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  • Book cover of Mystery Is Our Shadow

    The Writer's Club was embarking on another adventure! Little did they know the selling of their co-authored book, Mystery Is Our Shadow, would bring about even more intrigue. A college manuscript is discovered in a well-known magazine. Now to track down the person who plagiarized it. One writer takes a job as a live-in ghostwriter in the eerie, gothic style house, Four Gables. This house has hidden a terrible secret for years. A holiday book signing, a fan letter, and a wonderful writer's conference will bring happiness. While horrible book reviews and an anonymous warning about agent's fees and contracts will cause concern. A weekend stay at a writer's Bed and Breakfast, The Cliffhanger Inn, will be enjoyed by the members of the Writer's Club. Here they'll learn trouble has been planted within the very walls of the Inn.

  • Book cover of Twelve Months of Mystery

    How would you like to read a year's worth of mystery, one month at a time? This book is filled with stories that both girls and boys will enjoy. Whether it's a snowboarding trip to Snow Cliff Lodge in January, where a mint coin set is found under the carpet in a loft closet. Or a missing Valentine card mystery in February. In April, Ivan turns an old vaporizer into his Steaminator and accidentally steams open a small envelope, which does not belong to him. In July, Calla will spend a week with her grandmother and wake to a terrible noise in the attic, thunder and lightning. As she slowly climbs the attic stairs, the lights go out! Ahead, two glowing eyes peer back at her! In the August mystery, we wonder what's behind the fence on Chestnut Drive. Why is it covered in locks? Why are there shadowy lights in the backyard late every night? Blake and Jeff are hiding snowballs in their snow cave in preparation for the Carpenter twins' visit during an early November blizzard that has caused a Snow Day! What will Jenna do when a miniature copy of the shop where she takes her piano lessons lights up suddenly in December? It's never been wired for electricity! Is there a Christmas mystery brewing?

  • Book cover of The Writer's Club

    Here is a short story mystery collection about four women writers that form The Writer’s Club. Each writer faces mysterious happenings in her life. Taylor’s beloved bridal chest, a wedding gift from her husband suddenly has new names carved into it. A baby monitor warns Jenna, while working on assignment, that someone is following her. Jenna is working on an investigative report concerning a famous dating service that has a scandal brewing. Amy finds an old letter in a secret drawer of a writing desk she has refinished. This letter describes a relationship that spells disaster. Lily faces a masked intruder at the bookstore, the Wren’s Nest. While footsteps are heard upstairs in The Tomb, the temperature controlled room for old books. Lily will discover on her honeymoon that an inkwell passed down to her from her great grandmother was part of a legend.

  • Book cover of Adventure on Apple Orchard Road

    The Forrest family buys a run down house on Apple Orchard Road. Eleven-year-old Ethan is disappointed the house is so old. Ethan invites his best friend, Tanner, for a sleepover and Tanner brings along a metal detector. At the break of dawn, Ethan and Tanner make a discovery in the old shed out back that will change their lives. This amazing treasure includes a letter from the past owner of the house. Elizabeth Patterson writes that she and her husband have hidden things in the house for years! Elizabeths old journal is discovered in the attic. What will Ethan do when he reads that Mr. Patterson made his own time capsule? In an old coffee can he placed a 1958 autographed NY Yankees baseball, wrapped in that days newspaper and placed in the floor joists of the attic. Could this baseball still be up there? The shed will become Ethans bike garage. Who or what is making the huge footprints in the dirt by the shed?

  • Book cover of A Holiday Sampler

    A book filled with holiday stories. Fifteen different holidays to be exact touched with romance, humor, mystery, and inspiration! A humorous tale about New Year resolutions opens the book. A romantic Class Reunion on Valentine weekend follows. A St. Patrick's Day meal, Dinner by Candlelight and Thanksgiving at Gobble Inn, Let's Talk Turkey will make you laugh. Why has no one been allowed in The Attic for years in the Mother's Day story? Who is writing notes in dark red ink and signing them The Bookworm in the Fourth of July murder mystery? A Halloween black cat makes an appearance in Meow. Patriotic stories for Memorial and Veteran's Day add to the festivities. The heart tugging Christmas Eve story, Dear Santa, will warm the winter's cold. More mysteries at Christmas and New Year's Eve round out this anthology. A fast, enjoyable read for all!

  • Book cover of Something Borrowed, Something Blue

    Amy, a member of the Writer's Club, is busy helping her daughter, Rachel, plan her wedding. Will it be wedded bliss or more mystery for the Writer's Club? In the sleepy little town of Foggy Grove the bridal shop, Something Borrowed, Something Blue, is in the home of a wonderful seamstress, Margaret Brown. We learn that years earlier Margaret's own wedding was halted just as her father was to walk her down the aisle. Why did she never marry the man she loved so much and tenderly nicknamed, her huckleberry friend? We meet Ivory, the young helper Margaret hires to work in her shop. Ivory dreams of becoming a writer but spends much of her time caring for her sister, Jade. What has happened to the bride, Raven Moore? Why did she call off her wedding one week before it was scheduled? Why is her car parked at Foggy Grove Inlet near the Sweetheart Tree and why is her name carved into this tree with a question mark? The Foggy Grove Gazette will raise questions about Raven's whereabouts and the crow hunters that have come from all over the country. The popular column, Dear Miss Lonely Heart, will share two letters that cause a stir in Foggy Grove, as does a rare second edition of the newspaper!

  • Book cover of Solve a Cozy Mystery

    Are you into complicated police procedures or detailed forensic evidence? If so, my books NOT for you! However, if you enjoy solving simple, short and cozy-type mysteries, my book might be your cup of tea! Speaking of tea, read Clues in a Teacup. Three of the thirty-five mysteries in this book happened to people in my family. I share which ones at the end of the book, plus the solution to each mystery. Romance is clearly in the air in Goosebumps & A Gift Basket, Mystery Lane, Sleepwalking Intern, and Memories in a Guestroom. Do you enjoy easy recipes? Check out Undercover at Innisfree. In Pink or Blue Secrets a mother-to-be plans on reading the results of her ultrasound test at her baby shower. In Till Theft Do Us Part a bride learns wedding boutiques will stop at nothing! Would you enjoy having your hair done at the new salon Curl Up and Dye? What happens when a lawyer visits the library and sees a ghost? Youll find the answer in Ghost in the Library. A fun read for a cozy afternoon! How many can you solve?

  • Book cover of That Recycling Kid

    Tyler Martin loves to take something old or broken and reinvent it. He turns a backyard building into, Shed Stuff, to house recyclables for their neighborhood. Tyler visits the Recycling Center so often he's given the nickname, That Recycling Kid. When he discovers a brand new Smartphone in his cell phone bin, he's amazed! But soon after, rats start to invade his containers. Will his plan to drive them away work, before his mother, an annoyed sister, and an angry neighbor find out? His best friend, Luke, helps with many of his adventures. Another friend, Tia Raymond, writes a funny poem for Tyler. She loves the teen group, One Direction and UGG boots. Tia asks Tyler to collect expired credit and gift cards so she can transform them into craft projects for a cheerleading fund raiser. This book is packed with humor, mystery, and fun ideas for middle graders and tweens. They include making homemade quicksand, a soup can telephone, guitar picks, bracelets, and how to lift fingerprints and much more.

  • Book cover of A Kiss and a Promise

    Six short romance stories, each with quirky characters, or quirky locations, or quirky situations. You'll find a ghost, a spaceship captain, a window designer, a banker and a baker, two vampire hunters and some supernatural beings. You'll find deception, intrigue, and old memories. But most of all, you'll find true romance.

  • Book cover of Christmas at Cliffhanger Inn

    Mystery always follows the women of the Writer's Club but this time with holiday flair! Bill and Tara Fields are ready to celebrate the first Christmas at their Bed and Breakfast, the Cliffhanger Inn. The Writer's Club will spend a few nights and celebrate the Inn's Open House, and also watch as the strange ivory mortgage button placed so long ago in the old staircase is removed. What will they find beneath it? The owner of a Christmas tree farm, Country Evergreens, will stop by the Inn. The tree purchased at his lot has its own mystery from the past. A bizarre find beneath the pine needles around the trunk of the near perfect tree will leave the Fields questioning events surrounding this happening. Tara discovers an old journal written by someone named Rebecca in the 1940s. Has she stumbled on a murder mystery that took place over sixty years ago? A last minute business luncheon at the Inn will end in near death. Was this event a coincidence or planned to get rid of an annoying employee? A demanding, unfriendly man will spend a week at the Inn, barely leaving his room except for meals. He will leave something in the room when he signs out that completely surprises Bill and Tara.