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When a pet owner leaves her dog and cat at Trinity’s pet daycare and doesn’t return by the day’s end, Trinity takes the animals home. What she discovers there is a ransacked home with no sign of the pet owner. To make matters worse, a new cop of the Waterfall Police force thinks Trinity is the main suspect.

With the age of 28 looming ahead and Tatum Jackson still unmarried, she made a vow to enjoy her birthday on a cruise ship bound for Hawaii. She runs into, literally, a handsome man and enjoys a romance movies were made of. When the cruise ends, she agrees to continue the relationship with Eric Carlson via letters. Then one simple mistake leads Tatum to think it all a lie. Will fate intervene once again and save these two hearts?

Stormi Nelson and her bridesmaids party hard in New Orleans. The only thing marring the bachelorette party is the appearance of Stormi's fiancé, Matt's ex-girlfriend. When Stormi returns home to Arkansas and right into another murder mystery, she's also the recipient of some not so nice gifts: A voodoo doll and a black cat. Refusing to believe in superstition, Stormi continues to dive headfirst into her latest case and comes across her wackiest suspect list yet.

A vacation with Stormi Nelson is anything but relaxing! After the horrific experience of saving the lives of her niece and fiancé, Stormi Nelson takes the family to a retreat high in the Ozark mountains. It doesn't take long before a dead body in a bubble bath turns the vacation into anything but. Forbidden to leave since they are all suspects, Stormi's family spends two weeks in a resort that is not at all relaxing.

When Stormi's nephew asks her to help him stop the abuse to a friend of his, Stormi is more than willing to step in. What she finds is worse than anything she imagined. No amount of research prepared her for a group of men so evil that Stormi must dig deep inside herself and call on God to rescue the man she loves.

When a dead body is found face-down in a vat of chocolate inside Stormi's mother's bakery, what's a nosy neighbor to do other than find a killer? Just when she was rethinking her new writing venture of hunting down crimes in order to write about them, Stormi is thrust into another mystery. Someone wants the shop owners of Oak Meadows, Arkansas, to sell out, and they will kill to make that happen.

A skincare party turns into murder and Stormi is called to save the day! When Stormi is roped in for attending a party her sister is hosting, in her latest string of "get rich quick" schemes, Stormi has no idea that the night will result in one woman's death. Her sister is devastated and pleads with Stormi to help her clear her name. Not wanting to be involved in another murder, Stormi balks...until she receives threats warning her to keep her nose out of the murder.

Katherine O'Connor is in dire straits and the only thing she can think of to do is apply for a job as a caddy. The only problem is...women aren't yet allowed to play golf in America. She cuts her hair, dons boy clothing and gets the job. She didn't plan on falling for her handsome boss. Once her identity is revealed, complications of her deception seem overwhelming...Can these two repair a relationship formed under false pretenses?

Siobhan Callahan takes the job as lady's maid to the spoiled Miss Lydia Worthington. Because of past horrors, Siobhan vows to never have a relationship with a man and is determined to focus on her career. Only, she hadn't planned on meeting the kind and handsome handyman, Michael Flanagan.

This is not like any reality show Lexi Zimmer had ever seen. Her excitement quickly fades when she realizes her time in the Ozark Mountains, along with 29 others, is complicated by a murderer set out to make sure no one reaches the end and claims the prize.

Maureen O'Shea arrives in Devil Falls, Montana, to marry a man she's never met. When she finds out her intended had died before her arrival she is met with an uncertain future. She decides to spend the last of her funds by bringing culture to the western town in the form of a tea shop. It never occurred to her that the town preferred coffee. Not until the handsome blacksmith, Micah Webster so rudely points it out. Stagecoaches enroute to the town are being robbed and Micah is deputized to help.

Shiloh Sloan, the girl from the wrong side of the bridge. The girl shunned because of accusations she’d made against the town’s star football player. Now, she’s returned to teach the children of the people who had turned their backs on her in hopes of showing them how wrong they were.

Trinity Ashford and her friends are in over their heads this time. When a man is found murdered at Trinity’s best friend’s wedding, clutching the bride’s missing diamond earrings, Trinity sets out to find out who is stealing from the people of Waterfall. Not only is she trying to solve a mystery, she’s trying to plan her own wedding and renovate the “haunted” house her fiancé purchased for them. Trinity and her friends decide to spend a night at the house to see why the neighbors believe it to be haunted and find themselves terrorized by three men in clown masks.

Trinity Ashford is happy with the lull in crime around Waterfall. Until someone breaks into her car and steals a box of donations for the local animal shelter. Even then, she doesn't want to go nosing around, despite the urging of her friend and mother. But then, someone breaks the front window of Tail Waggin' and drags away the Christmas tree. The war is on!

When a beagle puppy is dropped off at Trinity’s pet store, Tail Waggin’, with a note calling the little thing a thief, she thinks nothing of it. Until, the four-legged rascal steals a Rolex that had already been stolen once. Trinity vows no more mysteries. Her mother and friend have other ideas sending the three of them along a path of revenge, murder, and the theft of more than a watch.

After Trinity Ashford’s dog, Sheba, digs up a dead body, danger lurks at every turn. Trinity hadn’t gone snooping for trouble this time. Trouble came for her. Somebody is very interested in the crime she helped solve a few months ago. Attacks and threats on her life have made Trinity determined to take down a killer before somebody is digging up her bones.

Clarice Jocelyn Turley Drake, CJ to her friends, can spot trouble a mile away. She’d immediately suspicious when a handsome young man trails after girls vacationing on Maui. CJ really wanted to stay out of things, being on her honeymoon, but death and mayhem covers her like a cold mist. Her new husband, Eric, wants her to settle down, start a family, and has grand plans on how to make that happen, but when trouble strikes close to home, he gives CJ full reign to use her talent for finding the bad guys along with her feisty pup, Caper.

It’s Christmas, CJ Turley’s favorite holiday, only something hovers over the festivities. A cat’s collar disappears, and it seems as if Caper, CJ’s darling pup, might be the culprit. It’s easier to believe than suspecting the owners of the cat from stealing from themselves. Hilarity and mayhem follow CJ and her friends as they try to solve the theft. All CJ really wants is to have a nice holiday with a Christmas party no one will forget. Full of twists, turns, and laughs, this Christmas novella is sure to please cozy mystery fans.

Come along as CJ and the gang get involved in their craziest adventure yet. Danger and surprise, new friends and enemies, all mean that Heavenly Acres will never be the same. A Peeping Tom is far more than he seems. CJ and the gang divide ranks in order to stop drug lords from taking over the mountain they love. When they realize why years of crime were centered around their tiny house community, the news shocks them to the core.

Someone’s poaching the deer around Heavenly Acres. One of CJ’s friends is murdered. What ensues next is a wild hunt for illegal poachers, foolhardy activists, and a big, bad redneck truck that keeps showing up wherever CJ is. Car wrecks, storms, threats, and more keep CJ and her friends on their toes. It all comes down to the final confrontation. One of the wildest yet. Come along for the ride as CJ and her quirky sidekicks hunt down some poachers.