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FROM THE AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR OF ALL THE COLOURS OF THE DARK AND WE BEGIN AT THE END. Everyone loves Summer Ryan. A model student and musical prodigy, she's a ray of light in the struggling small town of Grace, Alabama - especially compared to her troubled sister, Raine. Then Summer vanishes...

This is not a story of bad things happening to bad girls. I say this because I know you, Dex, and I know how you think. I'm going to tell you a story, and this time, it will be the truth. Hannah Dexter is a nobody, ridiculed at school by golden girl Nikki Drummond and bored at home. But in their...

Newbie PI Lora Weaver is squirming in her seat trying to avoid temptation. She’s on a stakeout in front of Petit-Four, the cutest pastry shop ever, watching as pastries parade by in the window on what’s otherwise the most boring stakeout ever. She’s hungry. She’s cramped. And she can barely keep her eyes open. She also can’t leave. C&C, the PI agency Lora works for has been hired to help in a dodgy divorce case, and it’s Lora’s job to find out what else their client’s soon-to-be ex, Sloan Potts, has been playing at hiding besides his salami.

Rookie PI Lora Weaver is on her first undercover case sporting a fake name, a fake fiancé, and dance shoes for lessons that leave her trembling on her two left feet. When a fellow dance student keels over at Lora's heels on the first night of class, the identity theft case she signed on for ramps up from sketchy to deadly.

Lora Weaver follows romance from New York to Montreal and expects to find a touch of Paris in North America — cobblestone streets, sidewalk cafés, fabulous shopping, and a little joie de vivre [zest for life]. Not dangerous liaisons. But, when she takes a job at a PI agency owned by a French brother and sister team, her life takes on more twists and turns than a Cirque du Soleil show.

A kingpin crook, a mystifying mentor, and a suspect scammer. It's trouble times three for Lora Weaver.... For Lora Weaver, PI training is a snap. Literally. Her task is to snap a picture proving some sap is defrauding an insurance company on a disability claim. Easy peasy. Until that snap sets a whirlwind in motion that lands Lora at the picturesque Vieux Port dodging a kingpin crook dubbed Penguin and hoping she doesn’t end up swimming with the fishes.

It’s almost Easter. Time for bunnies, bonnets, and bonbons. Not bedlam. Unless you’re Lora Weaver, that is. With the scent of spring in the air and the promise of a long weekend looming, Lora is looking forward to a few days relaxing with her beau, Adam, taking long walks and short naps, snuggled together in the warm glow of Easter chocolate wrappers.

Lora Weaver is throwing her first New Year’s bash in her new digs, and she wants everything to be perfect. She’s planned every detail from the food to the decorations. But what she didn’t plan on was trouble. Just one hour before the New Year is set to ring in, Lora stumbles across a mystery that may just take the fizzle out of the case of champagne she’s bought for the night’s festivities.

Lora Weaver is not in the habit of spying on people. It’s rude. It’s unseemly. It’s an invasion of privacy. It’s also almost impossible to avoid in a crowded café when a handsome stranger sets to scribbling secrets into a journal mere inches away from her croissant and mochaccino glacé. Secrets she has no business knowing. Which is just as well since the scribbles are in French and her skills in the language verge on lost-in-translation territory. Not that anyone watching would know that. Anyone watching would think Lora knows plenty.

It's Valentine's night and Lora Weaver is dining in a romantic hideaway, peering over her menu at another woman's husband. The man is tall, dark, and handsome. And sitting three tables away playing footsie with a redhead ten years his junior. Lora's job as a PI in training is to report back to the man's wife about said goings on. A routine case, her French boss and faux date for the evening Laurent assures her.

It’s three days before Christmas, and Lora Weaver is hefting a body into the trunk of a car. Not exactly how she expected to be spending her first French holiday. But who said playing elf with best friend Camille Caron was going to be easy?