Kirjahaku

Macy Stoddard had hoped to ease the grief of losing her parents in a fiery car crash by accepting a job as a private nurse to the wealthy and widowed Alexandria Hallstead. But her first sight of Summerplace is of a dark and forbidding home. She quickly finds its winding halls and shadowy rooms filled with secrets and suspicions. Alex seems happy to have Macy's help, but others on the island, including Alex's sinister servants and hostile relatives, are far less welcoming. Watching eyes, veiled threats...slowly, surely, the menacing spirit of Hallstead Island closes in around Macy. And she can only wonder if her story will become just one of the many secrets of Hallstead House...

"Author of Secrets of Hallstead House"--Cover.

When Lilly Carlsen goes into work on the busiest shopping day of the year to find a dead body on the floor of her jewelry shop, she knows the holidays are about to get complicated.Juniper Junction, Colorado, is not some gun-slinging Wild West outpost; it's a tony resort town where people come to get away from it all. And as President of the Chamber of Commerce, it's Lilly's job to make sure that happens. But add two teenagers, a failing parent, and a deadbeat ex-husband to the mix, and it's beginning to look a lot like chaos.And when Lilly becomes Suspect Number One in two murders, she's going to have to figure out what's going on in Juniper Junction before she becomes the next victim.

Summer is getting hotter in Juniper Junction, Colorado. There's a firebug on the loose, the townspeople are nervous, and Lilly Carlsen, single mom to two teenagers, has even more to worry about. She's in charge of the Independence Day celebration, her mother's mental health is declining, and her son is getting ready to leave for college. But things are about to get even hotter: when a bistro owner dies at the celebration and Lilly's best friend is charged with murder, events start hitting close to home. It's up to Lilly to help clear her friend's name while at the same time dealing her mom's worsening forgetfulness as well as a coming-of-age issue under her own roof.

It's Valentine's Day in Juniper Junction and love is in the air. Or is that just a dark cloud?Lilly's shop assistant, Harry, is about to pop the question to his girlfriend, Alice Davenport. He's got the ring, he's planned a romantic dinner, and he's even thought of a gracious escape if Alice says no.The only thing missing is...Alice.Lilly wants to do all she can to help find Alice, even if that means interfering with a police investigation. But as she begins to learn more about Harry's sweet, unassuming girlfriend, she discovers that Alice is hiding a shocking secret that will complicate everything.And when Lilly suffers a lapse in judgment, the consequences are swift and painful. Can she pull herself together enough to help her daughter through a tunnel of teenage angst, deal with her mother's dementia-related wanderings, and still help Harry find his Happily Ever After?

In the year 1710, the Hanover family sailed from England to the New World, eventually settling in the wilderness of the New Jersey cape, just outside the village of Town Bank. William, an apothecary, set up shop in a side room of his home, providing the residents of the village and surrounding countryside with herbs and remedies for illness and injuries. His wife, Ruth, is a skilled herbalist and their young daughter, Sarah, learns the art and science of apothecary under the tutelage of her parents.In 1712, Ruth vanishes without a trace. It is generally assumed that she was killed by a wolf in the woods near the Hanovers' home. And though William and Sarah have never stopped hoping to see Ruth again, they know it is unlikely she is alive.Two years later, in 1714, William has begun to act strangely. He has been conducting business under the cover of darkness and refuses to share with Sarah the identity of the mysterious stranger who comes to see him at night. The numbers in the apothecary ledger don't add up, and William seems to have more money than an apothecary should.When William dies suddenly of a fever sweeping the county, Sarah is left alone and must face the secrets her father was keeping. She must also find out the truth about her mother's disappearance in accordance with her father's deathbed plea. Sarah has to decide how she is going to survive in the unforgiving landscape of colonial New Jersey, and whether she is capable of taking over her father's duties as apothecary.After finding a letter addressed to her father, Sarah learns that prior to her mother's disappearance, her mother was facing threats from an unknown person. Amid whisperings about a man who had been obsessed with Ruth before she vanished, Sarah begins to make inquiries about the man, his dealings with her mother and other women, and his mental stability. He proves to be a dangerous and unpredictable foe.As Sarah begins to get closer to finding out what happened to Ruth, what she learns will shock her tiny New Jersey community and leave her fighting for her life.

Halloween is just around the corner and the goblins are out in force in Juniper Junction. A crotchety merchant, a malicious next-door neighbor, and some ghoulish trick-or-treaters are causing hair-raising problems for Lilly Carlsen's boyfriend, Hassan Ashraf, and things are about to get much worse.When Hassan finds himself at the center of a police investigation following the deaths of two of his tormentors just days apart, Lilly is ready to help in any way she can to bring the real fiends to justice.But with Lilly's daughter having trouble adjusting to college, her mother continuing a downward spiral into dementia, and possible romantic strife on the horizon between Lilly's brother and her best friend, Lilly's Halloween is beginning to look especially frightful.

Lilly Carlsen has planned the perfect wedding reception for her brother, but her plans unravel in spectacular fashion when a dead body turns up and someone's dangerous prank spirals out of control. After Bill and Noley head off to their well-deserved honeymoon in the tropics, Lilly is determined to find out who was behind the events that turned a fairy-tale evening into the worst reception in Juniper Junction history. But all is not as it seems, and Lilly may be putting herself in grave danger by attempting to uncover the culprits. And to make matters worse, serious family issues are mounting and Lilly may have to do the one thing she swore she wouldn't do...

Lilly Carlsen hates the idea of anyone spending Thanksgiving alone, so she invites four near-strangers to the feast. But if she'd known two of her guests would later wind up murdered, she would have eaten dinner by herself with all the shades pulled down.And if she had dreamed she would become a suspect after finding the first body, she might have skipped Thanksgiving altogether.When the first murder occurs, it's Lilly who finds the body, and the suspicions of the officer in charge of the case fall squarely on her shoulders. And just when she thinks things can't get any worse, there's another murder, this one much closer to home.Lilly's got a lot on her plate.There's plenty of motive to go around this Thanksgiving, and if Lilly can't clear her name and figure out who's responsible for the murders, she risks spending the holidays behind bars ... or worse.