inheritance and succession

Cassie Simon moves back to the little town were her mother was born and attempts to unravel the family myths about her mother's death.

Belgian detective Hercule Poirot attempts to prove the innocence of Elinor Carlisle after she is charged with the double murder of her Aunt Laura and Mary Welman, her rival for the affections of Roderick Welman.

Naruto is thrilled, at first, to be hired on to protect his favorite actress, Yukie Fujikaze, while she works on the set of her most recent movie, but when a arctic set location is announced Yukie disappears, leaving Naruto to go off in search for her.

Lady Firebird Angelo Caldwell returns to her homeland to help trap an assassin who is threatening the messianic Caldwell bloodline.

When his wealthy uncle, a champion bridge player who has lost his vision, asks seventeen-year-old Alton to be a cardturner for him, Alton has no idea how much he will ultimately learn from his eccentric relative. Includes appendix by Syd Fox with information about bridge.

An unexpected legacy from the father who deserted her as a baby starts Jenny on a dangerous search for answers to questions concerning her father, his death, and her own future.

A young boy enjoys drinking his cocoa from a special cup that has been passed down through several generations of his family.

In late nineteenth-century Maine, isolated, eleven-year-old Clara Dooley gains a friend and uncovers a magical secret that changes her life when she learns to care for the once-feared birds in the aviary attached to the Glendoveer mansion where she lives.

Runaway Eve, having agreed to impersonate a girl named Aurora who disappeared three years earlier in order to help her cousins gain her inheritance, is haunted by the ghost of Aurora's best friend, who died on the night she went missing, and races against time to find out what really happened to Aurora and stop a killer from claiming her as a victim.