From This Day Forward — Gail Daley

When Lady Jayla O'Teague finds the body of a retired shopkeeper on the beach, a series of mysterious events draw her into a web of passion, terror and murder. She must find the killer and discover what he wants because she is his next target. All the while dealing with a disfunctional house-bot who thinks he's a sex-bot, Jake, her nosy boyfriend, an overprotective family, interplanetary jewel thieves with missing loot, and the interplanetary and local detectives who think she stole the jewels…The kids from the first three Handfasting books are all grown up and facing their own challenges. The Handfasting is an epic tale of a family's struggle to survive on an alien world. Meet the courageous women and dangerous men who make a home in space. A SCI-FI COZY MYSTERY