Penelope Paxton loves reading cozy mysteries. She prides herself on solving the whodunit before the author reveals the answer. Living in Willow Creek, a small town, gives her plenty of time to relax, read mysteries, join the local book club, and frequently discuss books with...

Thea and Stephen are engaged. Stephen is the vicar of Friar Wootton, a quiet little village in Dorset. Thea spends her time editing murder mysteries for a small Cambridge publisher. Soon she will be the vicar’s wife. In A Whitsun Wedding Murder by Susan D....

Sometimes the hardest part of finding the right person is figuring out what kind of love you really want. In Chasing the Perfect Spark by Dana Lucka, Daniella “Dani” Babich is starting over after a broken engagement leaves her questioning what comes next. She starts...

Eva Bennick has just been offered to become the youngest partner in seventy-three years at Morrison Keene, a top-tier consulting firm. Her goal was to make partner by the age of forty, and she has achieved it; she isn’t thirty-five yet. But before she signs...

In 1981, six-year-old Penn Lockshire dives into Iroquois Lake and finds a mussel with the largest pearl in North America. In The Pearl Farmers by Stacey Gordon, the story begins with three sisters, daughters of James and Kate Lockshire, a third-generation family of pearl farmers....

Lifelines by Carla Marie Headlee is a story about love, loss, and the unpredictable nature of life. The story follows Carrie Hojem, a thirty-year-old artist and creative director. Her life began to unravel when her relationship with Jack Nielson started to break down as her...

Sun Kissed & Salted by Angela Blair follows Alika Jones’s decades-long freefall through acts of self-destruction and survival. In 1988, she had a near-death bike accident in Los Angeles when she experienced an out-of-body episode. She abandons the stability of her life for a volatile...

Justine and Becca, mother and daughter, have been close for the past nine years. Becca is the eldest daughter, and her mother expected her to help raise her two younger sisters. However, by her teenage years, Becca began to feel as if her mother was...

No Climb Too High by Angela Haas starts with a woman running out of second chances. Roxanne Denning was struck by lightning in the Colorado mountains two years ago. It left her physically intact with some scars as a souvenir, but emotionally fractured. The accident...

In I Love You, Hypothetically by Stacy Goforth, Piper West is a witty writer for a men's health magazine who finds herself under constant pressure from her well-meaning parents to settle down and find the right man. In a moment of panic, she tells...