Small Town America

Sarina loves her mother.They have gone beyond the awkward teen angst to become friends. They're even starting to share clothes. She has a little brother, but he hardly bothers her. Then her world spins out of control. Mom and little brother are killed in an automobile accident. While she is reeling from the news, her father (you know, the guy who goes to work and comes home) comes up to her and tells her it wasn’t an accident. It was murder. Then he tells her the agents are here to take them away to a new home and a new life. Sarina is in emotional overload. She learns it was her father ...

Holly Banks is on a desperate mission to have it all, but nothing in life goes according to plan. She’s quickly learning that keeping up with the Joneses is a full-time job, especially when the women of Primm, her new neighborhood, seem to have it together all the time. With her husband’s job in flux, her daughter’s difficulty with learning to read, and her mother’s new zest for dating, Holly’s life is already anything but picture perfect. Then her dog digs up an old artifact in the village center, and the mishap draws the attention of local media.

Folk who value their sanity and their lives would be wise not to visit Larson's Cove this summer. Death, danger, and intrigue have drifted into the small town of Meadowville, and the growing sense that something is amiss is almost palpable on the hot, still air. Larson's Cove isn't a popular spot with the locals, but it is home to Larson's Shed. The seafood restaurant on the bay's falling-down wharf was once somewhat of an icon in the area, but it has stood vacant for quite some time. However, circumstances have recently changed. Boyd Paine, an out-of-towner with a mysterious past, has ...

Cape Cod, a bookstore, and three cozy mysteries. Ivy Bloom starts her life over again in her childhood home on Cape Cod. She and her sister Gigi open a bookstore in an old mansion they have inherited. With help from Gigi's daughter Jen, one very handsome detective named Drake, and a small and adorable dog, Ivy tries to concentrate on selling books. The universe has other plans and keeps dropping dead bodies in her way. What can she do but investigate? If you like your cozy mystery heroines funny and frank, with a little bit of sass, then you'll like Ivy Bloom because she's your kind of woman!

The Rogue River Incident – Case XI, Book II (A Paranormal Mystery with Sci-Fi Twists) The invasion isn’t over. And this time, it’s personal. In Rogue River, Oregon, the unexplainable forces that upended Mitch Wilde’s life are far from finished. As the town teeters on the edge of chaos, Mitch’s wife, Mabey, is dragged into the fight, forcing him to make impossible choices to save her and the place they call home. With his loyal friend Jack and the gruff yet brilliant paranormal investigator neighbor, Jasper, Mitch uncovers shocking truths about the forces at play. But to survive, ...

One of the bestselling novelists of the American West brings us a gripping tale of gold, greed, and vengeance.

“… Jack Dancer is a slightly less violent (but wackier) Tarantino, and while it is possible Jack may be batshit crazy himself, he is quickly becoming one of my favorite contemporary authors. Reading his work makes me smile.” 5-Stars, Gaius Konstantine for Readers’ Favorite. What’s it all about? In the secluded McKinnon County of North Carolina, Tucker Blue's simple family visit entangles him in a struggle against a billionaire seeking global power through the county's quartz mines, the backbone of the semiconductor industry. Amidst emerging love, whistleblower revelations, and a ...

A classic story of imperiled love on the western frontiers of 19th-century America. While a battle rages between two outlaw gangs in a remote Utah canyon, Jim Wales struggles to rescue Helen Herrick, who has been captured and held for ransom. Robbers' Roost tells the story of their personal struggle to escape the clutches of the murderous outlaws while simultaneously safeguarding their passion, one that is not likely to survive the beautiful, yet deadly, terrain and people of the old American West.

Nothing exciting ever happens in Palmer. Except that one time the biker gang came to town, and they turned out to be a bunch of middle aged doctors and lawyers reliving their glory days. But Aunt Lorinda insists the man they saw beside the interstate is an escaped convict. It doesn’t help that someone really did escape from the penitentiary up the road. When a handsome stranger walks into town hours later, Sheriff Callen Steiner has a choice: believe the old woman who owns the diner, or believe the well-dressed stranger whose luxury car was stolen. Hayley Beasley can’t stand the way the...

A Christmas engagement, broken months later, rocked Candy Kaine's world. Christmas no longer carries happy memories. Cramming her schedule with college courses, full time work, and a few side jobs numbs the pain for a while. With the holiday season quickly approaching, Candy's ostensibly happy life is upended when a posh resort threatens to buy the satellite campus in her small town. When the resort's team comes to town, Candy is determined to fight for her campus and against her growing attraction to one of them. Will she allow the heart-break from last Christmas to ruin this season's ...

His need to dominate could destroy everything. There’s a darkness within Eric, fueled by control and the need to dominate. It poisoned his last relationship. Refusing to let it out is tough when his new flame, Catherine, desires a man with power over her. She’s strong, a self-assured business owner, and craves a different experience in the bedroom. When her parents come to town trying to set her up with another man, he agrees to pretend to be her boyfriend, but the deception quickly turns far too truthful. And Eric’s heart isn’t the only thing at stake.  

Assigned to the CIA's survivalist school in the Appalachians, Sasha Kopytina intercepts a short wave radio transmission from a long-dormant Russian sleeper agent, a spy ring headed up by her father. They went off the grid after the Berlin Wall fell twenty-five years ago. A quick phone call to her half-brother, Sam Mulchay, in the CIA's Black Ops, and he appears on the scene under the guise of FBI Special Agent Adam Brookfield. Sam arrives in the dusty, hot small town of Brownville, Alabama, to investigate and quickly finds himself caught up in the spiraling mystery of the disappearance of ...

He’s in it to win it. But when he brings in a troubled teen as a ringer, is the price of success too high? Vietnam vet Donny Doyle has a job no one wants: coaching Tsalagee High’s basement-dwelling football team. And despite the school’s decade-long record of failure, he promises to deliver the backwater Oklahoma town a state championship. But the only way to do it is to recruit a terrifying, mammoth kid straight out of juvenile detention. Battling his own PTSD, Coach Doyle struggles to tame his ticking time bomb of a player into a disciplined gridiron beast. And after a fast five-win...

Andy Adams (1859-1935) was born to pioneer parents in Indiana, worked in Texas for a decade driving cattle, and settled in Colorado Springs, where he penned his cowboy narratives. The Log of a Cowboy chronicles a five-month drive of three thousand head of cattle from Brownsville, Texas, to the Blackfoot Indian Reservation in Montana. This classical work of fiction provides fascinating insights of everyday life on the Great Western Cattle Trail with a team of 12 cowhands, a cook, a horse wrangler and a foreman.

Behind every act of domestic terrorism there is someone's child whose life took a radical turn for reasons that often remain mysterious. Camilla Hall is a case in point: a pastor's daughter from small-town Minnesota who eventually joined the ranks of radicals in the notorious Symbionese Liberation Army before dying in a shootout with Los Angeles Police in May 1974. How could a "good girl" become one of the most wanted domestic terrorists in the United States? Rachael Hanel tells her story here, revealing both the deep humanity and the extraordinary circumstances of Camilla Hall's life.

Right after high school, Joe Goffman left sleepy Bush Falls, Connecticut, and never looked back. Then he wrote a novel savaging everything in town, a novel that became a national bestseller and a huge hit movie. Fifteen years later, Joe is struggling to avoid the sophomore slump with his next novel when he gets a call: his father's had a stroke, so it's back to Bush Falls for the town's most famous pariah. His brother avoids him, his former classmates beat him up, and the members of the book club just hurl their copies of Bush Falls at his house.

John Henry Cole is an operative of Ike Kelly's Detective Agency, based out of Cheyenne, Wyoming Territory. Returning to Cheyenne from what had been a deadly assignment in Deadwood, Dakota Territory, Cole has decided that he has no alternative but to resign from the agency and pursue a different line of work. However, in Cheyenne, Cole learns that Ike Kelly has been murdered and his body burned in a fire that destroyed both the agency office and the shop next door.

"Have to keep that smile", said Booker Wright in the 1966 NBC documentary Mississippi: A Self-Portrait. At the time Wright was a waiter in a Whites-only restaurant and a local business owner who would become an unwitting icon of the civil rights movement. For he did the unthinkable: Before a national audience, he described what life was truly like for the Black people of Greenwood, Mississippi.

Justice in Plain Sight is the story of a hometown newspaper in Riverside, California, that set out to do its job: tell readers about shocking crimes in their own backyard. But when judges slammed the courtroom door on the public, including the press, it became impossible to tell the whole story. Pinning its hopes on business lawyer Jim Ward, whom Press-Enterprise editor Tim Hays had come to know and trust, the newspaper took two cases to the US Supreme Court in the 1980s. Hays was convinced that the public - including the press - needed to bear witness to justice....

A small-town girl with a tragic past - An English billionaire with a secret - An old ranch that brings them together When a handsome, brooding stranger from England finds his way to the small American town called Misty Springs and turns everyone’s lives upside down, Abigail is forced to question everything she’s ever believed in. It's suddenly obvious that opposites do attract. Despite her reluctance, Thomas wiggles his way into her heart. Sparks fly, and nothing will ever be the same again. But just when she may have found true happiness, a secret threatens to destroy everything. This ...