The efforts of three cousins to keep an elderly neighbor from being cheated out of an antique wooden carousel horse help them understand the Biblical commandment, "You shall not covet."

A cryptic letter on her grandmother's grave and a puzzling inscription on a carousel horse lead artist Maya Brice to ninety-year-old Hank Hauser. While stripping chipped layers of paint from the old horses and peeling, fragmented memories from their mysterious carver, Maya untangles the intertwined secrets of love, heartbreak and misunderstandings among three generations of strong willed women.

River Heights is getting a carousel! And the town is having a special ceremony to unveil it. Nancy, Bess, and George are dizzy with excitement for their first ride on the beautiful antique horses. All the kids who ride the carousel can also try to grab a brass ring that hangs on a pole next to the carousel. Whoever captures the ring wins a special prize! But suddenly the brass ring is gone, and without it the contest will be ruined. Nancy is on the case, but her head is swirling with too many clues. Can she solve this carousel mystery before it spins out of control?

Welcome to the Finders Keepers Cozy Mysteries! When a client hires Sissy Sloane to help him find and restore a carousel horse for his upcoming anniversary, she’s delighted to take the job, bless his heart. And while their auction house bidding faces stiff competition, it inevitably ends in the win Sissy promised. But just when she’s fixin’ to follow through, one of her rivals ends up dead in her workshop at the feet of the prize, blowing up a storm she wasn’t prepared for. With the lead (Yankee) detective barking up the wrong tree and the investigation taking its own sweet time, it’s up to Sissy to uncover the truth about the horse’s history before she loses all respectability—and becomes the killer’s next victim! KEYWORDS: cozy murder mystery series, cozy murder mystery book, cozy mystery series, cozy mystery book, murder mystery series, murder mystery book, cat mystery series, cat cozy mystery, cozy cat mystery, cozy animal mystery, animal mystery, southern cozy mystery, antique cozy mystery

Bess Hooper the time travelling teenage sleuth is back and this time she has help from her best friend Eloise. When Bess has a vision of a crying boy on the night of her fifteenth birthday, she dismisses it after a few weeks when no other clues appear. But after being invited to spend a week at the home of Eloise's cousin's home, the mystery begins to evolve after she spots a picture of the boy from her vision in a frame in their library. After finding out that the boy, Sebastian Wescott, went missing in the forties, she joins forces with Eloise and her cousin Jack to try to solve the mystery. But can Bess help solve the puzzle and keep her secret?

Three cousins pursue a thief at a flea market and learn about the commandment You shall not steal.

#1 New York Times bestselling author Sherryl Woods returns to charming Trinity Harbor with this classic story of a love that defies the odds A merry-go-round horse and an armed guard in his front yard—along with half the town—is not what Bobby Spencer expects to wake up to. So with his quiet Sunday morning ruined, he isn’t feeling very kindly toward the woman responsible. But Jenna Pennington Kennedy is desperate. She needs to capture Bobby’s attention so he’ll hire her to plan the town’s new riverfront development. It’s just the sort of thing that could prove to her father she’s a responsible woman, not the reckless kid of old. The last thing Bobby wants in his life is a sexy single mom with grand ambitions. And Jenna doesn’t need any more roller-coaster romances. But in Trinity Harbor, love has a way of defying expectations—ask anyone.