Sleuthing Women: 10 First-in-Series Mysteries is a collection of 10 full-length mysteries featuring murder and assorted mayhem by 10 critically acclaimed, award-winning, and bestselling authors. Each novel in this set is the first book in an established multi-book series—a total of over 3,000 pages of reading pleasure for lovers of amateur sleuth, caper, and cozy mysteries, with a combined total of over 1700 reviews on Amazon, averaging 4 stars.

Assault With a Deadly Glue Gun, an Anastasia Pollack Crafting Mystery by Lois Winston—Working mom Anastasia is clueless about her husband’s gambling addiction until he permanently cashes in his chips and her comfortable middle-class life craps out. He leaves her with staggering debt, his communist mother, and a loan shark demanding $50,000. Then she’s accused of murder…

Murder Among Neighbors, a Kate Austen Suburban Mystery by Jonnie Jacobs — When Kate Austen’s socialite neighbor, Pepper Livingston, is murdered, Kate becomes involved in a sea of steamy secrets that bring her face to face with shocking truths—and handsome detective Michael Stone.

Skeleton in a Dead Space, a Kelly O’Connell Mystery by Judy Alter—Real estate isn’t a dangerous profession until Kelly O’Connell stumbles over a skeleton and runs into serial killers and cold-blooded murderers in a home being renovated in Fort Worth. Kelly barges through life trying to keep from angering her policeman boyfriend Mike and protect her two young daughters.

In for a Penny, a Cleopatra Jones Mystery by Maggie Toussaint—Accountant Cleo faces an unwanted hazard when her golf ball lands on a dead banker. The cops think her BFF shot him, so Cleo sets out to prove them wrong. She ventures into the dating world, wrangles her teens, adopts the victim’s dog, and tries to rein in her mom…until the killer puts a target on Cleo’s back.

The Hydrogen Murder, a Periodic Table Mystery by Camille Minichino—A retired physicist returns to her hometown of Revere, Massachusetts and moves into an apartment above her friends' funeral home. When she signs on to help the Police Department with a science-related homicide, she doesn't realize she may have hundreds of cases ahead of her.

Retirement Can Be Murder, A Baby Boomer Mystery by Susan Santangelo—Carol Andrews dreads her husband Jim’s upcoming retirement more than a root canal without Novocain. She can’t imagine anything worse than having an at-home husband with time on his hands and nothing to fill it—until Jim is suspected of murdering his retirement coach.

Dead Air, A Talk Radio Mystery by Mary Kennedy—Psychologist Maggie Walsh moves from NY to Florida to become the host of WYME's On the Couch with Maggie Walsh. When her guest, New Age prophet Guru Sanjay Gingii, turns up dead, her new roommate Lark becomes the prime suspect. Maggie must prove Lark innocent while dealing with a killer who needs more than just therapy.

A Dead Red Cadillac, A Dead Red Mystery by RP Dahlke—When her vintage Cadillac is found tail-fins up in a nearby lake, the police ask aero-ag pilot Lalla Bains why an elderly widowed piano teacher is found strapped in the driver’s seat. Lalla confronts suspects, informants, cross-dressers, drug-running crop dusters, and a crazy Chihuahua on her quest to find the killer.

Murder is a Family Business, an Alvarez Family Murder Mystery by Heather Haven—Just because a man cheats on his wife and makes Danny DeVito look tall, dark and handsome, is that any reason to kill him? The reluctant and quirky PI, Lee Alvarez, has her work cut out for her when the man is murdered on her watch. Of all the nerve.

Murder, Honey, a Carol Sabala Mystery by Vinnie Hansen—When the head chef collapses into baker Carol Sabala’s cookie dough, she is thrust into her first murder investigation. Suspects abound at Archibald’s, the swanky Santa Cruz restaurant where Carol works. The head chef cut a swath of people who wanted him dead from ex-lovers to bitter rivals to greedy relatives.

A powerful Alpha wolf shifter and a strong-willed human overcome traditions ingrained over generations and uncover long-buried secrets to fulfill their destiny as true mates.

Regarded as the strongest wolf shifter in generations, Alpha Zev Hassick is surprised and confused by his attraction to his best friend. His very human, very male best friend. A male shifter has to mate with a female shifter to keep his humanity, so shifters can’t be gay. Yet, everything inside Zev tells him Jonah is his true mate.

Maintaining a relationship with the man he has loved since childhood isn’t easy for Jonah Marvel, but he won’t let distance or Zev’s odd family get in their way. When unexplained ailments begin to plague Jonah, he needs to save his own life and sanity in order to have a future with Zev.

Zev and Jonah know they’re destined for each other, but they must overcome traditions ingrained over generations and long-buried secrets to fulfill their destiny.
 
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A predatory alien species covertly stalks the people of our world. Worse yet, secretive agencies within our own government knowingly cover up the alien activity in exchange for access to advanced technology.
U.S. President Jason Andrews obtains access to the hidden reality of aliens in our world and gains the help of people and technology from another star system. Talented navy fighter pilot Diane Zadanski is recruited into our country’s new secret space program to help fight the Zeta Greys and drive them from our solar system. But the Zeta Grey plan to gain absolute control of our world is almost complete. Is it too little, too late? Or do we really stand a chance to survive?

A sexy forbidden romance from USA Today bestselling author Amber Lin...

Lia has her perfect life mapped out after college-including her long term boyfriend Chris. But that will mean leaving her best friend Ethan behind, so how can that be perfect? Lia wants them both, but when things heat up, she'll have to choose where her true future lies.

Forbidden passion is sparking a fire... and MAKING HER MELT.

Author's Note: Making Her Melt is a scorching hot contemporary romance novella. Enjoy!

Dropping out of sub-space into the wrong galactic sector, Sethran Kada wakes up with a headache and an extraordinary alien aboard his ship. She implores him to help stop the abductions of her people, a newly evolved species emerging from sub-space. Their dangerous potential has caught the attention of rebel factions as well as the ruling Commonwealth. When contact with her kind turns pilots into casualties, the Governors fear an imminent invasion engineered by their rebel enemies.

Pursued by Air Command, Seth heads deep into rebel-controlled territory to recover the stolen entities and keep this deadly weapon from falling into the wrong hands. Things get personal when his alien visitor begins to transform his mind and his life, turning the rescue mission into a fight for survival for all of them.

Quantum Tangle is part of Chris Reher’s Targon Tales series but does not intersect the other stories. Sethran Kada previously appeared in The Catalyst and also in Rebel Alliances.

Nearly 800 pages of lightning paced action. Get the first three stories in the Fallen Angels Series! For the price of 1!

“I love this Author! His style brings you into the story and keeps you there the entire book. I would definitely recommend this series.”

Origins Book 1

Destiny chooses you...

Finding out his life is a lie--full of myths and misconceptions.
Perez battles a world full of danger and fear.
Where he must learn to survive and adapt. 
But fighting the lies while facing off 
Against cunning, ruthless angels
May result in Perez's downfall.

In a world full of relentless villains and disloyal confidantes, one angel must accept his true identity...


Betrayal Book 2

Trapped in a war with no way out...

Bound and determined, Perez searches for 
An escape from enemies who are closing in.
Using strength and intelligence,
He desperately tries to outwit his pursuers.
Secrets threaten to destroy the trust Perez bestowed 
Upon the only allies he has.
Only having a small circle of those he can trust
Perez searches for help as time begins to run out.

Takeover Book 3

Broken heart, broken mind, broken body...

Being left for dead, Perez must face his greatest challenge yet.
Survival. Simple for most, but not for him.
With Monroe in danger, all seems lost,
As an unknown angel finds himself closer to victory,
A victory that Perez knows will bring about
Many twists and turns of events that could ruin them all.
Now, it's up to Perez, broken and shattered, to find the courage and strength to save all that he holds dear, before the takeover. 

When mankind set their first steps into space, they started a chain of events that would alter human history and change the universe.

Humans have taken to the stars and uplifted new colonies and planets in a new "manifest destiny". Old Earth slowly living out her last few days.

Now the Corporation has taken control of Earth and enslaving every human they can get their hands on. Alice and the Rebellion won't stand still and let this happen. Guided by hatred and fueled by revenge, the Rebellion squares off against the Corp Commander- The Demon, in a winner takes all!

The son of an alcoholic, violently beaten and mentally abused by his father, Roy spent much of his childhood in fear and shame, resigned to special education classes and unable to read or write. Roy tells the story of his life growing up with nothing, how he was forced to work instead of attending school, and how his domineering father still influenced him long after he had left home to make his own way in the world. Going from a single father caring for five young children while living in his truck and illiterate to times of the deepest most heartfelt despair, Roy’s story could have taken him in any number of directions. But a chance encounter with a stranger altered his perspective and changed his life forever. He became driven and more determined than he had ever been to succeed on behalf of his family, but ultimately for himself.
You are shown insight into the author’s world, in which he discovers that this physical reality is truly a magical place where you are able to create, mold, and shape your own reality with the power of your thoughts and feelings.
This truly inspirational and motivational book “Upside Down & Backwards with the Law of Attraction” reveals Roy’s compelling transformational journey, in which he provides a template for all who read it, so that they too can overcome obstacles and achieve their highest dreams.
Read about Roy’s remarkable awe-inspiring true life story here and see for yourself what a never-say-die attitude can do for your prospects, even if all the odds are against you.

At first there were only rumors, but now it is known... Dragons have returned!

Kai is the town drunk. His life is simple, he works every day to pay for the drinks that help drown his sorrow, until one day when a beautiful warrior enters his favorite watering hole and changes his life forever.

Raven is a proud warrior sworn to defend Princess Isabella. Her task to take child away from a devious stepfather is interrupted by an ambush that leaves her in desperate need of a tracker. When she goes looking for help she has an altercation with the one man who can help her!

Princess Isabella flees one bad situation only to find herself in a much worse one. However, an unlikely character comes to her rescue. One that she had only dreamed about...


Author's note: Sisera's Gift continues the story of the return of dragons. This time on the Isle of Seron and does not include the human characters from Lyric's Curse.

Sixteen-year-old Leocadia arrives home from school to find her mom’s bloody body. Unaware that the killer still lingers, she rushes to her mother’s side, only to be grabbed from behind and then everything fades to black.
After a year of retrograde amnesia and battling personal demons, Leo’s dreams are getting worse—she’s starting to remember. More bodies are discovered and they seem to be oddly linked to her mom’s unsolved homicide.
When Leo allows her friend, Henry to drag her into the haunted Lucien Mansion, misty ghosts appear, ghosts that just might lead to her mother’s murderer.
Will Leo let her memories threaten her into a relapse or, will she fight to find her mother’s killer – only to become his next victim?

Change one note and the universe changes with the Symphony.

One apprentice will become a full majus today. The other will wait months for another suitable challenger. Rilan Ayama is skilled in using her song to change the Grand Symphony of the universe, but her opponent, Vethis, is crafty, and not above a little simple bribery. Though Rilan is counting on the support of her closest friend Origon, he remains absent. She has only a cryptic note saying important matters of his family take precedence, and he needs her help. The mystery pulls Rilan's attention away from the most important test of her life.

Maji create portals between the far flung planets of the Great Assembly of Species, but many places still remain out of easy reach. A search for Origon's brother leads Rilan and her friend across the wilds of one of the ten homeworlds. There, Rilan's fledgling skills are pushed to their limits as they investigate a secret that could bring down all six houses of the maji.

Peaceful life in a small Georgia county is shattered when women’s bodies begin turning up on the side of the highway; the women raped and then strangled to death.

At first Detective Alex Gray does not realize these cases are related, but then Megan Crawford survives. Suspected of being an accomplice to a string of rapes in the past, Megan falls under suspicion again. Is she the key to solving this case, or is she part of the deception? With no evidence and no leads Alex must try everything he can to stop this killing spree, even if it means involving the one person who may be hiding secrets of her own.

These books are intended for adult audiences. They contain mature language, depictions of violence, and sexual scenarios.

It is 1821 and smuggling is rife on the English coast. Lucy Yorton, dragged away from her privileged early life, finds it impossible to know who to trust, while those around her suspect she is a spy and treat her accordingly. Her problems increase when two men enter her life.

Lieutenant Karl Thorsen, sworn to avenge the death of his father, is a King's man. He is determined to stop the violent smugglers, hang them, and hang and gibbet one in particular.

Daniel Tynton has smuggling in his blood. Undaunted by Thorsen's threats, he is respected and feared. When he witnesses a murder, he makes a bold decision, and many lives will never be the same.
 

Three months until humanity is annihilated.

That's what Allegra Damascus's visions tell her. Seeing into the future should have been awesome. Instead, it's all blood, horror, and the end of the world. Worse, discovering her true identity as a descendent of the famed Oracle of Pythia puts Allegra squarely in the government's sights—and the New Germanic States will stop at nothing to control her newfound power.

Maximus Vissarion offers Allegra safety from deadly attackers, killer storms, and worse. But once he starts questioning his own general's motives, Max realizes that not only the world but also his heart are on the line. And he's not even certain where his loyalties lie.

Allegra's Dark Sight is the key to saving the world—but only if they can find the right lock. The clock is ticking.

Three months to figure it out, or everyone dies.

Squalls ahead!

Nicole Crawley’s life is all mapped out—graduate from college, a career at her father’s construction office, and Steve, a boyfriend who is totally marriage material.

Is this all there is? Why can’t she be happy with such a blessed life? Why does she look upon her advantages as obstacles? Her life is mapped out alright. And she’s choking on it. Her career becomes drudgery, her office a prison, her father the warden, and Steve is her… her what?

Is she a spoiled rich kid? Or is it something else? This pre-planned life is all set out for her is so arid. Where’s adventure? Where’s challenge? Is this all there is?

When Dad explodes at her, Nicole reaches a breaking point.

She’s always loved the water. Through a stroke of luck or God’s hand she lands a job as an apprentice deckhand on the Acerton Ferry. Rain or shine, day and night that ship serves the people on the island across the bay. Now she’ll spend her days with the wind and spray in her face, not at a desk.

This is the right thing to do. What can go wrong?

Trouble right from the start. One stubborn crewman, Brandon, hates the fact that she is there. She’s just a rich girl playing; and her dalliance has stolen opportunity from people who really need the job.

And there’s Glen...he’s more than happy to fill the void in her life that the break-up with Steve has created.

Not to mention the challenges of the job itself. There’s a lot more to working on a ferry than she ever imagined; what looked like an easy job is actually demanding.

Her choices are boomeranging back, knocking the wind from her sails. She’s ready to abandon ship.

But sometimes fate and choices can bring unexpected rewards. If you have the faith to hold fast.

Does Nicole?
A touching story of faith in faithless times.

History with hot, hot, moments... Justine's Reviews

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A savvy young woman falls for a mysterious Spaniard in a time of political conspiracies and poison. A pope is dead and more than one inheritance disappears. Her only hope is a dark Spaniard and when his town goes under siege, despite overwhelming odds, she rushes in to save him. 
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An endless summer blossoming with new romance. A sleepy seaside village filled with colorful characters, coffee, books... AND MURDER!

Paige Comber dreams of running off to Paris to train at the Cordon Bleu, but fresh out of college, she is stuck running her granny's coffee shop in the island town of Seaside. It looks like a lousy summer until a handsome stranger named Nate arrives. He's here to help his Uncle Byron, one of the town founders, with his affairs. But when his uncle's body washes up on the seashore and Nate is thrown into prison, it is up to Paige to find out which of the town's colorful characters might have been crazy enough to do it.

When Major VanBuren approached me with a very special and highly classified assignment, I felt honored. I’d been waiting for a chance at a covert mission. Imagine my surprise when he hit me with the details – he wanted me to befriend his eighteen-year-old daughter, newly arrived in town and harboring a broken heart. My new ‘assignment’ entailed becoming a glorified babysitter and her new BFF; I thought it was as honorable as being in charge of the cafeteria – complete bullsh*t if you ask me.

And then I met her...

Olivia is all legs, golden hair, and she has the most captivating blue eyes I’ve ever seen.

While my mind tells me to keep things on the up-and-up, my d*ck has other plans. What was supposed to be an easy bullsh*t mission is quickly becoming one of the most dangerous things I’ve ever been tasked to do.

** This is a stand alone novel with a HEA and a bad boy hero.
*** Also included is the bonus book Failure to Stop

Drake, NFL superstar.

Six years ago, I left town for football…at least that’s what everyone thinks. The truth is, I couldn’t face what I did. I just wanted to be with her, my soon-to-be stepsister.

It was wrong, and the only thing I could think to do was to pack up and run! Just as I thought I had it all, running into her again made me realise that she is the only thing I’ve ever wanted. And this time, I will never run away.

I deserve my second chance in love, with her... only her.


Bethany, the good girl.

Talented, tall, ripped and with smouldering good looks that could burn your soul. Sounds like a deal too good to be true, right?

He is the biggest mistake I ever made in my life. His mum and my dad were going to get married, what was I thinking getting in bed with him? Lucky me, he left town the next day. Lucky me, our parents called off the wedding; otherwise, I would never have been able to forgive myself.

The only problem is, he is back in town and wants to take me out!

My best friend Amelia, who happens to be his sister, insists that he has changed. Do men like Drake ever really change? Maybe. Maybe not.

The thing is, I can not afford another mistake like this. Not now that I have him... my son, my only joy.


A romance full of twists and turns. Ready for an emotional roller coaster?

Note: This story contains mature language and themes, intended for adults only!

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Crown Princess Zwaantie of Sol harbors a dangerous secret. One she has managed to hide even from the ever present sun. She's doesn't want to be queen.

Desperately trying to avoid responsibility she does the unthinkable. She falls in love with a slave.

When Zwaantie's mother decides it's time for her to get married, she frantically tries to form a plan to escape the crown. After three attempts on her life, Zwaantie fears that the sun has recognized her plans and is now trying to kill her for being disobedient..

When a high prince from Stella, the barbaric country across the mist, arrives seeking her hand, Zwaantie sees an opportunity to escape her death.

As those around her discover her plans, they unravel and she fears not only for her own life, but the survival of her kingdom.