"It's the most wonderful time of the year in Connecticut, but Melanie Travis and her brood of Standard poodles finds surviving the holiday season deadlier than expected in these two cozy mystery holiday romps bundled together for your yuletide pleasure . . ."--

"Connected through time to her great-grandmother by a shared English countryside home, an American nurse tries to piece together her family's tangled history. England, 2019: Audrey Collins knows only two things about her beloved grandmother's past: She was born into nobility and she immigrated to America at seventeen years old. So when Audrey inherits her gran's home in North Yorkshire, she arrives expecting a sprawling country estate fit for lords...

"Tick Tock. The clock is ticking. In the shadows, a killer is lurking. A naked female corpse smashes against the rough ocean waves, fifty yards from the rocky shore. FBI Special Agent Tanya Stone jumps in to retrieve it before the tide pulls it away. But an eerie dread ripples through her as she approaches the floating body. The victim's head is missing.... A sinister cloud looms over this upscale seaside town. A twisted secret of deadly rituals is...