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Too much of a good thing...can be murder.Moments after sampling an experimental vintage that could ruin her livelihood, wine expert Sarah McKee is overcome by vivid hallucinations—and the scientist who created it later dies. Security footage shows Sarah pushing him before fleeing the room...

International wine consultant Sarah McKee comes home from an extended business trip to discover her elderly friend Landon Harris has died unexpectedly. Heart attack? Sarah doesn't buy it. Something had been troubling Landon. He had called her numerous times when she was in Europe and sent a letter, asking her to undertake a search for him. And now he's dead. Sarah suspects foul play. But when she starts asking questions, Landon's son, Jean-Paul, warns her to quit interfering, Landon's loyal assistant is fired, and an inquest reveals the chilling truth.

In this lush paranormal set on the shores of the Nile, an elegant stranger persuades a sculptress to join in the search for a lost Egyptian temple. During the search, Karissa uncovers the truth about her father and the reason why she is obsessed with big, black cats.

A week before the fabulous Flight of Fancy Charity Auction in Sonoma, California, someone kills a counterfeiter concocting fakes of very expensive wine. Wine expert Sarah McKee is called in to help identify the victim—if she can. Whoever killed him took his wallet, car, and computer—as well as his face. What they didn’t take was a list in the dead man’s pocket—a mystifying series of numbers, circles and checkmarks.

When Jessica French sees the Masked Artist on Dutch television, she’s convinced that the performer is her dead sister. But how could that be? Olivia died in Amsterdam two years ago. They cremated her. Or did they? There’s only one way to find out. Jessica flies to Amsterdam, but the reclusive artist refuses to see anyone. She values her privacy and fears the man who stalks her.

Veronique Dunn has lived on the streets of Londo City since she was eight years old - an orphan in constant danger of being arrested. Three days before her 18th birthday, she sees an audition announcement for a new Citizen Symphony. This is her big chance. She might be a rag-tag street rat, but she can play the piano like an angel. And in three days, she will be able to step out of the shadows. But staying out of trouble for three days is a real challenge. Her mentor is murdered. She discovers an agent of the Overseers is looking for her.

After the regime executes her husband for treason, Eva Wilder is cast out of her home, stripped of status, safety, and illusion. Eva has only one option: disappear, and trust no one. She intends to do just that—until the tide washes up a half-drowned stranger with blood on his hands and fire in his eyes.

Step back in time to an Edwardian London blanketed by a nuclear winter, where humans are ruled by mysterious overlords and love is forbidden. Strict laws keep citizen in check, until one man decides he's had enough. His desperate act starts a cascade of events that rips Londo City apart and fractures longstanding loyalties—including those of the two brothers who rule Londo and two sisters who decide to follow their hearts, no matter the cost.

Time traveler Amara will do anything to save her wounded companion and the precious cargo she carries, even if it means convincing troubled entrepreneur, Max Griffin, to trust a woman again - and himself. As Max and Amara journey across Egypt to face her nemesis in Greece, Amara realizes an even greater danger threatens her newly found freedom: she is falling in love.

Rae Lambers is over the moon when she inherits half a house from her mentor, Thomas Gregory. The property is a gorgeous Victorian on an island in San Francisco Bay. But the house comes with a snag. The other half has been bequeathed to Thomas Gregory's son, Michael, a man Rae carried a torch for during high school.

Marissa Quinn, a Montana rancher with a serious independent streak meets her match when a botched time-travel experiment threatens the life of her sister and transports a domineering warrior from ancient Gaul into modern day Seattle.

When thugs accost virtuoso Vernonique Wilder after her first public appearance, she is rescued by Roman Brandt, a man with strange silver eyes and a deadly cane. Once Roman hears Veronique play, he decides to honor a request from beyond the grave to protect her from evil. But at what cost to them both?

Sentenced to burn at the stake for sorcery, animal-lover Merofled volunteers to assist a warrior find the gargoyle that is threatening her village, and help rescue the boy it has captured. She's going to die anyway - why not do something positive with her life? So, off she rides with a local farmer and the handsome, war-weary soldier. Merofled secretly hopes that if she and her comrades succeed in saving the boy, she might be granted a pardon. But on the quest to find the gargoyle, Merofled discovers that the men plan to kill the creature she has vowed to defend.

The dead don't lie. The living do. When wine consultant Sarah McKee arrives at Belle Vue Winery, the plan is simple: locate a hidden vault, assess its contents, and go home. But nothing at Belle Vue is simple. Not the legends. Not the people. And definitely not the body lying face down in a chamber that should’ve stayed sealed for centuries. There’s no treasure. Only questions. And one cold, brutal fact—Someone at the winery is a killer. Trapped on the estate and cut off from help, Sarah must unravel a web of lies before history repeats itself.