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While some are nestled cozy in their traditions, others are lost in darkness. An unkindness of ravens lurk like a warning above them while they try to escape their inner demons and fight the dragons they've been trying to avoid. There's no enjoying fatal amounts of pie because their minds are slipping, slipping into a twisted delusion. They are the murderers, the disturbed, the unfortunate, and the misunderstood. These outliers are imprisoned by their circumstances until they slowly fade into the icy landscape, smothered by the forged façade of a perfect Christmas.

Nora Robertson is struggling to find her place in society after being held captive for half a year. Her sense of normal is skewed at best, in love and life but, she is trying to recover with the help of her support system. She pines for a home and a love she can no longer have. A love she knows was wrong but still clings to and desires secretly.  

In idyllic Brunswick, Maine, tragedy strikes, leaving one family struggling to stay together. Seven-year-old Sophie Anderson vanished from a neighbors' front lawn in 2006, leaving the Anderson family reeling.

Thirty years of affection. Ten years of soul shattering love. Eight years of happy employment. Two months of turmoil. One week of truth. A lifetime of betrayal. Would you have seen it coming? Annabelle Fortin landed herself in a bit of trouble. Mandated to community service at an assisted living facility for early onset dementia she meets Jezebel, one of the residents. This is the story that unfolds over the course of Annabelle's court ordered six-month sentence. Nothing is what it seems.

Life is looking up these days for Chicago PI Cat DeLuca. Her Pants on Fire Detective Agency is booming, and FBI boyfriend Chance Savino still curls her toes. She both adores and dodges her outrageous Italian family. Mama's latest scheme to marry her off involves a romantic cruise, insane amounts of champagne, and a hijacked priest to tie the knot. But Cat's near-perfect world is thrown into a tailspin when Captain Bob's dog is kidnapped and a ghost from the past threatens to expose a terrible secret.

Cat is out running in a neighborhood park when she crashes over the faceless body of Bernie Love. Bernie was the finance guy for the scary Provenza family and a friend to Cat's shady uncle Joey, a Ferrari-wheeling cop. As she hauls out her phone, Cat is assaulted by someone with a Rolex, a stun gun, and a wheelbarrow. When the cops show up, the killer is gone—and so is the body.

Caterina DeLuca, burned by her run-around now ex-husband, Johnnie Ricco, took the skills she mastered during marriage and opened her own private-eye agency. Now she’s armed with a camera, ready to print the evidence to 8×10 glossies for use in divorce court. The men in her big, whacko family, all Chicago cops and one a crook, aren’t sure what to make of Cat’s career choice.

When an old friend buys a trench coat and opens his own detective agency, PI Cat DeLuca sees a train wreck coming. Everything Billy Bonham knows about being a private eye he learned from Humphrey Bogart. And that’s just enough to make him dangerous. The bungling detective is in way over his head on a case involving murder and a stolen pair of Marilyn Monroe’s dazzling diamond earrings. His outrageous client, Cristina McTigue, is pursued by men who want her dead. Five minutes after meeting the woman, Cat would cheerfully kill her too.

What does a woman do when she discovers her husband is an incurable cheater? If she’s Cat DeLuca, she launches the Pants on Fire Detective Agency. Now Cat does what two years of unholy matrimony taught her to do: she catches cheaters. When a client, Cleo Jones, shoots her cheating husband’s bum full of buckshot, he disappears, taking her money, dog, and sister with him. Private Investigator Cat DeLuca promises to retrieve the dog and money if her client stops shooting at Walter.

After a party gone wrong and in desperate need of money for the fall semester of college, 20-year-old Nora Robertson needs to escape her hometown. She accepts a summer-long live-in tutoring job for a handsome man and his little sister at a secluded home deep in the mountains. There is no running water. No electricity. No Internet or cell service. When her tutoring job ends, she's hit with a brutal turn of events...she's not permitted to leave.

Ariella is royalty, a princess of Dalthia, but palace rules and the strictures of society leave her restless and longing for more. When she meets Gavin, a palace gardener who both catches her eye and challenges her authority, she feels drawn to him, but how can she befriend a commoner under the watchful eye of her royal family?

When you kill your soul mate, you don’t ever really recover. A year of trying to forget or rather move past it has taught me that you can't. It’s an impossibility to move on from that kind of horrific form of betrayal. If you’re too selfish or scared for suicide, like me, you learn to wake up every morning and follow routine. One foot in front of the other, day after day. Hollow. Lifeless. Haunted. Loving him was like the sun on a summer day. Living without him is like slowly burning to death. Torture.

Impulsive, yes. Irresponsible, sure. Necessary, probably. Going to end badly, most likely. Does any of that matter to me? No. I decided that I can't please everyone, so this week my only goal is to please me. I’m a selfish cow, but I can’t seem to help it. I’m Clara Lord. I own Bloodline’s Tattoo Parlor and have a filthy mouth, no filter, and a really strong objection to bossy idiots, pet names, and wealthy men.

Elle and Colin find themselves ripped apart without warning. As Colin desperately tries to find Elle, she's desperately trying not to lose her mind. Joe, Colin, Jenna, and Ben work hard to rescue Elle, but even if they get her to safety, will she ever really be safe? Will her life ever really be her own? She and Colin may forever be looking over their shoulders, wondering, waiting.

Abused by her husband. Dealing with the loss of her only sister. A suicide attempt that doesn’t end in death, and a husband who wants her inheritance. Elle’s life is a catastrophe. But she has a list, and 30 things she’s determined to accomplish. Love isn't on that list, but it comes crashing unexpectedly into her life.

Caroline survived, or did she? On an icy evening, Caroline, her husband, step-son, and daughter are on their way home, when a tragic accident occurs. She was the only survivor. Unexpectedly, she picks up and moves to Alabama. Alone in a close-knit small town, she struggles to make a fresh start. 

What she saw was enough to make her a liability. Aubry Clark was thrilled with the direction her life was headed. AC Interiors, her design business, was taking off thanks to high profile clients like Liam Lockwood and Mike Chesterfield, giving her a chance....

Charlotte "Lotte" Johnston has always done exactly what's expected of her. She gets good grades and follows the rules. A good girl but a loner—she spends her time on the fringes of high school society, keeping to herself.

My name is Sawyer Crown, I own Bloodlines Tattoo Parlor, despise drama, and have a penchant for broken women. It's a habit I intend to kick. My arrangement with Clara had been simple. We slept together if and when we wanted to. We were always best friends first. We raised Allie together with love. Four years into it, did people assume we were married? Yes. Did people assume I was Allie's father? Sure. Did I love every second of those assumptions? Most definitely.