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In this short story prequel to Paws and Puzzles: Whiskey Dog Mystery #1, listeners discover how Sarah Carter decided to start her company, move to Cottageville, and most importantly, adopted a dog whom she named Whiskey.

What would you do with twelve minutes? My best friend became the love of my life. Like all couples, we had our good times and our bad. Endured through sickness and health. Worked as a team to navigate through richer and poorer. The life we built was a good one... then tragedy struck.

Botanist Millie Whitehall is making good progress surveying an old homestead until discovering the body of a missing university professor in the root cellar. Millie learns why the homestead was abandoned shortly after it was built; another horrific murder occurred inside the cabin in 1913. Rumors of a lost silver cross, a pearl in a pack rat's nest, and an old man's dying story lead Millie to uncover the link between the professor's murder and the century-old murder. But her work at the site draws unwanted attention and jeopardizes the property of being declared a National Historic Site.

Six years after moving to Cottageville and opening Carter's Canine Coiffure, Sarah and her red heeler Australian cattle dog Whiskey discover their elderly neighbor has disappeared and that some people in their town are not who they seem. Whiskey, Sarah, and Sarah's assistant Emily Colt—as well as other townsfolk—embrace being amateur sleuths (and work with local police) to piece together clues to determine what happened to Mrs. Janice Jenkins and why.

On her way to becoming a senior partner at a prestigious law firm, Vanessa Hutchins has a strange vision that changes her life forever. On deep impulse, she ditches her career, purchases a house sight unseen, and flees the big city in search of a more fulfilling life. When she opens the door to her new small-town home, she’s greeted by a massive hoard three decades in the making. Left with no choice, she begins the great purge and soon reveals a horrific truth.

There are a lot of things you can do with your career—it's what you want to do that matters. Your finest work is achieved when you experience your own definitions of fulfillment, impact, and success. Rather than a destination, it’s an ongoing journey and state of being. Over thousands of coaching conversations, the thought and action patterns that keep professionals stuck have become crystal clear to Merideth.

DaVinci's younger sister Klee has always played second fiddle to her twin Kahlo, but all of that changes when Klee decides to secretly travel back in time to save Alexander Hamilton's son Philip from dying in a duel. Unfortunately Klee didn't read the user's manual, and soon she's risking the lives of everyone she cares about in the 21st century for the sake of Alex and Eliza's rakishly handsome (and frustratingly stubborn) son Philip.

Empty nest. Broken dreams. A single mom rediscovers her inner compass on the Potomac shores, guided by an ancient arrowhead and the captivating marsh man who found it.

Evan has spent the last decade trying to forget senior year—the panic when Faith Flynn disappeared, the lies she told the police, the secrets she still plans to take to her grave. After graduation, she couldn't move away fast enough, but divorce has forced her back to her dreary hometown. As if living with her parents at almost thirty isn't punishment enough, she's welcomed home with messages from Faith. Or, at least, someone claiming to be her. Fiona has been receiving similar messages from Faith, her twin, the one everyone believes she murdered in cold blood.

Early aspirations of being an accomplished musician that I had held in my heart since childhood were not encouraged as academically attainable by those who would know....

Iskra is committed to following the rules—the rules that keep everyone safe. But when a savage outlaw rescues her from a gang of vicious bandits, she discovers that most of what she believes is a lie.

A fresh take on classic characters, Daisy gives listeners insight into Daisy Buchanan's viewpoint of the events of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. While simultaneously remaining true to the original and adding new information, Sternberg weaves Daisy's perspective and Nick Carraway's account together, correcting what Daisy knows is inaccurate from her cousin's novel. Sternberg pulls listeners in from the first minute, and while the outcome of Daisy and Gatsby's affair is universally known, listeners still cannot help but root for the pair.

Modern girl Jillian time travels to the 1900s to meet the Wright brothers and beat her fear of flying. There, she encounters dashing Everett, who broke from his wealthy family to pursue a passion for flying—and who claims they kissed five years ago. Soon she's falling for him and facing a heartbreaking choice that could destroy her happiness or possibly unravel history itself.

Stephen, the King's only son, is bored and tired of the protected life he leads in the palace of the kingdom of Fairwind and decides to leave on an escape adventure. What follows is nothing that he expects, testing his very will to survive.

Sixteen-year-old Nicole had enough on her plate already between navigating the ups and downs of friendship with her witchy best friend Isabel, competing with her romantic rival Cassie, and flirting with her crush Alex, a.k.a. Cassie’s boyfriend—and now she’s dead. They say it was suicide, but Nicole knows she didn't kill herself and will do whatever it takes to prove it. When Nicole wakes up and finds herself on Substation Fifteen, a special plane of existence for teen suicides, she must accept the fact that she is no longer alive.

Olivia “Liv” Fitzgerald’s life is on ambition autopilot. The soon-to-be-lawyer has her life plan set and can talk anyone into anything. Well, almost anything. When her scheming aunt throws her cousin, Kali, into a competition for Southern Charm’s cover alongside Liv’s best friend, Leighton, all hell breaks loose.

Modern girl DaVinci doesn't recognize her life after a quick trip to the past turns her world upside down. Meanwhile Quintus, a swoony soldier stuck in this century from 53 BC, is set on time traveling to make good on a promise to Julius Caesar.

Tangled influences compel a young girl to hide her true nature, until one weekend in her mid-20s when the truths she’s been suppressing call her to a crossroads she can’t avoid. Insulated from societal mores by her glamorous mother and humble father, six-year-old Beatrice—barefoot in ratty overalls—tunes into animals, senses the unspoken, and thrives. But when tragedy penetrates their rural Vermont bubble, Beatrice is thrust into a world that tells her she has no place unless she hides her depth, pretties up, and falls in line. She complies.

It’s Christmas Eve in western Kansas and a snowstorm is gaining strength as Bear Bailey, a devoted Great Pyrenees, tries to comfort his beloved owner Mary. She’s in hot water with the local business villain, and Bear’s earlier altercation with this miser only seemed to make things worse. When Mary blurts out that she wishes for a different life, Bear blames himself for her despair and runs away.

Botanist Millie Whitehall leaves her New Jersey home to take a job in New Mexico. She plans to spend a peaceful summer surveying rare plants. Instead she becomes entangled in two heartless murders. Millie befriends one too many characters that she encounters during her work in the back country. Will it be the friendly oil and gas hand, out-spoken environmentalist, laid-back cowboy, charming foreign tourist, or handsome young Navajo biologist that ends up threatening her life?