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Pilot Nicole Ardus leaves Hawaii with a group of avian researchers in her small plane. Their destination is a tiny island in the middle of the South Pacific. When the plane’s engine sputters out she’s forced to ditch in a roiling sea. Battling tempest storms, thirst, and sharks, Nicole and the survivors make it to a small atoll.

They’ve been murdered, their bodies bound to wooden crosses and left floating in a lake. They aren’t the only ones... After three female bodies are discovered in a Traverse, Michigan lake, FBI Special Agent Lexi Stone and her partner are called in to assist with the investigation. When another body surfaces, Lexi’s fiancé, Adam Quinn, a reporter with the Traverse Record becomes the prime suspect. Refusing to believe the man she plans to marry is a serial killer, Lexi is determined to prove it.

Tessa Monroe has sacrificed a lot of become the new Assistant Vice President, including weekends, a social life, and learning how to cook. Her best friend, Christian Douglas, has been the main man in her life since paste was considered a snack, but he’s had different plans for his life than climbing the corporate ladder. With a playground proposal and one steamy college night in their past, Tessa is on the quest for her dream job while Christian searches for his dream girl.

To Kate Beal, responsibility hadn’t been at the forefront of her every-day life. Floating through college was a breeze with little-to-no effort put forth. She was popular—a sorority sister alumni who hadn’t yet explored her professional options. After all, Kate continued to work at a local sports bar even after graduating with no immediate plans of getting a “real” job.

“Killer Kern Strikes Again” read the headlines in the Bakersfield morning paper. Vermilion Blew, in sorrow and disbelief, reads of the late spring icy waters that have claimed three new victims. And exposed a decades old body in the riverbank. Could this be her long missing fiancé, Frankie Monroe, who had left the day before the wedding, 38 years ago? Before Very can ask any questions, she is plunged into an investigation foisted on her by her PI partner. One of the victims is deemed a suicide, but the family refuses to believe this conclusion.

Liza Wilcox, kindergarten teacher and amateur sleuth, is at it again. In her third adventure, together with boyfriend, Sheriff Tom Owens, and wheelchair bound cyber-sleuth, Justin Weaver, she discovers the links between her parents' deaths, eco-terrorist groups, an old murder, witness protection, and a professional killer.

It wasn’t unusual to find a dead body in the orchards surrounding Bakersfield, California. So when Vermilion Blew reads in the local paper about yet one more corpse dug up by a backhoe, she dismisses the discovery. That is, until the revelation that the man had a ticket in his pocket for a movie that she had attended with her fiancé, thirty-seven years before. And that movie was the last time she had seen Frankie Monroe, the evening before her nuptials. Very has gone on with her life, or so she believes, until a slippery slope of events pushes her into a painful and mostly repressed past.

Finally, the book that Liza fans have been waiting for and the answer to everyone’s question ~ Do Liza and Tom actually make it to the altar? They say the path to hell is paved with good intentions, well Tom and Liza’s path to the altar is not only paved with good intentions but also with a visitor from Liza’s past, broken engagements, kidnappings, multiple explosions, car accidents and monkeys. And of course, no Liza adventure is complete without dead bodies and another investigation.

Is destiny set or can it be changed? Kindergarten teacher, Liza Wilcox, her boyfriend, Chief of Police, Tom Owens, and wheelchair bound cyber-sleuth, Justin Weaver, struggle with this question as they rush to find the connection between a rodeo, a cancer cluster, ecology rallies, and a town torn apart by gangs and a big corporation's desire to level it for a new highway. If they don't, an entire family will be murdered.