even though he’s been dead for nearly a hundred years. Puppy MacClarity doesn’t take the rumors about Ernest too seriously. But when he’s had enough of his teacher’s harassment, Puppy asks Ernest to take care of Miss Pritchett for him. Ernest grants his wish, and family secrets start to surface like magic. During a summer filled with both fear and fun, Puppy begins to realize that Ernest isn’t the only special thing about his family, and...

"November 1939. It's been a year since Stella Bled Lawrence and her husband, Nicky, escaped Italy by the skin of their teeth and a lot has changed. Nicky joined the Royal Air Force and Stella spent the year training as a spy for His Majesty's Secret Intelligence Service. She has the languages and the tradecraft down pat, but she still has a way to go when the Earl of Bickford pulls her from her training early. The earl uses his influence to make her...

Nothing’s easy in The Big Easy. Mercy Watts is barely back in St. Louis before her hometown suffers the worst crime in a century, a mass murder at the Tulio Italian restaurant. This tragedy has nothing to do with Mercy and she’s determined to keep it that way. No news. No gossip. No evidence. Mercy doesn’t want to know. But there are some things she can’t avoid, her family and her friends.Her plan seems to be working. The murderer, Kent Blankenship,...

Take one kidnapping. Add a haunted hamlet. Mix in a secret that’s lasted forty years and you’ve got a recipe for trouble. Reluctant detective Mercy Watts’ life is changing and she’s ready for it with a new apartment, a new career, and new clues to an old family mystery. She has no desire to go back to haunted St. Sebastian anytime soon, but a man in Germany has other plans. After an audacious attack, Mercy finds herself a victim and when...

An isolated hotel. A blizzard. Guests that can’t stay on their feet. Hotel Hell is about to live up to its name. Seven couples travel high into the Swiss mountains for gourmet food and world-class skiing unaware that a freak change in the weather is about to unleash old secrets and ignite smoldering anger. As an illness spreads through the guests, Mercy Watts’ nursing skills are put to the test. The symptoms are similar but not the same. Something...

Mercy Watts and her grandad, Ace, survived the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally and are racing home ahead of a stalker whose plans for the Watts clan remain unknown. But they’re too slow and what Mercy finds at home spins her in a new and darker direction. Her mother has been attacked and figuring out what happened to Carolina will take Mercy back out to her least favorite place on Earth, Hunt Hospital for the Criminally Insane. Soon she’s sucking up...

Mercy Watts is off to Colorado for a ski trip with her boyfriend and his parents. She thinks her biggest problem will be pretending to be a normal girlfriend. A girlfriend that doesn't know how to pick locks and absolutely never gets her face on the national news. But a desperate friend asks a favor that cannot be refused. A child in St. Louis is in desperate need of a drug that can only be found in Colorado. The problem? It’s illegal in Missouri....

Mercy’s on the edge of getting her life under control. She’s engaged, back in her chosen profession, and moving into a deluxe apartment. There are some hassles, but hassles are good compared to her father, Tommy Watts, showing up with the news she’s been dreading since she was sixteen.