Baby Thrillers

In The Shadow of Your Smile, worldwide best-selling author Mary Higgins Clark weaves a spellbinding thriller revolving around a long-held family secret that threatens to emerge and take the life of an unsuspecting heiress.

Rossalyn Channing's savory new bacon-heavy business in the small town of Chatsworth, Illinois, is booming. She and her teenage son Ryan are settling in quite well to their new home, until a mysterious death turns their world upside down. One of Rossie's favorite television shows comes to town wanting to film nearby. She directs them to a place that she knows, and is dismayed when her location turns out to be tragic.

Deep within the confines of his sheltered delusion, Bill Butler is a loving father and husband, and a successful corporate executive, but his reality is far different. Bill is estranged from his wife, detached from his daughter, and is a constant target of ridicule at his job—and he is on a straight path to mental breakdown.

Imagine having recurring nightmares of a woman who has one normal leg and one baby leg, and then waking up to wonder if today will be the day when they—whoever “they” are—find you and kill you. Unless you’re missing the point. Maybe “they” already have “you” and the world is a great deal more grotesque than you could ever imagine. Film noir collides with virtual worlds in this dark and strange novella that only Brian Evenson could have written.

When Lucy Layton leaves New York City to attend her aunt’s funeral, she has no idea where her trip back home will lead. The last thing she expects is to inherit her aunt’s dog, her house, and the attached dog grooming salon. But when she discovers that her aunt was murdered, she is compelled to stay in Shongoloo and investigate. With new dog Ollie by her side, she begins to question a cast of colorful suspects. But someone wants Lucy to disappear, and they’ll stop at nothing to make that happen. Can she solve the murder before it’s too late?

Kelsie's idyllic farm is falling apart. The need for a serious injection of cash leads her to invite the higher ups from a multi-level marketing company to her place for their annual retreat. Unfortunately, the company founder is allergic to the kittens. To make peace, Kelsie moves them to the barn, but on her way back, she trips over the body of the company hype man. His murder sets off a chain of shocking revelations, and a family's dark secrets are uncovered in the deadliest way possible. As suspects abound, Kelsie reprises the role of amateur detective to protect her friends and felines.

When aspiring entrepreneur Kelsie takes her cupcakes to the Watermelon Festival, she finds herself right in the middle of a shocking murder. Elizabeth Bryan, the town's biggest socialite, has been found dead between the pig races and the pie eating contest—and her new friend Nell is the prime suspect. With no time to lose, Kelsie hires the dead woman's assistant in order to clear her friend's name and get back to business. Then one of their beloved kittens goes missing, and Kelsie suspects it must be connected to the investigation.

Being an experienced true crime reporter, leaving a case unsolved doesn't sit right with Lucy. So, with the help of her loyal canine companion Ollie, she sets off to unmask the killer - a task made more difficult by the victim’s large family and the immense fortune one of them is set to inherit.

Kelsie has spent the last few months working to make her aunt's farm into her own place. But when she's asked to host a dog wedding, she learns that planning an event for four-legged friends is a whole new ballgame! Her colleagues' concerns about the canine wedding being wrecked by their litter of magical kittens turn out to be nothing compared to the disappearance of the bride. Not to mention that the photographer and Kelsie have history. So when he shows up dead, things get really complicated. But with help from friends and kittens, Kelsie just might be able to solve this mystery.

When Kelsie Walsh inherits her grandmother's farm, she's ready to move her cupcake business back home to Tennessee. She wants to get into the business of hosting ranch-style weddings, and the property's caretaker certainly turns her mind to romance. But before Kelsie can get that off the ground, she discovers her grandmother may have met a not-so-natural end.

All federal agent Luke Buchanan wanted was his son. That and revenge against everyone involved in the illegal adoption that had resulted in his baby boy being stolen from him. So when he finally tracked down the woman who’d been raising Christopher as her own, he was hell-bent on making her pay. But Luke wasn’t the only one after Elaina McLemore. Someone was hunting her, following her every move. And from the moment he saw the fear in Elaina’s eyes, he vowed to protect her - and the baby they both loved - at all costs. But who would protect him from the tender feelings Elaina sparked inside him?

When a crotchety old veterinarian is killed, prime suspects Lucy and her new friend Millie become embroiled in a puzzling murder investigation.

After spending the night in the village with Frankie's cousin Kaia, Nina comes home to find one of her ex-boyfriends dead in her bed. When Nina enlists Frankie's help to find the real killer, they run into a dead end. And since the sheriff and Frankie's relationship is on ice, he remains tight-lipped about the crime. Leaving Frankie and Nina no choice but to rely on the help of Frankie's wacky roommate and a pair of polar bears to track down the murderer. But the killer went to a lot of trouble to frame Nina and the guilty party isn't going down without a fight.

This is the story of Catherine Hilton, a mother struggling with substance addiction and domestic violence at the hands of her boyfriend, Victor Sinclair. When Catherine’s home is investigated, Child Protective Services (CPS) intervenes, Victor is sent to prison, and she loses her children to the foster care system.

The last thing the people in the small town of Frost Peak want is the kind of “progress” that Mickey Grimes and his real estate conglomerate is pushing. So, when he's found murdered out on the frozen tundra, the list of suspects seems endless. That is, until the sheriff learns that Frankie's cousin Kaia threatened to kill the developer after he injured her sled dog with his car. And when it's determined that Grimes himself was run over by a vehicle, Kaia finds herself in big trouble.

Bonaparte 'Bone' Mizell, formerly of the DEA, has a problem on his hands; Dale Bristline, his 400 lb. client with a beautiful ex-stripper wife needs help dealing with a blackmailer - Brandy's first husband has returned from the dead and is making outrageous demands... and she mustn't be told about it. When drug dealer turned sex club owner Bristline needs some help dealing with the blackmailer, cash-strapped Bone accepts the case…

Lisa Rasmussen just had a baby, and everything in her life seems perfect at this point. Only she wishes that everyone else around her would be as flawless as she is and stop getting in her way. And if they won't listen, then she'll make them.

From beloved author Marie Ferrarella comes another Cavanaugh Justice Book, and this time a baby's in jeopardy... The only things Ashley St. James has ever allowed herself to love are her dogs. A child of the foster-care system, she never even knew her own birthday. When a dog in distress leads her to a brutally butchered woman whose baby was stolen, Ashley has a purpose - so she teams up with cop Shane Cavanaugh.

Vampire fashion designer Nina LaShay has a lot on her plate - just two days until fashion week and the model who was flirting with her photographer boyfriend is now a corpse in her studio. But when dead turns into undead and dangerous, Nina must find out who's responsible...before the beautiful baby vamp takes too many bites out of the Big Apple.

Jack Damon has a problem and eventually, it’s going to hatch. When his best friend, Sean, runs into serious trouble, wealthy hotel entrepreneur and dragon shifter Jack Damon ends up taking care of his offspring; a big blue dragon egg that will soon hatch into a dragon shifter baby. But Jack doesn’t know the first thing about caring for anything other than himself or his businesses. What the egg really needs is a mother...someone like Lucy, the feisty showgirl who works in his hotel. There is something about her that Jack can’t help but notice.