Home to Chestnut Grove by Christy Barritt A heartwarming, small-town Christmas story about restoring broken hearts and remembering those you love. When Faith Winters returns to Chestnut Grove, Virginia, for the community’s annual Christmas celebration, she’s determined to make amends. She’s failed at making it on Broadway and is certain The Boat Man: A Suspense everyone hates her for decisions she had no control over. Blood Guilt Thriller (A Reed & Billie
Novel—Book 1) by Dustin Stevens
Jake Whitmire is the sheriff in Chestnut Grove, but keeping the area free of crime is the least of his worries. Most Detective Reed Mattox, just three days are filled with trying to keep the months removed from the death community’s spirits up as jobs have disof his partner, has turned invisiappeared. He never expected to see the bility into an art form. woman who broke his heart return home Switching to K-9, taking over the to lead up the town’s Christmas concert, graveyard shift, moving to a nor is he sure he can ever forgive her. farmhouse miles outside of CoAs someone in town begins sabotaging lumbus, his every move has bethe community’s celebration, Faith and come predicated on putting as Jake work together to find the person much distance between himself responsible and ensure their friend Jenand the outside world as possible. ny’s last request is fulfilled. Can holiday That distance is shattered when hope heal the broken spirit afflicting bodies begin turning up in The Chestnut Grove residents? Or is it time Bottoms, the poverty-stricken for everyone—including Faith and section of town he is assigned to Jake—to treasure the memories of the patrol. Grisly, horrific scenes start past but to move on? to pop up in the middle of the night and the overburdened precinct has no choice but to put Reed on it. Now operating far outside of his comfort zone with a Belgian Malinois for a partner that attracts attention wherever they go, Reed is forced to unravel the murders, taking him across the city and back years in time, to an event that some very influential people will do anything to keep buried...
by Ben Cheetham Is it ever truly possible to atone for killing someone? After the death of his son in a freak accident, Detective Harlan Miller's life is spiraling out of control. He's drinking too much. His marriage and career are on the rocks. But things are about to get even worse. A booze-soaked night out and a single wild punch leave a man dead and Harlan facing a manslaughter charge. Fast-forward four years. Harlan's prison term is up, but life on the outside holds little promise. Divorced, alone, consumed with guilt, he thinks of nothing beyond atoning for the death he caused. But how do you make up for depriving a wife of her husband and two young boys of their father? Then something happens, something terrible, yet something that holds out a twisted kind of hope for Harlan - the dead man's youngest son is abducted.