After uncovering evidence that Liam's father built the corruption architecture twelve years earlier, Mara and Liam become targets of a covert power structure operating above public institutions. The fraud network wasn't just financial leverage. It's part of a long-term stabilization doctrine used by elite corporate-political families to quietly influence markets, elections, contracts-and remove instability. Liam was never meant to dismantle it. He was meant to inherit it. Now someone is activating Phase Two: Replace him. Or eliminate him.

In the heart of Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, 16-year-old Summer Johnson thought she knew what heat felt like. She grew up on it - block parties on Fulton Street, sirens at midnight, corner store gossip, and the unspoken rules of survival in 2024 New York City.

Homicide detective Mara Vasquez has built her career on one rule: never let emotion cloud the facts. In twelve years on the force, she's never broken it - not once. Full synopsis is inside ...

Sawyer Sweeney Series Book 3 Sawyer Sweeney is finally in love. She's also now the party planner for the Hollis Historical Society and enjoys spending a few days a week working at the Old Town Winery. Her mother is pleased and Austin has come around to accepting her and Ryan's relationship. Things seem to be going her way until Poppy Penderghast makes things official with Jackson Hemming. The new couple of Hollis creates some buzz but Mrs. Hemming is not pleased. She knows Poppy is going through financial trouble and she's afraid Poppy will weasel her way into the Hemming's fortune. Mrs. Hemming makes a deal with Sawyer to split the new couple up but before Sawyer is able to make good on her word, she finds Poppy dead, face down on the country club golf course. Now the detective on the case, Mason Connor, has Sawyer as his prime suspect and Ryan is doing everything he can to keep her off his list. Sawyer realizes she has to find Poppy's killer before Mason finds more evidence to stack against her and arrests her for murder. #466 ChickLit #JustWriteIt #firsts

When small-town mystery writer Jade Reed is kidnapped in broad daylight, she never imagines it will lead to murder, a smuggling ring, and a conspiracy stretching through the heart of Maple Glade. With nothing but her instincts, a multi-tool, and a knack for stumbling into trouble, Jade finds herself tangled in a web of secrets that someone is willing to kill to protect. As the body count rises and the whispers grow louder, Jade must team up with grumpy-but-dashing Detective Axel Ford, her fiercely loyal best friends, and a town full of eccentrics-some helpful, some hiding something. Welcome to Maple Glade: a place where everyone knows your business... and someone knows too much. Book 1 of the MAPLE GLADE MYSTERIES

When Myrtle's housekeeper is a murder suspect, she swears to Myrtle that she's squeaky clean. It's easy for fellow citizens to get on your nerves in sleepy Southern towns like Bradley, North Carolina. Particularly when one of the citizens is something of a cheapskate. Amos Subers isn't one to tip waiters, pay back a loan, or behave generously with family. When it's discovered that penny-pinching Amos was actually quite wealthy, it hardly engenders goodwill in the small town ... in fact, he's heartily disliked. Octogenarian sleuth Myrtle Clover's housekeeper is certainly no fan of his: Amos owes Puddin money for cleaning his house. It's not too surprising when Amos is later found, murdered, in his kitchen. Myrtle and her senior sidekick Miles resolve to track down the killer when Puddin becomes a prime suspect...and before the murderer strikes again.

Detective Sara Collins, a seasoned investigator with a reputation for solving cold cases, is assigned to a case that has haunted Baltimore for decades: the unsolved murder of a young woman named Lila Harper, whose body was found floating in the harbor in 1989. The case was sensationalized due to Lila's connections to a prominent political family, but it was quickly buried and forgotten. As Sara digs into the case, she uncovers a web of corruption involving the city's elite, who went to great lengths to cover up the truth. Lila was not just another victim; she had been working on a secret project involving the restoration of an old, abandoned tavern in Fell's Point, a building rumored to have ties to Baltimore's dark past. Sara's investigation takes her to Fell's Point, where she meets a variety of colorful characters, including a grizzled bartender who claims to have seen Lila on the night of her death, and an eccentric historian obsessed with the tavern's history. The more Sara learns about Lila, the more she realizes that the young woman was on the verge of exposing something explosive before she was killed.

Celeste Gray thought it would be nice to stay in a cabin in the woods. Being able to be alone, left with her thoughts, finding nature, and the nice cozy feeling of warmth were what she needed. Which led her to book/rent out a cabin for the whole month of December. Spending the holidays alone shouldn't be too bad. I mean, there's a reason she's alone in the first place; this is what she needed to move on with her life. So everything should be fine. Celeste was wrong about that because the moment she decided to take that trail in the woods, she knew she fucked up. Especially when she saw Santa Clause, not dropping off gifts, not with his reindeer or his sleigh, but standing over a dead body. She just saw Santa kill someone. Ji-Cheol Kim is not your average man, he does something for a living that is not for everyone, but someone has to do it, especially when it's getting justice in a way for people who deserve justice done that way. He was doing his job, which he is very good at when someone who wasn't supposed to be there ended up being there. Now his plans have changed, which led him to do something he doesn't mind doing, finally being able to spend the holidays with someone. Even if the person doesn't want that, she has no choice but to accept it. Neither of them was expecting this to happen. Two people from different worlds who ended up bumping into each other are now spending the holidays together. This was far from being a Christmas miracle. (All rights reserved, this book will be published as a paperback when completed and available for purchase.)

Maple Glade's charming community theatre is ready to raise the curtain on its most ambitious production yet. But opening night turns into a nightmare when a veteran actor collapses during rehearsal, stabbed with the very prop meant to signal his dramatic demise. What was supposed to be a staged murder is suddenly all too real. When Jade Reed, mystery writer and amateur sleuth, is asked to help polish the script, she's pulled into a tangled world of egos, secrets, and theatrical rivalries. As rehearsals spiral into suspicion and the production teeters on collapse, Jade uncovers a chilling truth: someone among the troupe has rewritten the script... with murder in mind.

An adventure she'd asked for, being a murder suspect? Not really. Introverted yet brilliant (former) accountant Aileen Mackinnon ditched her risk-less life in the city for the village of Loch Fuar, nestled in the picturesque Scottish Highlands. Now she's the co-owner of her Gran's inn, Dachaigh, and an amateur innkeeper to ten new guests. But when one of her guests doesn't turn up for breakfast and the other tethers over the window sill, Aileen finds herself in deep waters, especially with the handsome local detective. One man show, Detective Inspector Callan Cameron couldn't be happier- finally a murder if not two! The only issue- he's forced to join forces with the new innkeeper in town. What could be more horrible than having a partner? A partner Callan loves to argue with? A partner that gels with his detection style seamlessly? Between bloody murders and stolen rings, the tension is high, so is the heat. They might not always see eye to eye, but can they agree: whodunnit?