Genres: Cosy Mystery, Historical Fiction
Formats: E-Book, Paperback

Idaho, 1920. When a body is discovered after a popular jazz ensemble's controversial concert, Amanda Parrish's world turns upside down. With people she's close to entangled in a web of suspicion, whispers spread through the small town of Timber Coulee like wildfire. Amanda knows she must act fast—even if it means partnering with handsome Sheriff James Holcomb and his unsettling new deputy. As Amanda digs deeper into the glittering world of a traveling jazz band, she uncovers a jam session of secrets: bitter rivalries, broken hearts, and professional jealousies that have simmered for years. Every member of the ensemble had opportunity, and nearly all had motive. But with evidence scattered like discordant notes and alibis that don't quite harmonize, separating the innocent from the guilty becomes increasingly dangerous. The killer is watching, and Amanda's questions are striking too close to the truth. Racing against time, Amanda must trust her instincts...

Genres: Cosy Mystery, Historical Fiction
Formats: E-Book, Paperback

In the charming mountain town of Timber Coulee, Idaho, music shop owner Amanda Parrish's harmonious life strikes a discordant note when a beloved townsperson is murdered during the town's annual summer music camp. As Amanda seeks for answers, she uncovers a web of long-buried secrets, including a mysterious violin and a charismatic newcomer with a hidden agenda. With the help of her spirited niece and a cast of colorful locals, Amanda must compose a solution to this deadly sonata before the killer's next movement brings her own story to a premature finale.

Genres: Cosy Mystery, Historical Fiction
Formats: E-Book, Paperback

Return to charming Timber Coulee, Idaho, where amateur sleuth Amanda Parrish is about to discover that murder can strike a sour note even in the most harmonious of places. The year is 1918, and while the Great War rages in Europe, the ladies of the Mountain Meadowlarks Ladies’ Chorale and Knitting Society wage their own battles over musical solos and sock-knitting supremacy. When reluctant alto Amanda Parrish is coaxed back into the choir, she expects the worst of her troubles to be keeping time while juggling sheet music and knitting needles. But after an acerbic soprano is found strangled with yarn meant for soldiers' socks, Amanda must unravel a mystery that hits dangerously close to home. With her beloved niece Molly becoming a prime suspect, Amanda knows she has to act fast. But investigating isn't easy when many townspeople had reason to silence the victim. Between sorting through small-town secrets...

Genres: Historical Fiction, Women's Fiction
Formats: E-Book, Paperback

From a small-town church choir to Chicago's grandest stage, one woman dares to chase an impossible dream... In 1915, Francie Forrester's soaring voice echoes through her small-town church—a glimpse of a gift too big for these four walls. While other young women her age chase romance, she's juggling double shifts at the local diner and keeping her wayward mother and younger brother out of trouble. The dreams she scribbles in secret and the sheet music hidden beneath her bed might as well belong to someone else's life. Until a chance encounter changes everything. Suddenly thrust into Chicago's dazzling music scene, Francie trades her waitress apron for audition halls and voice lessons with the city's finest teachers. But the leap from serving meatballs to commanding a stage demands more than raw talent—it requires a courage she's not sure she possesses, and sacrifices she never anticipated. Law student Henry Jasper sees in...

Genres: Historical Fiction, Women's Fiction
Formats: E-Book, Paperback

July 1944. Chicago nurse Clara Janacek has spent her whole life taking care of other people. Grumpy yet loveable, all she wants now is to live out her life in peace, tending her roses and protecting her heart. But beneath the gruff exterior lies a story, and when new neighbors move in and shake up her quiet world, Clara must grapple with long-buried realities. July 1915. The picnic across Lake Michigan was to be the highlight of the summer for young nurse Clara—a day filled with laughter, dancing, and budding romance aboard a stately excursion steamer. But when unspeakable tragedy strikes, Clara’s life is changed forever. By turns funny, tender, and bittersweet, The Rose Keeper celebrates the redemptive hope found in friendship, faith, and the search for belonging. "A tender story of kindness and compassion, The Rose Keeper thrums a chord deep within all of us that yearns for an...

Genres: Historical Fiction, Women's Fiction
Formats: E-Book, Paperback

Chicago, 1928. Constance Shepherd has everything a young woman of her era could want — a handsome financier for a fiancé, a Gold Coast address, and a social calendar that never slows down. The only thing she doesn't have is any idea what she's doing with her life. Her eccentric Aunt Pearl — a self-taught chemist who keeps cats, courts trouble with the local police, and talks to the Almighty as if He's sitting across the kitchen table — sees something in Connie that Connie can't yet see in herself. When Pearl presses the formula for her homemade skin tonic into Connie's hands as a wedding gift, Connie tucks it away and promptly forgets it exists. Then the Crash of 1929 arrives and takes everything with it. With her privileged world in ruins, her marriage unraveling, and a baby depending on her, Connie does the only thing left to her:...

Genres: Historical Fiction, Romance, Women's Fiction
Formats: E-Book, Paperback

Hollywood, California, 1933. Selling perfume in a department store is far from the life Helen Corrigan envisioned when she headed for Hollywood with stars in her eyes. Beneath the glittering façade, things in Tinseltown are seldom what they seem, and Helen fights to maintain her moral scruples amid trials and temptations. However, she’s not about to give up on her dream. All she needs is a lucky break. But what if the only “break” involves her heart? Screenwriter Rusty Noble has one goal in mind: to make moving pictures that uplift and inspire their audiences. But his thankless job at Cooperman Studios keeps him toiling away on B-grade movies. Worse, box-office sensation Cynthia Starling—beloved by audiences and detested by those who actually know her—won’t let Rusty out of her talons. The idea of breaking away and starting fresh with his own studio seems a sketchy pipe dream at best, a...

Genres: Historical Fiction, Short/Flash Fiction Collection, Women's Fiction
Formats: Paperback

A speakeasy singer longs for a better life than the one she’s always known. A department-store clerk finds that the robe of her dreams may cost more than she bargained for. A young girl wrestles with the pangs of growing up as she reunites with an old friend. In this book, you’ll find a delightful array of charming stories set in simpler times. From the grand department stores and smoky speakeasies of Prohibition-era Chicago to the pristine shores of Lake Coeur d’Alene, these winsome characters will capture your heart and sweep you back to the Jazz Age.

Genres: Historical Fiction, Romance, Women's Fiction
Formats: E-Book, Paperback

Selling hats at Marshall Field is a respectable way to pay the bills while Dot Rodgers struggles to get her less respectable singing career off the ground. Independent and feisty, she’s the life of the speakeasy. But the glitter and glamour can’t conceal her fears —she’s not worthy of the love of a good man. So why is Charlie hanging around? Although Charlie Corrigan will always carry scars from the Great War, he’s finally ready to marry and start a family. But when he finds himself falling for a flamboyant flapper, he wonders if his scarred body and flat bank account can hold her interest. As his fortunes climb with the stock market, it seems he’s his luck in love has turned. But what happens when it all comes crashing down?

Genres: Historical Fiction, Romance, Women's Fiction
Formats: E-Book, Paperback

Carol Awards Winner - Grace Awards Winner - Selah Awards Nominee Her first love was killed in the Great War. Or was he? Marjorie Corrigan’s quiet, orderly life turns topsy-turvy when her high school sweetheart—presumed killed in the Great War—passes her in a Chicago train station. Where has he been all this time? Why hadn’t he come back to her? Suddenly her heart is full of doubts and her plans to marry another man in question. Amid a whirlwind of trials and temptations, Marjorie must make a choice. Will the mystery man prove to be the cream in her coffee—the missing ingredient in her life? Will he provide the deep love her heart has been yearning for? Or will her “sweetheart” leave only bitterness behind?