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After having Easter dinner with their 3 grown children and their spouses, Fred and Sheila are found murdered. Dan, Catherine, and Jenna all have alibis for the night of the murders. However, as police start to investigate, the alibis start falling apart. Why were they murdered? Because they were wealthy or for another reason? Did… Read More

Ellice Littlejohn is a corporate attorney for a company in Atlanta. On the surface, she seems to have it all - a successful career, a nice house, beautiful clothes, a handsome rich "boyfriend" (who just so happens to be her boss). One morning, called in for an early meeting, she arrives to find Michael dead… Read More

Mary Deerfield is twenty four and is the second wife of Thomas Deerfield. It is 1662 and the family lives in Boston, where quiet whispers of the witch trials are starting to occupy more of the usual gossip. Thomas has shown his temper on more than one occasion with Mary - mainly when he's had… Read More

By Samantha Downing Belmont Academy is an elite private school that prides itself on shaping and molding students into their best selves. Teacher of the Year Teddy Crutcher takes his job very very seriously. He loathes the entitlement and privilege of so many his students and fellow faculty members and feels it is his duty… Read More

Summer, her husband Gabe, and Gabe's son are going on their yearly vacation to Gabe's family home. They will be joined by Gabe's three brothers, and mom and dad. They are all married expect Nick. But Nick is bringing his latest girlfriend, Hannah. When Summer meets Hannah she immediately recognizes her from a past audition.… Read More

Teenage parents Tallulah and Zach go out for the night, leaving their baby with Tallulah's mom.  They never return.  Tallulah's mom, Kim, is convinced something sinister has happened while most everyone else thinks the two have just run away to escape their responsibilities. The case runs cold until a year later, when crime novelist Sophie moves into… Read More

From 1866 to the present day, this is the story of 5 generations of women, beginning in the cigar factories of Cuba and extending to modern day Miami, Mexico and back again to Cuba. Our first glimpse into the past begins with Maria, the only female working in the cigar factory, and the reader who… Read More

At 128 pages long, this book is a quick read that can be finished in one sitting. Denise Mina's Rizzio is a fictionalization of the murder of David Rizzio, personal secretary to Mary, Queen of Scots. Rizzio, who is a favorite of the Queen, is brutally murdered in the Queen's own private chambers during a… Read More

A passionate football coach, during the depression, takes on the role of leading a disjointed group of orphans to find hope and family in the game of football. Facing challenges along the way, he not only gives these orphans a way to survive life but changes the way the game is played. I love movies… Read More

Rose and Fern are sisters. Rose really worries about Fern after a horrible incident from their childhood and feels as if she needs to really watch over her.  Fern will go to great lengths to help Rose. There's something not quite right going on, but which sister is the one to be wary of?  This was… Read More