A family reunion turns deadly.When Boston library curator Kathryn Stinson reconnects with her estranged mother during a visit to the Berkshires, she’s pulled into a new family circle at a secluded private academy.The weekend takes a dark turn when the teenage son Kathryn's new sister-in-law is found dead beneath a forbidden zipline, a place he had no reason to be. As doubts mount about whether his death was an accident or murder, the boy’s mother turns to Kathryn for help.A tense, atmospheric mystery, WILDCAT ACADEMY is the fourth book in the Berkshire Hilltown Mysteries series by Leslie Wheeler.

When former librarian Penny Lane converts her inherited Victorian mansion into a luxury cat hotel, she expects her biggest challenge to be managing finicky felines and their particular owners. But when a mysterious woman checks in her prize-winning Persian cat and vanishes without a trace, Penny finds herself whisker-deep in a decades-old scandal.The discovery that the abandoned Persian is actually Diamond, show cat of reclusive film star Gloria Starling, is just the beginning. Hidden in Diamond's carrier are two explosive pieces of evidence: a vintage art deco brooch and a letter that could rewrite Hollywood history. The infamous theft that destroyed Gloria's career in 1975 during the filming of "The Cat's Eye Affair" may not be what it seemed – and someone in quiet Guilford, Connecticut wants to keep it that way.Aided by the charming local veterinarian Dr. Paul Harrison and her shrewd neighbor Mrs. Maple, a retired detective, Penny races to uncover the truth about Gloria's disappearance. With her own enigmatic house cat Hercule Purr-row acting strangely around Diamond's carrier and a determined visitor who keeps asking too many questions, Penny realizes that small towns hold the biggest secrets – and someone will do anything to keep them buried."Murder on the Feline Express" is the purr-fect start to a cozy new series that will delight mystery lovers and cat fanciers alike.

After catching her celebrity chef fiancé sizzling in the arms of another woman, Lindsey Bakewell left big city Wall Street for small town Beacon Harbor, Michigan to pursue her own passion as a pastry baker—and gets mixed up in someone’s sweet taste of revenge . . . More interested in kneading dough than adding it up, Lindsey’s breakup inspired her to set up the shop she always wanted in a place that always made her happy. She’d spent many childhood summers near this beach community and converting the old run-down lighthouse into a bakery café and home offers a perfect fresh start for Lindsey and her devoted Newfoundland dog, Wellington. But not everyone in town has a sweet tooth. The preservation society won’t have the lighthouse’s history sugar coated by lattes and cakes—and a protest group crashes Lindsey’s Memorial Day opening. Then her ex-fiancé Jeffrey Plank and his girlfriend Mia Long arrive to trash the place. In the ensuing chaos Mia chokes on a donut and dies. An autopsy reveals cyanide in Mia’s bloodstream and Lindsey is the police’s prime suspect. To clear her name, she’s going to need to combine ingredients found in the town’s checkered past to uncover the identity of a desperate killer . . . Includes Delicious Recipes!Advance praise for MURDER AT THE BEACON BAKESHOP“Darci Hannah mixes spicy characters, a sweet bakeshop, and a possibly haunted lighthouse into a charming beachfront Michigan village and serves up a mystery as delectable as the bakeshop’s treats and as twisty as the lighthouse stairs." —Ginger Bolton, author of Boston Scream Murder

A new hometown. A murdered aunt. Mysterious talking animals. Divorce just turned interesting.Ellie Byrne’s life is turned upside down when her cheating husband leaves her broke and homeless, but when she inherits a bed and breakfast in the small town of Salem Falls, she’s given a second chance at a fresh start. That is until she finds out her aunt didn't just die on the property, she was murdered.Suddenly, she finds herself the target of threatening messages and hostile attitudes from almost everyone in town. Desperate to find out who killed her aunt and protect her new life, Ellie summon her amateur sleuth mode, face her fears and unravel the mystery.Can she piece together the clues and find her aunt’s killer or will this bed and breakfast end up a dead and breakfast?Filled with middle-aged heroines, talking pets, and a quirky small town setting, this charming paranormal women’s fiction cozy mystery series will keep you guessing until the very end.Buy now and start solving today!

Garnet Stone needs a breather. Between working at the bookstore and her secret quest to uncover the truth about her birth mom, she welcomes a break.The solution? Dryden Mansion’s annual murder mystery party. The evening promises to be a blast with her boyfriend, friends, and Grandpa Stone as one of the actors.The party takes a dark turn from Mardi Gras to Mardi Murder when a woman is found dead, and Stone becomes the prime suspect. To complicate things further, Aoife, the woman Garnet thought was her mom, pays a surprise visit, forcing Garnet to confront her deepest fears.Running out of time and clues, can Garnet catch the killer, and will Aoife’s secrets shatter her life like broken beads?

A Legacy of Secrets: When Life Takes an Unexpected Turn in FranceAfter her husband's sudden death, Merle Bennett is left to navigate grief, legal complications, and shocking revelations. As a lawyer with four sisters in the same profession, she thought she was prepared for anything—until she discovered what his will contained.Among the surprises: a mysterious cottage in France that no one knew existed.With her son's future hanging in the balance, Merle has no choice but to take matters into her own hands. With determination and sisterly support, she decides to travel to southwest France and transform the derelict stone cottage.What awaits her in the picturesque Dordogne village is both enchanting and unsettling—breathtaking landscapes and exquisite wines alongside unpsetting discoveries: an unwelcome squatter, a foreboding wine cellar, hostile locals, and a mysterious deadly accident that raises more questions than answers.Armed with nothing but her legal expertise and meticulous list-making skills, she finds herself solving problems she never asked for in a country where she doesn't belong. Yet something about this place—and a certain charming local roofer—suggests that perhaps this unexpected detour might be exactly the path forward she needs.• • •“An extraordinary novel filled with family secrets and discoveries of past family members. Finding out who you really are and what you’re made of after the death of a loved one. So many twists and turns to keep you turning the pages till the end. Throw in a foreign country and foreign languages and it has you believing you are there as well. Loved the whole story!”“Once I got to France in this book I was hooked. I've binge read through 8 of this series. I'm having to ration myself because I will soon get to the end and it's so good I don't want to get there. I want to keep living with Merle, her four sisters and more of her family, and of course the lovely, required, French man. The mysteries are there but it is so much more. I've learned a great deal about wine. I'm exploring learning more. Come, enjoy some "me time" with a good read and a drink of your choice. In France, that is wine of course.”• • • • • •PROLOGUEShe didn’t want the summer to end. She wanted it to go on, full of flowers, wine, olives, and — possibility. Yes, possibility, that thing she was so afraid of. Now she hungered for it, she lived for it.She rolled onto her stomach and put the pillow over her head.Was it possible to hide from your own life, from the prescribed steps, the set-in-stone trajectory? Was it possible to, say, change your name and live in France and be a completely different person, one your parents wouldn’t recognize, someone carefree, a nature girl, a bon vivant? Was it possible to forget the people you leave behind, those who nurtured and loved you, those who made you who you were? If you wished, wished, wished hard enough, would your fairy godmother, or an ogre-ish old widow, give you a string of magic pearls that would transform you into somebody who could do such a thing? A woman who could decide absolutely and exactly what would make her happy, right there, on the spot, and then actually do those things, without compromise or regret?She sighed under the pillow. How old do you have to be to stop believing in fairy tales? Because she didn’t think she’d actually reached that age.