Two Squirrels Are Moving In

When a frantic girl claims her best friend was abducted, can a guilt-ridden former cop track down a young woman who has evaporated into thin air?

Hungary, 2000. Peter Andrassy has a job he never wanted. Still reeling from the murder of his wife in NYC, he’s reluctantly accepted a job in the sex trafficking task force of the national police. Planning to quit, he hesitates when he’s contacted by a young woman frantic to find her missing friend. Unable to walk away, he agrees to help.

As he investigates the disappearance, he discovers she’s not the only one. Multiple abductions have taken place in the same downtown nightclub. When Zsuzsa, the intoxicating bartender, offers to work undercover in the club, he knows he’s walking a dangerous line.

Can Peter find the missing girls and expose the trafficking syndicate?

Night falls on the kingdom of Daltenia.

Prince Bernard, eldest son of the king, stalks the alleyways of the capital’s poorest district — not for wisdom, not for understanding, but for revenge.

A week ago, a mugger’s blade nearly took his life, shattering his pride and leaving him to wonder if he was truly a warrior. Now, he has learned the truth of the world: there are no judges, no rules, no audiences to clap. The only law a man can trust is the one enforced by his own sword.

But Bernard will find far more than he expected.

The Skaalden have come — giant frost demons of mist and shadow, bringing pain, death, and despair. And in their coming, a warrior will rise.

For fans of Janet Evanovich, Sandra Brown, and C.J. Box — a Wyoming-set romantic mystery with a heroine who is equal parts disaster and force of nature.

Maggie Killian used to be famous. Multiplatinum album. Grammy. Country number one. Then came the cocaine and heroin and fifteen years of rebuilding, and now she runs an antique shop in Texas and tries not to think about Hank Sibley. She fails at the last part, which is how she ends up driving a vintage magenta pickup to Wyoming to surprise him at a bar in Buffalo — and finding him there with a girlfriend.

When her truck is sabotaged to strand her at the Double S ranch, Maggie figures she’ll make the best of it. Within a day, a young cowboy she spent one night with turns up bludgeoned to death in a hotel parking lot, and the Buffalo PD makes her their primary suspect. After her cabin is broken into twice and her most prized possession stolen — a championship belt buckle she’s been carrying for fifteen years — it stops being inconvenience and starts being targeted.

Then someone shoots Hank in the mountains. And Maggie, who was supposed to be leaving Wyoming, finds herself riding a pregnant draft horse across open range, breaking into a shack full of obsessive memorabilia, and shooting a stalker with a bow and arrow in the middle of a forest fire on the Bighorn Mountains.Written by an author who lives on the face of those mountains and knows every ridge.

She came to Wyoming to get him back. Someone came to Wyoming to make sure she didn’t leave

When worryingly-close-to-forty Jane Bennett wins a tent in an employee of the month competition, her best friend Annabel suggests they take the unremarkable prize and head for the Cornish countryside. Jane, unmarried, unheralded, and — in her own eyes at least — unimportant, can come up with no decent excuse.

After a series of mishaps, the two women find themselves at the charming but failing Tall Trees Lake Camping and Caravan Park, where the family-owned park’s errant son, Dean Stinton, has just returned from overseas, into the middle of a battle for the park’s survival against its predatory neighbour, Tall Trees Premier, run by his jilted ex-lover, Kelly Coldwinter.

As the battle between the two camping parks heats up, Jane, suffering from a crisis of identity while fighting off a growing attraction to Dean, finds herself caught in the middle.

‘Put your lipstick on, begin the day.
It will start without you anyway.’

‘What will I wear to your funeral?’ ‘And how do I look after your orchid?’?
Kellie wanted to ask her mother so many questions while she still could. When you don’t go a day without speaking to someone you love, how do you say goodbye forever? It didn’t bear thinking about.
When Pamela Curtain is diagnosed with cancer, her family plead with her to try everything that might give them all more time. She reluctantly agrees, but on one condition. Life goes on because it has to and so does the weekly family dinner with wine and loud sibling banter.
With grace, guts and cups of tea the matriarch prepares herself and those she loves for the inevitable. Their conversations are honest, funny and at times confronting, where a shade of lipstick might be the only bright side.
This is a toast to love, friendship and the ordinary. There is no happy ending but the Curtain family discovers that there can be ‘good’ in goodbye. And it somehow leaves them feeling just a little victorious.
Now put on the kettle and open the wine.

A historical tale of life in northern Missouri at the end of America’s Civil War, and further onward into the 20th Century. It is the account of two young Missouri boys, Jim and his cousin Johnny, forced by the storm of a civil war into situations and decisions beyond their years. They have both lost their fathers to guerrilla raids, and they have only Jim’s Uncle Bert as a father figure to raise and advise them. Living within the backdraft of Bleeding Kansas, the American Civil War, and Missouri’s precarious position during this brutal conflict, Jim and Johnny adapt to their new position and lives within this new country, even as Quantrill’s disciples continue to terrorize northeastern Missouri.

“Saddle the Angry Wind” painfully reminds us of a time when much of America fought for its survival against guerrilla warfare, bank robbers, Bushwhacker raids, Road Agents, cattle & horse thieves, crooked banks, and general lawlessness at the hands of its fellow citizens. Death – both violent and natural – was always present and there to be dealt with. But it was also a time of a nation healing, and the hope of life perhaps continuing on…