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Margaret (Maggie) Cumberland lives to shop. Her father died with debts. Before she can get her inheritance, Maggie finds out the will comes with certain stipulations. She has to get a job. Not just any job, though. Nope. Dear old dad put in the will that she had to make three deliveries for the family business.

Anna-Marie Pauper was perfectly practical in every way. Or so she thought until a ragtag group of stolen orphans, a dangerously flirtatious criminal, and a beguiling airship captain soon had her emotions in an uproar, breaking down her carefully crafted barriers. She rescues the girls only to place them into a new kind of prison, a beautiful prison she herself has lived in for five years.

You are seen, and you are appreciated. Excellent for Mother's Day or birthdays. Give a sweet gift of encouragement and thankfulness for the bonus mom or stepmom that you love to have in your life. Full of little truths and several funnies, this audiobook was created by a bonus mom with bonus moms in mind.

With late-night gravediggers haunting the church graveyard, to surprise gifts, and a gigantic gingerbread contest that gets out of hand, Charity is up to her Santa hat in Christmas chaos. When Margo and Rita insist they need her help to find and stop the gravedigger, will Detective Sota understand why Charity has to take the case, or will she be in big trouble for getting in the middle of police matters?

Party guests congratulate Charity Basham, owner of Sassy Supplies Crafts & More, on the scariness of her backyard skeleton decoration. Unfortunately, Charity didn't put out any skeleton decorations. With the discovery of a dead body, her Halloween party turns into a nightmare. With her fingerprints (and some white cat fur) are all over the murder weapon, Charity finds herself at the top of the suspect list. Can she clear her name before the dishy Detective Sota arrests her for murder?

With two deliveries down and only one left to complete for the requirements of her inheritance, the murder of her father solved, and finally being settled into her new (old, very very old trailer) home, she is revved up and ready to go. That is, until her coworkers point out that her next delivery is to the state of Maine!

What do you do when you steal a book from the queen and have it stolen from you? Grovel. At least, that is Ambrose's solution. Anna-Marie doubts it will work but when the Queen Victoria agrees to give them a chance to get Moonstone's Promise back, she knows they have to succeed or die trying.

Maggie Cumberland is on the road to finding a murderer. Or on the road to jail, if she can't prove her innocence when a woman at a truck stop ends up dead and happens to have something of Maggie's with her. More details to come in this fun second installment of the Longhorn Trucking Mysteries where Maggie goes from shopaholic without a care to truck driver extraordinaire — at least in her own mind. ;-)

Anna-Marie and Ambrose have made a home and a new life for their ragtag family. No more scraping for food or patching over the patches time and again in their garments. All is bliss. Or it would be if not for the explosions in the upstairs ballroom and the newfound obligation they have as spies for Queen Victoria.

Charity Basham and her crafting cohorts have decided to give back to the community. The heart-shaped pillows created during craft night at Sassy Supplies Crafts & More are on their way to patients in the breast cancer ward of Becksville's hospital for a Valentine's surprise. But when the heartfelt mission turns into a hostage situation and at least one murder, will Charity panic under pressure? Will she and Margo be able to find their missing friend Lola and nurse Zuri? With power out, cells not working, and one stowaway cat underfoot, Charity has her work cut out for her.

The Articulating Umbrella is a busy tearoom filled with goodies and gossip, Anna-Marie is blessed with marital bliss, and the group of orphan girls are quite comfortable in their new home and improved station in life. Of course, only when things are going along smoothly are the most jarring bumps in the road discovered.

The quaint mountain town of Riverbend Junction hasn't been home to Zadie Belle and Darla Belle, two of the three Belle sisters, since they moved away several years ago, but when they return this year for Christmas, a theft and a murder derails the train and all of their plans for getting back to their regular lives. Especially when Darla Belle disappears and is accused of the crimes. Stuck in the small town in more ways than one, the sisters must put their heads together to figure out who the murderer is, or else find themselves railroaded into a murder charge themselves.

Having lost her post as a governess, when Annabeth Watson returns home for Christmas, she's returning home to stay. A less-than-welcome reception from her father isn't surprising, but the murder of a maid is quite shocking. Can Annabeth find the truth of what happened during the house party, against her father's wishes? Or will the lecherous Lord Gresham and mysterious Lord Wright keep her from investigating?

The adventures of Bailey Hynson and her friends will keep you on the edge of your seat as you discover the good and the bad about each of their teachers. Then, listen on as an unlikely group of classmates put aside their differences to do battle for the good of the first grade class.

What do the town Easter egg hunt, a poker game, and a string of burglaries have in common? The Easter bunny. Charity Basham refuses to be sidelined when a burglar dressed as the Easter bunny strikes a little too close to home. She's on a hunt of her own and it has nothing to do with eggs. Hop alongside Charity and dishy detective Sota as they make a plan to catch this bad bunny.

Zadie Belle can't catch a break, but she's more determined than ever to help catch a killer in Book 3 of the Belle Sister Cozy Mysteries. When her sister Darla Belle's friend from New York is found dead on the mountain near their town of Riverbend Junction, Arkansas, Zadie is worried. When the man who caused Darla Belle to flee home in the first place shows up as well, she's just plain mad. To top it off, a drifter arrived on the train and disappeared into the forest about the same time and only pops up to cause trouble.

Don't miss the fireworks in book eight of this fun holiday cozy mystery series! A celebration at the lake is interrupted by, well, more dead bodies. Not everyone is who they say. She planned to tie the knot, but now Charity must unravel a new mystery at the White Ibis Inn.

The month of May finds Charity trying out new hobbies and learning new customs. With Detective Sota insisting she learn to protect herself and a handful of customers itching to learn to sew clothing, she is up to her eyeballs in serape and all out of free time. As if she doesn't have enough on her plate, the party planner cancels, and she finds herself in charge of the Cinco de Mayo festivities for the party she had scheduled at her store, Sassy Supplies Crafts & More.

Home to Texas. Harvest festivals and berry picking. Just what Gladys needed. Unless you count the murder of an old rival. When Gladys falls under suspicion, will her cousin leave her high and dry or help hunt for clues?

Two best friends and a bakery! Piper and Samantha are in heaven. Well, close. More like a long weekend at the O Heavenly Day Spa. A few mysterious notes start appearing everywhere and things get uncomfortable. As spa treatments go awry things get dangerous. A threatening message convinces Piper and Sam that they have to find out who is behind all of these disasters. When the smoke alarms go off and the spa erupts into panic, the chaos separates the friends and Piper stumbles into trouble. Will someone help her before it is too late?