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Private investigators Robert Grey and Jane Carson intend to combine business with the pleasure when they arrive at Topazus, their client’s South Carolina antebellum estate. But the property’s trustee is found dead, and when their client’s mother is arrested for the crime, Robert and Jane are pressed into service. This newly formed investigative team is adjusting to private-eye status.

She’s determined to find something that may not even exist! When a missing will threatens to leave several people without their expected inheritances, Nancy Drew embarks on her first case. But the deeper she digs, the clearer it becomes—someone wants the truth to stay buried. Clues vanish. Stories don’t add up. And every step forward puts Nancy in the path of those willing to deceive, sabotage, and worse to protect their secrets. With time running out and the stakes rising, Nancy must outwit her rivals and uncover the truth—before the will disappears forever.

They know the house can’t be haunted… or can it? What is going on at an old mansion? Shadows appear, music plays, and odd noises keep two older women on edge until they decide there’s only one solution. Nancy Drew must come and discover what is going on. Shortly before Nancy promises to come, a man appears demanding an audience with her father about an important property purchase. While Nancy goes to discover the secrets in the sisters' mansion, her father does not return as promised from a business trip.

He loved her then. Will she love him now? When Mallory Barrows finds an old diary in a box of books, the story she finds within sends her on the hunt for the owner–and maybe more. Theirs is a story ripped from a country song. A wedding, a former love presumed dead, her new love stepping aside. And over forty years later, their story is one few remember. With Mallory determined to find the people in the pages of that diary, one couple is offered the second chance of a lifetime.

When a hurricane rips through Hooper Island, a tidal wave of TV crews follows and upsets the locals. Brooks Crawforth agreed to volunteer crews helping to clean up and repair things on the island, not a whole home and garden series on the total renovation of several houses and a bit of cleanup on the side. He’s furious, and the show host is spitting nails at the person who blew it in the first place.

The course of true love sometimes flounders on choppy waters. Falling in love with Benjamin wasn’t in the plan, but Mallory finds she’s all but lost her head and her heart after two and a half years of banter, memories, and now shared books. But when her ex-fiancé (does it count if it was just for a few hours?) shows up right in the middle of a writing project with Benjamin, the guy manages to ruin her happiness… again. Benjamin has been keeping one tiny part of him back from Mallory–just the one thing that’ll repel her for good.

All they wanted was a happily-never-after. When Richard Danforth inherits the family estate on Merriweather Island, he doesn’t have time to deal with it — especially not from halfway across the globe. He’s too busy working to become the world’s newest billionaire and avoiding the women who would detract him from his goals. Enter Lyla Santana. Fresh out of Oxford University with a degree in antiques and a relationship that nearly killed her to leave, she’s eager for the isolation and treasure trove that is Danforth Hall. Lyla also is determined to avoid men at all costs. Forever.

One man’s last Christmas wish might change two lives forever. Mallory Barrows has one last Christmas with her uncle. She’s determined to make it the best one he’s ever had. She knows when she asks what he wants as his final gift, it won’t be a tie or a new mug. He won’t need those where he’s going, and he’s quite happy about that. Mallory just didn’t think he wanted a miracle wrapped in paper and tied with a shiny red bow! In a twist on a "last chance romance," Christmas on Breakers Point is the first book in the republished Independence Islands: The Book Barrow series.

If it ain’t broke, why’s she so intent on fixing it? Tessa Booker hates romance. For 25 years, Tessa Booker has insisted that romance is something Hollywood cooked up to sell books and movies. Yes, she knows the word existed before movies. She doesn’t care. That’s her story, and she’s sticking to it. So, when Ross gets a gentle nudge from Mallory Barrows to look into what Tessa’s doing every day while he’s at work, he discovers a romance in the works — one that sounds a little too “ripped from the pages of his life"! Who is this woman, and what has she done with his wife?

As the newest under-gardener at the palace, Marco Rossi should have everything he's dreamed of—beautiful gardens to tend and master architects and gardeners to learn from. Yet a secret mission threatens his peace of mind, his position, and even the love of Ana. Although God is always with him, reminding him of a bigger plan, Marco feels the weight of the consequences he will face if he challenges a Medici member.

Falling in love with Benjamin wasn’t in the plan, but Mallory finds she’s all but lost her head and her heart after two and a half years of banter, memories, and now shared books. But when her ex-fiance (does it count if it was just for a few hours?) shows up right in the middle of a writing project with Benjamin, the guy manages to ruin her happiness…again.

A painter at the Meyer’s Toys factory, Clarice Stahl, knows something is strange about the way so many men come and go through Mr. Meyer’s office, especially one in particular. Then murder strikes a little too close to home and uncorks a barrel of secrets. When mob king, Mario Topo’s, enforcer goes missing the race is on to prove he's behind the murder. Police and mobsters alike are after Milo Natale, and he who finds Milo first might determine the enforcer’s fate.

The indulged son of wealthy parents, Andrew has always gotten whatever he wanted almost before he knew he wanted it—clothes, gadgets…even a car! What more could a young man desire? Enter Annabel Thompson. Freakshow mermaid extraordinaire…in a wheelchair! Of course, her beauty attracts him. How could it not? Add to that a kind heart, and Andrew can’t help but fall for her. Annabel’s connection with the freakshow repels his parents and their society friends.

When Mallory Barrows finds an old diary in a box of books, the story she finds within sends her on the hunt for the owner—and maybe more. Theirs is a story ripped from a country song. A wedding, a former love presumed dead, her new love stepping aside. And over 40 years later, their story is one few remember. With Mallory determined to find the people in the pages of that diary, one couple is offered the second chance of a lifetime.

Josephine Jacobs was just doing her job, serving at an exclusive party - so, why is she now being accused of shooting TG Taggert? At a party full of suspects in the murder of Taggert, Josie served the food giant everything but an eternally “parting shot.” Who really killed TG Taggert? His wife? His son? What about Harper Davis? Rumor has it, she was having an affair with him! The list of those who seemed to hate him keeps growing. With her long-time friend, Office Porter O’Brien, Josie sets out to clear her name, and find out who really killed “the giant".

At the pinnacle of his Hollywood career, Garrison Prince’s reign ends tonight. As plain old Gary Prinz, he can pursue his Bible education, buy a bungalow in Pasadena, acquire a few chickens, and marry the girl of his dreams. A cigarillo girl, Lucinda Ashton spends her days with her boyfriend, Gary, and her evenings selling candy and “gaspers” to the Hollywood elite at the Taj Mahal Theater. However, when gunshots ring out just as intermission begins, Lucinda finds herself smack-dab in the middle of a brouhaha that leaves three dead, and no one has a clue why.

PI Jane Carson is maid of honor and hosting a mountain retreat wedding, bringing the Valleytown High School chorus ensemble together after eighteen years. To avoid the humiliation of going dateless, Jane invites her boss at Grey Investigations as her guest. Coincidentally, the only unsolved homicide marring PI Robert Grey’s law enforcement record is the murder of the chorus teacher’s wife 18 years ago. Due to quarantine in the wake of the Covid pandemic, Robert and Jane are confined at the mountain lodge with those who might hold the key to uncovering the killer. But at what cost?

Brooks Crawforth agreed to volunteer crews helping to clean up and repair things on the island, not a whole home and garden series on the total renovation of several houses and a bit of cleanup on the side. He’s furious, and the show host is spitting nails at the person who blew it in the first place.

It was supposed to be a routine investigation - catch the cheatin’ spouse of a client. And the perks weren’t bad, either - set up shop at a luxury resort. So yes, Robert Grey and Jane Carson from Grey Investigations are on the job. But when they discover the suspect is a princess wrongfully accused of abdicating, and her companion dies under suspicious circumstances, the investigators find themselves in the middle of a Caribbean conspiracy to overthrow a monarchy. Suddenly, Jane must take the place of the princess to secure the throne of an island nation.

In a twist on billionaire romance and marriage of convenience, this Merriweather book kicks off a new series featuring five islands, six authors, and a boatload of happily-ever-afters.