Genres: Romance, Suspense
Formats: E-Book, Paperback, Hardback
Age Groups: 18+

Willie Adams is looking forward to a fun weekend. She’s back at the Equestrian Center to show her new horse and hang out with her new boyfriend. On her first day there, her horse gets an abscess and can’t be shown. On the second day, her boyfriend breaks up with her because his ex-wife has reappeared, wanting to “be a better wife this time.” On the third day, the ex-wife is dead and Willie is accused of her murder. What’s a girl to do, except have spite sex with a handsome detective, then prove she wasn’t just using him for an alibi?

Genres: Romance, Suspense
Formats: E-Book, Paperback, Hardback
Age Groups: 18+

Willie Adams is at the L.A. Equestrian Center shopping for her first horse. A young widow struggling with the idea of dating again, she never expects that a gorgeous cowboy like Tyler Ransome would notice her. But he does. He isn’t the only one. Bobby Fermino is not as handsome, nor as pleasant. After attacking Willie he ends up dead in her tack room, leaving her the most likely suspect. Detective Lucas Macy has a magnetic quality that Willie can’t resist, but her interference in his investigation keeps them at odds, even as they are drawn to one another. With growing evidence pointing to her, Willie decides to search for the murderer herself. It can’t be any more dangerous than opening her heart to someone new, right?

Genres: Mystery
Formats: E-Book, Paperback
Age Groups: 12-15, 16-18, 18+

Hazel has an impressive command of the English language for someone so young-especially when that someone is a mouse. She does not chat with humans, however, as mouse-killers are beneath her. Still, when Olivia Bent, the snobby young woman who lives in Hazel's house announces that she and her BFFs are spending a weekend at the beach, Hazel decides to stow away in Olivia's makeup kit. Even mice need a vacation. Fun times turn tragic when a man turns up dead, and all eyes turn to Olivia as the most likely suspect. Only Hazel knows who the murderer is-will she reveal what she saw? Or will she leave Olivia to hang by her mean-girl rope?

Genres: Fantasy
Formats: E-Book, Paperback, Hardback
Age Groups: 16-18, 18+

Lisette de Lille and Tristen de Rocco are anxious to raise their new daughter Alara and discover what kind of dragon she might be. Unfortunately, Alara has been kidnapped by a woman who is obsessed with Rocco and willing to do anything to make him love her. As Lisette seeks out their daughter, her old home is beset by enemies-Île des Oiseaux is under attack by the newest occupants from Spain, a count and his family bent on stripping the island of its riches while putting its people under the lash. Rocco is also searching for Alara-he has retired his blood dragon curse, only to find himself as a different kind of dragon, one that transforms using a different set of rules, complicating his hunt. They will need the help of pirates, nobility, and a more than a little magic to find their baby and free Île des Oiseaux in...

Genres: Fantasy
Formats: E-Book, Paperback, Hardback
Age Groups: 16-18, 18+

Lisette de Lille couldn't be happier. She is carrying the child of her true love Tristan de Rocco, whom she plans to marry as soon as they are both healed from their battles with the Medina family. There are only a couple of small problems. Lisette is now a moon dragon and has no idea how to control her transformations. She has been separated from the only person who can help her, and an old enemy has returned to threaten her happiness. Rocco would help her, except a potion has made him forget both Lisette and his unborn child. He only remembers Tempest-and being a blood dragon. The baby, conceived of two blood dragons, might be Lisette's biggest problem. There's so much she doesn't know-including what kind of dragon her child will become. In order to survive on her own, Lisette must battle those who would take her baby as...

Genres: Fantasy
Formats: E-Book, Paperback, Hardback
Age Groups: 16-18, 18+

All Lisette de Lille wants is an easy life. She's not enthralled with getting married to a dull young nobleman, but it will secure her Caribbean island for France-for king and country, right? When her betrothed and his lover sell her to a pirate, all she wants is white-hot revenge. The pirate, Rocco, has a sinister motive for purchasing Lisette. An ancient curse turns him into a blood dragon each night of the new moon. He is driven to kill everyone who was there the night his wife was murdered. The spell will end when he kills Lisette. When two souls are filled with such vengeful passion, is there any room to fall in love?

Genres: Mystery
Formats: E-Book, Audio, Paperback, Hardback
Age Groups: 18+

n this fifth and final installment of the Peri Minneopa Mysteries, Peri has had enough. She’s closing her business, marrying her detective boyfriend, and settling down to a life of ease–until her brother shows up, accused of a murder he swears he didn’t commit. Now she’s back in the thick of things, investigating the death of an engineer who may have been stealing techno-secrets from other companies. Her relationship with her brother is an icy one, at best, and she struggles with her ambivalence, as well as her desire to leave investigative work behind. Digging around in people’s lives is reasonably easy, but when the bullets start flying, will Peri be able to keep her promise?

Genres: Memoir
Formats: E-Book, Paperback, Hardback
Age Groups: 8-11, 12-15, 16-18, 18+

"When I was a young horse, I thought if I wasn't always good, I could at least be use­ful. Then I broke my leg." When Snoopy was three years old, he won the 2007 Pacific Coast Quar­ter Horse Asso­ci­a­tion Trail Futu­rity. His trainer and his owner had his career mapped out--he would be cam­paigned around the cir­cuit and qual­ify to be invited to the AQHA World Show. Then in 2008, Snoopy broke his left hind sesamoid, a small bone in the leg. This injury can mean any­thing from surgery to euthana­sia. Surgery didn't guar­an­tee he could be rid­den again, much less shown. In the tra­di­tion of Black Beauty, this is Snoopy's own story, told from his spe­cial point of view. He tells of his youth, his train­ing, his injury, and his long fight to return to the show arena, to prove he's the same horse he always was, only different.

Genres: Mystery
Formats: E-Book, Paperback, Hardback
Age Groups: 18+

How far would you go for someone you love? Someone is threatening Peri Minneopa’s client. The most likely suspect is a man whose past relationship with her client could ruin his chances at being elected mayor. This would be easier if her boyfriend, Detective Skip Carlton, wasn’t in a coma after being shot. Peri’s been dating him for 10 years, but without a marriage license, she can’t even visit him in the hospital.She knows better than to interfere with the police’s efforts to find Skip’s shooter, but her case keeps showing up in the middle of their investigation.Now she’s questioning her skill and her need for independence. What is she willing to do to solve her case and see Skip wake up?

Genres: Essays, Humour
Formats: E-Book, Paperback
Age Groups: 18+

Happy-Merry New-Thanks-Christmas-Year! When columnist Gayle Carline thought of a holiday-centered book, she intended to include all her holiday essays, from New Year’s musings, Mother’s Day fantasies, all the way to the inevitable Christmas. Then she counted how many she had written in her 10 years as a columnist for the Placentia News-Times. There were over 80 essays, so she decided on Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year’s, and noticed two common themes: gratitude and hope. She is grateful for the opportunity to write for the paper, and she hopes these essays resonate with you as much as they have her readers. She also hopes that none of them are turkeys.

Genres: Essays, Humour
Formats: E-Book, Paperback
Age Groups: 18+

For the record, Placentia (pronounced Plah-SEN-cha) consists of about 50,000 residents living in 6.6 square miles in north Orange County. There is a hospital, a library, a country club, and some of the best restaurants in the O.C.In 2005, I began writing a weekly humor column for the newspaper, a slice-of-life look at an average wife, mother, homeowner, and city resident—in other words, me. This collection is centered on the places and people of my hometown. If you are from P-Town, I hope they resonate with your experiences. If you’re not, I hope they serve as an introduction, and an inspiration to find what is special about your own town.

Genres: Essays, Humour
Formats: E-Book, Paperback
Age Groups: 18+

Gayle Carline does not believe in perfect families. She does believe in tall tales, however, and is willing to stretch the truth until it’s paper thin.She’s been writing a humor column for the Placentia News-Times, a local paper affiliated with the Orange County Register, since 2005. Aiming for slice-of-life, Erma Bombeck-style stories, she tells tales about her husband, their son, and their various distractions, from pets to car repair.At first, she thought she was writing to entertain people. After she heard from readers telling her how much their lives mirrored her own, she realized why she was writing—to feel like part of a community. Her stories of gentle wit and family absurdities should be recognizable to every perfectly imperfect family everywhere.

Genres: Mystery
Formats: E-Book, Audio, Paperback, Hardback
Age Groups: 18+

No one in the small town of Placentia, California is surprised when Benny Needles’s house catches fire. The outside hasn’t seen a paint brush in years. The inside is stuffed with Dean Martin memorabilia. It would be a simple case of homeowner negligence, except for the body found inside. Under suspicion of both murder and arson, Benny turns to the one person who has always helped him, private investigator Peri Minneopa. Fire investigation isn’t on her menu of services, but Peri’s weak spot for Benny overrules her reluctance, and she agrees to look into things. Her investigation takes a dangerous turn as she uncovers family secrets, going back several decades. There are skeletons in everyone’s closet, and even Benny’s bones are rattling.

Genres: Essays, Humour
Formats: E-Book, Paperback
Age Groups: 18+

When Gayle Carline clawed her way into her local newspaper office and groveled until they gave her a weekly humor column, she worried about not having enough material. Then she took a look at her life. Nearly every week something in her house or car needs repair, her son doesn't know why being able to see his carpet is a big deal, and her husband believes less is more, especially when it comes to communication. In What Would Erma Do, she chronicled her first two years as a paid exaggerator. Now she's back with two more years of merriment, along with editorial high jinks and readers' opinions. It's the most fun she's ever had without a credit card.

Genres: Essays, Humour
Formats: E-Book, Paperback
Age Groups: 18+

One humor writer's entrance into the world of newspaper columns, and how she juggled being a wife, mother, and full-time exaggerator.