Clean Romantic Mystery

Idyllic Misty Creek; Where there’s tranquility, beauty, and a dead body . . . After three years of marital bliss, Robin and Lee are searching for the perfect place to settle down and start a family. Despite Robin’s commitment to her vacation rental business and Lee’s role as deputy sheriff in Starry Hill, they both desire a bigger property that offers serenity and space. Misty Creek fits the bill . . . until they stumble on the remains of a man and his dog on their property. Their seemingly perfect neighborhood suddenly takes a sinister turn. With their dream home under construction ...

“Jacob, your mother was exiled.” Those words haunt me every time I close my eyes. Dead. My loving mother, tortured and killed. Alone, buried on a mound of dirt at the edge of the meadow. Anger runs through my blood thinking of the pain she went through. It’s all my fault. I failed to protect her. How did I leave her behind? Why didn’t I convince her to escape with us? The thought of her suffering makes me want to destroy him. Cassian, the evil leader who everyone fears in the village. I refuse to let him hurt anyone else, especially my loved ones. I’ll make sure he pays for the ...

Wrong place, wrong time...and now she's running for her life... Audrey Parker has everything figured out. At twenty-one years old, she’s got everything she ever wanted… Well, almost everything. But, she’s on her way toward living her dream. It's 1920 and the world is changing, especially for women. Bright lights, a big city, and independence are finally within her reach. And now that she’s living in New York City, it’s all just a few steps away. With the help of some friends from her boarding house, Audrey is excited to get a taste of big city life at last. But when it’s finally...

Welcome to Calamity, Texas—a small town big on charm, secrets, and romance. In this heartwarming collection of sweet romantic mysteries, three couples find love while unraveling danger, heartbreak, and second chances in the dusty roads and wide-open skies of Texas. Book One: Noah Rancher Noah Tanner has sworn off love, but when fiery Josie Reid barges into his life, she turns his quiet world upside down. With a daring plan that throws them together, sparks fly, but will their growing feelings survive the trouble hot on Josie’s heels? Book Two: Ben Sheriff Ben Kane thought his heartache ...

Selena Maldanado is living her dream working as an investigator in a prison. When she stumbles onto a drug ring, and learns her boss is involved, Selena is caught between her superior and the outside supplier. Given an ultimatum, Selena is coerced into planting evidence to save her father from being deported. Racked with guilt and fear, the only place Selena finds peace is in the faith of one of the inmates. Brandon Rollos is an undercover agent posing as an inmate. All evidence points to Selena’s involvement in the illegal activity, but Brandon’s feelings for her make him dig deeper. ...

Workaholic attorney Julia Lawson desperately needs a vacation. But when she impulsively books two weeks in the quirky beach town of Pepperoni Beach, Florida, rest and relaxation aren't exactly on the menu. Walking into A Slice of Heaven pizzeria changes everything. Owner Tony DiNapoli is charming, mysterious, and in serious trouble. His family's legacy is under threat, and only a skilled lawyer can help him save it. The last thing Julia needs is to take on another case—especially one involving a handsome client with secrets of his own. As Julia digs deeper into the small town's mysteries,...

Logan McKenzie is a police detective sergeant who does things his way with his own “rule book.” Logan’s partner retired 6 months ago and he is determined to work alone. He has no use for stuffed-shirts or Feds. He avoids all female cops, if he possibly can, until a certain female DEA agent comes to work with him Logan is trying to shut down a large drug operation in his hometown of Lakeland, Arizona. He wants to do it all by himself and his way but is forced to accept the help of DEA Special Agent Samantha Farley. Sam has been a federal agent for 20 years and is able to persuade Logan...

Minutes after his baby nephew is kidnapped, Texas Ranger Dallas Sanders traces the crime to a child-trafficking ring hiding in plain sight. As he and local sheriff Rachel Young race to expose the sinister conspiracy, they’re determined to keep their relationship professional. But when Rachel’s infant daughter is also abducted, can she and Dallas rescue the children in time...and survive to have a future together?

Everyone's afraid of something ..... Macy is convinced that she is being stalked by Balthazar, a giraffe her father killed and stuffed and who watches her every move from his perch in the family home. But when she fails to grow out of her fear, she finds herself in Chanticleer, a land of mysterious beauty. She, like all the other students gathered there, is forced to face her pesky childhood fears in a series of frightful challenges Those who succeed will reap the benefits of their courage but those who can't--or won't--will be subject to a hideous fate. Macy vows to do everything she can ...

Dorie Hudson, a new journalism graduate from Virginia Tech, moves to small town Daelin, GA, to work for the Daelin Beacon as the Lifestyles Editor. Within the first weeks of her time in Daelin, she finds the town up in arms about the kudzu ‘sculptures’ swallowing the loblolly pines on the road into Daelin. Why won’t the mayor allow the nursery man Ross MacAvoy to tear down and destroy the overgrowing vines? What’s hiding in the kudzu? As the mystery deepens, Dorie finds most people are like the kudzu, beautiful and polite on the outside, but dead and self-serving on the inside.

Imagine you're one of the smartest people in the country and you're barely old enough to drive. With a brain that size you become the priceless prey for the powerful and greedy. I keep sharp so I'm no one's 'nerd'. But when I'm forced to join four other geniuses (including a beautiful but driven hottie named Taylor) to work on a "corporate sponsored' project with connections to murder and espionage...I have to put my IQ into high gear. It's a deadly race to save myself, my friends...and maybe even the world.

Fear. Anguish. Heartbreak. Selfless love. Ultimate sacrifice. All in less than a minute. Sometimes that’s all the time there is. Adam Manning arrives at the crime scene and quickly sees that not everything is as it seems. Neither is he. If you enjoy clean mystery romance and inspirational women’s fiction filled with love, hope, family, new and old friendships, and a mystery to keep you guessing, Stay With Me is the series collection for you. This is Book Two of the eight-part Stay With Me mystery romance novella series. Book 2 of 8.

The final installment. It's six weeks later and Cassidy is with Draco, forced to watch as he kills an innocent man. Drugged and wounded, she is determined to bring down this man and save the life of Colin, the man she loves. When a beautiful detective faces the dragon, who will be the victor? The third installment of The Pretty Must Die is the most intense yet. Dig into this suspenseful thriller. Don't hold your breath! By a best-selling, award-winning author.

A century-old secret. A stolen chronicle. Could unearthing their past cost them their future? When librarian Nora Winters stumbles upon a mysterious map hidden in an old book, she's thrust into a web of long-buried secrets that could change everything she knows about her hometown, Sweetwater Springs. As she delves deeper into the town's history, aided by her former flame Elliot Fitzwater, Nora uncovers a tale of love, sacrifice, and redemption spanning generations. But someone wants to keep the past hidden, and they'll stop at nothing to silence the whispers of maple memories. With a stolen...

A canceled wedding, missing guests and a plane crash. What else could go wrong? Determined to find her absent father, Grace turns away from friends to go it alone. But they’re not just friends. They’re the Initiative, a secret covert operation, created to help those in need. Her fiancée begs her to let them help and tell him where she is. Will Grace come to realize she needs the team and especially Chase’s love and support? *Grace is a standalone read*

This time it’s personal. Can Lily beat Blair at her own game? Lily is abducted and thrown into a van before she can say her “I dos”. She doesn’t need to guess who’s responsible. She knows. Blair Winters, her nemesis since high school. The woman turned criminal long ago yet kept Gabe and Lily in her sights. Blair once dated Gabe, and even though she moved on, she wanted no one else to have him. Lily knew her friends would pull out all the stops to find her. But they’re not just friends. They are the Initiative, a secret covert operation created to help those in need. Lily is in ...

MURDER IN MARGATE, Book 3 in Marilyn Clay's Juliette Abbott Regency Mystery Series features clever young Regency sleuth, Miss Juliette Abbott. What begins as a relaxing holiday for Juliette in the seaside village of Margate quickly turns into an anxiety-riddled nightmare! Once Juliette and her friend Miss Cathleen Haworth are settled in the picturesque village, things go vastly awry when the younger sister of Juliette’s new friend in Margate goes missing and Juliette finds the girl’s abigail dead on a ledge below a cliff! As she searches for clues to the killer’s identity, and for the...

What could go wrong when Agatha Harley and her best friend Heather Cartwright decide to attend a billion-dollar bash in the ritziest part of Dallas, Texas? A Dallas oil tycoon, who makes JR Ewing look like a boy scout, seems to still burn a flame for his fifth ex-wife. Unfortunately, his Independence Day mega-celebration ends with fireworks and his murder. Heather goes from belle of the ball to cell block inmate before the last sparkler burns. It’s up to Agatha and Hank to prove Heather’s innocence. SERIES READING ORDER The Farmer’s Slaughter A Tisket A Casket I Saw Mommy Killing ...

What is Agatha Harley to do when a decades old secret about an unsolved murder is revealed to her? When the source is her dear, elderly neighbor who suffers with memory lapses, Agatha finds herself back at odds with her closest friends. Hank Davidson and Sheriff Reggie Coil are skeptical because the case had previously been investigated. Agatha’s faith in her friend pushes her towards the truth. Even if she has to go it alone this time. Hank, a champion of justice joins her, and together they reopen old wounds that appease some while hurting others. But, is there reason or even need to ...

Somewhere out there... A girl is born with the ability to see beyond. A boy is born and grows up in the shadow of his deceased father, tasked with looking after his father’s weird artifact collection. The two have met, long ago. They meet again, just as one of the artifacts goes missing. The girl is an outcast. The boy is golden, or at least he was supposed to be. She wants to help, but it means revealing her deepest secret, and she isn’t sure she’s up to that. Plus, the time has come for plenty of other secrets to unveil themselves. The horrors of the past have waited long enough for...