. It is a localized vacuum that feeds exclusively on structured thought. Every ...

Some secrets aren't buried to hide the dead. They are buried to starve the impossible. Investigative journalist Jessica Holt trusts only what she can measure. Raised in the shadow of her mother’s severe schizophrenia, Jessica uses hard data, digital recordings, and empirical facts as psychological armor against the unexplainable. When she arrives in the isolated, rain-slicked town of Oakhaven to expose a corrupt AI data center expansion, she expects a straightforward story of corporate greed and environmental negligence. But the massive excavators haven't disturbed a standard burial ...