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Corinna Chapman, owner of the bakery Earthly delights, detests Christmas. The shoppers are frantic and the heat oppressive in Melbourne, Australia, where Christmas is summer festival.

In September of 1740, singer Tito Amato receives a curious invitation.

The fate of kings is not always glorious.

Spiraling off the tip of Cape Cod, Provincetown has long been a place of escape, new beginnings, and diverse communities.

Chicago racetrack publicist Jack Doyle, former advertising man and amateur boxer, accepts the challenge of a new job in the world of thoroughbred horse racing—that of jockey’s agent.

Mirror Image, a complex, erotic novel of suspense, is the first in a series of mysteries featuring Dr. Daniel Rinaldi, a psychologist who consults with the Pittsburgh Police.

Picture a hotel room in 1948 Singapore. Picture a dispute between black marketer and thief Russell Pearce and an associate­—one who opens fire and murders Russell Pearce.

Zookeeper Iris Oakley is sent to a remote farm in Washington State to rescue exotic animals after a drug bust.

Everybody had thought the car-jacking led to the banker’s murder. Then he turns up in a photograph taken by his kidnappers. But if the banker is still alive, whose ashes are buried in his grave?

It is May of 1272, and Prioress Eleanor, recovering from a near-fatal winter fever, returns to Amesbury Priory to visit her aunt in time for the Feast of Saint Melor.

It’s 1861 in New Mexico Territory, and the Civil War is about to have a startling impact on Matty Summerhayes.

Barry Clayton has a job he doesn’t want.

Mary Ryan, San Francisco pastry chef, is happy to be teaching at her old alma mater. But she’s barely in the door when she realizes that the teaching staff are at loggerheads with each other.

In the year 1592, Sir Robert Carey, a handsome courtier, comes north to Carlisle to take up his new post as Deputy Warden of the West March.

Even the cozy New England town of Newbury, Connecticut, is not immune to the relentless spread of McMansions carpeting the countryside.