In 1924, Sarah O'Connell, a socialite and spiritualist, is brutally murdered. The local authorities do not have a single suspect. After receiving an anonymous letter, Jarek Videni, a young intuitive from New York City, travels to the American Midwest to help solve the case. However, Jarek learns quickly that there is no single suspect in the case because everyone in the house is a suspect... even the spirits. This unsolved case is surrounded with mystery, horror, and a dark presence that fills the family's home and calls out to Jarek. This presence is watching... waiting... and listening. Jarek must use his gifts to read the cards, reach beyond the veil, uncover the many secrets that haunt the O'Connell mansion, and find the killer before they strike again. But will he be able to solve this case before it's too late?

A blizzard, a body (or two), and another mystery to solve. When Lily Mason and her friends go on a winter holiday to a pet-friendly mountain resort, no one expects murder to be on the weekend's agenda. Things get twisted, when Lily and company discover the victim is no victim, and the suspects all have a reason for wanting him dead. When a blizzard strands them all on the mountain, and a guest goes missing, the Moonrise gang kicks their investigation into high gear. They will have to pull out all the tricks if they are to have a snowball's chance of solving the murder, before the killer can claim another victim.

The Gift of Happiness: Vintage Contemporary Romance Series

​​When the fulfillment of a long overdue promise brings Elizabeth Bennet to Derbyshire, she is overwhelmed by the beauty of the countryside. After a few diverting weeks away from the chaos of Longbourn, Elizabeth begins to relax and feel more like herself again. But while her aunt and uncle return to London to see to business matters, Elizabeth stays in Derbyshire with a new friend. On a beautiful autumn day that feels more like winter, Elizabeth is tempted by a ride through the town and surrounding fields. An impulsive detour leads her deep into unfamiliar woods, and when she's caught in a sudden storm and thrown from her horse, Elizabeth finds herself the guest of a handsome, yet aloof gentleman who is the master of a great estate. She is safe enough at Pemberley, of course, but Elizabeth cannot help but feel as though the gentleman who came to her rescue is hiding something from her. A Foolish Pride is a sweet,...

Detective Paige Stone barely survived her first homicide case. Narrowly escaping death at the hands of a serial killer, she hasn't fully recovered physically or emotionally. Before she has time to come to grips with the lingering memories and the ongoing nightmares, a phone call from a familiar voice sends her flying to California as a consultant. Hollywood buzzes about a celebrity arrested for murder. He maintains his innocence yet offers no exculpatory evidence to help Paige prove his case. Meanwhile, in the land of beaches, palm trees, and paparazzi, a serial killer trolls the seedy side streets, picking off prostitutes—all horrifically bludgeoned, all matching the same physical description. The murder Paige quietly investigates has strange similarities to the serial killer's gruesome patterns, and with time against them, the only way to catch him is to go undercover herself. Paige Stone is no...

When the fourth princess of Istalam is due to dedicate herself to a path serving the crown, she makes a choice that shocks everyone, herself most of all: She leaves. In hiding and exiled from power, Miyara finds her place running a tea shop in a struggling community that sits on the edge of a magical disaster zone. But there's more brewing under the surface of this city—hidden magic, and hidden machinations—that threaten all the people who've helped her make her own way. Miyara may not be a princess anymore, but with a teapot in hand she'll risk her newfound freedom to discover a more meaningful kind of power. A Coup of Tea is the first book of the Tea Princess Chronicles, a cozy fantasy series full of magic tea, friendship, and lifting people up even when the odds seem impossible.

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"Vaclav Smil is my favorite author."—Bill Gates "How the World Really Works represents the highly readable distillation of this lifetime of scholarship… Mr. Smil looks over the horizon of the future with humility and calmness, foreseeing 'a mixture of progress and setbacks, of seemingly insurmountable difficulties and near-miraculous advances.'”—Wall Street JournalAn essential analysis of the modern science and technology that makes our twenty-first century lives possible—a scientist's investigation into what science really does, and does not, accomplish.We have never had so much information at our fingertips and yet most of us don’t know how the world really works. This book explains seven of the most fundamental realities governing our survival and prosperity. From energy and food production, through our material world and its globalization, to risks, our...