Marilyn Edwards
The Coach House Cats

As The Coach House Cats opens, the time has come to have Pushkin, the Russian blue tom, and Titus, the ginger moggy queen, neutered. This was indeed the plan for Fannie, the tortoiseshell, but with her longed-for pregnancy well under way it must now be postponed. Fannie's due date for her kittens arrives and, in the time honoured tradition of cats and the best laid plans, unexpected problems arise.

Nero Blanc
Crossworder's Delight

On the day after Thanksgiving, everyone in Newcastle, Massachusetts, gathers round to deck the halls of the beloved Paul Revere Inn. In the midst of the revelry, crossword editor Belle Graham finds a handmade, and obviously unused, book of dessert recipes written in the form of crosswords, dedicated from mother to daughter. How did such a treasure come to be abandoned? As Belle follows the book's trail, some foul play is added to the mix....

Leaving the safety of Victorian England, Christabel accepts a post in far-off Austria. On arrival, she is immediately intrigued by the fairy-tale castle and its inhabitants including her charge, the spoiled and wilful Liesel Von Holstein, handsome widower Count Max Von Holstein, eccentric Aunt Gisela and a host of resentful servants. But what is the connection between her family heirloom, a rare serpent bracelet, and the Von Holsteins? From the lakeside country to the bustle of 1870s Vienna, Christabel moves closer to her fate and to a secret, dangerous past....