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Lydia Downs, lady's maid to the spoiled Elizabeth Samson, is badgered into attending the first ball of the season in place of her mistress. A masquerade ball where Lydia meets the kind, handsome, and wealthy Beauregard Hollingsworth.

Trouble just won't leave Shelby Hart alone. She's in her greenhouse, minding her own business, when the next thing she knows she's lying on the ground looking up. Someone tried to poison her. Right after she vowed not to snoop into murders anymore. But this killer isn't like the others. This one is a friend with a dark past. A past interwoven with the death of Shelby's father five years ago. Come along as Shelby and her quirky group of friends and relatives work to outrace a killer and find justice.

When poisonous foliage begins appearing in Shelby Hart's garden, and a resident of Shady Acres winds up dead, she sets off to clear her reputation as a gardener. Hard to do with a broken foot, a meddling office manager, and a head chef who is as crusty as week-old bread. To top things off, a handsome new detective comes on scene more determined than the others to keep Shelby from sticking her nose where it doesn't belong.

Widowed and broke, Rachel Kent collects her two children, packs up their belongings, and heads across the Ozarks to stay with her parents. They stop for the night at a newly opened campground then take a short hike. The three return to find the other occupants of the campground murdered. They flee the campsite and stumble upon a ranger's cabin, where they enlist the help of handsome, former-Army Ranger Wesley Ward, who informs them a survivalist group laid claim to the mountain.

Lacey Baxter knows her uncle killed her aunt and she is out to prove it! When she flees her home, she almost runs over and kills DEA agent John Canyon, who is out to get justice for his brother's death, while raising his orphaned niece. When they discover they're after the same group of men, the two band together against overwhelming odds to bring down a corrupt man set on ruling their small town.

Elderly women are dying in River Valley...after their names appear in the obituaries. When the latest woman comes to Marsha Steele for help finding the killer before she becomes the next victim, Marsha is thrust into another mystery that could very well be her last.

Jocelyn Nielson is on the run from a man involved in selling children. When a man shows up on her doorstep, claiming to be her knight in shining armor, she's reluctant to trust him. After all, memories are returning, and they are exposing things best left buried in the past.

Marley Brooks is used to receiving fan mail, but when letters from one particular fan take a dangerous turn and a coworker is killed, she leaves her job and flees to Misty Hollow. Her desire to hide doesn’t come easy, as even the people in this remote mountain town recognize her. The letters continue, and Marley enlists the help of local farmer Dirk Mason, former military police.

With the age of 28 looming ahead and Tatum Jackson still unmarried, she made a vow to enjoy her birthday on a cruise ship bound for Hawaii. She runs into, literally, a handsome man and enjoys a romance movies were made of. When the cruise ends, she agrees to continue the relationship with Eric Carlson via letters. Then one simple mistake leads Tatum to think it all a lie. Will fate intervene once again and save these two hearts?

Lou Anne Burgess has returned home to help her aunt save the family home from an unscrupulous man. In doing so, she comes up with scheme after scheme to make the money needed for repairs to the 100-year-old Victorian. When her latest scheme puts her in danger, her former high-school crush steps in. Stetson Maxwell is more overjoyed to see Lou Anne than, it appears, she is to see him. While he'd once vowed never to marry, he now wants no one but her, and she isn't interested. Still, his feelings for her prompt him to step in and try to keep her from endangering herself.

Newly appointed as the first female sheriff of Misty Hollow, Shea Callahan is ready to face the small town’s crime head-on. But when chilling threats start to appear, pointing to a dark chapter in her past, Shea realizes that this job comes with more danger than she ever imagined. The brother of a man she killed in self-defense months ago is back, and he’s not only determined to ruin her but also to take her life in revenge. Enter Trevor Bolton, the town’s handsome but guarded deputy. Shea has always preferred to work alone, but as her stalker’s threats escalate, she finds herself ...

When Stormi's nephew asks her to help him stop the abuse to a friend of his, Stormi is more than willing to step in. What she finds is worse than anything she imagined. No amount of research prepared her for a group of men so evil that Stormi must dig deep inside herself and call on God to rescue the man she loves.

Evil is stalking the town of Clear Springs and seems to be targeted at Cassidy Monroe, one of the town's detectives. Haunted by her mother's unsolved murder, Cassidy links the killer to her death. What she discovers rocks her world. Colin MacKenzie, a relocated detective from Scotland, is the last thing Cassidy needs. Handsome and determined to protect her, she finds he is a distraction she doesn't need. As an age-old secret covered with blood creeps closer, Cassidy must determine which is more important...justice or love?

Sadie Rollins wants to raise subscriptions to her father's newspaper and knows just the way to do it: a contest for the hand of the town's most eligible bachelor, Doctor Ezekiel Phelps. Everything goes according to plan...until someone enters Sadie's name into the drawing.

Duncan McCammon receives a text for help from his sister. When he arrives at her house, he discovers her gone and her husband murdered. Detective Kennedy Sparks arrives on the scene. As the two investigate, they are drawn into a deadly game of cat and mouse where Duncan's long ago rock-climbing buddies are killed off one by one. The killer is following the plot of one of Duncan's books based on an unfortunate accident that had happened years before - a plot that would result in the woman Duncan loved being murdered.

Trinity Ashford is happy with the lull in crime around Waterfall. Until someone breaks into her car and steals a box of donations for the local animal shelter. Even then, she doesn't want to go nosing around, despite the urging of her friend and mother. But then, someone breaks the front window of Tail Waggin' and drags away the Christmas tree. The war is on!

When a pet owner leaves her dog and cat at Trinity’s pet daycare and doesn’t return by the day’s end, Trinity takes the animals home. What she discovers there is a ransacked home with no sign of the pet owner. To make matters worse, a new cop of the Waterfall Police force thinks Trinity is the main suspect.

Five friends from college start a private investigator business. What came next was totally unexpected. This box set features all five romances in one volume: Saving Sarah, Lesson for Lacey, Mission for Meghan, Long Way for Lainie, and Aimed at Amy.

When a dead body is found face-down in a vat of chocolate inside Stormi's mother's bakery, what's a nosy neighbor to do other than find a killer? Just when she was rethinking her new writing venture of hunting down crimes in order to write about them, Stormi is thrust into another mystery. Someone wants the shop owners of Oak Meadows, Arkansas, to sell out, and they will kill to make that happen.

Shelby Hart is ready to try getting married again. To a man who won't leave her at the altar. The only problem is...there's been another murder and newly licensed Shelby is hired to use her private investigating skills to clear her mother's name. As payment, her grandmother vows a gift that Shelby cannot receive.