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Centuries of tragedy shadow New Orleans: wars, slavery, and a monumental flood that killed a thousand people and still threatens to wash all that history away.

Life may not be getting any easier for curate Callie Anson, but it is definitely getting more interesting.

In 1592, Sir Robert Carey, a handsome courtier fleeing his creditors, his father’s wrath, and the close scrutiny of his Queen, came north to Carlisle to take up his new post as Deputy Warden of the

Charley Van Leeuwen can tell by a man’s kiss whether he’s been drinking Taittinger or Veuve Clicquot. Not that she kisses many men, a fact her friends deplore.

Ben Abbott returns to his hometown to save his family’s recession-battered real estate business, never dreaming that things are about to heat up in picturesque Newbury, Connnecticut.

In the late summer of 1274, King Edward has finally been anointed England’s ruler, and his queen contemplates a pilgrimage in gratitude for their safe return from Outremer, a journey that will incl

Jonas Applegarth is a brilliant but belligerent playwright. When his play, "The Misfortunes of Marriage," is performed by Lord Westfield's Men, it causes an uproar.

Intellectual property attorneys, romance publishers, and librarians—the very last people you’d expect to be mixed up in murder!

Elderly Undersheriff Bill Gastner, in Posadas County, New Mexico, is about to lose his valuable deputy when she goes to Minnesota with her doctor husband.

Experienced pastry chef Johnson whips up an insider’s look at San Francisco’s cut-throat restaurant trade.

Pru Marlowe isn’t your ordinary animal psychic. A tough girl on the run from her own gift, Pru left the big city to return to her picturesque Berkshires hometown looking for a little peace.

No one really notices that a fix may be in until Matt O’Connor, a Chicago-based columnist for a national racing newspaper, gets a call from Moe Kellman, a horse-owning acquaintance.

After several months of successful work in London and Amsterdam with American expatriate Fletcher Paige, Evan Horne returns to the states and settles in the San Francisco Bay Area.

As the mountain town of Trafalgar, British Columbia, shakes off a long hard winter, famous photographer Rudolph Steiner arrives to do a feature on mountain tourism.

Murder and illness, rumors of war, rain and floods worthy of the Bible.