"Since childhood, Courtney has loved fairies, but lost touch with that feeling of magic after her mother's death. Inheriting her father's landscaping business. Courtney starts a fairy garden business and teashop in Carmel, California. At Open Your Imagination, she teaches garden design, sells fairy figurines and tinkling wind chimes, and starts a book club tea. When neighboring dog-grooming business owner Mick Watkins is found dead beside her patio...

Now settled in her little houseboat, moored in the slough at the back of the Last Ditch Motel, Lexy Campbell wants nothing more than to build her counseling business, avoid her mother's phone calls and--who knows?--meet a nice guy. But when she throws a Halloween party for her motley crew of motel pals, the only single man is too old for her, too wrapped up in the case of beer chilling in the slough, and--oh, yes--too dead. The smart choice is to...

When small-town police officers discover the grave of a young boy, they're quick to pin the crime on a convicted criminal who lives nearby. But when it comes to murder, Officer Susan Marlan never trusts a simple explanation, so she's just getting started. Meanwhile, college professor Eric Evans hallucinates a young boy in overalls: a symptom of his schizophrenia-or so he thinks. But when more bodies turn up, Eric has more visions, and they mirror...

"Charlotte Finn never wanted to inherit the family's produce farm--much less plow a heap of money into it. Her plan is to hammer a great big FOR SALE sign into the farm's fallow furrows--but Charlotte's sunny hopes of a quick sale succumb to a killing frost when she finds a dead body entwined supine in the tomato vines. The poor man, it seems, was run through ... with a pitchfork? Now, Charlotte is stuck with running the farm in the midst of a murder...