In the South, it's better when the food is fried and the secrets kept buried... After the dead body of a beloved Cottonwood resident is found tangled up in an electric fence, Sheriff Kenni Lowry has a hunch that somethin' ain't right. Her investigation heats up with a fierce cook-off competition, a euchre game where the intel is sweeter than the brownies, and a decades old family recipe that may just be the proof in the pudding. The icing on the cake: Kenni is fighting an attraction to her recently sworn-in deputy sheriff, and election season is hot on her tail. When the killer comes after who she holds most dear, even her poppa's ghostly guidance might not be enough to keep her and her own out of the frying pan. USA TODAY BESTSELLING AUTHOR "Packed with clever plot twists, entertaining characters, and plenty of red herrings! Fixin' To Die is a rollicking, delightful, down-home mystery." – Ann Charles, USA Today Bestselling...

The shocking true story of international intrigue involving the 1993 murder of CIA officer Freddie Woodruff by KGB agents and the extensive cover-up that followed in Washington and in Moscow.On August 8, 1993, a single bullet to the head killed Freddie Woodruff, the Central Intelligence Agency's station chief in the former Soviet Republic of Georgia. Within hours, police had a suspect—a vodka-soaked village bumpkin named Anzor Sharmaidze. A tidy explanation quickly followed: It was a tragic accident. US diplomats hailed Georgia's swift work, and both countries breathed a sigh of relief. Yet the bullet that killed Woodruff was never found and key witnesses have since retracted their testimony, saying they were beaten and forced to identify Sharmaidze. But if he didn't do it, who did? Those who don't buy the official explanation think the answer lies in the spy games that played out on Russia's frontier following the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union. Woodruff was...

I used to makeout with his magazine photos. Now we're sleeping on the same tour bus.Drezden Halifax is my celebrity crush. But who wouldn't fall for a rock star with emerald green eyes and a voice that can melt your panties right off of you?I never thought we'd meet in person, auditioning for his band was mostly a joke.But then he picked me.I'm the new guitarist for his band—me, Lola the nobody, a rock star with fame and money.Everything is perfect. Nothing can ruin this.Until Drezden kisses me.Sure, he was my teenage crush... and yes I dream about him using his skilled tongue on me, making me moan and sweat, but it can't happen. We can't hook up. EVER.If we sleep together the band will go to pieces. My bright career will end in a flash.So why, knowing that, is he still trying to get in my pants?And... what happens when I let him?This full novel with a happily ever after and NO cliffhangers was originally published as the Body Rock Series 1-4, but has been re-released in this updated format to better tell a fuller, richer story. There's also a sexy bonus story in the back about Brenda and her crush! ;) Who could it be? Read and find out!

A. J. Albany's recollection of life with her father, the great jazz pianist Joe Albany, is the story of one girl's unsentimental education. Joe played with the likes of Charles Mingus, Lester Young, and Charlie Parker, but between gigs he slipped into drug-induced obscurity. It was during these times that his daughter knew him best. After her mother disappeared, six-year-old Amy Jo and her charming, troubled father set up housekeeping in a seamy Hollywood hotel. While Joe finished a set in some red-boothed dive, chances were you'd find Amy curled up to sleep on someone's fur coat, clutching a 78 of Louis Armstrong's "Sugar Blues" or, later, a photograph of the man himself, inscribed, "To little Amy Jo, always in love with you--Pops."Wise beyond her years and hip to the unpredictable ways of Old Lady Life at all too early an age, A. J. Albany guides us through the dope and deviance of the late 1960s and early 1970s in Hollywood's shadowy underbelly and beyond. What emerges is a raw, gripping, and surprisingly sympathetic portrait of a young girl trying to survive among the outcasts, misfits, and artists who surrounded her.Review"Albany re-creates a landscape of her childhood where misery is a faraway sound floating above a voice speaking in tones of affection, terror, rage, love, and, most of all, a hipster's defiance."—Greil Marcus"In this beautiful memoir of jazz and junk, loyalty and abandonment, A. J. Albany—the daughter of pianist Joe Albany—writes with such straight-up charm and unsentimental lucidity that she makes her harrowing childhood seem as romantic and thrilling as she remembers it."—Francine Prose"Truly affecting . . . Though slim, Albany's well-wrought memoir contains emotional and lyrical volumes."—Publisher's Weekly"Lots of drugs and loneliness, some jazz: the author has perceptively written what she knows."—Booklist“Her prose resembles the shimmering complexity of bop, with its feelings of tight yet improvisational dartings through memory. From the slag heap of the junkie lifestyle, she manages to spin literary gold.”—Kirkus“Harrowing . . . an authentic trip through Hollywood’s lower depths.”—Los Angeles Times Book Review“Only the slyest and boldest writing about music, and families, comes to mind as you read Low Down: James Baldwin’s ‘Sonny’s Blues,’ or David Goodis’s Down There. Yet A. J. Albany’s spirit and voice are fully her own—fierce, funny, troubling, sad, rueful, joyous.”—Robert PolitoAbout the AuthorA.J. Albany lives in Los Angeles with her husband and their two children, Charlie and Dylan.

Powerful, thrilling, and explosively authentic, the novels of Brigadier General A.J. Tata have won acclaim from President George W. Bush, Glenn Beck, and the bestselling masters of suspense. In Besieged, he tackles the rise of domestic terrorism in America—and puts his hero, Jake Mahegan, in the crackling center of a firestorm...It starts with the unthinkable. A school under siege. A shooter in the classroom. A nightmare scenario that has become all too common in today's United States. But this time, former Delta Captain Jake Mahegan is there when it happens.Checking in on the schoolteacher daughter of a colleague, Mahegan finds himself face to face with a merciless gunman rigged as a suicide bomber. Without warning, the school is attacked from the outside as well—and all hell breaks loose. The teacher shoots the gunman, Mahegan is knocked unconscious, and a twelve-year-old autistic girl named Misha is kidnapped.When the smoke clears, Mahegan...

She planned everything for the wedding–except the falling in love part. . . . In a family of jet-setters and lovable eccentrics, Cydney Parrish is the stable, sensible one, always with her feet firmly planted on the ground. Maybe that’s why she ended up raising her sister’s daughter Bebe. Now Bebe is all grown up and about to marry the nephew of the handsome and reclusive author Angus Munroe. Between planning the wedding, dealing with her high maintenance kin, and facing a future with only a cat for company, Cydney has her hands full. But she isn’t too busy to notice that aside from being pushy and generally infuriating, Gus Munroe may just be the man of her dreams. Angus Munroe is not about to let his only nephew throw his future away on some ditzy debutante. He flies into town determined to “speak now and never hold his peace”–but ends up instead with a broken nose, a slight limp, and his mountainside home invaded by the bride-to-be’s family. He’s pretty certain it is all the wedding planner’s fault. Aunts aren’t supposed to be sexy, but someone obviously forgot to tell the irresistible Cydney Parrish. . . . From the Paperback edition.

Something weird is going on!Ms. Todd is subbing, and A.J. and his friends are sure she kidnapped Miss Daisy so she could take over her job. They're going to have to do the detective work to get the goods on her. But it won't be easy! Ms. Todd is the weirdest substitute teacher in the history of the world!

Introducing part 2 of Claire Adams' new hot sports romance series... Jenn, convinced against her better judgment to go to a party at the Phi Kappa frat house, finds her horrible evening turning into something special when she meets Devon Sealy, a legend even among the legendary partiers of his frat and the star on the school basketball team. After losing her virginity to him, however, she discovers that Devon's reputation isn't just a party-loving jock who sleeps around, but also as a master manipulator who drops girls as soon as he gets what he wants from them. Torn, she tries to find a way to talk to him--but is shocked when she finds him in a compromising position.**

In 1939, with war just declared, a group of privileged people board the most luxurious airliner ever — the Pan American Clipper, bound for New York: an English aristocrat, a German scientist, a murderer under escort, a young wife escaping her husband and a charming, unscrupulous thief. For thirty hours, there is no escape from the flying palace. Over the Atlantic, tension mounts and finally explodes in a dramatic and dangerous climax.