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A little girl discovers all sorts of artistic possibilities when she has to go a day without crayons.

When professional house-sitter Lila Emerson witnesses a murder/suicide from her current apartment-sitting job, life as she knows it takes a dramatic turn. Suddenly, the woman with no permanent ties finds herself almost wishing for one. Artist Ashton Archer knows his brother isn't capable of violence--against himself or others. He recruits Lila, the only eyewitness, to help him uncover what happened. Ash longs to paint her as intensely as he hungers...

For the nearly nine million people who live in New York City, Grand Central Terminal is a crown jewel, a masterpiece of design. But for Clara Darden and Virginia Clay, it represents something quite different. For Clara, the terminal is the stepping stone to her future, which she is certain will shine as the brightly as the constellations on the main concourse ceiling. It is 1928, and twenty-five-year-old Clara is teaching at the lauded Grand Central...

After purchasing a run-down nineteenth-century carriage house on Boston's North Shore, Tess Haviland finds a skeleton inside the basement wall that mysteriously vanishes when she brings her neighbor, Andrew Thorne, over to see it.

Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the S^urete du Quebec and his team of investigators are called in to the scene of a suspicious death in a rural village south of Montreal. Jane Neal, a local fixture in the tiny hamlet of Three Pines, just north of the U.S. border, has been found dead in the woods. The locals are certain it's a tragic hunting accident and nothing more, but Gamache smells something foul in these remote woods, and is soon certain that...

Eve Duncan's adopted daughter Jane has been targeted by a mysterious cult who has decided that she has only eight days to live.

Fredo Benson, a talented but reclusive artist, harbors a dark and deadly secret. Can Shannon uncover the mystery in time to avert another tragedy?

"A Colorado senators wife, Evelyn Brandt seems to have it all. But her carefully constructed life comes toppling down when the FBI crashes her society brunch with news that her husband has been arrested for embezzlement, and hes far from repentant. It turns out this was only the start of his indiscretionsfor which he has little regret. As the weeks following the scandal turn into months, Evelyn withdraws, even shirking her duties with the philanthropic...