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

2025 Winner NYC Big Book Award - Mystery 2025 Winner IAN Book Award - Cozy Mystery 2025 Winner IPA Book Award - Mystery Once celebrated for her show-stopping pastries and irresistible desserts, former celebrity chef Laura Harris is now making headlines for a far darker reason. Laura has been accused of murdering her best friend. How could this petite chef have brutally smothered the beloved small-town matriarch, veteran ferry pilot, Hattie Stenburg? Hattie wasn't just a pillar of the community; she was Laura's confidant and mentor. If only Hattie's will hadn't included recent changes, bypassing next of kin and leaving Laura her entire fortune and historic Southern estate. As Laura scrambles to clear her name, she uncovers sinister secrets lurking beneath the town's idyllic surface. The real murderer is always one step ahead, leaving taunting clues and threatening Laura to leave Texas or face deadly consequences. With time not a...

Genres: Children's fiction
Formats: E-Book, Paperback, Hardback
Age Groups: 5-8

Mom's Choice GOLD Award Winner Purple Dragonfly Award Winner Eric Hoffer Award - Grand Prize Short List MIA AND NATTIE is a heartwarming book that teaches life lessons from problem-solving to teamwork, but most importantly how to love unconditionally. In a read-aloud picture book for children who love baby animals, award-winning writer and sheep breeder Marlene M. Bell presents Nattie the lamb’s true story. On a visit to her grandma’s farm, eight-year-old Mia discovers a newborn, orphaned lamb outside in the cold and takes her to the laundry room, naming her Nattie. As she tries to nurse the lamb back to health, Mia discovers that Nattie is different from the other lambs and struggles to fit in with them like Mia does with other kids her age. When her grandmother says she will sell Nattie to a neighbor, Mia must come up with a plan to keep her friend around—one...

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

2023 Global Book Award Winner - Best Mystery IP Book Awards - Best Regional Mystery (Australia/New Zealand) COPPER WATERS is book #4 in the Annalisse series. Antiquities expert Annalisse Drury and tycoon Alec Zavos are at an impasse in their relationship when Alec refuses to clear up a paternity issue with an ex-lover. Frustrated with his avoidance when their future is at stake, Annalisse accepts a solo invitation from an acquaintance to fly to New Zealand—hoping to escape the recent turbulence in her life. But even Annalisse's dream cottage on a sheep station brings her disaster and more intrigue. Along with mutual friend and detective, Bill Drake, a local resident accompanies them from the Christchurch airport and dies mysteriously soon after. A second violent killing finds Annalisse and Bill at odds with the crime investigators. Local police want to close both cases as quickly as possible—without unearthing small town secrets....

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

2022 FAPA Award Winner - Best Mystery Scattered Legacy is book #3 in the Annalisse series. To outsiders, the relationship between Manhattan antiquities assessor Annalisse Drury and sports car magnate Alec Zavos must look carefree and glamorous. In reality, it's a love affair regularly punctuated by treasure hunting, action-packed adventure, and the occasional dead body. When Alec schedules an overseas trip to show Annalisse his mother's birthplace in Bari, Italy, he squeezes in the high-stakes business of divesting his family's international corporation. But things go terribly wrong as murder makes its familiar reappearance in their lives - and this time it's Alec's disgraced former CFO who's the main suspect. Accompanied by friend and detective Bill Drake, Annalisse and Alec find themselves embroiled in a behind-closed-doors conspiracy that threatens the reputation and legacy of Alec's late father - linking him to embezzlement, extortion, and the dirty business of international crime bosses....

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

2020 Independent Press Award - Best Mystery SPENT IDENTITY, Book #2 in the Annalisse series. To find her missing aunt, she has to unearth the secrets of the past. But lies and deceit run though the very heart of their town... What started out as a promising relationship with adventurer and tycoon Alec Zavos has fizzled into an uncertain future for antiquities expert Annalisse Drury. Returning to Walker Farm in Upstate New York to see her Aunt Kate should have been a welcome homecoming and distraction. Instead, she finds the childhood home she expected to inherit is for sale, without her permission. What's worse, Kate's ranch manager makes a gruesome discovery in the barn: the body of an unidentified man, dead by foul play. Annalisse turns in Alec's direction for help. She and her aunt shelter on his estate in the Catskills while the authorities canvass the scene. But when...

Genres: Adventure, Romance, Thriller
Formats: E-Book, Paperback
Age Groups: 18+

2025 International Impact Award Winner - Adventure - Crime/Spy FAPA Presidents Award Winner – Mystery STOLEN OBSESSION is book #1 in the Annalisse series. How far would you go to save loved ones from pure evil? New York antiquities expert Annalisse Drury's best friend has been found in a shallow grave. Her friend's wrist is missing the gold bracelet Annalisse fought to keep her from wearing, due to the centuries-old Persian royal family heirloom that carries a stark warning… The wearer of this jewelry will usher in fatal consequences. White the murder case is ongoing, Annalisse uncovers a second artifact from the Persian jewels set at a Manhattan gallery opening. She begs the owner to remove the cursed piece, but her pleas are ignored, despite the suspicious death that occurs during the opening. With two crimes suspiciously linked to the jewelry, Annalisse must act. Desperate, Annalisse enlists the gallery owner's...