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Vigilante Justice: Librarian Style Maggie was a quiet librarian until a heartbreaking murder woke something dangerous inside her. Now she’s out for blood, not for herself, but for those who deserve justice. She survives an explosion and begins the slow process of healing with the help of her unusual team. When her world is shattered by a heart-wrenching murder, Maggie's team trains her to fight to win, whatever the cost. Her grief and rage transform her from prey to relentless hunter, and her brilliant observational talents threaten a complex criminal scheme. As Maggie closes in on the ...

Young widow. Innkeeper. Accidental Crimebuster. Jenna inherits a charming but failing bed-and-breakfast, but for a talented accountant, running an inn that is nearly bankrupt doesn’t fit into the tidiness of a balance sheet. Her fresh start is overcome by an avalanche of details that she’s powerless to stop. And nothing in her accounting background prepared her for a surly landscaper who challenges her every decision and still somehow ends up in her thoughts. Her intuitive, sensitive nature, a quiet, uncanny pull she could never explain, extends to the portrait of Nettie Wyndham, her ...

Wren and Rascal leave Arizona for her second writing assignment: a haunted campground in Texas. A killer wants her dead. Wren has never left a project unfinished, so she reluctantly leaves Arizona and the cute town marshal for her next assignment: a haunted campground in Texas. After she and Rascal discover a body in the woods, it’s obvious who the killer is, isn’t it? Even the ghost tells her not everyone is who they seem.

Her Dream Gig: Write an article about a haunted campground. Pitfall: Killer wants her dead. The assignment combines her love of traveling and camping with her loyal Lab/Husky mix, Rascal, and the intrigue of investigating haunted locations. The Old West-style Arizona campground, Forgotten Oasis, has a picturesque setting, but a deadly threat looms beneath the surface. While Wren digs into the mysteries of the Forgotten Oasis, she finds herself at odds with the young, widowed county marshal, whose protective instincts both frustrate and captivate her and with the snarky resident ghost who ...

Wren and Rascal arrive at her third haunted campground writing assignment in the mountains of Tennessee and disturb the lair of a killer. Wren and Rascal check in at the Tennessee campground that has no history of being haunted except for the ghostly sounds of stock car races at night. As the feelings deepen between Wren and Justin, the town marshal who waits for her in Arizona, she’s tempted to write a quick summary then leave Tennessee until she stumbles across a body. While she pieces together fragments of old and new clues that reveal an ongoing crime, a ghost warns her of danger. The...

The grid is down. The nation is in chaos. One man holds the key to stopping a silent war. After a devastating cyberattack cripples the U.S. power grid, Major’s quiet farm becomes a haven for those fleeing the collapse, including the local sheriff and his family. But as the terrorist network tightens its grip on the country, refuge turns into battleground. When Major’s young granddaughter reveals a chilling ability to sense threats before they strike, she saves them from a brutal ambush and exposes a traitor hiding in plain sight. Now, with a growing community depending on him and a ...

Someone wants Maggie dead. Maggie Sloan, former librarian with the fierce spirit of a warrior, accepts an assignment to find a missing spy who trusts only her. Simple enough, until she is shot and friends are murdered. Maggie and her partner, Larry, a police officer from her hometown, reel as the shockingly vicious attacks escalate. They struggle with the disturbing clues that point to the guilt of everyone they meet, and their trust and reliance on each other grows deeper than Maggie realizes. (He falls first.) How many more will die before Maggie and Larry expose the ruthless enemy’s ...

Wren’s fourth and final writing assignment: a haunted campground near a Florida beach. Wren and Rascal, her protective Labrador Retriever, arrive at a nearly abandoned, neglected campground. Wren discovers clues to a cold case in old letters. Are the new murders related? The ghostly pirate Captain warns Wren of danger; the killer plans Wren’s untimely demise.

Sudden attacks on Maggie escalate. Someone wants her dead. Maggie, Larry, and her team investigate the puzzling clues that point to a long ago, unsolved theft of famous works of art from an art museum, but how is an old theft related to the attacks and a series of fires? Maggie intends to discover the truth. Her unknown enemy intends for her to die.

Just one more haunted campground... Wren reluctantly agrees to write a bonus article for the travel magazine about a haunted campground that is on the way to Arizona. The campground is beautiful, and the people are welcoming. Is this last campground in Louisiana finally the only one with no ghosts or murderers?

A deadly attack on Maggie leaves her maimed, but the killer wants her dead. Maggie uses her uncanny skills and talents to navigate through the conflicting lies, half-truths, and clues to piece together the seemingly unrelated deaths at a senior center’s staff and residents, real and fake jewelry, a fire, and a near-fatal attack on her. Maggie counts on the killer to underestimate her skills as she narrows her suspect list. The killer intends for her to die.

Has Maggie finally met her match? A serial killer leaves a grisly message for Maggie: she’s next. She does not intend to die. Maggie and her Gray Flanagan Agency staff, Paul and Heather, have their first case: investigate the grisly murders of young women. They discover the killer tracks the order of the murders with crude, deep slices on the young women’s bodies. When the team doubles-down to find the killer, Maggie gets too close, and the killer gives Maggie the next number in line to die.

A deranged serial killer targets the vulnerable Maggie. Her life depends on seeing what no one else does. Maggie navigates through the clues behind twenty years of suspicious deaths at the hand of the legendary Ghost of Wicked Hollow. Even though she has tragically lost her eyesight, she sees beyond the fog that has shrouded a serial killer from discovery for years. The murder targets her to die.

Runaway girls. Calculating charmers. Human trafficking. Maggie sees the link; the kingpin sees her as an easy kill. Maggie’s on the trail of a human trafficking organization that she believes includes a ring of kidnappers and charismatic men that lure vulnerable women to a remote “resort.” When friends die in their efforts to uncover the criminals, Maggie steps up her game; as the young, one-eyed Maggie closes in, the mastermind is confident she’ll step into his trap and die.

A chiseler preys on the kind-hearted. But Jenna's vengeance? Bless his heart. Jenna didn’t plan on chasing criminals when she inherited the Peach Blossom Retreat in Georgia, but when a friend is attacked and left for dead by a scammer who thrives on sympathy and deception, Jenna takes a bold step: she infiltrates his online groups to expose him. The deeper she digs, the more she realizes his schemes are darker and more dangerous than she imagined. Can Jenna outwit the ultimate manipulator before he destroys more lives, including her own?

Riley, vet tech and dog whisperer, races with death to save a friend’s husband, but is she racing to her own death? The killer waits: Riley must die. As Riley searches for her friend's husband after he disappears, one of his coworkers is murdered, and Ben's former girlfriend gives Riley the reports she stole from her boss before he was killed. After Riley receives a text from a previously unreliable source warning her to be careful, she is the only one who can puts together all the pieces, if she can survive. The murderer closes in for the kill.

Only Riley, vet tech and dog whisperer, can stop the mastermind who murders farmers for their land; killer’s plan: Riley dies. Riley is offered a part time position with a vet who visits farms. Her dream job! But a killer turns her dream into a nightmare when farmers who are desperate to use their equity to save their farms are murdered, and friends are left for dead. Riley’s on the killer’s list: next to die.

Only Riley, vet tech and dog whisperer, can stop the attacks on the rural community. Riley is on the killer's list: Riley must die. When newlyweds Riley and Ben move to the region where Ben is the new GBI Crime Scene Investigator, Riley is offered a position to accompany a veterinarian on farm visits. Her first day is a disaster. A farmer's cows were poisoned; the veterinarian is incompetent and refuses her help. She leaves the office at the end of the day, unsure whether she quit or was fired, but she’s the only one who can stop a psychopath’s obsessive attacks on the quiet farm ...

Autistic and Orphaned. The nation’s survival depends on her. Seventeen-year-old Aimee Louise doesn't see faces; instead she sees swirling, shifting clouds. Bright and fluffy for happiness; dark gray for sadness; and anxious, restless wisps of gray for worry. But a sharp, jagged, crimson cloud, a chilling, almost tangible weight in the air, screams of imminent danger. A local transformer explodes, but it’s only the beginning of the coordinated, widespread collapse of the nation’s grid and the economy. When the power-hungry criminal discovers the information to stop his plan to take ...

Major and Aimee Louise set a trap for a human trafficking ringleader; their enemy plans an ambush. If Aimee Louise doesn’t stop the killer, Major will die. Major’s old enemy is the mastermind behind the entire conspiracy: the electrical system’s imminent destruction, the scam to steal farms, and kidnapping children of law enforcement officers to force the parents into compliance with his schemes. Major and Aimee Louise set a trap for the egotistical criminal with Major as the bait; his enemy plans a deadly ambush. If Aimee Louise doesn’t stop the criminal, Major will walk into the ...