"Twelve-year-old Rain Winter narrowly escaped an abduction while walking to a friend's house. Her two best friends, Tess and Hank, were not as lucky. Tess never came home, and Hank was held in captivity before managing to escape. Their abductor was sent to prison but years later was released. Then someone delivered real justice and killed him in cold blood. Now Rain is living the perfect suburban life, her dark childhood buried deep ... But when another...

"Trying to escape her overbearing mother, vintage kitchenware enthusiast and soon-to-be columnist Jaymie Leighton retreats to her family's cottage on Heartbreak Island. While there she hopes to write an article about the Ice House restaurant, owned by good friends and neighbors, siblings Ruby and Garnet Redmond. Once an actual icehouse, the restaurant is charmingly decorated with antique tools of the trade, including a collection of ice picks. One...

Newspaper reporter Lexie Templeton didn't need to meet Rome Lockwood to know his type--a male chauvinist playboy with a different girl on his arm every night. Lexie's caustic comments to a gossip columnist hit the headlines, and Rome Lockwood came storming into the office looking for Lexie and revenge.

Newswoman Farrell Slater discovers murder in her hunt for the original Fabergé Moon Egg, owned by the tsars and lost during the Russian Revolution. She undertakes her investigation after one sells for $6 million at a New York auction and turns out to be a fake.

When a murder echoing a fifteen-year-old cold case rocks the Southern town of Savannah, crime reporter Harper McClain risks everything to find the identity of this calculated killer.--from dust jacket.

Seattle tabloid reporter Susan Michaels is disgusted by claims linking the mayor to a vampire coven, a situation that turns bizarre when she adopts a cat that turns out to be a gorgeous shape-shifting vampire slayer.

The impact of Alzheimer's disease on a family of three women. The one diagnosed with it is Grace Dorian, a 61-year-old syndicated newspaper columnist who dispenses advice to women. Francine, her daughter, takes over writing the column with the help of her daughter, Sophie. But Sophie is jealous of the relationship between her mother and her grandmother.