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Helena is a counselor and welcome volunteer for cruise ships that dock in her home city, Port Chalmers, New Zealand. When a passenger vanishes into thin air, Helena finds herself involved in a mystery that defies logic: How did he slip past the ship’s ironclad security? Once his body is found, additional questions arise. Were his family members involved in his disappearance? What—or who—drew him to the port city in the first place? The return of her grown sons, Jamie and Adam, the latter of...

Ragged in the Rain is book five in the Lyle Dahms mystery series. Dahms and his good friend Stephen Edgerton travel from Minneapolis to Seattle to find Edgerton’s sister who has vanished into a world of addiction and homelessness. Dahms and Edgerton also face eviction from their long-time Minneapolis boardinghouse as gentrification claims their neighborhood. Against the backdrop of the Public Market and other Seattle landmarks, Dahms navigates the heartbreak of displacement—both the threat...

This novel is set in the Georgian era in England. Harassed by his parents to secure a new wife, widower Cyprian Law, Earl of Basildon, is desperate to escape. Rosamund Fortescue, cast out by a callous husband who left her with nothing but an annulled marriage, is navigating the wreckage of her own life. When their paths collide, Cyprian’s simple act of chivalry—escorting her to the safety of her godmother’s London home—is the start of an unlikely friendship. As Rosamund fights to carve out a...