"COME TO ME." Beneath the crumbling turrets of Duntrune Castle, Tafaline heard the call. Many years before, the keep had been captured, betrayed. She had heard the tale; all self-respecting Scots knew of the massacre and of the brave piper who had ...
Confronting a prowler in the backyard, Dinah is determined to find out why someone has taken an interest in her older sister and herself. Who is the buck-tooth burglar? Why are the Rinaldi's tomatoes always involved? And what is the connection be...
Dinah Galloway, fresh from her adventures with spies and bucktooth burglars, is back in a hilarious new adventure. Chosen for a lead role in the musical version of Wilkie Collins' The Moonstone, eleven-year-old Dinah--amateur detective, budding singe...
While the war to end all wars has changed the face of Europe, some things stay the same; the tempestuous Scottish coast remains a place of unquenchable magic and mystery. Sequestered at Fintry Castle by the whim of her mistress, Hexy Garrow spares se...
In the alternate world of the Wildside, earth is populated not only by humans but creatures of dark, seductive magic--pookas, sylphs, goblins and more. This wonderland is in delicate balance. And the goblins are always plotting. CURIOUSER & CURIOU...
Snippets of a forgotten past are returning to Nyssa Laszlo, along with the power to project her mind. Each projection thrusts her into a glowing still life of color and time, and her every step leads deeper into undiscovered country. Things are chang...
Dinah Galloway--budding diva, enthusiastic gourmand and amateur detective--is back. This time she has taken to the high seas with a gig in the lounge of an Alaska-bound cruise ship. Also aboard are her mother and her older sister Madge, a moody profe...
WHO IS DAMIEN RUTHVEN? In 1816, Lord Byron stayed at the castle of Dr. Johann Dippel, the inspiration for Mary Shelley's Baron von Frankenstein. Trapped there by a lightning storm, he was approached by the doctor and promised a cure for his epilepsy...
Long ago the hobgoblin Qasim was turned to darkness, was made a master of evil. His newest plot is a sacrifice of unspeakable horror that will mean full-fledged war between all species. There exists hope to fight back. Nicholas Anthony, an ER doctor,...
After a hang glider crashes into the pool of the house where Dinah and Madge are house-sitting, the hapless pilot creates more than a splash of suspicion in Dinah’s mind. Why does this itchy intruder make off with Dinah’s inflatable turtle? Why i...
Down a dirt road, Seraphina Sandoval fled her past. Someone in her position could trust no one--not even the sublime stranger she met on her way. No, Seraphina could ill afford to trust. When the Dark Man had found her, she'd been someone else, a...
It's all aboard! for mystery when Dinah Galloway takes the cross-country train from Vancouver to Toronto, to appear on a TV talent show. But will she make it-or be permanently derailed? Along with her sister Madge, and her fellow junior musicians...
He ne'er is crowned with immortality who fears to follow where airy voices lead. But Chloe wasn't hearing voices; she was having visions. Troops of bloodred Adonis flowers gone feral; a monument of dark granite that seemed more gargoyle than angel,...
Alex had seen a dead man. Not that he should be surprised; he was supposedly dead too. Yet he, Alexandre Dumas, famous author of The Count of Monte Cristo and The Three Musketeers, was most definitely still alive--and immortal. He had chronicled much...
Ever been at sixes and sevens but longed to be a perfect ten? Ever wanted to swing, to strut, to dance through life and know the world is your oyster? Ever wanted to show a megaton more moxie than Marilyn Monroe? You'll be relieved to learn there are...
LIKE A THUNDERBOLT Recent widow Jillian Marsh wasn't planning on killing herself that March night, but she hadn't ruled it out, either. It had rained for the last seventeen days--days in which her jaws were locked together and she was unable to spea...
Who would have guessed something he'd penned in jest would turn out to be real and swarm his island retreat? Yet for Ambrose Bierce, renowned nineteenth-century wit and author of The Devil's Dictionary, the joke was on him. If he didn't want to be di...
Amateur detective and singing sensation Dinah Galloway has enough on her plate without having to worry about being pursued by a vengeful stalker. The red-headed twelve-year-old is in the running to sing in commercials promoting beautiful British Colu...
An Unwelcome Visitor A ghostly hound stalks Noltland Castle. For years, such appearances have signaled doom for the clan Balfour, and there is little reason to believe this time will be any different. Wasn't their laird cut down while defending the ...
Joe and his friend Skip are enjoying the thrill of the Big Dip, a famous rollercoaster, until they learn the old man in front of them has been shot. The old man mutters with his dying breath something about getting a Margaret Rose to the police. Joe ...
GLITTERING DEATH... 1793: French revolutionaries lop off the beautiful, if rather vacant, head of Queen Marie Antoinette. They claim the Queen squandered France's treasury to buy a sumptuous diamond necklace. Fast forward to the present: Vancouver hi...
INTO THE GLOAMING Recently widowed, Megan Culbin was glad to escape her abusive marriage and start over in an inherited cottage in a quaint Scottish village. Yet, all here was not as it seemed. Legend had it Findloss was cursed. And the coastal town...
Karo Follett left her career in a blaze of glorious rage, ditching both work and its attendant philandering plagiarist, her boyfriend, for a job restoring the Belle Ange plantation in Virginia. On the way, inspiration struck like...well, like lightni...
"Club Valhalla" is a Viking Time Travel Romance.Viking warrior Tranum died in battle but instead of waking up in Valhalla he found himself in Club Valhalla, a tacky, modern day beach resort in California. Neither Tranum nor the resort were ever the s...
An overturned truck has left wild turkeys running loose in Hope Falls. Chloe Boston, unofficial detective and meter maid, is set the task of rounding them up. While Chloe is hunting turkeys she stumbles on a murder. The chief wants both turkeys and k...
Hope Fall's greatest detective is stuck in parking enforcement because at 98 pounds, 5 foot nothing, she will never be able to pass the department's physical exam. But with the aid of her dog, and her writer's group, Chloe may just be able to solve H...
Chloe Boston, meter maid and unofficial sleuth of the Hope Falls Police Department, is on the trail of the Halloween Killer and a second troublesome criminal, the Pumpkin Thief, who has robbed every pumpkin patch in town. Aided by her dog and new boy...
The dogs have their day in this heartwarming novella, the sequel to "A Curious Affair". Mister Spatz, the trust-fund kitty, has been catnapped and his beautiful owner, Fritzi Darling, is frantic. The town is also being haunted by a ghost Mastiff. Can...
A fresh new world well worth visiting.-Lynsay Sands, New York Times Bestselling AuthorMetropolis is the first novel in the dark fantasy series Book of Dreams.What dreams may come before you shuffle off the mortal coil...Troubled by night terrors? Nee...
The will said she had to marry by her 25th birthday. Where do you find a husband in three days? At the town jail where a man awaits hanging. The plan worked until a week later when the groom got out of jail. Now Angelique and her unwanted husband mus...
Clay would much rather work as a lifeguard at the beach than at Safari Splash, the new water park in town. He's certain the summer will drag along, despite his position at the Boa, the park's fastest slide. The summer job starts to get interesting wh...
Meridian is the second dark fantasy novel in the Book of Dreams series.A serial killer is on the loose and Nicodemus Smith realizes that he is killing along a lay line that divides San Francisco in two. Nic wants to help the police when they come to ...
Destiny is the third and final dark fantasy novel in the Book of Dreams series.Nicodemus Smith can control dreams, but can she control Destiny? She will have to if she is to save her lover and the Narcoscape from a rogue agent of the FBI. Once the cr...
A highland historical romance previously published 8/2001 as "Amarantha" by Leisure Books.He smuggled many men, but could he steal her heart?"Melanie Jackson is a talent to watch."--WritersWrite.com"O, I forbid ye, maidens a' that wear gold in their ...
"Murder on Parade" is the fourth book in the Chloe Boston Cozy Mystery Series.Chloe Boston, unofficial detective and meter maid, is on hand when the Christmas parade’s grand marshal keels over in his antique car. Something is rotten among the candy...
It's Chloe's first Valentine's Day with Alex and someone is out to sabotage the Sweethearts Ball. Her romance may also be a casualty with Alex's parents and their cats in town for a visit and not pleased with their son's engagement....
A highland historical romance formerly published under the name "Manon" by Leisure Press."Well researched, good plotting and cleverly written. I loved it."--Lynsay Sands, Best-selling authorTo LiveAlone and barely ahead of the storm, Manon fled Scot...
"Viva Lost Vegas" is the sixth book in the Chloe Boston Cozy Mystery Series.The path of true love is often rocky, but Chloe and Alex are trying to smooth the way by eloping to Las Vegas. On the way, they take a detour through a ghost town and find a ...
"Death of a Dumb Bunny" is the seventh book in the Chloe Boston Cozy Mystery Series.Someone has murdered the Hope Falls Easter Bunny, a charming and rather simple man who hasn't an enemy in the world. The town is swarming with visitors ready to march...
P.I. Zack Moon made a wish on a falling star and his prayers were answered in the form of his new assistant, Addy Claire. Abigail had always wanted to be a detective, but there were scary things happening at the Psychic Investors Hotline where she wa...
"Red, White and a Dog Named Blue" is the eighth book in the Chloe Boston Cozy Mystery Series."Red, White, and a Dog Named Blue" is a collection of short stories that fills in the gaps betwixt and between in Chloe's life. In the title story, Chloe's ...
Joe won the ranch fair and square in a poker game, but the people of Medicine Wyoming are not ready for a half-breed neighbor. In an effort to achieve calm and respectability, Joe takes his half-brother's advice and contracts for a hard working mail-...
Book Two of the Medicine TrilogyPatience Heckette is on the run, blamed for a murder she didn't commit. Dogged by a vicious bounty hunter, she turns to Sheriff Tyler Dalton known in Medicine as the Patron Saint of Lost Causes. Though the deck is stac...
"Devil of the Highlands" is a highland historical romance originally published under the title "Iona" by Dorchester Publishing in 1999."Melanie Jackson is a talent to watch."--WritersWrite.comIsolated by the icy storms of the North Atlantic, the isle...
From Melanie Jackson, Best-Selling author of the Chloe Boston series comes "Gone South", the third installment in the Butterscotch Jones Cozy Mystery Series.Butterscotch receives a call from the states informing her that her father is dying. But is i...
It's Halloween and this year Chloe is certain she'll win the pumpkin carving contest, but the night before the competition someone uses Mr. Jackman's giant pumpkin to squash an unpopular dentist. This is publicity the town doesn't need. Can Chloe sol...
The eleventh book in Melanie Jackson's bestselling Chloe Boston Cozy Mystery Series."Melanie Jackson is a talent to watch."--WritersWrite.comIt's autumn in Hope Falls, the time of year that thoughts turn to family, friends, and large meals. Instead o...
The first book in Melanie Jackson's bestselling Wendover House Cozy Mystery Series."Melanie Jackson pens a sumptuous modern gothic."--BooklistA strange inheritance leads Tess MacKay to an island in Maine. In her unknown relative's ancient house, she ...
"Home Fires" is the fourth installment in Melanie Jackson's bestselling Butterscotch Jones Cozy Mystery Series.Christmas is coming to McIntyre's Gulch, unfortunately Butterscotch's boyfriend, Mountie Chuck Goodhead, is not. Instead, he's stuck in a ...
The twelfth book in Melanie Jackson's bestselling Chloe Boston Cozy Mystery Series is a 31k word book containing the stories "Snow Angel" and "High Society"."Melanie Jackson is a talent to watch."--WritersWrite.comIn "Snow Angel", Alex and Chloe are ...
Tess has settled into her new home on Little Goose Island only to discover the house has another resident, a troubled ghost whose shocking past has been so deeply buried that she doesn't even have a name. Compelled by compassion and horror, Tess sets...
The thirteenth book in Melanie Jackson's bestselling Chloe Boston Cozy Mystery Series is 34k words in length."Melanie Jackson is a talent to watch."--WritersWrite.comChloe Boston is on vacation with her husband Alex in Florida. While Alex does secur...
"Points West" is the fifth book in Melanie Jackson's bestselling Butterscotch Jones Cozy Mystery Series.McIntyre's Gulch has had it's share of misadventure and close calls with the law, but this time disaster looms large. A corrupt Mountie has stagge...
A body has washed up on the beach and the past which was buried once is now a present danger to Tess MacKay and others in the islands. Questions about the corpse's identity lead to an exhumation of an empty grave and further queries about a supposed ...
From Melanie Jackson, Best-Selling author of the Chloe Boston Mystery Series.The sixth book in the Butterscotch Jones Mystery Series is 27k words in length."Melanie Jackson is a talent to watch."--WritersWrite.comThe time had come-- Butterscotch was ...
The fifteenth book in Melanie Jackson's bestselling Chloe Boston Cozy Mystery Series."Melanie Jackson is a talent to watch."--WritersWrite.comYou are cordially invited to attend the wedding of Mrs. Agatha Graves and Mr. Lawrence Jackman.Chloe Boston ...
"Landscape in Scarlet" is the second installment in the Miss Henry Cozy Mystery Series.It all started with the balloon man. Until the old bag of skin and bones slouched by, Juliet Henry would have rated the upcoming White Oaks Autumn Art Festival and...
Juliet Henry, water-color artist and retired agent of the NSA, wouldn't stack up her knowledge of the human heart against the great romantic poets, but she knows a thing or two about human avarice and stupidity. It comes as no great surprise when the...
Juliet Henry loved snow. Without snow there was no cross-country skiing. No skiing and there was no Christmas spirit, however feeble, to shine on the bleak winter. While others might scan the December skyline looking for the first Christmas lights in...
"Pieces of Hate" is the fourth installment in the Wendover House Cozy Mystery Series."Never before did I believe that the dead would truly ryse up in judgment if not layd to rest in consecrated ground. But I have seen with myne own eyes, those drowne...
The sixteenth book in Melanie Jackson's bestselling Chloe Boston Cozy Mystery Series is a 27k word collection of 5 holiday short stories."Melanie Jackson is a talent to watch."--WritersWrite.comIn "Mystery in the Footlights" someone is trying to sabo...
"Death in a High Place" is the first installment in the Jane Blackthorn Cozy Mystery Series.1921-- The War is over, alcohol is proscribed and women have the vote. Jane Blackthorn should be happy but the holidays are looming and the young widow has no...
What could be more fun than restoring an old castle? It turns out that almost anything would be better for Juliet Henry who is baking away in her lonely tower room with only the history of old tragedy for company. Already strapped for cash, the proje...
The fifth book in Melanie Jackson's bestselling Miss Henry Cozy Mystery Series."Melanie Jackson pens a sumptuous modern gothic."--BooklistAutumn is the perfect time to be in Napa. The grapes are being harvested and one can enjoy the last of the summe...
"On the Beach" is the eighteenth book in the Chloe Boston Cozy Mystery Series.How can a simple Caribbean vacation turn into an international incident? With Chloe Boston on the case anything can happen, that's how. Come along for the ride of a lifetim...
The first book in a brand new historical mystery series."Melanie Jackson is a talent to watch."--WritersWrite.comArmistice Day 1918: Christmas is a peaceful time in Quiet Corner -- except at Mayhem Mansion. There is no peace in Kenneth Mayhew's ance...
Camp Chaos is the 19th book in Melanie Jackson's bestselling Chloe Boston Cozy Mystery Series."Melanie Jackson is a talent to watch."--WritersWrite.comThis time Chloe decides to spend an extended weekend camping with underprivileged kids-- what could...
"Memento Mori" is the sixth installment in the Miss Henry Cozy Mystery Series.Juliet Henry has seen many strange things in her life but nothing prepared her for the Memento Mori Museum in southern California. While she assists Esteban in preparing a ...
"Mysterious Island" is the fifth installment in the Wendover House Cozy Mystery Series.The islands are being visited by a mysterious plague that is killing the fish and driving away the puffins. Certain that events are supernatural in origin, Tess ac...
Chloe is invited to a swank party where a jewel hiest occurs. It appears to be an open and shut case until Chloe begins nosing around. Along the way Chloe succeeds in stirring up some ghosts from her past. The Davenport Caper is a classic whodunit wi...
What could be lovelier than Autumn in New England? Behind its old walls quaint cottages, historic Pendlebrook is charming. But dig into the crimson and gold of the fallen leaves and one finds that something dark broods, waiting for a chance to rise u...
Kenneth Mayhew has been summoned to the mansion of one of New York's elite to foil a cunning jewel thief. The dastard threatens to strike on New Years Eve during a costume ball. Can Kenneth, the beautiful Judith, and faithful manservant Bentley stop...
Pendlebrook is besieged. Under the cover of a supernatural storm, the sisters have decided what must be done about the deodand. Kept in the dark about the sisters' plans but plagued by prophetic dreams, Abigail and Michael have found someone out in t...
"Eye of the Beholder" is the seventh installment in the Miss Henry Cozy Mystery Series.Miss Henry did not like being out where the woodbine twinethed. Especially not when a hurricane arrived, cutting short the art festival. With the airport shut down...
Hope Falls is hosting its first Kite Festival to raise funds for the animal shelter. The festival will bring in funds, tourists and a pair of feuding kite makers, one of whom ends up dead. A little investigation proves that the late Gerhardt Brandt w...
What do prom night, German Chocolate Cake, and organized crime have in common? They're all elements in Chloe Boston's latest case. The FBI needs a baker to keep a mob accountant's sweet tooth satisfied and at the Chief's recommendation, Chloe becomes...
Juliet Henry is no fan of blackmail but she submits when it is the only way to get to an important art show in Mexico. In return for her passport she must do the NSA a favor and discover if the Nazi war criminal hosting the event has a rare work of a...
Leon Rausch of the CIA was not thrilled to be stranded in the Canadian wilderness. While worried about the attempted assassination that brought down his plane not far from McIntyre's Gulch, he has no idea that other dangers are lurking in the woods a...
Juliet Henry knows nothing about modern art but that doesn't stop her from filling in when there is a sudden vacancy at a prestigious art show. She is surrounded by strangers but among the new faces there is one she knows from her days at the NSA. Sh...
"Death in a Low Place" is the second installment in the Jane Blackthorn Historical Mystery Series.Fire Nevada is a town barely clinging to life and it is there Jane Blackthorn goes to hide from her family as she waits for her wedding day. Her beloved...
When Santa’s visit to the Gulch is called off due to a bad storm Butterscotch Jones has to step in and save Ricky’s Christmas. While Butterscotch is busy in Manitoba, Miss Henry is in Quebec. She is trying to drum up some Christmas spirit while h...
Juliet Henry received the invitation to San Francisco with all the enthusiasm she would feel for attending a public execution, but her lover, Raphael, seemed to truly want her company so she had accepted the invitation to Paul House and then packed h...
'But Faustus' offenses can never be pardoned: the serpent that tempted Eve may be sav'd but not Faustus'. Christopher Marlowe knew this only too well when he penned his famous play in the days when Elizabeth I was on the throne. His deal with the Dar...
The Caramel Tree Readers Level 3 is a delicious series of leveled readers for children ages 7 to 9. It offers a long list of new, original stories with approximately 1,000 words. In this series, students are presented with a variety of gen...
Hans, the donkey, has been let go from his job at the petting zoo and goes to Bremen Town to seek his fortunes at the music festival. Along the way he meets an unemployed dog and cat and another fellow musician who happens to be a rooster. At the out...
Deserted, lonely, and disconnected from humanity...Attempting to hide from the binding chains of responsibility to her human facade, Jaden wanders the alleyways of Los Angeles, feeding on the city's homeless. Within these backstreets, she never expec...
On his way to baseball practice, Zeke lines up for Vancouver's newest thrill ride: Death Drop, an elevator that falls faster than gravity. The theme of the ride is based on the story of Persephone, who tumbled into the underworld. Zeke tumbles into a...
The first seventeen years of Alexis’s life are gone, replaced by a black void and ache in her heart. Over the last year she has endeavored to bring stability to her life. However, after her uncle’s heart attack and greedy board members power grip...
MEDUSA'S SCREAM is a thrill-ride that hurtles a train through an out-of-service gold mine in the Fraser Valley. Chase can't believe his luck when he lands a summer job in the food truck outside the ride's entrance. But then he notices strange things ...
Conor loves to climb.So when the crusty old manager of a thrill ride based on Edgar Allan Poe's "The Pit and the Pendulum" challenges Conor to scale the ride in the dark of night and hide a package at the top, he foolishly accepts. But it isn't long ...
Death in Taigh Mhor (Jane Blackthorn Mysteries Book 3)Marry in haste and repent in leisure, or so the old saying goes. Jane is not unhappy in her own marriage but a friend from college, a young heiress, had stumbled into a dark relationship which cou...
Mayhew in Scotland (Kenneth Mayhew Historical Mysteries Book 5)Kenneth Mayhew has returned to the soggy, ancestral acres of England to visit kith and kin. But a little bit of extended family goes a long way and Kenneth and Bentley soon escape the aul...