First line: Light from April’s full moon swept over the Museum’s facade and down the building’s marble veneer. From the inside cover: Bartholomew Fortuno, the World’s Thinnest Man, believes that his unusual body is a gift. Hired by none other than P.T. Barnum to work at his spectacular American Museum – a modern marvel of macabre displays and live performances by Barnum’s cast of freaks and oddities – Fortuno has…

First line: I’m a stalker. From the back cover: Millie Barnes is this close to finally achieving her perfect life … Rewarding job as a local doctor on Cape Cod? Check. Cute cottage of her very own? Check. Adorable puppy suitable for walks past attractive locals? Check. All she needs is for golden boy and former crush Joe Carpenter to notice her, and Millie will be set. But perfection isn’t…

First line: As the clock ticked down on her senior year in high school, Laurel McBane learned on indisputable fact. From the inside cover: Laurel McBane has always relied on her hands for support, especially when her dream of attending culinary school was almost ruined by her parents’ financial problems. Now Laurel is repaying the kindness of her friends by creating extravagantly luscious tiers of cakes and other confectionary delights…

First line: Ask Birdie how she got here and she’ll pretend she doesn’t remember. From the back cover: Birdie Baker has always dreamed of becoming someone else. At twenty-two, she leaves behind her small-town, small-time life – walking out on her pastor husband and deeply evangelical parents – and boards a bus to Los Angeles. Seven years later. Birdie’s life in Hollywood is far from golden. Stalled at the margins…

First line: Mrs. Rachel Lynde lived just where the Avonlea main road dipped down  into a little hollow, fringed with alders and ladies’ eardrops and traversed by a brook that had its source away back in the woods of the old Cuthbert place; it was reputed to be an intricate, headlong brook in its earlier course through those woods, with dark secrets of pool and cascade; but by the time…

First line: The first police car went by at 9:23 according to the clock on the microwave. From the back cover: A Recipe for Murder! 5 families living on Peregrine Circle 1 flowered curtain tieback 1 missing child 1 body in the field Mix with a long list of suspects and top with two very different detectives. Increase heat until only the truth remains. Award-winning author Josi S. Kilpack introduces…