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Pirates have returned to the Florida Keys. But they don’t fly flags or fire cannons. They arrive at night in fast boats. They board million-dollar yachts with military precision. And they vanish before anyone can respond.

Vivienne Rose, owner of Desert Doulas, arrives home from work to find cops swarming the place and a body floating in her pool. Her silver fox next-door neighbor, mentalist Rex Redondo, admits that he’s the one who saw the body and called the police. But his involvement in this is far from over. When the police stop investigating the case, due to a personnel shortage, Viv calls on Rex and his roommate, ex-marine Sutton Greer, to help her track down the killer.

Rex and Viv are all packed and ready to sip champagne as they cruise across the Pacific Ocean. Unfortunately their plans are put on hold when Viv witnesses a man taking a dive off an elliptical machine. Is he injured or dead? She intends to find out!

1929 Las Vegas, New Mexico. When a man is murdered at the Castaneda Hotel, Josie MacFarland is given an impossible role: the first Harvey House Detective. Armed with only her determination, Josie faces a dismissive sheriff, the cold shoulder of old friends, and the hardships of the Great Depression. She can either return home in disgrace—or fight to prove she belongs in a world determined to shut her out. For readers of Jacqueline Winspear, Rhys Bowen, and Sulari Gentill.

Viv and Rex's plans to return to community college and get their PI license hit an unexpected snag when their instructor, a seasoned private investigator, winds up dead the first day. Now, instead of studying for midterms, they’re cramming to crack the case.

Who knew a seven-foot nutcracker could be a murder weapon? Finding the body of the toy store owner Betty King is the latest in a list of reasons Michael Bellemare feels far from jolly this holiday season. Having secured jobs for two local teens at the store, obligation leads Michael to help uncover the killer and clear both their names. Unfortunately, the mounting evidence seems to point to one of the teens. Partnering with detective Janis Jets, Michael listens in as Janis interviews residents and learns more about the hold Betty King had over Lily Rock. Possible mob ties. A runaway dog.

Banished from France by King Louis XIV, once royal favorite Sylvienne d'Aubert must make the dangerous ocean crossing with a group of young women eager to secure husbands in the French colony of Quebec as Filles du Roi (Daughters of the King). Sylvienne, however, scarred by an abusive, arranged marriage in France, vows never to wed again. She is determined to one day return to her beloved homeland and to her lover, Etienne.

An Epiphany in Lilacs is a novel set in a displaced persons camp outside Hamburg, Germany, following the end of World War II. After liberation in May 1945, Daniel, a 14-year-old Latvian Jew, is treated in a field hospital in the British zone of partitioned Germany. A survivor of various concentration camps, Daniel fights to recover from starvation and disease. Racked by nightmares, a nearly nightly occurrence, Daniel finds sleep almost impossible. Through his love of nature and pre-war memories, Daniel struggles to find comfort.

Cuba is running out of fuel. The power grid is failing. Hospitals ration electricity. Entire cities go dark without warning. And someone is telling the truth. In Santa Clara, retired professor Lucía Álvarez Cruz records a clandestine podcast under the name “Rosa,” documenting what the government denies: empty depots, collapsing infrastructure, and a countdown measured not in politics—but in diesel. When counterintelligence begins closing in, her niece Lena Cruz crosses ninety miles of water from Key West and steps into a surveillance state already tightening around her aunt.

In Key West, the water remembers everything. Lena Cruz lives between the dock and the stage. By day, she works the decks of a charter boat. By night, she sings in a historic hotel on Duval Street. Her life is measured by tides, routines, and things left unsaid—until one ordinary day on the water leaves a feeling that won’t settle. She doesn’t investigate. She doesn’t accuse. She pays attention. As quiet decisions ripple outward, Lena must decide what it means to do the right thing when the truth can’t be proven and silence feels safer than speaking.

God did not stop creating after the seventh day. Deep beneath a Balkan mountain, an ancient tribunal confronts an even more ancient evil. Alarmed about the future, the magistrate sends his enforcer, Svan Coltello, on a new hunt — but this time not for prey. Meanwhile, in her Los Angeles County courtroom, Judge Julia Townsend confronts the worst of humanity. Having worked tirelessly to achieve this dream job, she clings to her reputation for no-nonsense decorum, a firm sense of justice, and ethical integrity.

Arriving in the mountain town of Lily Rock for the Fourth of July weekend, Avery plans to rent a room from Stella Rawlins—a friendly local known for her love of books and quiet acts of defiance. When Stella is killed by a sabotaged firecracker hidden inside her library, Avery becomes the discovery witness…and an immediate suspect.

September 11 was the worst day of her life…. She became a single parent in one tragic moment. It’s not the life she wanted, but it was the hand she was dealt. Years haven’t eased the pain, and starting over in a small beach town far away from the city that reminds her of the tragedy hasn’t been easy. Her teenage son is getting harder to handle. When a stubborn hometown guy comes back to January Cove for a visit, will she open her heart again? Or will he push her away because of his own demons?

She’s hiding from a dangerous threat. He’s hiding from women altogether. When life puts them right next door to each other, will he have any idea what he’s gotten himself into? Tessa and her three-year-old son can’t seem to escape a dark past, but will Aaron give them a brighter future? Or will her past finally catch up with her?

Kyle Parker never expected to see her again, and now he’s standing on her front porch with a foreclosure notice in his hand. Jenna can’t believe her eyes. Her life is a mess, her daughter is depending on her, and the one person who can wreck the rest of her day is standing there with a pink slip of paper in his hand. When she left him standing in a cloud of dust all those years ago, he vowed to never see or speak to her again. Now, he has to make a big decision—let her destroy his life all over again, or pay her back for what she did?

Indy Stone is a well regarded professional therapist with her life all planned out. She's spent her life trying to escape her dysfunctional upbringing in Peach Valley. But when fate intervenes and causes her to return to her hometown with a huge responsibility on her shoulders, she never expects it to change her entire life. Through all of her hard times, there was always one bright spot in Peach Valley, but he disappeared years ago. Or did he?

The toppling of the US Administration by “The Organization” in 2069, left the citizens of New York in a state of shock and helplessness. Maya, a devoted history major, had to quit her studies and divide her time between working at a bar owned by her father and a local florist. The sense of fear surrounding the new reality takes on an authentic meaning when a mysterious suitor persistently courts her.

Piper Williams has always struggled to make ends meet in her small town. But one day, fate intervenes in the form of a stranger at The Greasy Spoon diner. In a single act of kindness, Piper's life is forever changed. But as she sets out on her new journey, Piper discovers that there's a catch. Cameron, the cold and distant grandson of her benefactor, is sent to live with her for six weeks. With their differences as stark as night and day, they are like two puzzle pieces that just don't fit.

After escaping Earth and creating a new life on Salvation-1, Tessa thought her days of fighting were over. But nothing turned out the way the survivors expected, and now humanity is facing a new threat. One that may destroy them for good. VA-246 was supposed to be humanity’s chance to start over, but making it there was only the beginning.

She was moments away from making the worst decision of her life. He was moments away from saving himself when he saw her. Saving her changed the course of both their lives.