Mystery Thriller & Suspense

Element of Secrecy (Element Mysteries Book 1)by Heather Slawecki

The small town of Brandtville, Pennsylvania is similar to the villages that surround the area. The setting is picturesque with old farmhouses, dirt roads, covered bridges, streams. It’s also rich with Native and early American history. What sets it apart is a big secret.

Jenny O’Rourke has been haunted by blurred memories of the town’s dark secrets for over twenty years. Brick walls and tight lips have kept her from understanding why she was torn from her home and family in the middle of the night. And why her brother’s murder was brushed under the rug. To find the answers, she has to elude two powerful forces standing in her way … an estranged but lurking father and the watchful eyes of the Witness Protection Program. She’s about to break the only rule they have in common: Never go home. Jenny finds an opportunity, giving her access to everything she thought she ever wanted to know. What she discovers changes everything and leaves a small town in need of some damage control.

Find Me (Inland Empire Book 1)by Anne Frasier

An Amazon Charts Bestseller.

A bone-chilling family history is unearthed in a heart-stopping thriller by New York Times bestselling author Anne Frasier.

Convicted serial killer Benjamin Fisher has finally offered to lead San Bernardino detective Daniel Ellis to the isolated graves of his victims. One catch: he’ll only do it if FBI profiler Reni Fisher, his estranged daughter, accompanies them. As hard as it is to exhume her traumatic childhood, Reni can’t say no. She still feels complicit in her father’s crimes.

Perfect to play a lost little girl, Reni was the bait to lure unsuspecting women to their deaths. It’s time for closure. For her. For the families. And for Daniel. He shares Reni’s obsession with the past. Ever since he was a boy, he’s been convinced that his mother was one of Fisher’s victims.

Thirty years of bad memories are flooding back. A master manipulator has gained their trust. For Reni and Daniel, this isn’t the end of a nightmare. It’s only the beginning.

Maybe it’s Fateby Weston Parker

Reckless is my middle name.

Guess that’s why I got a medical discharge from the military.

A fighter pilot with no plane to fly is a very unhappy boy. So commercial airlines, here I come.

Thanks to a bit of serendipity, I end up in Fiji with a hot as hell, broken-hearted woman.

Poor thing got stood up at the altar and decided to go on her honeymoon anyway.

The man who did it must be an idiot. This woman is everything any man would want in his life or his bed.

We’re complete opposites. She’s a planner and I fly by the seat of my pants.

Time to get her out of her comfort zone–in more ways than one.

This woman is mine for the time being.

Unfortunately, time flies, and we part ways, a misunderstanding on my part.

But lo and behold, fate showed up

Looks like I’m in trouble with HR. Again.

Just my luck on who HR is… I’ll let you guess.

With all we did in Fiji, this straitlaced beauty is having trouble reconciling her feelings for me and her ethics.

Good thing I’m bad enough for the both of us.

Maybe it’s right. Hell, maybe it’s wrong.

Or maybe it’s fate?

Every good girl deserves a bad boy. ~ Weston

Living in the Middleby A. Robert Allen

Rejected by his race. Hunted by the Klan. Jimmy Montgomery can no longer live in the middle.

LIVING IN THE MIDDLE is a powerful African American historical novel based on the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921.

˃˃˃ New York/Tulsa- 1918 – 1921:

Jimmy Montgomery comes from old New York money and grows up among the Manhattan elite. At the age of eighteen, Jimmy discovers he’s been living a lie. He follows his roots back to Tulsa, Oklahoma to answer the burning questions in his life. Who is he? What is he? Where does he belong? He finds love and friendship along the way, but full acceptance from either the White or the Black world eludes him. When an angry White mob invades the Black community of Greenwood during the Tulsa Race Riots of 1921, Jimmy must finally make a choice—he can no longer live in the middle. His decision will alter the course of his life and those he’d come to love. What will he decide?

˃˃˃ LIVING IN THE MIDDLE is a stand-alone story connected by theme to the other volumes in A. Robert Allen’s Slavery and Beyond series.

The Planby Whitney Dineen

• Silver Medal Winner at the 2020 International Readers Favorite Awards

Bead shop owner Amelia Frothingham has been keeping a secret from everyone she knows.

She pretends to be the ultimate care-free bohemian chick, but the truth is, she’s the world’s biggest control freak. Much to the delight of her Southern family, Amelia’s life appears to be smooth sailing. That is, until bad boy rockstar Huck Wiley mysteriously blows into town like a spring tornado.

Like every other woman under eighty with a pulse, Amelia’s intrigued. So when Huck starts showing up in her shop with flirtation in mind, she finds herself getting sucked into the rock god vortex. But her previous attempts at long-distance love have always ended on a sour note, so Amelia has vowed never to repeat the experience.

What Amelia doesn’t know is that Huck has a secret of his own, and he has no intention of returning to Los Angeles before he’s good and ready.

Will Huck stay in town, scattering the beads Amelia has finally gotten sorted? Or will he head back to his glamorous life and take her last chance at spontaneity and love along with him?

Find out in this deliciously funny romcom about love and life in Creek Water, Missouri!

The Cavanaugh Houseby Elizabeth Meyette

A house full of secrets.

Answers that may cost her life.

When Jesse Graham unlocks the door to the deserted house she inherited from her Aunt Helen, she doesn’t realize she’s unlocking secrets that had lain dormant for years.

As she settles into the Cavanaugh House, she wonders if this house is a blessing or a curse. The convenience to her new job is unbeatable, but people’s reaction to her living there is unnerving. And what about the strange noises she hears in the attic room at night?

Still reeling from a broken engagement, Jesse finds it difficult to trust anyone, even her self-absorbed mother. She’s determined to make a new life for herself, independent of anyone, on board with the current women’s liberation movement. Her dearest friend Maggie, aka Sister Angelina, is her lifeline to sanity and the only person she knows in small-town Seneca Corners.

Questions about her aunt’s death almost three decades earlier lead Jesse to investigate the mystery surrounding it and the people involved. What part did the wealthy Wyndham family play? Joe Riley is attractive, but her independent spirit and lack of trust resist his charm.

As she probes further, she uncovers a web of deceit that reaches far beyond the occurrences of twenty-eight years ago. Someone doesn’t want those secrets unearthed and will stop at nothing, even murder, to keep them hidden.

Rum Cake Cottageby Barbara Cool Lee

Roxy spent ten years in prison for a crime she didn’t commit. Now she’s got 72 hours to find the real killer, or she’ll lose her daughter forever. A sweet second-chance romantic mystery from a Golden Heart-winning author.

The Witches of Hant Hollowby D. F. Jones

Wickedly thrilling fast-paced tale of a family of witches’ power struggles over light and dark magic, and how one mortal man gets caught in the crosshairs of the feud causing upheaval in not only Jasmine’s love life but rife within the American Mage Alliance.

Will Jasmine save Jonathan at the risk of losing the one she loves most?

“I grew up with Glinda the Good Witch, and then there was the Wicked Witch of the West. This book is so much more. You learn about the prejudices toward the witches, and the prejudices they have toward others. You hear lies about them, the truths, their homes, their loves, and their losses. This is a wonderful book with such amazing insight. And it allows us to see into those lives easily. I love the characters. They are so alive and real. I found this story to be fascinating and well-written and hope to read more about the Witches of Hant Hollow.”