From USA Today bestselling author A.W. Hartoin comes a series perfect for the fans of Kristen Hannah's The Nightingale, Martha Hall Kelly's Lilac Girls, and Kit Sergeant's The Spark of Resistance: Women Spies in WWII.

Amsterdam 1940
It's only a matter of time and time is running out.
The Third Reich is sweeping across Europe and Stella Bled Lawrence wants nothing more than to get out of the way. After three months undercover, the young spy is ready to return to England for a well-deserved rest, but fate and a friend at the Admiralty have other ideas.
Stella receives a second assignment and she wasn't the first choice or even the third. Hardly, a vote of confidence, but orders are orders. Stella has to cozy up to two Dutch men and find out which side they're on before inevitable fall of The Netherlands to the Reich. If she does the job fast enough, she can get back to Britain and to Nicky before the air war intensifies. If she can't, she might not get there...]]> Sat, 27 Feb 2021 18:15:12 +0200 https://library.land/a-w-hartoin/656143-so_long_gone_a_cozy_mystery_mercy_watts_mysteries_book_14.html https://library.land/a-w-hartoin/656143-so_long_gone_a_cozy_mystery_mercy_watts_mysteries_book_14.html
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Take one kidnapping. Add a haunted hamlet. Mix in a secret that's lasted forty years and you've got a recipe for trouble.

Reluctant detective Mercy Watts' life is changing and she's ready for it with a new apartment, a new career, and new clues to an old family mystery. She has no desire to go back to haunted St. Sebastian anytime soon, but a man in Germany has other plans.

After an audacious attack, Mercy finds herself a victim and when answers aren't forthcoming, she joins forces with the suspect's family to find out why the unthinkable happened. So it's back to St. Sebastian and the town is not at all happy to see the detective that put them on the map in a bad way. It's going to be a rough ride with old crimes bringing new pain, but with Aaron feeding her till she's fit to burst, and Fats Licata armed to the teeth, at least she'll be well fed and safe...or will she?

All Mercy wants for Christmas is answers and she'll go all the way to Germany to get them.

The Watts clan has a plan. Mercy should rest and take it easy after the attack that left her battered and bruised. After all, she solved her own kidnapping and now it's time to enjoy the holidays. She's onboard, just barely. Knowing why Anton Thooft attacked her is good, knowing who blackmailed him into it would be even better, but she can wait, or so she thinks.
Just as Mercy settles in, her father springs a plan of his own on her. She should help the FBI. Why not? It's for a good cause. Mercy's had enough of his good causes and she gets her own plan. She heads to Germany to put the final puzzle piece in the picture of her kidnapping and she's going it alone, for once.
But fate and her Grandma J have other ideas and soon it's magical Christmas markets, high school angst, and family secrets, some are even her own.
Mercy's going to learn so much she never wanted to...]]> Tue, 12 Oct 2021 16:16:02 +0300 https://library.land/a-w-hartoin/479505-down_and_dirty_mercy_watts_mysteries_book_9.html https://library.land/a-w-hartoin/479505-down_and_dirty_mercy_watts_mysteries_book_9.html
Love is in the air and it stinks.Mercy Watts thinks things are about to get back to normal. She's back to work at the Columbia Clinic and her mother is recovering from her stroke. But when a patient goes rogue and lands Mercy smack dab in the middle of a lawsuit, she's forced to make a deal and the next thing she knows she's sunk into a world of infidelity and painful passions. Ordinary people are doing unthinkable things and Mercy doesn't know where to turn. Her boyfriend, Chuck, is practically MIA. Her father is out to lunch and Uncle Morty is downright incomprehensible. Add in a new stalker, plenty of jealousy, and a shooting, Mercy is out of her depth and the water is rising.]]> Sun, 18 Nov 2018 10:54:42 +0200 https://library.land/a-w-hartoin/653078-old_friends_and_fedoras_a_jess_and_libby_paranormal_cozy_mystery_afterlife_issues_book_3.html https://library.land/a-w-hartoin/653078-old_friends_and_fedoras_a_jess_and_libby_paranormal_cozy_mystery_afterlife_issues_book_3.html
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For Stella Bled Lawrence being wealthy and stylish in 1938 is exactly what it's cracked up to be. She's blissfully unaware of the rising tensions in Europe even as she travels to Vienna on the eve of the Kristallnacht, The Night of Broken Glass. Stella and her husband, Nicky, witness the night's atrocities first hand. Even as they watch the horror, they never imagine it will touch them personally, a pair of wealthy Americans on their honeymoon but touch them it does. In the chaotic aftermath, Stella finds passion and purpose in the form of a package with a Paris address. She promises to deliver it, not knowing what it contains or who wants it. Soon Stella must decide who and what she's willing to sacrifice to keep a secret that has been quietly guarded for five hundred years.

November 1939

It's been a year since Stella Bled Lawrence and her husband, Nicky, escaped Italy by the skin of their teeth and a lot has changed. Nicky joined the Royal Air Force and Stella spent the year training as a spy for His Majesty's Secret Intelligence Service. She has the languages and the tradecraft down pat, but she still has a way to go when the Earl of Bickford pulls her from her training early.
The earl uses his influence to make her a courier, a job well below her skills, but it's not as simple as it seems. The new head of the service isn't convinced of her worth and Stella has to use the opportunity to show him that she and other women can deliver for Britain or she's out on her ear.
That would be enough to make any newly-minted spy nervous, but the earl isn't done. He has a favor to ask and the request sends Stella to a place that will haunt her forever.