The Elf Went Home

He swore never to love. She was the temptation fate refused to let him escape.

Gavin Mac Brodie fears becoming the man his father once was. Haunted by visions of what he cannot be — and what he cannot have — he vows never to wed. Solitude is his refuge, until a touch of Highland magic shatters his resolve.

Catrìona knows loneliness all too well. Driven deep into the mountains, her kin have faded into little more than legend. But Cat knows better than most: no one can hide from fate. Naked and painted in the woad of her ancestors, she appears before Gavin Mac Brodie like a vision.

But is she flesh and blood — a chance at love and a future — or only a faerie phantom who will vanish the moment Gavin dares to open his heart?

Some secrets carry the weight of the world.

Rose McKenzie may be far from Earth with no way back, but she’s made a powerful ally–a fellow prisoner with whom she’s formed a strong bond. Sazo’s an artificial intelligence. He’s saved her from captivity and torture, but he’s also put her in the middle of a conflict, leaving Rose with her loyalties divided.

Captain Dav Jallan doesn’t know why he and his crew have stumbled across an almost legendary Class 5 battleship, but he’s not going to complain. The only problem is, everyone on board is dead, except for one strange, new alien being. She calls herself Rose. She seems small and harmless, but less and less about her story is adding up, and Dav has a bad feeling his crew, and maybe even the four planets, are in jeopardy. The Class 5’s owners, the Tecran, look set to start a war to get it back and Dav suspects Rose isn’t the only alien being who survived what happened on the Class 5. And whatever else is out there is playing its own games.

In this race for the truth, he’s going to have to go against his leaders and trust the dark horse.

1920s Laugh-out-loud Christmas Cosy

Anty Boisjoly unwraps the peculiar case of the war hero who visits old friends on Christmas morning — after being murdered on Christmas Eve.

In The Case of the Ghost of Christmas Morning, 1920s Wodehousian clubman, flaneur, idler and sleuth Anty Boisjoly pits his sardonic wits against another pair of impossible murders. This time, Anty Boisjoly’s Aunty Boisjoly is the only possible suspect when a murder victim stands his friends a farewell drink at the local, hours after being murdered.

Like all stand-alone Anty Boisjoly mysteries, The Case of the Ghost of Christmas Morning is a clean comic cosy tailored to the tastes of those who feel that Agatha Christie isn’t frivolous enough and that Blandings Castle could stand a few more baffling murders.

But what do these readers think? Let’s ask a few of them…

Dr. Quinn meets Bridgerton in this new series from USA Today bestselling author Naomi Rawlings.

Jonas Redding never wants to be a lawman again. He’s spent a decade as a US Marshal, wearing a tin star on his chest and chasing dangerous criminals across the great state of Texas. But when a case goes wrong, Jonas finds himself standing over two tombstones — his mother’s and his fiancée’s.

Resolved to protect his sister from meeting the same fate, Jonas cuts off all communication with her, changes his name, and heads north to the vast, untamed Alaskan wilderness.

Jonas isn’t even in Alaska for a day before meeting Ilya Amos, a boy with wide eyes, an endless smile, and a heart of pure gold. Before he realizes what’s happening, Jonas finds himself sucked into the everyday life of the Amoses — a large, sprawling family that happens to include one sister who’s a doctor, another who’s a lawyer, and two half siblings that the family loves against all odds.

Yet Jonas is resolved not to get too close to the Amoses, especially Ilya’s older sister Evelina, a lawyer with an unwavering desire to help anyone in need. The last thing Jonas wants to do is put another woman in jeopardy.

But when the unthinkable happens and dangerous men seek revenge against the Amos family, Jonas must decide between hiding from his past or putting his badge back on and risking everything to save the family he doesn’t want to admit he loves.

WHY CAN’T THEY JUST LEAVE THE TOY ALONE?

Kris Kringle and Claudia have created a toy that children around the world want.

Unfortunately, it has the potential to make too much money.

Someone has decided that they will HAVE it, no matter what it takes.

By hook, crook, or decapitation, this toy company leader will best the upstart company.

Unfortunately, he picks a fight with two very capable people who have an attitude larger than his bottom line.

Be careful, boss. You don’t want to piss off Saint Nick.