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The week that Lola Rose checked into the Regal Rose Hotel, three events caught her quite unprepared: her widowed mother’s surprise engagement to a famous London barrister, her desire to form a friendship with the cantankerous elderly woman living in the hotel’s penthouse, and a dead body at the foot of the elegant sweeping staircase on the hotel...

Life at the Regal Rose Hotel has never been grander for Lola Rose, daughter of a Texas rancher and a British Lady. She has a fine suite, finer dining, and the finest friends. There is jazz every night with cocktails and dancing. She can take tea in the Tea Rose or sip champagne punch at the Punch Bowl. Or she can stumble upon a dead body.

Lola...

There is nothing quite like an engagement party in a lovely garden, especially when that garden is on the rooftop of the Regal Rose Hotel. At least until the groom-to-be goes missing, leaving only a pool of blood the perfect shade of a crimson rose. As a witness to a crime that nobody saw, Lola is once more up to her strand of ruby beads in the...

It’s Vera and Frederick’s wedding day, but not everything is roses and champagne. When a man from Vera’s past arrives to interfere with their happily-ever-after, he threatens to win Vera back or die trying. When he is found dead, Dr. Frederick Tate is the top name on the suspect list, followed by Vera herself.

Lola and her friends gather...

Newly returned to London after settling family affairs in West Texas, Lola is looking forward to the second annual New Year’s Eve Gala at the Regal Rose Hotel. She has the perfect dress, but she needs the perfect date. When she finds that the handsome Detective Inspector Arthur Blythe is not available, his older brother, Harry, offers to escort...

In the Regal Rose Hotel, Lola Rose and her merry band of mischief-makers are quite busy. Busier than only the novels can tell. With ten new short stories, this volume gives a delightful, between-the-novels look at not only new mysteries, but vignettes featuring a few employees of the hotel itself. Reader favorites Mickey, Sir Winston, Mr....

There be dangers in old, untouched places . . .

September, 1720: One month ago, Ailee Donaghue married a stranger to save herself from scandal. Now aboard a ship bound for the New World with ninety other Scots-Irish, she has no idea what she’ll be able to offer her new husband. She’s a horrible knitter, a bad cook, and can barely be trusted with...

That woman will bring shame down upon us . . .

The New World is no place for a penniless widow. Elsie MacClayne’s choices are few: remain with the other Scots-Irish immigrants to become a burden on her friends or search out her cousin, Connor, who has already made Pennsylvania Colony his home. Elsie longs to make a life for herself and her unborn...

Deirdre, what have you done?

Deirdre Donaghue has led a sheltered life on Donaghue Island, surrounded by family who has no care about what happens on the mainland, even during a time of war. When three soldiers invade her isolated village, she is drawn to their leader by his quiet ways and stormy eyes. Yet their sudden appearance brings dangers...

I was twelve when I first heard the name Guthrie.

Hollis Donaghue has been on the long hunt all his life, and he’s thinking maybe he should settle down. Except now he’s accused of killing a man. He turns to a person he trusts, widow Bea Confer, but will he bring danger to her doorstep? No matter how readily she can bring that pistol of hers to...

Never trust charity. Ain’t nothing ever free.

Nan Prescott, daughter of the local drunk, works odd jobs around Metamora, Indiana, to earn their keep. Her only goal is to keep her and her pa from starving without losing their pride.

Bradley Donaghue has taken over his mother’s small farm while occasionally leading mules along the Whitewater Canal...

Lucy, you can’t trust a man like that.

Lucy Donaghue can’t get out of Indiana fast enough. The meandering pace of her h hometown where everyone knows everybody else is about as exciting as watching the mill stone turn. She wants a crowded city with fascinating strangers and a chance to become someone new. The tiny town where she ends up is...

“Everything had gone just as I’d planned. Unbeknownst to my family, I caught the train from West Texas to California and found a room at Mrs. Brown’s Boarding House for Traveling Ladies. Now, at long last, I have accepted a position as a Lady’s Companion for a well-bred elderly lady in a lavishly elegant home the likes of which I’ve never seen....

I don’t know if you’ll hear from us again…

Josie Pierson has dreamed of becoming a nurse all her life. She finally achieved that dream, but what she didn’t anticipate was being caught in Paris during the outbreak of The Great War. She did what any responsible nurse driven to heal others would do—she joined the Red Cross.

Patrick Sinclaire left...

It’s 1933, and the Great Depression has dug its claws into the country. In St. Louis, Nedra Sinclaire is one of the lucky ones because she doesn’t live in the local Hooverville shanty town, but volunteers there with her parents as they help see to the sick and injured among the destitute residents. When her work is done, she transforms into just...

Welcome to a brand new adventure brought to you by the creators of Ficstitches Yarns Crochet Kit Club.

Inside you will find 12 Short Tales by author C. Jane Reid featuring the characters from her Donaghue Histories series, first featured in the kit clubs. Accompanying each story is one Ornament and one Tiny Gift Crochet Pattern, both items...

“It was a path made by the honored dead for fools to follow.”

Fantasy, whimsy, and irony fill this collection of short stories and vignettes by C. Jane Reid, author of the Lola Rose Mysteries and the Donaghue Histories. This anthology includes her first completed novella, The 8th Day, along with “A Fool’s Errand” and “Spirits of Iceholm,” her two...

“Exposed to all the dangers of war, but with none of its enthusiasms or splendid élans, he is condemned to sit like an animal in its burrow and hear the shells whistle over his head and take their little daily toll from his comrades.” –Alan Seeger

1914, Paris. Hagee Marshall seeks welcome into one of the many literary circles, driven by his...