Laura Bradford / Elizabeth Lynn Casey Books In Order

His Baby Surprise (By:Lisa Childs)

An injury takes professional hockey player Brooks Hoover off the ice and back to his Michigan hometown to recuperate and map out his future…
which wasn’t supposed to include fatherhood! It isn’t every day a man finds a baby on his doorstep. A baby who just might be his.

And that’s not his only surprise…
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In high school, Priscilla Andrews was a prim and proper sort of girl, but now she’s all grown up–definitely his type of woman. She’s also Brooks’s new boss! Between coaching the high school hockey team, caring for an abandoned infant and sharing domestic duties with the alluring assistant principal, Brooks is starting to think he’s more of a family-man type than a big-time sports star.

But is a man who’s used to the limelight ready to settle down?

Jury of One / Deadly Readings

Four weeks. Four murders. One thing in common. All were warned of tragedy by a boardwalk fortune teller. Eerie coincidence? Or something more sinister?

Forecast of Evil / Deadly Getaway

A Jenkins & Burns Mystery Elise Jenkins thinks she’s stepped onto a little piece of heaven when she and Detective Mitch Burns arrive on a remote Michigan island for their long awaited winter getaway. The snow covered pathways and horse drawn sleigh rides are like something out of a fairy tale. But like all fairy tales, there’s evil lurking just below the surface haunting family secrets, a blizzard that cuts off communication to the outside world, and a killer who’s circling. It could be the story of a lifetime for a news reporter like Elise. If she lives.

Marked by Fate / Deadly Expressions

Do you think it’s possible to be marked by fate? To be destined to die a victim? Or can fate be helped along? Twisted to suit another person’s needs. The black metal cave was cool against my tears, the carpeted floor a buffer for the tremors in my body. I bit down harder on my lower lip, the pain a constant reminder of my need to stay quiet. to fight the urge to scream for help. Thirty five years ago, seven year old Hannah Daltry hid under a desk alone and terrified. She didn’t cry. She didn’t yell. She didn’t move. If she had, they would have found her. Today she’s a grown woman, teaching in a community college, sharing her passion for the written word with her students. But she hasn’t forgotten those terrifying moments from her childhood. In fact, she’s decided to use that memory as a teaching exercise in her creative writing class. In that same class is Elise Jenkins, a local reporter who’s eager to stretch her writing wings. She like all the other students is inspired by the teacher’s ability to bring a scene to life on paper. To put readers under that desk, to instill the same fear she’d once felt. But inspiration turns to shock when Ms. Daltry is found dead in her classroom. Her only mistake? Being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Again. Is her murder simply a cruel twist of irony? A fate she was destined to meet? Or is there more to the story? That’s what Elise intends to find out. No matter what the cost.

Sew Deadly

Ever since she moved to Sweet Briar, South Carolina, Yankee librarian Tori Sinclair has been the talk of the tiny town. But sheÂA’s been so busy at work, winning over the sewing circle, and trying to forget her cheating ex that she hasnÂA’t even had time to baste together a pillow, let alone mind local gossip. Then she finds the hometown sweetheart dead at her back doorÂA…

Everyone believes the police investigator, whoÂA’s just fixinÂA’ to link Tori to the murder in a love triangle gone bad. To clear her name, Tori will have to rely on her new sewing sisters and stitch together the truthÂA- or be darned.

Death Threads

The Southern Sewing Circle mystery series continues. Yankee librarian Tori Sinclair is basking in the warmth of her new circle of friends from South Carolina’s Sweet Briar Ladies Society sewing circle. That is until local author Colby Calhoun reveals an unflattering secret about the town’s historic past and then disappears, leaving a bloody trail behind him. And when Tori begins to see a pattern of the townsfolk’s age old Southern pride standing in the way of justice, she knows it’s time to unravel the mystery.

Pinned for Murder

The members of South Carolina’s Sweet Briar Ladies Society sewing circle are as loyal and close knit as the day is long. But when the richest and meanest woman in town turns up murdered, the new Yankee librarian Tori Sinclair finds that some threads can bind dangerously tight.

Deadly Notions

Librarian Tori Sinclair would do anything for her new circle of friends-including throw a birthday bash for a fellow sewer’s daughter. While the party is a hit, self-important pageant mom Ashley Lawson leaves the ladies wanting to permanently shut her high maintenance mouth. But when Ashley turns up dead, Tori and the girls need to figure out who really murdered the monster mom, before the finger-pointing causes their friendship to unravel.

The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Second Annual Collection

A consistently award winning collection once again provides the best science fiction stories of the year, featuring work by veterans and newcomers including Michael Bishop, Nancy Kress, Ursula Le Guin, Mike Resnick, Geoff Ryman, Brian Stableford, and many others.