A seemingly innocent date gone tragically wrong plunges Del Honeycutt into a web of murder, lies, greed, and a hidden fortune dating back to a crime committed 85 years earlier by his great-grandfather.

Accompanied by Sabrina, the sister of Del’s brutally murdered date, a violent journey of discovery and fear begins. Pursued by vicious killers intent on eliminating anyone with knowledge of the 85-year-old crime, their only hope of survival is to find the reason behind the original crime and why, decades later, someone is still determined to kill to keep it hidden.

But Sabrina is concealing a monstrous lie of her own. Is she who she says she is?

A fresh start, a buried secret, and a spark she never expected.

At 55, Ruby Harlow is ready for a new beginning. Leaving behind her career as a celebrated New York City pianist, she settles into her late mother’s Victorian house in Maple Harbor—a charming senior seaside community on Lake Michigan. She dreams of peaceful days and quiet nights with her loyal Jack Russell Terrier, Henry. But peace is shattered when Henry uncovers a human bone buried beneath the hydrangeas.

Enter Sam Spade, the handsome yet guarded owner of the town’s mystery bookstore—and a semi-retired detective who warns Ruby to leave the past alone. But when cryptic warnings escalate into dangerous accidents, Ruby can’t ignore the truth. The sleepy town of Maple Harbor harbors secrets—and someone will do anything to keep them hidden.

With the help of her quirky new neighbors—a retired Broadway actress, a sharp-witted former CIA analyst, and a gossip-savvy baker—Ruby digs into a decades-old disappearance. As sparks fly between her and Sam, Ruby must choose between safety and uncovering the truth.

Tommie

He is the Alpha; I am his Beta. And I’m his mate.

This is our destiny, yet no one can know that the Moon has both blessed and cursed us with this forbidden bond. It was our secret. A secret he denied even to me — the mate he rejected. Still, every time I see him, the lines curve, gnawing into my soul.

It’s time for me to bend straight. There are some lines I must not cross.

We don’t bend that way.

So, I left to escape the torture and heartache. I lived and studied among humans. I found myself. Or should I say, The Professor found me.

He taught me everything I know about pleasure and the finer things in life; he made me the confident wolf I am today. The packs can never know a human male seduced me or that I loved him – it would mean certain death for both of us.

“Travel light and you can sing in the robber’s face” was the best advice Summer Zwolenick ever received from her father, though she didn’t recognize it at the time. Three years after the accident that ended her career as a ballerina, she is back in the familiar suburbs of Dayton, Ohio, teaching at a local high school. But it wasn’t nostalgia that called Summer home. It was her need to spend quality time with her brother, Todd, and his devoted partner, Jacob. Todd, the golden athlete whose strength and spirit encouraged Summer to nurture her own unique talents and follow her dream, is in the final stages of a terminal illness. In a few short months, he will be dead—leaving Summer only a handful of precious days to learn all the lessons her brother still has to teach her . . . from how to love and how to live to how to let go.

We know the universe has a history, but does it also have a story of self-creation to tell? Yes, in Roy R. Gould’s account. He offers a compelling narrative of how the universe?with no instruction other than its own laws?evolved into billions of galaxies and gave rise to life. Far from being a random accident, the universe is hard at work, extracting order from chaos.

Making use of the best current science, Gould turns what many assume to be true about the universe on its head. The cosmos expands inward, not outward. Gravity can drive things apart, not merely together. And the universe seems to defy entropy as it becomes more ordered, rather than the other way around. Strangest of all, the universe is exquisitely hospitable to life, despite its being constructed from undistinguished atoms and a few unexceptional rules of behavior. Universe in Creation explores whether the emergence of life, rather than being a mere cosmic afterthought, may be written into the most basic laws of nature.