In a small Alaska town, a boy is found with his throat ripped out and all the blood drained from his body. The inhabitants of Deadhart haven't seen a killing like this in twenty-five years. But they know who's responsible: a member of the Colony, an ostracized community of vampyrs living in an old mine settlement deep in the woods. Detective Barbara Atkins, a specialist in vampyr killings, is called in to officially determine if this is a Colony killing-and...

On a frigid February day, Anchorage Detective Cara Kennedy stands by the graves of her husband and son, watching as their caskets are raised from the earth. It feels sacrilegious, but she has no choice. Aaron and Dylan disappeared on a hike a year ago, their bones eventually found and buried. But shocking clues have emerged that foul play was involved, potentially connecting them to a string of other deaths and disappearances. Somehow tied to the...

Theodosia and Drayton were expecting a mellow break from the bustle at the Indigo Tea Shop while catering a film, until the director ropes Theodosia into a role as a fortune teller. At the haunted Brittleback Manor, Theodosia's character will read tea leaves and give a bitter prediction. But when it's time for her close-up, the lights flash and the movie director spasms on the floor until he is dead. Amid the conflicts on set and the spooky legend...

After following her missing sister's trail from Oklahoma City to Dallas, and then on to Amarillo, Patterson Blake finds herself in Santa Fe looking for a man who might hold the key to unraveling the mystery of Julie's disappearance. But instead, she uncovers a sixteen year old cold case murder that might provide an answer no one wants to hear. To make things worse, previous events are coming back to haunt her in the form of a man who wants revenge,...

Marin Shaw's release from prison draws attention from all sides--from the press, from her family, and from the other Chicago aldermen who let her take the fall for their corruption. For three years Shaw has stayed silent, claiming that all she wants is to fade into anonymity with her daughter, Zoe. Meanwhile, detectives Harri Foster and Vera Li are assigned to the murder of an alderman--one of Shaw's coconspirators. They sift through the evidence,...

December 1903: While Wilbur and Orville Wright's flying machine is quite literally taking off in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina with its historic fifty-seven second flight, their sister Katharine is back home in Dayton, Ohio, running the bicycle shop, teaching Latin, and looking after the family. A Latin teacher and suffragette, Katharine is fiercely independent, intellectual, and the only Wright sibling to finish college. But at twenty-nine, she's frustrated...

It's been one thing after another for Detective Grace McKenna and her team at the fledgling Portobello Detective Agency, and she's finally enjoying some peace as the leaves turn and Autumn beckons. But when a wealthy local landowner contacts her about a case so sensitive he can't even discuss it over the phone, Grace is instantly intrigued. Russian collector Sacha Komorov lives out of the public eye, despite his immense wealth and marriage to a famous...

Death stalks the Blue Ridge Mountains once again and Mary Minor "Harry" Harristeen, along with her beloved cats and dogs, is on the case.

Rachel Armstrong has a burning need to right the world's wrongs. Thus, she becomes the Avenging Angel. And maybe she's a bit too cocky about it. While riding a hunch about the identity of a kidnapper, she runs into Julien "Cap" Jackson, who was trained by the team at Nightingale Investigations in Denver. Now he's a full-fledged member at their newly opened Phoenix branch. It takes Cap a bit to realize Raye's the woman for him. It takes Raye a little...

Jillian hasn't trusted Charmaine Rawlins  since the moment she laid eyes on her. Maybe it's the woman's too-thick Southern accent. Maybe it's the way the supposedly rich socialite treats her personal assistant. Or perhaps it's the fact that Charmaine seems to have her sights set on becoming a permanent fixture at Belle Haven, Jillian's ancestral home.But when Charmaine is found dead soon after invading the antebellum mansion, Jillian's quirky great-aunt...