Nicole Kimberling

After a steady diet of big city trouble Chef Drew Allison has relocated to the tiny island town of Orca's Slough to get a taste of the laid-back artisanal lifestyle. But when he discovers his bartender dead in his basement, he faces a far greater challenge than whipping up a spectacular lunch special. He's the local law enforcement officer's Grade-A suspect. And while Deputy "Big Mac" Mackenzie is fine eye candy as well as a regular customer, Drew isn't convinced he's got the brains to match his brawn--or stand up to a sheriff, who's out to cook Drew's goose. Is Drew's only choice to put mystery on his menu and serve himself as an add-on to Big Mac's investigations? Mystery on the Menu serves up three courses of cozy mystery in one delectable collection. Includes: * Entr e to Murder * Recipe for Trouble * Homicide and Hospitality

The snick of a lock. The squeak of door hinges. The creak of a floorboard. Are those approaching steps that of a lover or an enemy? Entr e to Murder. After a steady diet of big city trouble, Chef Drew Allison moved to the island town of Orca's Slough to get a taste of life in the slow lane. But hometown hospitality goes stale when he finds a dead body in the basement of his own Eelgrass Caf . Twelve Seconds. A mysterious phone call, a missing executive, and an exploding rocket throw space reporter Justin Harris and Air Force Special Agent Greg Marcotte into an investigation that will change their lives...if it doesn't kill them first. Reality Bites. Detective Cabot Decker is called to the set of hotshot TV producer Jax Thornburn's reality-TV show after a contestant is mauled to death by a tiger. Is someone trying to ax Jax's career--or Jax himself? Blind Man's Buff. A game of Capture the Flag turns deadly inside an abandoned shopping mall when Tommy and Jonah stumble into a homicidal maniac's hunting grounds. A Country for Old Men. Inspector Calum Macleod has returned to the Western Isles of Scotland to bury a part of himself he can't accept. But the island has old secrets of its own. When a murderer strikes, Calum finds his past can't be so easily escaped. Pepper the Crime Lab. When Lonnie Boudreaux's neighbor is murdered, he must foster the man's dog, befriend a mysterious former cop, and stop the killer--or else Lights, Camera, Murder. When a hotshot television producer hires him to recover a stolen script, NY PI Rory Byrne must go undercover on the set of the ground-breaking historical drama The Bowery--a job complicated by Rory's unexpected attraction to handsome, talented, and out-and-proud actor Marion Roosevelt. Stranger in the House. Miles Tuesday's memories of Montreal are happy ones, but now that he has inherited the mansion at 13 Place Braeside, everything feels different. Was Madame Martel's fatal fall really an accident? And who is stealing her treasures? One thing has not changed: Miles still wants handsome and sophisticated art dealer Linley Palmer to have a place in his life. Authors L. B. Gregg, Nicole Kimberling, Josh Lanyon, Dal Maclean, Z. A. Maxfield, Meg Perry, C. S. Poe, and S. C. Wynne join forces for Footsteps in the Dark, eight sexy and suspenseful novellas of Male/Male Mystery and Romance .

Amazons, assassins, spacefarers, shapeshifters, fairies and forbidden lovers fill this anthology with adventure, humor and passion. Raccoon Skin: Young Sophia discovers a wounded eagle in her parents' backyard but when the resplendent creature transforms into the girlfriend she left behind at college, Sophia realizes that she had entered a dangerously surreal world of fairytales. Cupcake As an intergalactic assassin, Stasya has never failed to take down her man, but when the hauntingly beautiful heiress Mitsuko becomes her target everything changes. For the first time in her life Stasya finds herself battling to save a life rather than take it. Under Suspicion: Ensign Lily Branoch can't keep her mind off of marine Daniella Cruz-Ortega. But are the other woman's flirtations real or a ploy to hide her involvement in the disappearance of a dangerous arms shipment? The Conclave: Dating one of the quirky, immortal sidhe is the coolest thing Tanya has ever done. Now if she can just survive crashing a party thrown by Oberon and Titania. Dead and the President: In an apocalyptic future one woman with the power to inhabit many bodies fights to free herself and her people from a heritage of repression. Amazons: a hypnotic, lush tale of young love, new worlds and the dangerous passions inspired by both.