I do not want a bride. They are difficult to protect. And those males who are mated have homes— clans. I have neither. My nest was destroyed. My territory usurped, and it is her peoples’ fault. Julia’s. The unmated female soldier within Zaku’s home. But when I discover nagas have arrived from across the land, and that she is going to choose one to help her get back to her people, I am unsettled by what she offers in return... Then hundreds of ships arrive. With the landscape changing, and the tides shifting, I must leave to find out what is going on. Except I am not alone. Julia will come with me. Because I do not want her to be with another. I refuse to imagine it. Even if the forest is dangerous, and it is entirely up to me to keep her safe, I will take her with me. But what if there is no safer place for her than in my arms?

The Other Killer (The Peasedsle Woods Killers)

Tender at the Bone meets Finlay Donovan is Killing It in this hilarious, fast-paced mystery about a feisty food critic in 1970s NY who finds her chef friend murdered and realizes she might be the only one to find the killer.Nobody in Manhattan eats better than Bernice Black. It’s 1972, and she is the city’s busiest restaurant critic, juggling her fiance and his two young sons with demands of fine dining. Bernice talks fast, walks faster, has a razor-sharp wit and no patience for anything—or anyone—that gets in her way.When she stops by the famed restaurant of her favorite chef and mentor, Laurent Tirel, early one morning, she stumbles across a horrific scene in the kitchen: Laurent's severed head, perfectly preserved in a flawless mold of jellied aspic.Her meeting with the cops assigned to the case proves only one thing–they know nothing about food or the seedy underworld that BB Black has made her home. With layoffs looming,...