In this second book of a reissue program of Hess's "Claire Malloy" series, the widowed bookstore owner goes to a mock-murder weekend at a charming inn. When the actor playing the victim is actually murdered, Claire can't help herself from poking around in the murder investigation. Martin's Press.

What do you run from? Katelyn had only been in Wolf Springs a short time before she was bitten by a werewolf. And now she carries that creature's curse in her veins. But she's not alone. Wolf Springs is home to a hidden family of werewolves, the Fenners - who swear none of them bit her. Apparently there's a monster on the loose - something wild and uncontrollable. And to make matters worse, Katelyn's struggling to resist her own animal urges. Especially...

"Rose Gardner should be celebrating the arrest of her fiercest enemy, J.R. Simmons. But problems are like weeds -- pluck one and five more spring up. Rose's boyfriend is on the verge of leaving her for good, her best friend, Neely Kate, is grappling with marriage problems, and her sister has a devastating secret. To make matters worse, she discovers J.R. Simmons has not been neutralized. His network of allies and henchmen extends further than she...

"Elise Carmichael is a court sign language interpreter who reads lips all the time. As a widow with a young son who is deaf, lip reading is simply second nature, until the day she reads the lips of someone on the phone discussing an attempt to be made on a senator's life--a senator who just happens to be her mother-in-law. Before she can decide what she needs to do, she receives the information that her son is rushed to the ER and she must leave....