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The Blue Rose Magazine is dedicated to covering the world of Twin Peaks from Mark Frost & David Lynch. This is an issue that celebrates a lot of anniversaries. It is the 5 year anniversary of The Blue Rose and our 16th issue. It is also the 5th anniversary of The Return and the 30th of the film Fire Walk With Me. With the release of the managing editor Scott Ryan' Fire Walk With Me: Your Laura Disappeared book coming out in May as well, this issue focuses on mostly The Return. But the cover of Issue 16 is a tribute to both events. So grab the book and get this magazine to celebrate 2022 and...

Follow the Tiero family, a group of white tiger shifters, as they head to America to find love...and heart-stopping danger. Full of romance, suspense, and gritty drama, this red-hot audiobook is sure to entertain! White tiger shifter Gavin Castro's got a job to do. Falling in love isn't part of it. Arctic fox and curvy, Layla's on a mission. Keep her secret, and catch a tiger... shifter. And not by the tail!

For generations, every Frankenstein has found their true love and equal unlocking lifetimes of blissful wedded adventure. Clever, pretty (and odd) Angelika Frankenstein has run out of suitors and fears she may become the exception to this family rule. When assisting in her brother Victor's ground-breaking experiment to bring a reassembled man back to life, she realizes that having an agreeable gentleman convalescing in the guest suite might be a chance to let a man get to know the real her. For the first time, Angelika embarks upon a project that is all her own.

A pioneer woman and her children, snowed in their home, wait bravely for the return of her husband on Christmas. As the snow continues to fall it eventually buries the house beneath an icy white blanket, and it's up to the woman's brave son to keep them all safe and their holiday spirits cheerful.

Niamh el Ri'ili spends her days locked away at the shining court and her nights playing fiddle across the veil in the world of men. All of that changed the night she met the vampire Connor O’Brien. Because of him, her long dormant hand of power awakens in a new world of blood and sun. As supernatural forces fan their appetites and desires, a web of courtly intrigue and seduction entangles them. Suddenly, an old foe arises when they are least expecting it. Niamh is robbed of her memories and power, and hidden away in the world of men—away from the safety of the Other World.

Second chances are great. Or are they? Why doesn't sexy shifter Jake Evans, known to the Bear Canyon Valley shifters as Doc, get it? Mae's brewing up a storm. She's successful at finding mates for all the shifters in the valley. All but one. The one she's in love with. Oh, Jake gets it alright. What he doesn't get is why Mae fights it. He also doesn't know about her secret. Yet.

Mae's at it again! Kelsey Torrent is a curvy, delicious hottie who has only loved one man. Guilt pushed her away. Secrets kept her away. She agreed to work for Mae getting the new B & B ready for a big wedding. She did not agree to work with the man who broke her heart. Bear-shifter Teague Navarro has always been a one-woman kind of man. Why the hell did Mae call him work with the one woman he can't exchange a civil word with?

Road Kills is a collection of short tales of dark comic horror from the mind of Isaac Thorne. These stories are all connected to travel, to the road. After all, it is always lurking there, quiet and dark, just waiting for you to come out for a drive or a walk or a jog.

Even the dead like to keep their secrets.... When William Gove, a dying millionaire and patriarch of a vast estate in Essex, asks Daniel Connell to execute his will, Daniel has no idea what he's getting himself into. Rather than leave his fortune to his three children, Gove has chosen 10 names at random from the phone book. When he dies, Daniel sets out to track down the recipients.

Darcy Barrett found her dream man at age eight - ever since, she's had to learn to settle for good enough. Having conducted a global survey of men, she can categorically say that no one measures up to Tom Valeska, whose only flaw is that he's her twin brother's best friend - oh, and that 99 percent of the time, he hasn't seemed interested in her.

The Princess Bride meets Travis Baldree in Tea You at the Altar, the third cosy fantasy in Rebecca Thorne's bestselling Tomes & Tea series. Our sapphic adventurers must navigate the ultimate maelstrom – their own wedding! Kianthe and Reyna are ready to finally walk down the aisle, and in just...

Ask yourself, is it possible that facts themselves can somehow lie? Though he was found with a pistol lodged in his still-warm hand, and had apparently been alone at the time of his sudden death, a grieving daughter refuses to believe Scotland Yard has been correct in declaring her seemingly happy father’s demise to have been self-inflicted, and summons the world’s greatest detective to a sylvan community west of London in order to sift through clues which appear to support a verdict of suicide, albeit an act of personal destruction undertaken within troublingly unusual circumstances. ...

In book 3, a construction worker inexplicably walks off a high-rise beam, plunging to his death, and a woman on hospice is murdered. Rose Brighton, a Birmingham, Alabama police detective and a witch of House of Rose, hunts for the connection and the killer, because the next person on his list is Rose herself.

Author and podcast host Heidi Thorne shares observations and opinions from her journey with the art and craft of crochet that spans almost 50 years, including: How her dad launched her crochet journey when she was a baby. Being a closet crochet dork and antisocial crocheter. Why you feel sad when you finish a project. Crazy old crochet fads. Useless doilies. Checking gauge as maxim and metaphor.

Writer Cyril Glendinning is waiting for his big break. He is well reviewed by cultured newspapers, but he makes very little money. Then he is commissioned to write a novel for a big publisher, but before he is able to finish, disaster strikes. His wife, Gertrude, is left penniless and alone, until she is awoken one night by a mysterious clicking metallic sound....

Caught in a web of secrets and lies, Ronan McAllister is forced into retirement from the CIA and returns to his hometown. While his family welcomes him home with open arms, he struggles to leave his past behind through the thick fog of PTSD. Payson Roberts is mostly content with her quiet life in the quaint town of Seaview. Ever the optimist, she is determined to find the one, but her fruitless search is starting to wear down her eternally sunny demeanor.

Notorious playboy and billionaire Mika Kingsley plays the game of life just like he plays at business in the boardroom...hard, fast, and taking no prisoners. What he doesn't already own, he conquers and masters, bending all comers to his iron, unyielding will. However, after tragedy strikes, Mika finds himself desperately searching for something he can hold on to when into his new world of chaos and disarray walks nurse Raeva....

Learn how networking can help you build your business. You'll discover types of networking opportunities to consider, how to give and get better referrals, using business cards, measuring your networking success, and much more.

From the bestselling Australian author of The Hating Game comes the clever, funny and unforgettable story of a muscular, tattooed man hired as an assistant to two elderly women - under the watchful eye of a beautiful retirement home manager Distraction (n): Something that turns your attention...

A heart-warming, sapphic journey brimming with jeopardy, magic and a love of tea – for fans of Travis Baldree's Legends & Lattes and TJ Klune. Two women wanted to open a cosy bookshop. They discovered a world of adventure. Reyna and Kianthe dream of opening a friendly book shop together...