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  The Innkeeper and the Fugitive

  Martha Keyes

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  After nearly ten years in the army, Hamish Campbell is ready to settle in and call a place home. His sights are set on Dalmore House, the Campbell family estate seized by the Crown after the '45 uprising. To have any chance at all of regaining it, he must not only find the money to pay off the estate’s debts but also persuade the man who has charge of it to relinquish the property into the hands of a Jacobite’s son. With the help of his brother-in-arms, Hamish finds employment at an inn near to Dalmore’s overseer, putting him in an ideal location to seek the man’s favor. Ava MacMorran cannot marry Angus MacKinnon. Any fate would be preferable. Escaping her father’s threats of force, she sets out for the home of the childhood friend she knows will help her—perhaps even marry her. But when the merchant meant to take her there is nowhere to be found and Ava is mistaken for a long-awaited inn servant, she determines to go along with the misconception until she can be rescued by her friend. With Ava ignorant of Hamish’s goals and Hamish unaware that he is harboring the fugitive daughter of the lynchpin of his plan, attachment between them deepens and the threat of discovery looms large, making a satisfactory outcome seem all but impossible.

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  Blood Debt - A Green Witch Mystery

  P L Matthews

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  Seven days 
  That’s all the time Rhianne Alkenn has to crack the case of Albert Johnson's murder, protégé of Vampire Master Lord Bellmont – Yep, of the crimson, terrifying eyes. 
  Seven days until Lord Bellmont collects the blood debt from Rhianne’s mother. Rhianne might not be her mother's biggest fan, but she isn’t about to let her become vampire thrall of the year. 
  Albert was either a charming golden boy or a crazed psychopath, depending on whom you asked. Enemies? Take a ticket. 
  With her usual band of quirky friends, Toto her not-really-a-witch’s-familiar, Nel, the incubus who could charm wallpaper off the wall; Isobel, the pathologist with more secrets than a spy; her trusty gargoyle crew, Carl and Alice; Marissa, the fierce lawyer; and Kai, the tech mage with eyes you could swim in. 
  Will Rhianne find the murderer in time to prevent her mother from becoming a permanent guest in the vampire's den? 
  Note: While part of a series, Blood Debt is a standalone adventure — written in Australian English and set in the magic city of Sydney. 
  If you enjoy books by K M Shea, Heather G. Harris and Kim Harrison, then you’ll love this riveting urban fantasy story with a touch of humour and romance.

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  The Big Clear

  Christopher Harris

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  It's 2003. Dub Storm is a stoner, which wouldn't be so bad if he didn't also know 101 ways to kill a man. A former Special Forces sniper, Dub has become a private eye. He gets hired over one long, eventful weekend to find the kidnapped scion of Austin's foremost real estate family. Harsh developments ensue.

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  Trapped - Figuratively or...

  Edgar Allan Poe

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  In this volume we explore that difficult situation where lack of choice is your only choice.  We feel trapped either by the body or by the mind.  
   
  Our classic authors put their characters in positions that we can all relate too, and then devise fiendish and uncomfortable ways to deepen the malaise or perhaps offer some sort of escape, however temporary. 
   
  1 - Trapped Literally & Figuratively - An Introduction 
  2 - The Pit and The Pendulum by Edgar Allan Poe 
  3 - In the Penal Colony by Franz Kafka 
  4 - In a Far Country by Jack London 
  5 - La Grande Breteche by Honore de Balzac 
  6 - The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe 
  7 - The Iron Shroud by William Mudford 
  8 - Parker Adderson, Philosopher by Ambrose Bierce 
  9 - The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe 
  10 - One Summer Night by Ambrose Bierce 
  11 - The Awful Fate of Melpomenus Jones by Stephen Leacock 
  12 - The End of a Show by Barry Pain 
  13 - The Fall of the House of Usher - Part 1 by Edgar Allan Poe 
  14 - The Fall of the House of Usher - Part 2 by Edgar Allan Poe 
  15 - The Story of An Hour by Kate Chopin 
  16 - The Legacy by Virginia Woolf 
  17 - Life of Ma Parker by Katherine Mansfield 
  18 - Transients in Arcadia by O Henry 
  19 - Hands by Sherwood Anderson 
  20 - The Yellow Wall Paper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman 
  21 - The Canary by Katherine Mansfield 
  22 - The Storm by Kate Chopin

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  Everyone Knows But You - A Tale...

  Thomas E. Ricks

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  After his wife and two children are killed in a car crash, Ryan Tapia starts a new life in Maine. But his first case there is a puzzling oddball—the corpse of a fisherman washes up on federal land, while the man's boat drifts into waters that are part of an Indian reservation. Ryan quickly learns the nuances of Maine life as he delves into two illicit coastal trades: hard drugs and rare fish. Many of the locals are happy to see that particular fisherman dead. What's more, they are not shy about noting that Ryan must have screwed up pretty badly to be posted to such a remote location as Bangor, Maine. 
   
   
   
  Undaunted, Ryan works to understand the unforgiving way of life on Liberty Island, where people live by an older, harsher code. Adrift on a sailboat one day, he encounters a man from the Malpense tribe, living as a hermit on a remote island, who witnessed something that fateful day. 
   
   
   
  In his riveting crime debut, New York Times bestselling author Thomas E. Ricks turns his literary talents to land he knows deeply, from working in the Maine woods and trapping lobsters year-round. Everyone Knows But You is a rich and dynamic crime novel that brings a unique part of America to vivid, thrilling life.

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  Sparkling Cyanide

  Anonymous

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  In Sparkling Cyanide, Agatha Christie seats six—including a murderer—around a dining table set for seven, one year to the day that a beautiful heiress was poisoned in that very room. 
  Six people sit down to a sumptuous meal at a table laid for seven. In front of the empty place is a sprig of rosemary—""rosemary for remembrance."" A strange sentiment considering no one is likely to forget the night, exactly a year ago, that Rosemary Barton died at exactly the same table, her beautiful face unrecognizable, convulsed with pain and horror. 
  But then Rosemary had always been memorable—she had the ability to arouse strong passions in most people she met. In one case, strong enough to kill. . . .

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