'You be going to live in the city, Hannah?' Farmer Price asked, pushing his battered hat up over his forehead. 'Wouldn''t think you'd want to go there . . . Times like this, I would have thought your sister would try and keep you away.' Hannah is oblivious to Farmer Price's dark words, excited as she is about her first ever trip to London to help her sister in her shop 'The Sugared Plum', making sweetmeats for the gentry. Hannah does not however get the reception she expected from her sister Sarah. Instead of giving Hannah a hearty welcome, Sarah is horrified that Hannah did not get her message to stay away - the Plague is taking hold of London. Based on much research, Mary Hooper tellingly conveys how the atmosphere in London changes from a disbelief that the Plague is anything serious, to the full-blown horror of the death carts and being locked up - in effect to die - if your house is suspected of infection.

Velvet is a laundress in a Victorian steam laundry. With both her mother and father dead, she is an orphan and has to rely upon her own wits to make a living. The laundry's work is back-breaking and Velvet is desperate to create a better life for herself. Then Velvet is noticed by Madame Savoya, a famed medium, who asks Velvet to come to work for her. Velvet is dazzled at first by the young yet beautifully dressed and bejewelled Madame. But soon Velvet realises that Madame Savoya is not all that she says she is, and Velvet's very life is in danger . . . A romantic and thrillingly exciting new novel from an acclaimed and much loved historical writer for teens.

In 1666, Hannah and Sarah escape London, leaving behind plague and death as well as their sweets shop, and when it is safe, Hannah and her younger sister Anne return, only to face the city's Great Fire.

A holiday adventure finds Stephanie Plum struggling to remove an intruder from her apartment and falling for a mysterious newcomer.

USA Today Best author featured on “ABC 20/20” brings you an Annie Graceland Cozy Novella! Annie Graceland: Cheesehead. Unwed. Hi-LAR-ious baker who speaks to 'The Dead!' I squeeze into my not-so-little red dress because I’m meeting my handsome detective boyfriend, Raphael Campillio, for Valentine’s dinner at a cute trattoria. When my cat, Theodore Von Pumpernickle pulls his ‘I’m a finicky eater’ act, I detour to the pet store to buy him something yummy. I’m in the cat food aisle staring at the ugliest cat carrier I’ve ever seen when I hear gunshots. A panicked, lost, black cat, is skittering toward the front door. I do what any sensible person would: I tackle the cat. I rip my dress. I lug that cat around in the ugliest carrier trying to find his owner. But the only guy that will help me is the ghost of the man who was just murdered… __ Cupcakes, Signs, & Valentines – A Novella was originally published as Trouble’s Crummy Valentine’s Day in “Year-Round Trouble" by Kalioka Press in 2020. Copyright © 2020 by Pamela DuMond. “Trouble” the cat character is the creative property of Carolyn Haines.

USA Today Best author featured on “ABC 20/20” brings you a new Stand Alone cozy mystery series: Annie Graceland: Soon to be wed. Talks to the dead. Runs a haunted lodge called The Cheesehead. It’s Christmastime when my boyfriend, Detective Raphael announces he’s traveling to Wisconsin for a job interview. Back off Dairy State. You're not getting him without a fight. I'm going home with him. I’ll introduce him to my weirdo family. Uncle Elliot thinks he created gum. My cousin’s taking Zoom classes to become a witch. We’ll stay at Great Aunt Stella’s lakeside inn, the Cheesehead Lodge. It's only a little haunted. Secret passageways. Painted portraits that wink at you. Ghosts. The place is booked for a Saturnalia festival. There’s bound to be shenanigans. But I’m a ‘Ghost Whisperer.’ I’m used to shenanigans. Besides, I’ll only be back in Wisconsin for three days. What could possibly go wrong? Sugar Plum Shenanigans Includes 2 Recipes! __ "Publishers Weekly" calls Annie Graceland stories “…blithe and funny contemporary cozy mystery..." "One part Ghost Whisperer, two parts Stephanie Plum…" Dakota Cassidy - USA Today Best author 1 Click!