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When Dinner Is Ours

When Dinner Is Ours

Nora Bellwick

Nina Park can tell where a crowd will get stuck before the first guest arrives. What she wants after work is somewhere she can sit down. When Dinner Is Ours, Nora Bellwick's third Alder Cove romance, begins with that small change of role: a woman who arranges other people's pleasures buys a place at chef Simon Hales's table. FolioRoam publishes this novel.

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Jim Hawkins discovers a map leading to buried pirate treasure. A voyage brings him close to the persuasive Long John Silver. The adventure asks a young narrator to judge loyalty when the most charming adult may be dangerous.

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The Last Door Open

The Last Door Open

Clara Bellwick

Helen recognizes the van before she knows the locksmith's face. She says Bea Mercer's work stopped her daughter getting out during a fire. In The Last Door Open, a domestic suspense novel published by FolioRoam, the space between a visible company name and a written job description leaves Bea exposed to a charge she cannot answer from the parking lot.

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The Light We Leave Unframed

The Light We Leave Unframed

Nora Bellwick

Rose Ellis wants the shutter to stay where it is. Julian Hart needs to record it opening. Their first encounter, in a room above a chandlery, gives two people working on the same commission good reasons to get in each other’s way. The Light We Leave Unframed, a contemporary romance published by FolioRoam, lets their professional disagreement do some of the work of attraction.

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Murder at the Lantern Fair

Murder at the Lantern Fair

Clara Bellwick

By three in the afternoon on the fair’s second day, Mara Venn has two documents about the same project on the table. One is an old email offering to discuss a proposal with florist Nisha Rao. The other is an agreement they have both signed. In this cozy mystery published by FolioRoam, the gap between what someone said and what other people heard soon matters well beyond the front room of Saltglass House.

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Retired amateur sleuths, a locked-room wedding murder, or conflicting recollections of a poisoning. Choose warm company, a constructed puzzle, or uncertainty about who is telling the truth.

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Ordinary lives, difficult choices

A convenience-store worker faces expectations about how she should live. An Irish coal merchant confronts a choice of conscience, while friendship at a dorayaki shop meets social exclusion. The settings are quiet; the subjects can be difficult.

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