Every seven years, an important thing, like scent, disappears from the town of Sterling and Aila, sixteen, is determined to find the cause and how her recently-deceased mother was involved.

When her dream job turns into a living nightmare, causing her to become the prime suspect in a murder investigation, art gallery manager Alice Humphrey must prove that she has been set up--a deadly mission that plunges her into a high-tech criminal conspiracy that is shockingly linked to her own family.

"A savage murder rocks a quiet Massachusetts suburb, revealing the dark secrets at the center of a group of friends and setting two women--one with a traumatic past, the other a Boston police detective--on a hunt for truth"--

Former country music singer Chelsea Cole tries to begin again as a small town music teacher in Whisper Lake, Colorado, but is soon drawn to a local police officer Brodie McGuire, as they try to help one of Chelsea's students and solve a mystery tied to the town's own secrets.

"In 1920s Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), a young Englishwoman marries a charming tea plantation owner and widower, only to discover he's keeping terrible secrets about his past, including what happened to his first wife, that lead to devastating consequences"--Adapted from publisher description.

This current entertaining story is set in nineteenth century China when girls had their feet bound and spent the rest of their lives in seclusion, illiterate, and isolated. In one remote county, women developed their own secret code, "nu shu"---meaning "women's writing"---the only gender-based written language to be found extant in the world. A very imaginative, original story, by a gifted storyteller.

Reluctantly returning to his small hometown when his star football player brother goes missing, Joel Whitley reconnects with the local sheriff, who begins to suspect former classmates in her search for her own missing brother.

"Written in Lauren Denton's signature Southern style, The One You're With tells a story of marriage, choices, and what a good life really looks like"--

"When a mysterious young woman named Katie appears in the small North Carolina town of Southport, her sudden arrival raises questions about her past. Beautiful yet self-effacing, Katie seems determined to avoid forming personal ties until a series of events draws her into two reluctant relationships: one with Alex, a widowed store owner with a kind heart and two young children; and another with her plainspoken single neighbor, Jo. Despite her reservations,...

After two teenage girls are kidnapped and one dies as a result, the town detective and a therapist probe beneath the family secrets, personal conflicts, and criminal behavior found among the numerous suspects of the crime.