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When Cherry Tucker's invited to paint the "kill portrait" for the winner of Big Rack Lodge's Hogzilla hunt, it seems like a paid vacation. Back home in Halo, a Hatfield-McCoy-style standoff builds between Luke and Cherry's families. She's ready for a weekend away, hobnobbing with rich and famous hunters, where she can forget her troubles and nobody knows her name.

After months on the run, sneaking onto a luxury cruise liner wouldn’t be easy, but she’d done worse things to survive. The ship is owned by Roslyn Travel Co, the sole proprietor of a mysterious vacation destination exclusively for the filthy rich.

The curtain rises on Cherry Tucker’s debut as a high school set designer at the posh Peerless Day Academy. Cherry’s been hired for an adaptation of Romeo and Juliet, but the drama director is hoping Cherry can also turn the spotlight on a malicious social media bully who’s sending poisonous texts to the faculty. The director’s got his own drama to hide, and the phantom texter seems eager to spill school secrets. When the principal’s secretary commits suicide, Cherry suspects foul play.

Witch Island used to be feared. Even the bravest would not dare go there. Legend said a witch had been burned alive at the stake, and upon her death she cursed the town. Terrified residents performed rituals to keep her spirit trapped on the island where she was buried.

Mystery usually follows murder, but when Baby Cakes Sloan bites the bullet, everybody in Rochester already knows whodunit. Beautiful Babs had been Marcus Andrelli’s lawyer—until she got iced on the crime king's yacht. Of course, all fingers of guilt point to Andrelli. But Jesse James smells something fishy. And she’s casting for the truth, even if she has to drag the bottom of Lake Ontario to get it. Nobody knows Andrelli better than Jess. Mafia don, certainly. Killer of the woman he loved, no.

With a classical series sold and a portrait commissioned, Cherry Tucker's art career is in Georgia overdrive. But when the sheriff asks Cherry to draw a composite sketch of a hijacker, her life takes a hairpin as the composite leads to a related murder, her local card-sharking buddy Max Avtaikin becomes bear bait and her nemesis labels the classical series "pervert art". While she seeks to help the misfortunate and save her local reputation, Cherry's hammer-down attitude has her facing the headlights of an oncoming killer.

Murder doesn’t set much colder than on the icy shores of Lake Ontario, where Jesse James is hot on the trail of a real estate scam that really has the feisty reporter steamed. This sleazy operation is behind a string of costly accidents - but it's no accident when Jesse wakes up, bandaged head to toe, in a hospital where everyone insists she’s Daphne Malcross, a young socialite with more connections and cash than common sense.

As with many of Ostrovsky's plays, the target of the author's satire is the merchant class and the inevitable corruption associated with mercantile endeavors. In Ostrovsky's bitterly realistic world, all personal encounters end in transactions, some humourous and some tragic.

Two action-packed, romantic comedy holiday crime capers from The Wall Street Journal bestselling Maizie Albright Star Detective series. Find out why fans love these light and fun mystery novellas with a touch of romance and a heavy dose of holiday cheer featuring the ex-celebrity turned detective (Almost. She’s still in training), Maizie Albright.

Sarah Meyer has lived a rather interesting life. Conjoined with a Demon that won't let go, she has been under the protective custody of the Sisters of San Francesco. Under the guidance of her mentor, Father Lucian, she helps solve some of the world’s most terrifying paranormal mysteries. These are her stories.

Climate change wiped out planet Earth in 2054. However, the richest and most powerful one percent of society did not hesitate to escape to a space station. But what would that new society become if classism and fascism were what prevailed among them at the time our world died?

Boomtown San Diego, in 1888, erupts in murder. Retired marshal and hero of the O.K. Corral Wyatt Earp is involved. What's really going on? Award-winning, best-selling mystery author James Musgrave takes issues from the present and turns them into ingenious puzzles for listeners to solve. In the 19th century, the same human foibles existed, but the problems happened at a much slower pace.

Emily Fredrickson is left devastated after her husband, Matthew, is arrested for doing meth at their daughter's third birthday party. Her small town of Hibbing turns on her quickly as rumors circulate and the accusations and judgment get her fired from the job she loves. Greenrock Road is a story of heartbreak, hidden family secrets, and a mother's quest to make peace with the decisions of her past.

Destiny Lawson cannot believe her luck. On a run in the middle of the woods her freshman year of collage, she meets the man of her dreams, Bryan Fredrickson. He is sweet, handsome, and everything she dreamed of. Their relationship continues to strengthen and then one day he takes her back to the bridge where they met and asks for her hand in marriage.

Agent Nora Wexler rolls up her sleeves to tackle a new set of mysteries and killings in this riveting new sequel trilogy full of devastating revelations and action! Now a seasoned FBI agent, Nora discovers that having experience working for the bureau is much different than knowing what'll happen next. When a shooting takes place at Joint Base Andrews, she finds that the killer has committed suicide, but the question of what happened is more alive than ever. Meanwhile, her personal life threatens to explode when Travis takes up the case of another woman.

Nora and Travis are quickly forced back on the hunt for their primary target as the stability of the military continues to disintegrate, giving rise to a daunting force that threatens to change everything about the American way of life.

Nora and Travis' honeymoon does not go as planned. Don't miss the exciting second book in the Agent Nora Wexler Mysteries Wedding Trilogy and the fifth book overall in the series.

I’ve made it out of Nocturnal Academy. No longer do I exist to please the vamps. Now, as a member of the Winter Court, my job is to execute them. Yet my new standing as an assassin is not much better than being a courtesan. The rules of the game have changed, but I’m still a pawn. Worse, Thorsten, a handsome jerk of a vampire who has messed with my mind and feelings one too many times, is back.

There's nothing like finding love in a vacation getaway! Four sweet, clean romances! The Sand Escape Resort Series box set features four books: The Billionaire Cook, The Billionaire Geek, The Billionaire Partner, and The Billionaire Tour Guide. Listen to these funny, heartwarming clean billionaire romances today!

Julia Rigby didn't expect her boyfriend to break up with her. I mean, don't you sense those type of things coming? I mean, life was good. She was thriving at her job. She just won a trip to an exclusive resort. And...her relationship that she thought was going strong...wasn't.... But Julia didn't have time to think about that loser who crushed her heart. She had a vacation prize to claim! And she was determined to make the most out of this now solo trip! Dean Lockwood was set to take over his family's billion-dollar business. No biggie.