Old Suspense

Marked by vengeance, branded as mine—Lucia Terlizzi will be the key to my revenge. Dante Terlizzi has to pay. Two years ago, he broke his betrothal to my sister. Two months ago, his brother stole the bride meant for my best hitman. There’s an unwritten rule about family members and children… But f*ck the rules. Lucia is the baby of the Terlizzi family. Now I’m going to put my baby in her. We’ll see how Dante likes it when I take what’s his. I’ll dress his pretty little sister in the finest clothes. I’ll shower her in diamonds and jewels. I’ll make Dante regret ever double ...

Shockwaves are sent through the sleepy village of Trill when a woman’s body is discovered in a local school. Beatrice Baynes - interfering, overbearing and spiteful - was not well liked. But no one expects a body to be found on their doorstep.... And how did the annual festival at Meldon School turn from a lighthearted celebration to a gruesome crime scene? With the local constabulary completely stumped, Scotland Yard’s Chief Detective Inspector Pollard and Detective Sergeant Toye are called in to investigate.

MAKING OLDER WOMEN SCREAM WITH PLEASURE: Sexy, horny older women can't help but scream out with pleasure when they get all the hot and naughty satisfaction that their hot younger studs give them in this dirty collection of stories. The hot MILF action includes: • When my best friend Tina had to get a job out of state, I offered to let her 18-year-old Patrick come live with me and my husband, Ray, since Patrick didn’t want to move away from all his friends. My husband was always away on business, and Patrick was usually out with his friends, so the house was typically empty. But one day,...

I’m drowning in debt, desperate for a way out. Rocco Mancini is my dead ex’s older brother—and my boss. Cold, brooding, and ten years my senior, he’s an alpha Mafia boss masquerading as a businessman. When he offers me a fake marriage to clear my debts, I have no choice but to agree. He’ll protect me, pay off Nico’s mistakes, and I’ll play the part of his wife. It’s supposed to be temporary. Then, I give in to the chemistry between us. One night in his bed changes everything. But Rocco has secrets—dangerous ones. After witnessing a brutal murder, I learn he's not just my ...

Arlie's trouble-prone friend Louie witnessed a murder… Or did he? Louie's friends think he's cuckoo - there's no body or evidence that a crime was committed. What has shown up are a proliferation of little old ladies in colorful capes, determined to fight crime their way. Enjoy this fun, frisky mystery as a group of seniors join Arlie, Louie, and the crew to clean up the riff raff in Anchorage. A spunky, clean and cozy mystery sprinkled with suspense.

Agreeing to marry someone twice my age was never in my plans. Who am I kidding, I had no plans. A few weeks ago, I was juggling four jobs to get a few bucks. Now, I’m engaged to my dad’s best friend. Even though I never met him, he included me in his will. With one condition. To marry Colin, his handsome bodyguard. We have to be married for three years and we will each get half of his billions. Can I marry him just for the money? His sensitive caring eyes draw me in, but his strong arms make me want to be wrapped in them. Can I play house with him for three years and not fall in love? I...

Pie Contest Turns Deadly Fall is in the air and the Eastern Shore Pie Contest has come to Pelican Cove. So has a woman who became a pariah when she was banished from town forty years ago. Now she is back with a vengeance amidst loud protests. The town is split over whether a decades old edict is still valid, especially since the woman holds a lot of power as a judge of the contest. The competition heats up as local women break their backs trying out different recipes, determined to win. Then an unexpected murder shocks the town. Roped into investigating the crime, café owner and amateur ...

Don your deerstalker cap and escape back to a late-Victorian yesteryear amid the melodious notes of a well-tuned Stradivarius, with The Continuing Chronicles of Sherlock Holmes: Omnibus One, which brings together the first eight stories in the ongoing accounts of a number of Holmes’ adventures that were until recently lost to time, only to be rediscovered in our own age. Travel along from the dark heart of Whitechapel, and to the wide-open moors of Yorkshire…. Read of an allegedly cursed statue inside a Neo-Gothic museum…. Enter a decaying house beside the Thames whose walls are ...

This chastity hell I’m in has my body throbbing with a constant desire for my four Mafia Gods. Leo, my father's friend, and right-hand man wants me like nothing else and his desires have me forgetting he’s much older. Nicky, my bodyguard annoys the crap out of me, but how he would take a bullet for me draws me to him like bees to honey. Cesare, my childhood sweetheart, knows all my secret fantasies, the good and the bad. Romeo, we would be a match made in Hell. But he’s wearing me down with every sensual look from those ice-blue eyes. Each Alphalicous man is doing everything he can to...

Not a jump in the car, see the sights kind of ride. He's been taken for everything he has. He's lost his house, his restaurant business, his savings, his car, his best friend, his faith—all to his conniving ex-wife. But that was seven years ago. He picked himself up, left Chicago, and started over in Peoria, Arizona, running the Roundhouse Bar and Grill. He doesn't look back on those bad years; there's no point. Not until two curious cops show up at the Roundhouse.

The Road Beasts: Lion – A Gritty, Mature Romance 🔥 A Doctor with a Wild Side. A Surgeon with a Dark Past. An Attraction Too Powerful to Ignore. Monroe “Lion” Locke is a man who straddles two worlds—one as a skilled doctor, the other as a loyal member of the Road Beasts MC. He’s always kept his personal life separate from his work, but when Dr. Josephine "Josie" Bowman arrives in Dallas, everything changes. Josie isn’t just any surgeon—she’s running from a past she’d rather forget. Leaving behind a broken engagement and a dangerous mistake, she’s sworn off men who live...

I was born to inherit the family business. Father braided darkness into my soul before I spoke my first word. Adalina Martinelli is collateral. At first, I take her because her father is in debt to mine. But after one night together, she becomes my prisoner. Locked in a gilded cage, I set forth to transform her. Father wants me to marry, and I've found the perfect wife. She may be younger than me... She may be the daughter of our enemies... She may need stern convincing... But I will bend and break her until she agrees to my twisted guarantee of safety. Tropes: Age Gap, Captive Heroine, ...

On a spring morning in London, 1875, Charles Lenox agrees to take time away from his busy schedule as a Member of Parliament to meet an old protege's client at Charing Cross. But when their cryptic encounter seems to lead, days later, to the murder of an innocuous country squire, this fast favor draws Lenox inexorably back into his old profession. Soon he realizes that, far from concluding the murderer's business, this body is only the first step in a cruel plan, many years in the plotting. Where will he strike next?

Though best known for The Scarlet Pimpernel, the Hungarian novelist Baroness Orczy was a prolific and versatile writer who could turn her pen to other genres. So, in the social and literary context of the huge success of Sherlock Holmes, she developed a memorable, but nameless character with remarkable powers of detection. The first stories appeared in The Royal Magazine in 1901, and other series followed. The first collection appeared in book form in 1905.

Madeline Brimley recently inherited a bookstore in Enigma, Georgia, is embarking on her second career, after her first one (acting) founders upon the metaphorical rocks. Settling in, Madeline recruits her friend Gloria Coleman, the local Episcopal priest, to help her plant azaleas in the front yard of the old Victorian that houses the bookstore. Turning the soil, however, uncovers the body of one Beatrice Glassie, a troublesome woman who has been missing for the past six months.

"The dog came back." "This is a joke, right?" "No, it isn't.... So do you want to hear the rest of it?" Dumbly, Jury nodded. The rest of it is told by Harry Johnson, a stranger who sits down next to Richard Jury as he's drinking in a London pub called the Old Wine Shades. Over three successive nights Harry spins this complicated story about a good friend of his whose wife and son (and dog) disappeared one day as they were viewing property in Surrey.

When it comes to writing, Robert B. Parker knows no boundaries. From the iconic Spenser detective series and the novels featuring Sunny Randall and Jesse Stone, to the groundbreaking historical novel Double Play, Parker's imagination has taken readers from Boston to Brooklyn and back again. In Appaloosa, fans are taken on another trip, to the untamed territories of the West during the 1800s.

My 40th birthday gift? Having to arrest my one-night stand for murder. I should have known my big birthday would be a disaster. First, my family forgot—classic 16 Candles move. Then, perimenopause decided to crash the party with an attitude. And, to top it off, I’m in big trouble for punching my boss - but those were extenuating circumstances. Things were looking up when a drop-dead gorgeous silver fox offered himself as my birthday present. I found myself in the arms of the sexiest stranger I’ve ever met. It was supposed to be one unforgettable night. Until I had to arrest him for ...

Sexy, handsome, and a billionaire, Adam is any girl’s dream. Right? Except, I’m not your typical girl. Oh, and there are also a couple of problems. He’s not only older than me, he’s also my boss. And even though he’s everything any girl dreams of, I simply can’t fall for him. I can’t cross that line with him. There’s no way I can risk losing my job. But every time he looks at me with his piercing blue eyes, I forget about everything And all I dream of is allowing him into my heart. Letting him wrap his strong arms around me and letting him protect me. To feel safe and ...

I’ve planned a wedding for a Mafia bad boy, not knowing that I am the bride. It’s my dream gig, and I’ve planned everything to perfection. My client, Carlo, is best friends with my stepbrother and is an irresistible older alpha. Pure danger lurks under his tailored Italian suit and the chemistry between us is undeniable. On the final night of wedding preparations, I’m seduced in the ballroom of his mansion and he thrusts me into ecstasy - breaking my number one rule of never sleeping with clients. Each thrust has amplified my desire for him. Now, it’s the wedding day, and I’m ...