USA TODAY BESTSELLING AUTHOR First book in the Death by Chocolate series Lindsay Powell's only secret is the recipe for her chocolate chip cookies, but she is surrounded by neighbors with deadly secrets. Suddenly Lindsay finds herself battling poisoned chocolate, a dead man who doesn't seem very dead and a psycho stalker. Her best friend and co-worker, Paula, dyes her blond hair brown, hides from everybody and insists on always having an emergency exit from any room. Secrets from Paula's past have come back to put lives in jeopardy. Determined to help Paula and save her own life, Lindsay enlists the reluctant aid of another neighbor, Fred, an OCD computer nerd. In spite of his mundane existence, Fred possesses tidbits of knowledge about such things as hidden microphones, guns and the inside of maximum security prisons. Lindsay needs more than a chocolate fix to survive all this chaos.

When Ashley was rushed to a hospital after her parents were lost to a fire, she was sent to an adoption center. She makes a friend in Brooklyn, but Ashley is adopted by Lizzie and Joel, causing their friendship to slowly fall apart. Will life with Lizzie look up? Or will she be stuck with parents she doesn't like? Will she make friends or be a loner? Journey into Ashley's life story to learn about a new, perhaps happy, family. COVER BY @LittleForest022

The day finally came when Joel proposed to Lizzie. Cute, romantic, and personal, the only way to purpose.