Delsheree Gladden

Life as the marketing director for a popular fashion boutique is overwhelming for Leila Sparrow, to say the least.She's not sure what ever possessed her to add revamping her dating life to her already hectic schedule. Calling in renowned Date Shark, Eli Walsh seemed like a good idea until she actually met with him...Date Shark was only meant to be a side-enterprise to his thriving couple's therapy practice, but Eli Walsh knows it's become more of an obsession.At least, it was until he agreed to take on Leila. Somehow she has stolen his entire focus. He wants to admit his fascination with her and growing romantic interest, but he knows coming on too strong will scare her away.His plan to convince her that she is worth any man's interest by first being her friend is challenged when his tips start to pay off and Leila begins dating Luke.Will his friendship with Leila mean the end to any romantic pursuit?

Kate can fix the damage to Sam's car after their accident, but can she protect herself from falling for him and putting all their lives in danger?Kate hates hiding, but the risk of her past sneaking up on her is too great to risk getting involved in anyone else's problems. At least, until getting involved is the only way to avoid a run-in with the police.The snow was to blame for the car wreck, but desperation forces Kate to make Sam an offer she's sure she'll regret. If she can fix Sam's car and send him on his way without the getting the cops involved, she can get back to her normal, safe life.It should be easy enough. Kate knows cars better than almost anything else. She can repair the damage to the car, but can she protect herself from falling for Sam and putting everything she's worked for in danger?

When one small favor for a friend turns into a missing persons case and all-around chaos, Amos realizes looking after Eliza Carlisle is about as easy as bathing a cat. In the two years since Logan's death, Amos Walker has worked nonstop to avoid having to face life without him. His driven focus has given him the opportunity to open his own four-star restaurant, but hasn't helped him deal with his grief. Escaping New York for the New Orleans is a start, though, until a friend calls to beg for a small favor. Cover her classes at the culinary institute where she teaches while she goes home to deal with a family emergency. Sounds simple enough. Amos has covered for her before and it gets him out of the apartment he can't stand being in without Logan. There's just one caveat. There's this girl, one who might need a little help and encouragement, Lauren tells him. No big deal. Except looking after Eliza Carlisle is about as easy as bathing a cat. Sweet, but na ve, Eliza's efforts to help her friend and fellow culinary student leads everyone around her into a missing persons case that quickly spirals from hoping the girl missed her flight, to untangling an international web of crime. Amos isn't sure he can keep her safe, but he's positive he can't keep her from getting into trouble.

Being oblivious to all the signs that your life is about to fall apart doesn't stop it from happening to Sara Taylor. Alone except for the Siamese cat her boyfriend-ex-boyfriend-Joseph left behind to teach her a lesson, Sara has no clue how to survive on her own. She hasn't handled her own bills in years, can't meet a deadline without someone else programming alarms into her phone, and is constantly either losing important things or getting herself hopelessly lost. Sara has no idea how she's supposed to move out of her university apartment and start her first real job without someone there to hold her hand. Although she knows her new friend Monroe would step in to help, she's not about to call him after having thrown him out of her apartment when his suspicions about Joseph prove true and Sara is left angry and mortified. It doesn't take long before she is desperate to lean on someone else's strength, even for just a few minutes, as real life begins to overwhelm her. Pride forces her to either sink or swim, even when sinking seems the most likely outcome.

"Why would someone commit murder over a cupcake?" That is Detective Gordon's question. Eliza doesn't have an answer, and doesn't particularly want to find one. Gordy promises she doesn't have to get involved...just look at the cupcake and use her culinary knowledge to tell him why it would inspire murder. It's never that easy. Not for Eliza Carlisle. What should be a relaxing two week break between semesters of culinary school turns into a never ending string of embarrassing, injury-inducing, rat-filled situations Eliza can't escape. She hadn't wanted to meet Puck's parents to begin with. Meeting them in the middle of the murder investigation and running into Chef Harper, her least favorite instructor who is intent on making her life miserable, guarantees anything but a good time. Add it just keeps getting better. Baxter is getting impatient. His ex-wife, the Evil Queen of Darkness, is getting more vicious by the second. Cupcake bakers are dropping every time the cops turns around. Eliza quickly finds herself hating the Christmas holidays even more than usual. All she has to do to survive her least favorite time of the year is catch a killer, beat Megan at her own evil game, hold off Baxter a little longer, and face down Puck's unimpressed parents. Piece of...cupcake.

It's bad enough that Echo already has ghosts haunting her 24/7, now her past mistakes want to join the fun and come back to haunt her, too? Moving to Georgia was supposed to be a fresh start. So far, it's turned out to be a fresh start at more chaos. After battling Devourers for the soul of her childhood friend, Echo learns the depth of what her abilities might cost her. She's always been pretty good at failure, which is concerning when the fate of the spiritual world is suddenly in your hands.If that isn't enough pressure already, Echo's personal life is a mess. She and Malachi are both freaked out by her ability to control him and have no idea whether their relationship was ever based on more than their bond as Medium and Keeper. Kyran is keeping his distance from both of them to keep from doing something stupid, things are still tense with her parents, college is proving more than she bargained for, Agent Morton is doubting stability and brings in his son Griffin to help keep her ground-which only causes more problems between her and pretty much everyone, and Echo gets pulled into her first case: a young boy whose mysterious injuries and claims of monsters in his dreams has everyone baffled and terrified of what it might mean if he isn't lying. Oh yeah, and a past mistake Echo thought had already been dealt with is back to settle a score. It can't get much worse than that, right? Except, for Echo, things can always get worse.

A 007-style handoff between a girl he knew in high school and the college's star football player catches Sanford Camden's eye. He almost wishes it hadn't. Almost. Despite the fact that he hasn't spoken to Dahlia Carter since they graduated high school two years ago, he rushes to catch up with her, warn her the local police are watching the campus. Unfortunately, his warning isn't received very well. Insulted that he thinks she's a drug dealer, Dahlia storms away. That should be the end of it. Move on. For some reason Sanford can't quite explain, it's not the end. It's only the beginning. Dahlia can't decide whether Sanford is simply as weird as his mannequin parents, or if he's not quite all there. Neither option explains him showing up at a party she's working to basically stalk her and hurl questions. Of course, her grabbing him and locking lips just to piss off the skanky girl hounding him doesn't make a lot of sense either. It puts everything at risk, in fact. If her dad ever finds out...about any of her extracurricular activities...she won't have to worry about Lillian Devry scratching her eyes out. Her dad will kill her first. An insane father seems like the biggest stumbling block to Dahlia's freedom, until long-hidden secrets begin bubbling to the surface, and what once seemed like paranoid delusions become threats to her life neither Dahlia nor Sanford are prepared to fight.

What's worse than getting dragged into a murder investigation because you tried to help a friend? Answer: Getting dragged into a murder investigation, drug ring, and criminal syndicate because someone mistakes you for a friend of your most despised coworker. When Eliza sees the man dead on the floor of Saul's Diner, she's more annoyed than scared. Until they all realize the man's death wasn't caused by a heart attack and Queen Bee Danielle blames Eliza's cooking. Fit to be tied, Eliza is determined to let Officer Gordon figure out who really killed the guy and put her energy toward not getting kicked out of culinary school after a reporter prints Danielle's spiteful accusations. But Eliza is Eliza, and staying out of things never works out quite the way she expects. When she is somehow mistaken for a friend of Danielle's by the people who actually killed the guy in the diner, she quickly finds herself up to her eyeballs in creepy fish, a burgeoning drug ring, scary criminals who like to put black bags over people heads before they kidnap them, and baking a three tier birthday cake at the last minute for someone she doesn't dare refuse. Eliza has never hated Danielle more, but helping her is the only way to save herself. After that, Danielle is fair game.

Gretchen brought her car to a screeching halt in the middle of the highway, terrified she had just killed someone. The body lying on the road appeared so suddenly, she barely had time to hit the brakes. Luckily, she stopped short of him. Unluckily, someone else hadn't. Her call for help may have saved his life, but the damage done may be impossible to repair.Waking with no memory of who he is or how he ended up a broken mess in the hospital, he has no choice but to rely on his rescuer for help. "John Doe" is his only identity until fragmented memories begin cropping back up. They are only fleeting images of a woman, but John hides even that from Gretchen, afraid it will lead him back home and away from the woman he is quickly falling in love with.

Eliza Carlisle has the unwanted talent of attracting trouble, in all its forms. That couldn't be truer than when she moves into the most bizarre apartment building on the planet. Weekly required dinners with the landlord and assigned chores are bad enough, but the rules don't end there. Top most on the list of requirements is NO physical violence against the others residents. There have been issues. In the past. The young manager, Sonya, claims that hasn't been a problem recently, but Eliza comes home from her first day of culinary school to find a dead resident, her next door neighbor looking good for the crime, and a cop that seems more interested in harassing her than solving the case. All Eliza wanted was to escape her past and start over, completely anonymous in a big city. That's not going to be so easy when the killer thinks she's made off with a valuable piece of evidence everyone is trying to get their hands on. The ultimatum that she turn it over to save her own life creates a small problem. Eliza has no idea what the killer wants, or where the mysterious object might be.If she can't uncover a decades old mystery in time, surviving culinary school will be the least of her problems.

Watching her two nephews and a puppy named Thor for the weekend was supposed to be fun for Greenly Kendrick. Sweating to death at a never-ending baseball game while getting gum in her hair, soda down her shirt, and an ice cream pedicure wasn't part of the deal. Neither is finding out the best blind date she's ever stood up is there to witness it all.Longest. Weekend. Ever. Except it doesn't stop at one crazy weekend. Embarrassment turns into mortification, a head wound, and being patch up by her amused knight in shining armor.Roman Carpenter can't help laughing at Greenly's mishaps, but for some reason, he sticks with her through it all. At least, until his ex-wife shows up and starts causing trouble. What started off as a strange, yet promising relationship, might be able to survive spiteful exes, but adding in a stalker that puts everyone on edge and pulls the police into the mix, might push everyone past their breaking point.

Everyone thinks Echo Simmons is crazy, but being The Ghost Host isn't just a YouTube hoax like people think. It's the only way to control the ghosts haunting her...at least until the FBI shows up asking questions. The first eighteen years of Echo Simmons' life have been less than ideal. On more than one occasion her parents have considered committing her. They don't believe she sees ghosts or that they harass her on a daily basis. So when a rogue ghost begins tormenting her, they're the last people she's going to tell. Her best friends Holden and Zara are doing their best to help, but ghost attacks are only the beginning of Echo's problems. Handling the ghosts by giving them a voice on YouTube through her webshow has been her saving grace-even if her parents think it's all a hoax-but that gets a little complicated when the ghost of Madeline Crew reveals a little too much about her previous life and the FBI shows up at her door wanting to know how she gained access to long-buried government secrets. It just keeps getting worse from there. Madeline's message to her great grandson sparks a strange connection between Echo and Malachi, which leads to Georgia, secrets, mistakes, love, lies, and life changing revelations.