When Heather Martinson, a professional interior painter, takes on the job of redecorating the dining room of the Compton House for the new owners, she quickly discovers that the job involves more risks than just choosing the wrong paint color. The new tenants, siblings Caroline and Michael Compton, have recently inherited the run-down estate by the terms of an unusual will. Mysterious accidents and obvious acts of vandalism soon make it evident that someone doesn't want the new owners to ever occupy the house. Although Heather finds herself strongly attracted to Michael, she eventually begins to wonder where his true loyalties lie. Surrounded by strangers and unsure who to trust as the dangers mount, Heather must rely on her own nerve and resources to solve a mystery that is rooted in the dark past of the Compton House.
When the body of Travis Lambert, senior meteorologist, is found buried in a shallow grave next to the house of Stormy McCloud, junior meteorologist, things look bad. The station hires Chance Malone to investigate the murder, but her situation doesn't improve. Malone is attractive, charming, and funny, all qualities that her past experience with men has led her to avoid. It doesn't help that Stormy has little interest in religion, while Malone is the unusual detective that keeps a Bible in his desk drawer instead of a bottle of scotch. When Stormy's estranged mother appears on the scene, things become even more complicated. As they discover more about the dark secrets of Travis's life, Stormy is forced to reconsider her view of men, her mother, and her future.
Kate Manning, the owner and manager of Golden Needles, a fabric shop, becomes distressed when Fabulous Fabrics, a large discount fabric chain, opens a branch in her neighborhood. Her distress turns to anger when she discovers that Roger Garrison, a handsome, interesting man that she has just met in her shop, is the manager of the competition. While Roger finds excuses to "run into" his lovely nemesis, Kate finds herself drawn to the tall, good-looking businessman. But there is Melissa Hardgrove the beautiful, stylish, and very jealous assistant manager of Fabulous Fabrics who clearly wants Roger for herself. When Kate's shop is covered in graffiti and her orders are misdirected, she begins to suspect that someone is attempting to sabotage her business. Can Kate fall in love with a man who can run her out of business and could spoil her dream of owning her own store?
When high school English teacher Cassandra Reilly is laid off, she takes a poorly paying part-time job at a local nursing home to make ends meet. Her employment problems may be solved when one of her patients passes away after naming her in his will as the director of a new literary research center. But Cassie isn't certain she can handle the position, and her doubts increase when she receives a threat against her life. The lawyer who handles the will proves to be a source of support and comfort, and Cassie hopes their friendship will deepen into love. As the danger increases and Cassie faces her doubts about her own abilities, she begins to develop a new strength of character that will help her achieve her life's goals.
When the body of journalism professor Joseph Teller is found outside his office building on the Minton State University campus, questions are raised as to whether he fell or committed suicide. Both seem plausible since the open window in his office sits very low, and he lost his wife to cancer a little over a year ago. Kate Cameron, a retired police officer and current real estate broker, gets involved when her boyfriend, editor of the local paper and former student of Teller's, asks her to investigate the death in order to make certain the truth is revealed. She soon discovers there are a number of less obvious reasons for Teller's death. Adding to Kate's woes, Bianca Fitzsimmons, a loose-cannon student intern on the paper, interferes in the investigation, although she sometimes seems more interested in having a romantic relationship with Kate's boyfriend. As the investigation proceeds, Kate finds that she must not only reevaluate the evidence concerning Teller's death but also her own personal life.
After Laura Magee loses her Boston Museum of Fine Arts job, she lands a position at the Ravenswood Chronicle, a small-town New England newspaper, in the is nostalgic cozy from Ebisch. Laura discovers investigative journalism can be dangerous in this old-fashioned blend of romance and detection."--Publishers Weekly.
Pastor Clarissa Abbot is struggling through the pandemic as minister at The Shore Side Community Church, doing more home visits than ever and trying to keep her congregation healthy and safe. Adding to her problems, a member of her congregation, Brenda Fisher, who is a real estate agent, finds the body of a murdered woman in one of her beach rentals. Distressed by her discovery and concerned that the police may see her as a suspect, Brenda comes to Clarissa and asks her to become involved in the investigation. Although she initially resists, Clarissa finds herself being drawn more and more into the situation surrounding the woman's death, and before long she is trolling the bars and restaurants of Shore Side with the dead woman's two sisters, looking for the killer.To add to her concerns, she is asked by the police to look into a new church in Shoreside called The Good Grace Church, which the police suspect of being a cult. Clarissa meets with the man running Good Grace, known as Shepherd Jonathan, and finds him dynamic and rather fascinating, which does not please Sergeant Rudinski, her current boyfriend. The exciting conclusion of this story finds Clarissa reevaluating both her personal and professional future.
Twenty-seven-year-old Clarissa Abbot is a minister who has just gotten her first full-time position as pastor at Shore Side Community Church in Shore Side, New Jersey. As if her new job is not challenging enough, she has further difficulties when a member of her congregation dies in the hospital under suspicious circumstances before he can pass along an important piece of information about a mysterious past event.Feeling guilty because she could not convince the man to confide in her before his death, Clarissa begins an investigation, which quickly leads back to an unsolved murder that happened in Shore Side over fifty years ago. In addition to this, a shady real estate deal potentially involving the church brings her into contact with a handsome young lawyer in her congregation, whose interest in her is more than professional. All of this leads Clarissa to conclude that being a minister is more complicated than she ever expected.
Clarissa Abbot has been the minister at Shore Side Community Church in Shore Side, New Jersey for just over three months. She feels she is settling into the job well, when difficulties arise. One of the members of her congregation owns a haunted bed and breakfast. The peaceful ghost had previously been something of a tourist attraction, but now it has suddenly begun assaulting people, and the owner wants it exorcised. Clarissa explains that ministers don't do that, and she also expresses some doubts about whether the attacks are really being carried out by a ghost. This leads the owner to request that Clarissa help the police to capture the ghostly culprit. Before she can solve that problem, a teenage boy is murdered outside a bar in Shore Side, and the person accused of the crime is a minister who is Clarissa's former fiancé. He turns to Clarissa for help, and she gets her current boyfriend, Andrew, a lawyer, to represent him. Clarissa and Andrew soon find themselves in a race against time to discover the identity of the murderer-a race that at the finish line may cost Clarissa her life.
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