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A candy shop sprinkled with holiday magic might be the perfect ingredients for a Christmas miracle. After enduring the toughest period in her life, at twenty-eight Noel Puckett is determined to move forward while keeping Beaufort Candy Company afloat this Christmas. Inheriting the beloved shop was bittersweet because she would rather celebrate the joy of the season with her parents and Fletcher. Luckily, Noel’s spirited eight-year-old helper elves, Levi and Laney, along with longtime family friend Mrs. Madelyn, believe in the candy shop and Christmas miracles.

Shy and deaf, 23-year-old Claire Deveraux has worked hard to land her dream job as a foreign service officer at the US Embassy in Paris. Yet her idyllic life is shattered when she finds a woman lying on the restroom floor dying from a gunshot wound. The dying woman utters three words to Claire and conceals a thumb drive in Claire’s pocket. The items are keys to the location of proceeds from a bank robbery. The killer, certain Claire now has sole possession of those items, must find her, recover the code words and the drive, then kill her before she can solve the puzzle and recover the money.

When a Fort Worth police detective finds herself caught between a child custody battle and the hunt for a cunning psychotic killer, she must juggle conflicting priorities. Detective Madison Chase must find a way to keep her most prized possession—her young daughter—safe from a killer of sexual predators who leaves rhymes as clues and an ex-husband hell-bent on gaining custody of their daughter.

For many years, Jeffrey Demitrack searched for a meaningful and fulfilling relationship and, most of all, hoped that one day he would find a significant other who understood and unconditionally accepted his struggles with epilepsy. People have their insecurities, and relationships already are hard without throwing seizures into the mix, so his search has been a challenging one.

The challenge of raising her siblings is one Mariah Bartee willingly bears. She’ll keep them together at all costs—and safe from the danger lurking on the mountain. A handsome stranger’s arrival raises the stakes when he asks for her help. She doesn’t trust easily.

Katie Porter must follow several confusing leads in her search for the truth concerning a case that the Fairfield Police Department has been unable to solve. She and her friends follow a trail of sinister notes, multiple suspects, unwanted flirtations, and a story that seems to go nowhere. Add the sudden and mysterious disappearance of the Porter’s elderly postman, and the near abduction of Gran, and the situation has the potential to become deadly. Pressure mounts as the crimes escalate. Can Katie Porter find Devlin Douglas before it’s too late?

Neva's goals at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago are simple. Enjoy the spectacle—perhaps the greatest the United States has ever put on. (The world's fair to end all world's fairs!) Perform in the exposition's Algerian Theatre to the best of her abilities. And don't be found out as a witch.

Never a Cloud is a big old-fashioned, contemporary, social novel narrated by Violet Grey, an eccentric, out-of-the-ordinary loner, living on the coast of Maine. The deeply emotional love story of a complicated family in an enchanted place. A winter gathering at Margot Reid’s family home, Otyrburn, but this year is different, her oldest friend Owen and she will restore the walled garden. The party is interrupted by the unexpected arrival of the mysterious Ava Kerouac, Violet’s daughter and Margot’s half-sister—whom Margot has never met.

Hoodoo is old North American folk magic, born from African spiritual traditions brought over by slaves. Over the centuries it incorporated Native American and European influences using what worked and discarding what did not. What is left is an adaptable, powerful magical system that works.

The world of magic is not always full of light and love. Sometimes you’ll need to be a bit wicked. In this three-books-in-one grimoire, you’ll learn magic for justice, magic for protection, and magic to harness the power of the moon.

Midge Pennington is in trouble. She’s been arrested for the murder of her husband that was deemed an accident five years earlier. And who knew she was even married? Add a bloody crime scene, a rumored affair, nosy neighbors, an attractive chemist, and the best lawyer money can buy, and things really get interesting! Katie must use her best analytical skills and deductive reasoning to try and solve this cold case before her Gazette newspaper colleague is put away for life. Will this story be the one that gets the better of her?

What if the remarkable story of Ebenezer Scrooge was true? What if the account was relayed to Dickens, and he turned it into A Christmas Carol? What if the ghostly visitations did not begin or end with Scrooge, but the ghosts of Christmas past, present, and yet to come visit one misanthropic soul in need of reclamation every Christmas Eve? This modern-day sequel to the Charles Dickens classic assumes all of the above. And this time, the spiritual trio’s attentions have been directed to a not-so-nice woman in Philadelphia.

A little white lie never hurt anyone. When Clarissa takes a much needed nannying job under slightly false pretenses, she doesn't think it will be such a big deal. She may have told her movie-star boss that she was married, but that shouldn't matter—even though it was a specific job qualification. After all, the man is just worried about love-struck groupies applying for the position, and Clarissa doesn't want anything to do with men for a long, long time. Men have been nothing but trouble. But the love-struck groupies have a point.

Used as a source of power since ancient times, from the Greeks to the Egyptians to the Persians, the moon has always been magical. It was viewed as a connection to the natural world, because our ancestors all knew one important thing: The moon brings light to the darkness.

The world is not always a nice place. Sometimes, it can be downright treacherous. That means sometimes you'll have to protect yourself, and other times you'll have to make your own justice. Hoodoo is old North American folk magic, born from the African spiritual traditions brought to the New World by slaves. Over the centuries it incorporated Native American and European influences, using what worked and discarding what did not. What is left is an adaptable, powerful magical system that works.

Katie Porter faces her most challenging, and dangerous, case to date after she writes a newspaper article about a series of local bank heists. Soon she’s confronted by the unusual methods of a team of clever thieves, evil threats to those she loves, a police sergeant determined to ruin her, and a ghost who has returned from the past to haunt Rosegate’s woods.

Maggie, a wife and mother, is disillusioned with her daily routine. Despite her boredom, when her husband David is called on assignment to South Africa, Maggie resents having to rearrange her life all because David has decided they all need to traipse halfway across the globe. While on safari, Maggie is catapulted into a mother’s worst nightmare: Her daughter Hannah has gone missing. Faced with the harsh truth of her abusive marriage, Maggie will have to find the courage to abandon her marriage and confront her self-destructive actions in order to save the life of her daughter.

When her ship is attacked and crew slaughtered by a mysterious creature, Violet "V" Green is rescued by the handsome Dr. Dominic Shade and brought aboard his magnificent luxury class vessel, The Persephone. The opulent halls, fine food, and high-quality hallucinogens are almost enough to convince her that she could recover from the horrific tragedy that brought her here. But from the moment she arrives, something only she can hear torments her endlessly: a woman's scream. Is it trying to tell her something, or is she losing her mind?

Sister Jane's Lenten Journal is a companion novella to Sister Jane. The journal entries cover the last 46 days of the original book and end on the same day. Hiding under the name Lydia, Jane has spent most of the previous two years in a monastery. But she is chafing at her restrictions particularly in the face of COVID-19 surging outside the monastery walls. She must act. Challenges abound: her identity, the threat of discovery, and the Sister Jane Society that has usurped her credibility.

Katie Porter and her friends volunteer to help with the Pearson Playhouse’s final stage production of the season. Soon, they find themselves in the midst of plots, betrayal, lost love, dark secrets from the past, and an old theater that is falling down around them. Will Katie uncover the truth in time to save the show, the playhouse, and those she loves before all is lost? Find out in this third Katie Porter mystery!