Clean Mystery Suspense

The Hendricks family has always believed it’s smart to remember that not everything is as it seems and that even the most carefully guarded secrets have a way of finding their way to the light. Unfortunately, enemies usually aren’t too far behind. Dangerous or not, Logan Hendricks plans on being a lot more involved in his newly-formed detective agency’s current investigation. A brazen crime has already been committed and he wants to be part of finding out who’s responsible. As always, his grandsons have a different view of how things are supposed to work. They want him to sit back ...

♥The Bakery Romance Series ♥ What would you do if you caught your fiancé cheating on you? How do you heal a broken heart? A jilted baker... A wealthy businessman... Toni enjoys making chocolate treats in her bakery. Haunted by her abusive past, she struggles with her faith in God. Her world changes when a handsome stranger arrives, reminiscing about his childhood. Jason Matthews misses his days of working in his family's pastry shop. Estranged from his father, he longs to rediscover the joy and comfort from baking. When Toni's life is threatened, Jason realizes how deeply he cares for ...

A mail-order bride mystery romance to warm your heart. Nora expected to be marrying old Peter Shaw, but when she steps off the train as his mail-order bride, she’s flung headlong into a mystery. Her husband-to-be has died and his son, Joseph, has taken over the family business. Reluctantly giving her a job as his housekeeper, Nora finds herself growing closer to Joseph as he begins to open up to her. However, the presence of Mr. Arbuckle, a distant relative of Peter Shaw, throws everything into confusion when Nora discovers that there might be more to Peter Shaw’s death than just a ...

A child in danger. A beautiful nanny. A cold-blooded killer. Angela Barnes accepts the temporary job as nanny for a wealthy couple's daughter. What she didn't count on was their disappearance or the child's true identity. Clark Steele, one of the three brothers from Brothers Steele, Private Investigators, has been a little girl's bodyguard for almost a year. Now, something has her parents spooked and they've left the country, leaving him and a new nanny to watch over their child. When a madman enters the picture, Angie must overcome her fears and trust Clark to save her and the child. Will ...

She's on fire. He's cold as ice. Only together can they uncover the truth. Blaise is a brilliant risk analyst who is skyrocketing up the corporate ladder—until she discovers she possesses dangerous fire magic that threatens to burn down her entire life. Her childhood friend Tristan is an ice wizard and jaded detective for the Order of Twilight. Consumed by his parents' cold case, he's on the trail of a fearsome creature of living flame that leaves nothing of its victims but ashes. Blaise is his prime suspect in a string of magical murders. To prove her innocence, she must join forces with...

Rookie cop Ivan Vargas blames small-town accountant Julia Morrison for his brother’s suicide, as claimed in the note. When Julia is attacked, Ivan wonders if she’s right about the suicide being staged. He’s determined to find his brother’s killer and keep Julia safe but reluctant to lose his heart to the stubborn beauty who's known to break them… Hurt in the past, Julia has avoided letting men too close. But she needs Ivan’s help to uncover traumatic secrets someone would kill to keep hidden. Can she stay alive long enough to learn to love and trust again? What readers say about...

Small-town romance with faith, humor, and more than a dash of danger! A woman in jeopardy, a cowboy turned small-town cop grieving his fiancée, and a relationship too real to be fake… Escape to Cowboy Crossing, where people care about each other, romances are sweet and swoony, and six cowboy brothers with hot Irish blood fall in love when they least expect it. When her foster siblings are in danger, former policewoman Jessie Ashford makes sure their temporary home in a small town far from their home place is fortress strong. After her ex shot at her, her heart is just as tough and secure...

CRY WOLF When is a prowler, not a prowler? When no one sees him. Lorelei had called the police about the prowler so many times with no one ever catching a glimpse of him. She couldn’t blame them for doubting her. How long before they stopped coming when she called? What would happen then? Would she be like the little boy who cried wolf so many times that when the wolf did come to steal his sheep, no one would come to his aid? Even her husband didn’t believe her. She was tired of being afraid, but what was she supposed to do? When she was finally able to save enough money to buy a gun to...

In this follow-up to Austenland, Charlotte Kinder is eager to escape the numbness she feels after her divorce. Deciding to get away, she visits the Regency-themed Pembrook Park resort in England, where talented actors set the perfect scene. But with everyone playing a role, it’s hard to distinguish reality from fantasy. So when Charlotte’s heart stirs, she wonders if she’s simply caught up in the experience - or if her ability to feel is finally returning.

In this New York Times bestselling novel from Terri Blackstock, Barbara Covington has one more chance to save her daughter from a devastating addiction by staging an intervention. But when Emily disappears on the way to rehab--and her interventionist is found dead at the airport--Barbara enters the darkest nightmare of all.

Lady Juliet wants answers. Lord Strickland does not want her involved. Finding a mysterious letter, Juliet becomes entangled in a scandal she would rather avoid. Her situation becomes worse when she overhears someone planning an attack on Lord Strickland. She cannot keep this information to herself. Duncan, the Earl of Strickland, did not expect a disastrous Season—but that is precisely what has happened. Along with Lady Juliet, Duncan is thrown into a great mystery that surrounds them with danger. With the threat growing ever closer, they must find a way to unearth the truth – and then...

Running for her life in the wake of her mother’s murder, Bailey Fleming escapes to the only place she can think of - a remote, dilapidated cabin in Lavender Tides. Intending to finally get to the truth behind the lies of her past, Bailey only finds more questions when bodies are discovered near her cabin hideout along with traces of a dangerous human trafficking ring. In an unlikely partnership with FBI agent Lance Phoenix, Bailey races to understand the mystery surrounding her life and circumstances before the murderer tracks her down.

When she gets kidnapped . . . this Jekyll gives a whole new meaning to Hyde. On the three-year anniversary of his wife’s death, Patrick Daley is dealing with more than just her loss. Elizabeth Shea has found love with Agent Finley, and she’s leaving him behind. Now he’s split between the love he lost, the one he’s losing, and the guilt that comes with either decision. At the peak of his stress, Elizabeth gets kidnapped, her abductors threatening to kill her, and Patrick starts hallucinating his dead wife. With his mind, heart, and soul torn between the two women, he’s forced to ...

Nothing stays buried forever. Join café owner Magda, her husband Sam, and their friends as they pool their resources to purchase an old bank building. Problems arise during the renovations when they encounter an angry spirit. Meanwhile, Magda’s beautiful psychic cat Crystal keeps pushing a magazine to the floor – always opening to a page about family ancestry. Much to their surprise, the spirit appears again when Magda and Sam take a trip to Ireland and his mood hasn’t improved. What can Crystal’s hints mean when her attention is drawn to buttons after an old police jacket is found...

Did Peter and Megan finally find the killer’s identity? After searching through multiple suspects, Peter and Megan finally think they have found whom they were looking for. As their connection grows stronger, will they be able to keep their feelings at bay as they finally get the man they’ve been looking for? June and Mabel are so close to finally being free of the Walker’s and their torment. After several different houses of torment and anguish, they finally have the chance to be free, with Elliot’s help. However, that all gets turned upside down when they receive a source of help ...

A gunshot pierces the winter day… A sheriff finds a woman in the woods… …not a normal day in Copper Pass, Montana Investigative reporter, Jordan Evans flees Billings, Montana with an evil stranger hot on her heels. Someone wants her to stop questions. When she meets the town’s handsome sheriff, Wyatt Armstrong, she finds a strong ally, especially when a local girl disappears and he needs Jordan’s investigative skills to find her. Fearing a sex trafficking ring is hiding in Copper Pass, Jordan and Wyatt hatch a brave, dangerous plot to catch the ringleader. Will they stop the evil ...

An unconscious man. No memory of who he is. When Meghan Miller finds an unconscious man in the alley, nothing in her life is the same again. Especially when he wakes up with amnesia and her business card is all he has in his pocket. With no money and no name, John Davidson, known as John Doe from the moment he opened his eyes, calls on the beautiful woman who saved his life. When he finds out she's a private investigator, he asks her to help him discover who he is. As bits and pieces of his memory returns, John realizes things are far more dangerous than he could have imagined. The two are ...

A Student in Trouble Missing Chocolates Valentine’s Day will never be the same Rylly is sure she won’t survive Valentine’s Day. Her boyfriend is missing in action. She’s agreed to do another fund raiser, this time to help a boy get the surgery he needs, her first cooking class students are graduating, and there’s a dead body on her kitchen floor. If having a dead body on the kitchen floor isn’t enough, her close cop friend Mac has suddenly lost his mind. Even though she has an alibi for the murder, he keeps twisting her testimony so that she looks guilty. Then she wipes out her ...

Jane Hardy is appointed interim sheriff in Pelican Harbor, Alabama, after her father retires, but there's no time for an adjustment period. When her father is arrested for theft and then implicated in a recent murder, Jane quickly realizes she's facing someone out to destroy the only family she has. After escaping with her father from a cult 15 years ago, Jane has searched relentlessly for her mother - who refused to leave - ever since. Could someone from that horrible past have found them?

Some ghosts follow you. Others wait beneath the surface. The summer of 1991 should be Tobi Sloan’s season of healing. She has a job she loves, a best friend who’s like a sister, and Riley Cockerham—the boy who once saved her life—back in town and still in her heart. But shadows linger in Minera Springs, and just when life begins to feel safe again, the past comes knocking. When a chilling phone call from Tobi’s long-absent mother sends her and Bree on a cross-country road trip to Oregon, the girls leave behind more than dusty Texas roads. They leave behind the start of something ...