A former rodeo queen turned paralegal. A criminal attorney with a soft spot for lost causes. Can ex-cowgirl Emily solve the mysteries before the killers ride off into the sunset? "Fair warning: clear your calendar before you pick it up because you won't be able to put it down." - Ken Oder, author of The Closing The second three romantic mysteries box set in the two million-download, USA Todaybestselling What Doesn't Kill You series: Emily Bernal in Heaven to Betsy, Earth to Emily, and Hell to Pay, in one large, bound volume. "Full of heart, humor, vivid characters, and suspense. Hutchins has done it again!" - Gay Yellen, author of The Body Business Heaven to Betsy (Emily #1): Dumped by her husband for a man, ex-rodeo queen Emily Bernal yearns for a fresh start. When a handsome local attorney named Jack offers her a gig, she's not sure if it's the right fit. But after a dead body takes a swan dive right in front of her and she learns a missing six-year-old girl is caught in the aftermath, Emily's heart sends her from barrel racing to paralegal work in a hurry. A string of strange coincidences don't seem to add up, sparks fly between her and her boss, dead ends start to become dead bodies, and the race to save the girl comes down to the wire. Earth to Emily (Emily #2): Emily may have traded the fast-paced rodeo world for paralegal work but the change hasn't made her life any simpler. Between romancing her sexy attorney boss Jack and fighting for custody of her foster child, she wonders if riding a bucking bronco would be easier. But when two runaway teens beg for her help after witnessing a truck-stop murder, the former rodeo queen springs into action. As she follows the clues along the Texas interstate, she can't help but notice her boyfriend is hiding something from her. When the investigation turns deadly, Emily's only chance to keep the runaways alive is to stand toe-to-toe with a criminal conspiracy that could make her the next victim. Hell to Pay (Emily #3): Emily Bernal feels like she's finally living her happily-ever-after. Weeks away from marrying her sexy boss and adopting the little girl who stole her heart, she thought nothing could break her stride. At least until a dead-man face-plants into an anatomically correct novelty cake and Emily's friend is charged with murder. As she follows the crumb trail of clues, Emily must infiltrate a venomous cult and clash with her one and only nemesis. Over 1000 reviews and a 4.6-star average. Available in digital, print, and audiobook. The novels are also available individually, in all the same formats. Once Upon A Romance calls Hutchins an "up-and-coming powerhouse writer." A former attorney, Pamela splits time between Nowheresville, TX and Snowheresville, WY.

One unexpected and hotly fought-over little boy, two dead bodies, and a series of home vandalisms throw Texas attorney turned island chanteuse Katie Connell into a tizzy. Juggling all of this, Bloody Mary cravings, baggage, and the bad guys too, she waffles between the jumbie house that brought her back from the brink and the man she believes is the love of her life. Leaving Annalise is Volume 2 in the Katie & Annalise series. To catch Katie's first adventure, check out Volume 1, Saving Grace. Watch for Volume 3--Finding Harmony--coming in February 2014. If you like Sandra Brown or Janet Evanovich, you will love Pamela Fagan Hutchins. An attorney and native Texan, Pamela lived in the U.S. Virgin Islands for nearly ten years. She refuses to admit to taking notes for this novel during that time. #2 in the Katie & Annalise series. Catch #1, Saving Grace, and #3, Finding Harmony. Accolades for Leaving Annalise and the Katie & Annalise Series: 2011 Winner of the Houston Writers Guild Novel Contest 2010 Winner of the Writers League of Texas Romance Contest 2012 Winner of the Houston Writers Guild Ghost Story Contest [Saving Grace is] a riveting drama with plenty of twists and turns for an exciting read, highly recommended. Small Press Bookwatch an exciting tale that combines twisting investigative and legal subplots with a character seeking redemption an exhilarating mystery with a touch of voodoo. Midwest Book Review MBR Bookwatch [Saving Grace is] a lively romantic mystery that will likely leave readers eagerly awaiting a sequel. Kirkus Reviews Katie is the first character I have absolutely fallen in love with since Stephanie Plum! Stephanie Swindell, bookstore owner Could not put [Leaving Annalise] down and did not want it to end! Rebecca Weiss, attorney and reader As much as I loved Saving Grace, I love Leaving Annalise even more. Rhonda Erb, editor Living through Katie was at times nerve-wracking, embarrassing, exciting, frightening, but most of all, it was really funny. Heidi D., librarian e-book and audio versions also available.

Deputy district attorney Julia Chandler believes her niece Emily is innocent of the murder of Emily's stepfather and is determined to protect her--even if she must hire private eye Connor Kincaid.

Malcolm Gladwell, host of the podcast Revisionist History and author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Outliers, offers a powerful examination of our interactions with strangers and why they often go wrong—now with a new afterword by the author. A Best Book of the Year: The Financial Times, Bloomberg, Chicago Tribune, and Detroit Free Press How did Fidel Castro fool the CIA for a generation? Why did Neville Chamberlain think he could trust Adolf Hitler? Why are campus sexual assaults on the rise? Do television sitcoms teach us something about the way we relate to one another that isn’t true? Talking to Strangers is a classically Gladwellian intellectual adventure, a challenging and controversial excursion through history, psychology, and scandals taken straight from the news. He revisits the deceptions of Bernie Madoff, the trial of Amanda Knox, the suicide of Sylvia Plath, the Jerry Sandusky pedophilia scandal at Penn State University, and the death of Sandra Bland—throwing our understanding of these and other stories into doubt. Something is very wrong, Gladwell argues, with the tools and strategies we use to make sense of people we don’t know. And because we don’t know how to talk to strangers, we are inviting conflict and misunderstanding in ways that have a profound effect on our lives and our world. In his first book since his #1 bestseller David and Goliath, Malcolm Gladwell has written a gripping guidebook for troubled times.

The first three complete mysteries in the bestselling, suspenseful Patrick Flint mystery series, from a Silver Falchion Best Mystery winning and USA Today bestselling author.

Premodern Sexualities offers rigorous new approaches to current problems in the historiography of sexuality. From queer readings of early modern medical texts to transcribing and interrogating premodern documents of sexual transgression, the contributors bring together current theoretical discourses on sexuality while emphasizing problems in the historicist interpretation of early textualizations of sexuality. Premodern Sexualities clarifies the contributions literary studies can make--through its emphasis on reading strategies--to the historiography of sexuality.

TAKEN meets LONGMIRE. A doctor with a taste for adventure. A doomed mountain vacation with his family. In the midst of a million acres of wilderness, Patrick Flint is about to discover that not everybody loves the new town doc. All Patrick Flint wants is a peaceful getaway in the Wyoming mountains for his rare days off. He's grown weary of the bicentennial celebrations, the angry families of patients, the rash of campers coming down from the mountains high on speed, and the midnight call-outs to cover for the town veterinarian. When his wife Susanne balks at the trip just as they're walking out the door-leaving him to go it alone with his lovestruck teenage daughter Trish and eager-but-adolescent son Perry-Patrick is wounded but determined, despite the news of a murderer escaping custody on the other side of the mountains. After two days of rain-soaked horseback riding to hunt and fish, Patrick's gotten nothing but weird encounters, wet socks, and a whiny daughter. So, on the third day, when Trish begs to stay behind at their campsite to read, Patrick is secretly relieved. Meanwhile back in town, Susanne's had a rough time of it herself. A break-in, a wreck, and a premonition that something is terribly wrong with her family. Unable to ignore her growing fears, she enlists the help of a Wyoming-tough neighbor, and the two women make for the mountains. When Patrick and Perry return to camp, Trish has vanished, along with the horses, the truck, and the trailer. Clues point in opposite directions. Did she run off with the boy whose note Patrick found at the camp? Or was she taken-as the tire marks over their destroyed tent suggest? Whichever it was, the tracks lead into the mountains, not out of them. With help too far away to make it before Trish's trail is washed away, Patrick and Perry embark on a desperate trek into the wilderness to find her, with Susanne not far behind them.