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Medical examiner Sara Linton finds herself at the center of a terrifying hostage crisis when an assailant shoots down a police officer and wounds Police Chief Jeffrey Tolliver in the Grant County police station.

Dr. Waycross knows bleeding and blistering, the best scientific medicine of 1822. He arrives in the Georgia mountains to bring his modern methods to the superstitious masses. But the local healers, the Winter sisters, claim to treat yellow fever, consumption, and the hell-roarin' trots just as well as he can. Some folks call the sisters herb women; some call them witches. Waycross calls them quacks. But when the threat of rabies--incurable and fatal--comes...

On the evening of November 24, 1971, D. B. Cooper hijacked Flight 305—Portland to Seattle—with a fake bomb, collected a ransom of $200,000, and then parachuted from the rear of the plane, disappearing into the night. Fifty years later, Agent Pendergast takes on a bizarre and gruesome case: in the ghost-haunted city of Savannah, Georgia, bodies are found with no blood left in their veins—sowing panic and reviving whispered tales...

According to the terms of Emily's grandmother's will, single mother Emily Elliott must live on and properly tend Goosefeather Farm for the summer, or neighbor and childhood friend Abel Whitlock will inherit everything. While Emily believes this is just what Abel wishes, Abel decides to show Emily and her twins how to take care of the farm and thus get what he's always hoped for--a life with Emily and her children at his side.

The roots of the Moonlight Magnolia Detective Agency reach back to the 1980s in the little town of McGill, Georgia-where Stella Reid and her seven grandkids enjoy some spooky Halloween fun and stumble into murder . . . It doesn't take cash, just some good old-fashioned creativity, to turn a pillowcase into a ghost costume or a trashcan into a suit of armor. So even if she has to stick to a budget, Stella Reid always makes holidays like Halloween...

"Marvey, still adjusting to life in Peach Coast, Georgia, is at a library fundraising event when she comes across a list of four names. One is the name of someone who recently died--and who may have been murdered. Another is Spencer Holt, the handsome newspaper owner who's become one of Marvey's best friends. The four people appear to have nothing in common other than living in Peach Coast. Spencer dismisses the list at first, but before long, he...

"Welcome to Blessings, Georgia, the small town with a big heart! Anyone from a small town can tell you that gossip never stays quiet for long. The biggest news lately is Ruby Dye: she's been receiving gifts from a secret admirer. But Ruby isn't sure she can trust this newfound happiness. Nobody knows the dark secrets she keeps about her life before she arrives in Blessings. Is this the beginning of a would-be romance, or is she the target of something...

Murder never takes a break… Sisters Rita and Rhonda Knight hope that their homicide investigations can take a hiatus long enough for them to celebrate their upcoming weddings. But when Billy's crazed cousin appears right on the heels of a murder, the pair soon realize that one more case stands in their way. Caught up in a whirlwind of clues that carries them from the small town of Clovedale Falls to the bustling streets of LA, the sleuthing sisters...