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A disappeared husband. A life up in the air. And a missing engagement ring. Ainsley Walker is going through a rough time. Her husband has walked out of her life for no reason-and she doesn't have a clue where he's gone. Then she discovers something else: Her diamond engagement ring has disappeared too. Convinced that he's stolen it, Ainsley embarks on a cross-country journey to find her missing husband, her missing ring-and her undecided futur...

For fans of Raymond Chandler, Sunset Boulevard, and all things noir... It's Los Angeles. Jake Logan, a struggling young actor with a Harvard background, hasn't gotten a part in months. A chance meeting with an old friend leads to an unusual new gig-as a private tutor for April Kim, a highly intelligent seventeen-year-old from a wealthy Asian family. Her life goal: to attend Harvard University. But there's a big problem. Jake soon discovers tha...

Based on a true story… For fans of Raymond Chandler, Sunset Boulevard, and all things noir... It's Los Angeles. Michael is a brilliant seventeen-year-old with a mind for numbers and a habit of staying out late. Jake Logan, a struggling actor, is his private tutor. Curious, he follows the boy across the city one night-and discovers the unexpected. A team of teenagers is learning how to count cards in blackjack. They're led by an el...

A faraway land. A brutal dictatorship. And a missing teacup. In America, a Korean immigrant church is teetering on brink of bankruptcy. Its only hope is to recover a valuable onyx teacup that had belonged to its minister's grandfather decades ago. The problem: The treasure has been found in North Korea, one of the worst countries in the world. Its people have only known poverty, propaganda, and starvation. But there's no time to waste. S...

A faraway land. A valuable amethyst. And the auction of a lifetime. Amateur gemstone detective Ainsley Walker accepts an offer from an elderly art dealer to travel to the country of Uruguay-the forgotten jewel of South America-to buy a priceless treasure. But it's not that easy. It's never that easy. Things go wrong, and Ainsley's plans are flipped upside down. Soon she's carried on a fast-paced runaway adventure- -from the historic streets of...

A faraway country. A desperate investigator. And a priceless missing tile. After months of unemployment, Ainsley Walker is wondering if her career as a gemstone detective will ever take off. When suddenly… A handsome importer asks her to travel to Portugal-the gorgeous but overlooked jewel of Western Europe-to search for a stolen tile with a priceless sapphire baked into it. She's broke. This is her way out. It's another fast-paced a...

I didn't want to put it down after I got into the thick of the action!" -5-star review A faraway land. A famous soccer player. And a missing necklace. No ordinary piece of jewelry, this rhodochrosite had belonged to his birth mother, a woman he has never met. She had disappeared during the Argentine dirty war of the nineteen-seventies. This superstar really wants it back, and he refuses to play soccer again until someone finds it. It's sha...

I love the way [Ainsley Walker] goes to a different country in each book and explores. It makes me want to visit those places!" - 5-star review A faraway island. An impending hurricane. And a missing pearl brooch. An airplane en route to the U.S. is forced to land on the island of Puerto Rico-and onboard is AINSLEY WALKER Stranded in torrential rain, she is guided by another passenger towards an old plantation house in the island's tro...

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A TOUGH PROFESSOR WHO'S BEEN THROUGH SOME THINGS Meet Cosmo Bennett. A map expert who was fired by the government for asking smart questions. He's a guy who needs to do the right thing, even if it costs him. You know the type. A CONFERENCE ON A CARIBBEAN ISLAND Waiting to make a presentation to his colleagues, Cosmo meets Harriet, a local woman whose son was brutally attacked by a stranger. The man had been looking for the family's precious he...

A faraway land. The son of a wealthy businessman. And the adventure of a lifetime. In Mongolia, the inhabitants of a remote village have suffered the theft of their most prized possession-a beautiful moonstone. Their village sits atop one of the biggest mineral deposits in the world, and foreign mining companies know it. Enter… AINSLEY WALKER Assigned to find the gemstone, she embarks on an epic journey across the open grasslands of Mong...

A faraway land. An ancient pilgrimage trail. And a missing tiara. Millions of hikers have attempted to walk the Camino de Santiago across northern Spain-one of the world's most famous Christian pilgrimages-but Ainsley Walker never thought she'd be one of them. Until now. A mysterious priest has challenged her to find a valuable crystal tiara hidden along the path. She's the only one who knows where it is. Unprepared and overconfident...

A faraway land. A famous matador. And a missing sword. Years ago, a legendary torero named Pepe was killed by a Miura bull. Now his son Pepito, another matador, is going to use his father's celebrated tourmaline sword to take revenge upon that same breed. The sold-out bullfight is only a week away. There's a problem. Someone has stolen it. Fourteen thousand fans are expecting the return of the sword of Pepe. His son needs to find it-fast. ENTE...

Forget the outdated concept of the deferred-life plan and postponing travel until retirement. With the revolution in remote technology, you don't need to wait until old age to hobble around the world, not anymore. Advice from a Former Digital Nomad is the result of an obsessive three-year-long international journey that began during the covid-19 pandemic. Moving from Europe to the Caribbean to Latin America, from huge cities to mountain vill...

The people were tough, but the times were even tougher. It was Detroit's Golden Era. The 1920s. The new automobile industry was booming, jobs were plentiful, and people were happy to work for five dollars a day. In this collection of all-new stories, J.A. Jernay paints a picture of a period long gone-an era of immigrants, scrub football teams, factory production, whiskey runners, and violence. There are stories of mothers and fathers, of orga...