Small-town life in Hazel Rock becomes a Texas-size crime scene when murder takes a page from Charli Rae Warren's book club's latest mystery . . . Charli takes great pride in running one of the few independent, family-owned bookstores in small-town Texas. She vets everything carefully, with an eye to the eclectic tastes of the locals. That includes the Book Barn's weekly book club selection. This time out it's a mystery whose characters bear a striking resemblance to local citizens, including Charli's friend Sugar . . . who's the prime suspect when her real-life nemesis is found dead in a hotel's water tank. With help from her pet armadillo Princess, Charli campaigns to clear Sugar's sweet name—literally—when the up-for-election mayor becomes a killer's next target. Murder and politics make scandalous bedfellows as Charli discovers that fiction may be fatal, but reality could be just as deadly . . . "A well written, fast-paced...

She disappeared without a trace seven years ago, now he’s about to discover the secrets she’s guarded with her life… Téa Bello took advantage of a bad situation to gain her freedom, but her escape allowed another man to suffer. Her sins haunt her; chase her from Mexico to Italy where she’s been hiding in plain sight working at a food bank to help the homeless. Atoning for her transgressions, however, does nothing to ease the pain of the past, and leads her into a web of crime when her identity is revealed. She’s the key to his sister’s happiness, and there’s nothing he won’t do to expose the truth… Daniel ‘Khaos’ Artino has been his sister’s keeper since their parents were killed, and now the past threatens her future happiness. Determined to find out what happened five years ago that caused her fiancé to be kicked out of the Secret Service, Khaos vows to find the one witness who can clear the man's name—a woman everyone else says doesn’t exist. Khaos tracks her miraculous escape from the hotel room, where a prostitute died and the wrong man was blamed for her death, to Rome. But now that he’s found the witness he sought, he’s fallen in love with the woman she is and suddenly unmasking Téa is too big a risk to take. But the truth will only lead to heartache…unless Khaos and Téa takedown the mob and allow their love to defeat the tragedies of the past.

Charli Rae Warren doesn't plan on striking it rich as the owner of an independent bookstore in Hazel Rock, Texas—especially one with a pink armadillo as its mascot. But when an ingenious advertising campaign puts her business on the map, it ropes in some deadly publicity . . . Charli can't believe writer Lucy Barton has agreed to promote her latest Midnight Poet Society novel at The Book Barn Princess—or that there's only a week-and-a-half to prepare for the signing. It's all because of The Book Seekers, a smartphone app created by her cousin Jamal exclusively for Charli's bookstore, which sends fans on a virtual scavenger hunt around town for a chance to meet the bestselling author. But as soon as it goes live, people turn up dead . . . Someone's using The Book Seekers to track victims and copycat the fictional Midnight Poet Society homicides, and horrified locals suspect Jamal could be the mastermind behind the crimes. While Charli...

Rilee Dust isn’t your typical wood carver, she’s young and making a go of it in the small village of Tickle Creek, Oregon. She’s also the only one in town who isn’t determined to get rid her strip club neighbor. Everyone else, however, is ready to evict the Girls, Girls, Girls. When a dog adopts her and turns her life upside down, Rilee’s not so sure it’s a good thing. Especially when he leads her to a moose, a man and a dead body. Because the moose kicked her butt, the man saved her life and the dead body is one of her customers. Now Rilee’s smack dab in the middle of all the small town politics with a killer on the loose who has an ax to grind. And Rilee just may be the next victim to have her name carved in stone.

Running an independent bookstore in small-town Hazel Rock, Texas, doesn't sound like a high-risk pursuit. But when a fundraiser reveals a story with a truly killer ending, Charli Rae Warren will need to scramble to sort out the deadly plot... Sponsoring the literacy drive to benefit the foster care system should be a feel-good endeavor, but one of Charli's helpers is definitely on another page. Charli's dad is distracted and keeping something secret, which Charli suspects is a harmless flirtation with an attractive county clerk who offered to lend them a hand. It's nothing to worry about—until the same clerk winds up dead... When nosy locals begin pointing fingers, Charli finds herself entangled in a race to uncover the killer's identity—and to get to the bottom of a shattering family secret that could rewrite her history in alarming ways. Suddenly Charli is facing her worst fears and her childhood nemesis in order to unmask a...

Catch the Wave with a wild new paranormal mystery series that will leave you locked in the middle of the impact zone! Bikinis and board shorts are all in a day’s work for surf instructor Malia Fern. Life is good on the island of Kaua’i, even if her social calendar is lacking and a big surf company is droppin’ in to steal her customers. When Malia stumbles upon the body of tourist who speaks to her from his sandy grave, life as she knows it disappears in the outgoing tide. She didn’t expect to find herself investigating his death, she has no experience, nor any desire to work in the family business of law enforcement, but that’s exactly what she’s doing because the victim keeps asking for help and a group of mystical Menehune men need her protection. If she knew how to offer it, things would be a whole lot easier. To make matters worse, her love life is out of control. Makaio Natua the forbidden, bad boy cop is everything she wants, and his charming, security specialist cousin, Alapai Lincoln, is everything she needs. What could be worse than meeting the two of them at the same time? A curse designed to control her future. With life turning wacky, Malia is determined to discover if the victim’s death was an accident, a dope deal gone bad, or something more sinister than she could possibly imagine, because this time her last big wipe out may leave her Dead On Arrival.