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When an employee at the local zoo is found dead, the victim of an apparent snake bite, at first it seems like an accident. But something doesn't feel right to Nora, who'd previously met both the dead man and the snake. So, before long, the ladies' relaxing weekend away on a tropical island is plagued by a murder mystery.

Nora Newberry is doing her best to move forward since her best friend, Raquel Madden, was murdered and their dream of opening a diner together was shattered. While things will never be the same, she knows Raquel would want her to be happy, and this helps guide her toward a future she wishes they could have shared. A future where The Madness Diner will be open for business and thriving! Until that happens, however, she has been keeping her culinary skills sharp by catering events around her hometown.

With unflinching honesty and a survivor's grace and humor, young Sarranda chronicles her life during the pre- and post-Civil War years in isolated western North Carolina's Greene Valley. From childhood when her father leaves for California gold fields through a youthful marriage, motherhood, and the turbulent losses the war brings, she endures deprivation, hunger, emotional losses, and the lawlessness of marauding outliers with courage and determination.

They were never meant to fall in love. Vaelira Sorevanis, second princess of the elven kingdom, is proud, poised, and bound by duty. Elaran Thorne, a battle-hardened commoner freshly promoted to the royal guard, is a man shaped by silence and survival. When their diplomatic envoy is ambushed deep in the forest, only Vaelira and Elaran survive. Hunted by assassins and torn from everything they’ve ever known, the two must navigate seventeen days of danger, grief, and growing desire. But in a kingdom ruled by legacy and blood, love between a noble and a soldier is forbidden.