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Join the eccentric, middle-aged Alcott sisters (Lila Mae, Madge, and Dorothea); Bernie, the 92-year old chocolate magnate; Bambi, his former nurse; Joseph, the family spiritual advisor; Uncle Tito, the trance-inducing fortune teller; and the whole Alcott clan as they traverse murder, mystery, and mayhem in Houston's elite River Oaks.

Anita and Miguel met at a music rehearsal. Their voices blended like Ashford and Simpson or Peaches and Herb. Yet, someone from their past is trying to silence their sweet sounds.

I'm Hailey Bradbury: hedge witch and vampire. My sire was staked moments after I was turned. As a youngling, the Voodoo Queen took me in. She taught me her art. I've been working with the new Mistress of the Vampire Council. She trained me in the ways of vampirism, the path of the night. Witchcraft plus voodoo plus vampirism equals what I call bloodwitchery. Most witches won't mess with the power latent in blood. It's dark. It's dangerous. But if you can master it...You can harness the power of life itself.

After a car accident almost killed Breanna Perry, she gets a second chance at life. When Cormac O’Shea enters her hospital room and asks her, “Do you want to live?”, she says yes. However, she isn’t prepared for what that simple word will mean, or what she’s about to lose. No longer able to pretend she can have her old life back, Breanna is faced with leaving it all behind and accepting an immortal existence. Unfortunately, that existence comes with some challenging obstacles. Helping her rival, Amber Wright, navigate the superhero world is only one of her problems.

We were the terrors of New Orleans...and humanity's only hope. We called ourselves the "weird sisters". Two vampires and a rematerialized ghost. We thought we’d vanquished Asmodeus. But, he's back. He found a new host. And, now he wants to work with us? But, after all I lost because of him, I was more inclined to blast his demonic ass back to hell than accept his help.

The drama and dangerous secrets continue to build in the lives of the Georgetown house members. Gloria Towson is keeping her secret from David Carter. Melissa Charles does everything in her power to keep her secret, as well as simultaneously hold on to the love of her life, Alan Lightfoot. However, Alan knows he must let Melissa go to serve the tenets of his Indigenous American heritage.

Donna DeShayne, a forensic psychiatrist, finds herself assisting in the unsolved murder of a respected businessman and his wife. Baffled and discouraged by the lack of leads, an unexpected turn of events allows her to put the fragmented pieces together to discover the Legacy of the Lost.

The descendants of Daniel McGinley and Margaret O'Fallon are gathered at the Myrtle Beach State Park in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, for a weeklong family reunion. It is a joyous occasion, meeting new family members and reconnecting with old ones. Until, the unthinkable happens.

Family is everything to the Alexanders and the Montgomerys. Although they both come from farm backgrounds, they didn’t know each other or the histories involved. However, these two divergent clans would come together and change the lives of so many - and, maybe, even the world. As their lives play out and intertwine in surprising ways, they face a challenging future and marshal their forces to work for the better good of all.

Law school student Vivian Lynn Alexander could no longer fight the undeniable truth that she had to end her three-year love affair with her college sweetheart Carlton Andrews to have the career as a lawyer she dreamed about. Nor could she deny a growing interracial passion that she felt for former basketball icon Chuck Montgomery...that is, until she met his best friend Derrick “Dunk and Jam” Jackson, who was an even bigger star than Chuck.

It is a typical holiday season at chaotic Chicago O’Hare when a few members of the large Alexander family waited to board flights - one to South Carolina and the other to Washington, DC. At the same time, a member of the Montgomery clan from the Pennsylvania mountains also waited for a delayed flight. Little did either family know or suspect, the effects from this first meeting would last forever. Family is everything to the Alexanders and the Montgomerys. Although they both come from farm backgrounds, they didn’t know each other or the histories involved.

The Seven Protectorates have enjoyed years of peace under Tav’s leadership, but a growing worry has surfaced. What about the land beyond Loden’s border? Where once there had been overtures of trade, now there is nothing. Tav decides to send a diplomatic expedition to reestablish contact, but who should go?Adventure runs in the blood of Tash’s children, especially in his headstrong daughter Shara.

A brutal murder and a catatonic victim have local law enforcement turning to Dr. Donna DeShayne, an area psychiatrist with a specialty in forensics, for assistance. DeShayne, determined to successfully treat and protect her catatonic patient, helps to uncover the victim's secret. Unknown to her team members, however, the doctor is harboring a secret of her own! Time will tell if the doctor's silent maelstroms, and that of her patient's, are liberated through the twists and turns of unexpected events.

Doctor Donna DeShayne, a well-known forensic psychiatrist, is invited to evaluate and assist in solving a crime 21 years in the making. Faced with events from more than a century ago, DeShayne finds her strength and stride as she eventually faces her own past and that of the guardian of the damned.

According to Deena Sharpe's editor, someone in Maycroft is trying to steal a body from the funeral home, and it's her story to investigate. But the body isn't who they think it is, leaving the authorities with some explaining to do. The plot twists will have reader's dizzy as Deena's neighbor spins the wheel and watches his fortune run out. Not only is Deena wrestling with a strange case, Gary has started a new business and wants more of his wife's attention. Can she juggle her work and his needs as well?

When Kate Standish begins the new school year, she has one goal: to pretend that the presence of her ex-husband doesn’t bother her. What she doesn’t expect is a new assignment or for that assignment to be mentoring struggling students. Absorbed in her own loss, Kate resents having to deal with kids who are deliberately failing...until she realizes that their failure may be a symptom of bigger problems.

Roxanne Rosales moved from Boston to California after college to pursue a career in marketing. Being alone in a new place felt intimidating. Until she met Mika Yates and her family. Roxanne’s plans to go home evaporate after Mika befriends her and introduces her to Henry. The widower with two small children makes Roxanne think she might have found someone who could make her time in Sacramento less lonely, but when she discovers a lump in her breast, Roxanne is faced with the very real fear that she might have breast cancer.

Twelve women connected by the death of another, realizing what they most want from life and reaching for it - this is the year of discovery, the year of new beginnings...Mel must now decide whether it’s more important to be herself or if it’s better to lie to everyone, including herself, just to keep the peace.

Avery moved to Lake Tahoe for the quiet. She didn’t get that. What she found made her question everything she knew about the world. Basil, her aging golden retriever, has aged in reverse. Her new neighbors make flowers grow in winter. And her student, pale-eyed Bay, can freeze a bully’s heart in his chest. Then there’s Duncan. After Duncan is captured in the Greensward, Avery thinks her biggest challenge is to rescue him, until ICE Agent Graham Braddock shows up at her door, claiming Duncan Sommerfeld is an illegal alien. Oh, if he only knew. Even so, she has to keep her promise to Bay - the promise that she would bring his father home to both of them, but how the heck did you accomplish the impossible?

Clove Calloway knew within an hour of picking up her husband, Turner, from the airport that something was different, yet she couldn't pinpoint what. Together since college, they know everything about each other...so why has she spent the last few days watching everything he does, hoping for a clue? What could have happened within the week he was gone?