The Feathers (Southern Spectral Series Book 1)by Cynthia Lott

Thomas Carpenter – dead for 100 years – returns in 1978 to avenge his murder.

He proves a challenge for a New Orleans novice detective Brenda Shapira and her senior partner, Roy Agnew. When 35-year old Shapira discovers the first victim in the historic Garden District, the beginning of 1978 will be anything but ordinary.

As she unravels this long ago mystery steeped in New Orleans history and the Yellow Fever epidemic, Brenda realizes that she may be Carpenter’s next victim.

“Lott’s The Feathers is equal parts addictive and dark. It’s an outstanding thriller from a new author I plan to read now on a regular basis. This story doesn’t just get into your head, it tickles the back of your mind and sends your anxious heart into your throat. This is your next read! Go to it!” –Benjamin Kane Ethridge, Bram Stoker Award winning author of Black & Orange and Bottled Abyss.

How to Bake a Perfect Life: A Novelby Barbara O’Neal

In a novel as warm and embracing as a family kitchen, Barbara O’Neal explores the poignant, sometimes complex relationships between mothers and daughters–and the healing magic of homemade bread.

Professional baker Ramona Gallagher is a master of an art that has sustained her through the most turbulent times, including a baby at fifteen and an endless family feud. But now Ramona’s bakery threatens to crumble around her. Literally. She’s one water-heater disaster away from losing her grandmother’s rambling Victorian and everything she’s worked so hard to build.

When Ramona’s soldier son-in-law is wounded in Afghanistan, her daughter, Sophia, races overseas to be at his side, leaving Ramona as the only suitable guardian for Sophia’s thirteen-year-old stepdaughter, Katie. Heartbroken, Katie feels that she’s being dumped again–this time on the doorstep of a woman out of practice with mothering.

Ramona relies upon a special set of tools–patience, persistence, and the reliability of a good recipe–when rebellious Katie arrives. And as she relives her own history of difficult choices, Ramona shares her love of baking with the troubled girl. Slowly, Katie begins to find self-acceptance and a place to call home. And when a man from her past returns to offer a second chance at love, Ramona discovers that even the best recipe tastes better when you add time, care, and a few secret ingredients of your own.

BONUS: This edition includes an excerpt from Barbara O'Neal's The All You Can Dream Buffet.

My Irish Dogby Douglas Solvie

SPENCER HELD ON to the faintest of hope, but still he knew the trip to Ireland had almost no prospect of remedying his internal dilemma. Then again, he never imagined that a chance meeting with a lost and dying dog named Shandy would change his life forever. Step into the small Irish village of Galbally, where the unwitting Spencer stumbles headfirst into a parallel world that will test his will, sanity, and even physical well-being. Time and promise are running out. Will unnatural forces and events scare Spencer away before he can connect again with the mysterious dog? Will he find his way forward before Shandy meets her inevitable fate? Or will suspicious locals and a nefarious Dublin innkeeper force Spencer from the village before he completes his life-altering mission? Follow Spencer as he races to save a little Irish dog named Shandy. If he only realized that it is Shandy who is trying to save him…

Dirty Deedsby Armand Rosamilia

I get paid to erase problems.

Did your extramarital affair produce an unwanted complication? Family problems? Just want to enjoy your midlife crisis by yourself?

That’s where I come in. For a fee I’ll take care of it. A big fee.

Only, I’m not going to do what you think. I’m not going to save you from them, I’m going to save them from you.

My Secret Love Affairby Ali Parker

A three-week affair and he was gone, leaving me with a gift. A baby.

This big handsome billionaire had no desire to play his family’s inheritance games.

So he traveled instead, running from his old life from country to country.

In the process, he picked up photography, falling in love with images of little ones and beautiful women. 

You can’t take the playboy out of a Bancroft. 

After several years of him being gone, I forgave him. 

He didn’t know about me and our baby. 

But fate has a way of throwing lovers back in the arena again when the first time ended like fireworks drenched in rain. 

A terrible breakup sent me running to Bali for sunshine and freedom. 

And wouldn’t you know it? My handsome bad boy was there too. 

I’m not falling for him again, nor am I telling him about our kiddo. 

I built a life without him, a crappy one, but still…

Our secret love affair will stay just that–secret.