Louisiana cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse, cursed with the ability to read minds, thinks she has finally gotten lucky when tall, dark, handsome Bill, whose mind is totally blocked from her, comes into her life, but she soon learns that her dream man is a vampire with a bad reputation, and when a murder goes down, she begins to fear for her life.

Geologist Philip Mercer and Dr. Anika Klein work against time to stop a German corporate mercenary from getting his hands on a wartime solid gold treasure chest that holds a lethal artifact possessing the power to destroy the Earth.

Aggie's free-spirited ways raise eyebrows at the small town church. but nothing more shocking than the naked body of a murdered woman turning up on her front porch. Suspicion falls on her husband who had been counseling the victim before her death.

Margo Sullivan, the daughter of the stern housekeeper for the wealthy Templeton family, sets out to win fame and fortune on her own terms, but when disaster strikes, she returns home to find Joshua Templeton waiting to see if she will make his childhood dreams of love come true.

While at the social event of the year, Theodosia Browning finds herself battling with local police and high society when she starts digging for the real reason behind a groom's freak accident and the bride's missing wedding ring.

Former debutante Nora Blackbird takes a job as a society page columnist to help pay the bills when her parents skip town leaving her with a land inheritance that comes with a two-million-dollar tax bill, but she finds herself on the investigative beat when she stumbles upon the murdered body of the host at her first party assignment.

A scrapbooking shop owner in New Orleans, Carmela Bertrand, finds clues in one of her customer's scrapbooks while she is trying to help her estranged husband, Shamus, clear his name in a murder investigation.

The Four Sisters, evil creations of the Shadow Lord, are poisoning Deltora and starving its people. Lief, Barda, and Jasmine have found and destroyed the first of the Sisters. Now they must find the second, hidden within the mountains that border the Shadowlands. And they know that only the Dragon of the Emerald can help them. The Shadow Lord is now aware of their quest. Deep in the Shadowlands, he plots their destruction. Hidden enemies and trickery...

The new Righ of Eileanan, Lachlan the Winged, overturns his dead brother's decrees against witchcraft, but sixteen years of hatred have cast its shadow on the land and bring about a civil war that threatens to destroy all Lachlan has fought to save.

The Indigo Tea Shop owner Theodosia Browning prepares to unveil her latest flavor, Gunpowder Green at the end of the annual yacht race when an antique gun fires unexpectedly and a member of Charleston's elite falls dead sending Theo on the trail of the killer .