Her new employer has met her maker, and she’s the only suspect. Can she sift out the truth and serve the villain their just desserts?

Ava Decker longs to fulfill her lifelong dream of owning her own bakery. Ready for a fresh start, the former forensic accountant turned pastry chef is excited to turn life’s lemons into sugary success. But her hopes crumble when her mean boss turns up dead in the back of the delivery truck Ava was driving.

Arrested as the prime suspect, things get worse when the police discover the victim left Ava the shop and her house in her will. And with only an adorable kitten who thinks he’s a dog and an exasperated best friend as the voice of reason, the newly bequeathed owner must turn super-sleuth to clear her name.

Can Ava solve the crime before she’s baking behind bars?

Sweet kisses, longing looks, and a hint of danger…
Lady Emily Southwell and her three friends, Priscilla Tate and Daphne and Ariadne Courdebas, are determined that someday the world will speak in reverent tones of the year they made their debuts in London Society. A shame mysteries keep cropping up that only they can solve.

–Secrets and Sensibilities: When Lady Emily’s beloved art teacher, Hannah Alexander, accompanies them on a country house visit, she falls for the handsome owner. But will the new earl lead her on a treasure hunt that will bring them closer to each other, and to a killer?

The Perfect Marriage. The Perfect Lie. The Perfect Vow.

My mother taught me early: to survive in a world built for mediocre men, I had to be perfect. Perfect hair. Perfect smile. Perfect silence. That obsession became my armor—and my prison.

Then I met Sean. Handsome, charming, successful. My husband. The perfect man. Or so I thought.

When my business partners insisted we bring Sean into our company—to “balance the energy”—I agreed against my better judgment. Weeks later, I found pink lace panties in his gym bag. Then came the second laptop, filled with love letters to a woman named Sandra Newman. He wrote about our fertility struggles… and dreamed of a life with her instead of me.

That’s when everything began to unravel.

Orchids started appearing on my doorstep—submerged in vases of chocolate milk. My parents began tormenting me about the son they lost decades ago—on the exact anniversary of his death. And the man I thought I’d buried deep enough to forget? He began appearing in mirrors, in dreams… whispering threats, demanding revenge.

Ash would have given her life to save her teammates.
Instead, they gave their lives to save hers.

Lieutenant Ramie Ashdyn is an anomaly, a person whose genetics makes her stronger and smarter than the average human. She’s pledged her life to protect the Coalition, an alliance of thirteen planetary systems, but when a top secret operation turns bloody, she’s charged with treason and the brutal executions of her teammates.

The Coalition needs the information Ash’s team stole on their last mission, so they send in Commander Rhys “Rest in Peace” Rykus to get it. He’s the man who’s responsible for turning Ash into an elite soldier… and he’s a man who isn’t, never was, and never will be in love with the woman he trained. Or so he tells himself.

Ash wants nothing more than to clear her name and be the woman her former instructor wants her to be, but the enemy who killed her teammates did more than frame her for treason and murder: they telepathically silenced her mind, preventing her from saying anything that might point to the truth about what happened.

In this guide, a career advisor reveals the tells, blind spots, secrets, and unspoken rules you need to know in order to play the game—and even win against those who’ve been dealt better cards, like high-status college degrees or family connections (or just a more supportive boss).

The most successful people don’t rely on luck—because they know it always comes and goes. Instead, they prepare for the setbacks that are inevitable in any job and use smart strategies to manage them. In Workplace Poker, Dan Rust gives you the strategies you need to accelerate your career, and prevent setbacks from stalling your progress or spiraling it downward. The trick, he reveals, is to “play the game under the game.” If you’re talented, ambitious, and hardworking, but feel your career is frustratingly bogged down, you’ll find insight and skills to adapt to every hurdle, turning adversity into advantage and struggle into strength, including:

• • Recognizing your own “blind spots” and what to do about them
• • Mastering strategic and authentic self-promotion
• • Enhancing your personal charm and likeability
• • Achieving the high energy, both mental and physical, necessary to drive an exceptional career trajectory
• • Developing an interest in “corporate anthropology” and the complex human dimensions of business
• • Neutralizing the career-stalling impact of difficult or dysfunctional colleagues
• • Owning—and learning from—career missteps and failures

For as long as she can remember, it’s been just Ariel and Dad. Ariel’s mom disappeared when she was a baby. Dad says home is wherever the two of them are, but Ariel is now seventeen and after years of new apartments, new schools, and new faces, all she wants is to put down some roots. Complicating things are Monica and Gabe, both of whom have stirred a different kind of desire.

Maya’s a teenager who’s run from an abusive mother right into the arms of an older man she thinks she can trust. But now she’s isolated with a baby on the way, and life’s getting more complicated than Maya ever could have imagined.

Ariel and Maya’s lives collide unexpectedly when Ariel’s mother shows up out of the blue with wild accusations: Ariel wasn’t abandoned. Her father kidnapped her fourteen years ago.