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At Maison Dubois, perfection is the only standard—and failure is never forgiven. Pastry chef Clara Holt has spent a year surviving the pressure cooker of one of the world’s most elite fine-dining restaurants, where every plate must dazzle, every movement is judged, and every service can make or break a career. But when a notorious food critic is found dead in the restaurant’s wine cellar just as Chef Antoine Dubois is reeling from a devastating theft, the glittering facade of culinary excellence begins to crack. Suddenly, Clara is trapped in a nightmare of secrets, rivalries, and ...

At a luxury safari lodge in South Africa, beauty is curated, secrets are buried, and one brutal death refuses to stay hidden. Textile scientist Eliza Bennett arrives at Imbila Luxury Lodge to consult on an ambitious silk initiative meant to blend elegance, sustainability, and global prestige. Instead, she finds simmering rivalries, corporate greed, and a powerful host determined to keep appearances flawless at any cost. When a prominent guest is found dead in what authorities quickly dismiss as a tragic animal attack, Eliza sees what everyone else misses: the fabric doesn’t lie. With only...

Eliza Bennett came to Stonebrook, Vermont, for snow, silence, and a long-overdue chance to breathe. Instead, she finds a town stitched together with secrets. What begins as a cozy winter escape soon turns into something far more dangerous when Eliza’s professional eye for patterns starts catching the kinds of details other people miss—and her grumpy, sharp-tongued orange tabby, Merlin, is never far from the truth. Between a charming farmhouse, a close-knit quilting guild, and a mountain town full of friendly faces and hidden tensions, Eliza is drawn into a mystery someone would rather ...

UNFORGETTABLE AND ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS SECRETS AND SLEUTHS A Multi-Author Cozy Mystery Collection Charming mysteries. Clever clues. One unforgettable Valentine escape for cozy-mystery lovers. Mysteries, secrets, and amateur sleuths—this delightful cozy collection has it all. From charming small towns to elegant high-society settings, these determined detectives (including one unforgettable paranormal cat!) set out to right wrongs, expose blackmail, and uncover murder—all without losing heart or hope. Slip into something comfy and settle in for clean, heartwarming mysteries filled with ...

When textile scientist Eliza Bennett arrives in San Antonio to visit her friend Marisol Gutiérrez’s natural dye studio, she expects color, craft, and a little Fiesta-season chaos. What she does not expect is murder. When Mari is found dead, Eliza is left reeling—and her imperious orange tabby, Merlin, is more than ready to judge everyone in sight. As Eliza digs into Mari’s final notes, she uncovers something far more dangerous than artisan rivalry: a trail of scientific evidence suggesting a celebrated natural-dye empire may be built on fraud, deception, and chemically manufactured ...

When a priceless Aztec textile goes missing and a museum director drops dead in a lecture hall, textile historian Eliza Bennett and her imperious, snarky, orange-and-white feline consultant, Merlin, are thrust into a tangle of high fashion, lethal dyes, and horse-soaked secrets. From the glittering lobby of the Gran Hotel to the dusty arenas of Club Hípico and the neon chaos of Xochimilco, this romp fuses scholarly sleuthing with cat-powered chaos. Think forensic yarn-pulling, midnight canal chases, a billionaire with a spider-web of influence, and a killer who wears riding boots. Witty, ...

At Seattle’s most exclusive restaurant, perfection is plated nightly—and secrets simmer just beneath the surface. When a celebrated chef is found dead after a glittering evening service, the shockwaves tear through the city’s culinary elite. In a world of razor-sharp knives, bruised egos, and ambitions hotter than the kitchen line, everyone has something to hide. Rivalries run deep, loyalties shift by the hour, and behind every flawless dish lies a hunger for power, prestige, and revenge. As suspicion spreads through the restaurant’s tight-knit staff and glamorous dining circle, the...

Eliza Bennett, textile scientist and amateur sleuth, is back for another thrilling adventure, this time in the picturesque vineyards of Italy! When Eliza travels to the renowned Calbretti's Vineyard for a fabric dye research project. She’s accompanied by her ever-faithful and paranormal orange tabby cat, Merlin. But their idyllic getaway turns sinister when a murder shatters the vineyard's tranquility. As secrets entwine with the vines, Eliza and Merlin must navigate a web of deceit and danger. Between uncovering hidden motives and evading perilous traps, the duo faces their most ...

Ava Montgomery has built a perfect life— a flawless home, a pristine garden, and a reputation rooted in control. Then something takes root in her. What begins as a stubborn weed in her prize-winning garden becomes an invasive presence beneath her skin. Ava’s body changes. Her hunger shifts. Her rage grows greener, older, and far more patient than she is. As the lines between woman and wilderness blur, Ava discovers the terrifying truth: some plants don’t just grow in soil—they colonize. While her teenage daughter races to save what’s left of her mother, Ava is drawn deeper into a ...

Katherine Zhao has done everything right. Her grades are flawless. Her behavior is compliant. Her Risk Score is nearly perfect. Then the system flags her anyway. Overnight, Katherine becomes an anomaly—marked by a silent red warning only the algorithms can see. Teachers look at her with pity. Classmates look at her with hunger. And when explicit images of her body—images she never consented to, never posed for—begin circulating through the school, the system doesn’t ask who created them. It asks how she reacts. Her fear becomes data. Her anger becomes proof. Her humanity becomes the...

Who needs a police K9 unit when you've got a cat like Merlin? This isn't your average cozy mystery. It's a high-stakes, high-desert thriller starring an academic textile expert and her talking cat. Dr. Elizabeth Bennett's world turns upside down when her presentation on ancient weaving leads to a New Mexico gallery owner's murder, exposing a massive, deadly operation of art fraud and cultural exploitation. From meticulously crafted fakes to hidden ledgers revealing millions in illegal sales, this duo navigates a world where every beautiful piece could hide a dark secret, and even a genius ...

In New Orleans’ most elegant neighborhood, a mansion vanishes in a fire that leaves no smoke—only clean white ash. Forensic risk analyst Samira Keller is hired to audit a powerful old-money firm, expecting spreadsheets, shell companies, and financial sleight of hand. Instead, she finds a system that doesn’t cheat the books—it balances them. Perfectly. Relentlessly. And sometimes, fatally. As Sam follows the trail from modern ledgers into pre-war contracts and forgotten trusts, she uncovers an ancient mechanism hiding in plain sight: a force that enforces balance not in dollars, but ...

When a celebrity chef loses everything, he makes a deal with the underworld. The price? His soul. Lorenzo Finch was once culinary royalty—an award winning hef with a legendary palate and a hit TV show. But after a spectacular fall from grace, he's reduced to filming a desperate web series in the Irish countryside when his van breaks down on a fog-shrouded road. That's when the Dullahan finds him. The headless horseman of Irish legend offers Lorenzo an impossible bargain: compete in seven supernatural cooking trials, and win back everything he's lost. Lose, and spend eternity as a taster ...

At Sunny Meadows Retirement Estate, nothing exciting ever happens. The tea is lukewarm. The walls are aggressively beige. And Bingo is mandatory. So when Arthur Penhaligon—quiet resident, forgotten accountant, presumed harmless—notices that the Bingo numbers aren’t random, no one pays attention. No one, that is, except the people who were counting on him not to notice. Because Arthur isn’t just another retiree. He’s a former intelligence analyst whose mind was chemically dulled for a reason. And the Bingo game? It isn’t a game at all—it’s a coded broadcast using a Cold War ...

The Truth Has Never Been More Inconvenient. In the harmonious capital of Planet X, King Xander and Queen Lyra have spent twenty years building a beacon of interspecies peace. But a storm is approaching in the form of their distant cousins: The Pinocchios. Armed with a genetic "condition" that causes their noses to grow with every falsehood, Elena and her daughters arrive under the guise of celebration. But behind the sideways smiles and awkward navigation of the castle’s reinforced doorways lies a secret: they aren’t just here for the party—they’re here to invade. As the lies pile ...

Long live the bloodsuckers. On Planet X—formerly Earth, formerly functional—the nation has elected an Uber Vampire whose hunger isn’t metaphorical. His rule spreads through screens, signals, and devotion, draining the population dry while demanding adoration, obedience, and fluids. Preferably red. Nancy and John are retired, irritated, and profoundly unimpressed. When neighbors start hissing, bread is declared treason, and the sky turns grape-purple with suppression gas, they do what any sensible elders would do: form a resistance. Armed with duct tape, lemon bars, outlawed books, and...

When textile historian Eliza Bennett is invited to a secluded Louisiana hunting camp to examine a rare collection of Acadian brown cotton weavings, it feels like long-overdue validation for her life’s work. These are not museum curiosities—they are living artifacts of survival, displacement, and resilience, hidden deep in the bayou and guarded by one of Louisiana’s most powerful families. But Eliza doesn’t arrive alone. By her side is Merlin—a sharp-tongued, world-weary orange tabby who talks, judges relentlessly, and has solved more murders than most small-town police departments...

Charlton Valerius should not exist. A centuries-old vampire, forged in a catastrophic alchemical accident, Julian can survive something no vampire should: sunlight. For decades, he has hidden in plain sight—wealthy, untouchable, and alone—until a single reckless visit to a dermatologist changes everything. Dr. Kitty Vance is brilliant, relentless, and dangerously curious. When she encounters Charlton’s impossible biology, she doesn’t see a monster—she sees a puzzle. One that could rewrite everything medicine knows about aging, disease… and immortality. But Charlton’s secret ...

By day, the Bancroft Museum is a sanctuary of history. By night, it becomes a battleground. Jacqueline Marsh has built her life around preservation—artifacts carefully cataloged, memories carefully recorded, order imposed on the chaos of time. Working the night shift in the museum’s deepest archives suits her just fine… until a new supervisor appears who knows her routines, her coffee order, and far too much about the relics she’s sworn to protect. Sebastian Keiffer is not human. He is a four-hundred-year-old vampire cursed to forget everyone he loves—again and again, century ...

When a priceless Revolutionary War banner vanishes from the Smithsonian, one brilliant textile scientist and her impossibly arrogant cat must unravel a 200-year-old conspiracy hidden in silk and secrets. Dr. Eliza Bennett came to Washington D.C. for one reason: to deliver an academic lecture and return to the safety of her New York laboratory. She definitely didn't plan on her consulting partner—an orange-and-white cat named Merlin with a superiority complex and inexplicable deductive powers—knocking over spools of thread to reveal clues, or on stumbling into the theft of a national ...