Athena Kanakeredes is a witch. The trouble is, she just doesn't know it yet. For a small-town girl, not much has ever happened to her until she wakes up one morning to find herself the proud new owner of the town's most popular bakery. And to make things even spicier, she finds herself pursued by not just one but two different men, one who loved her long, long ago, and one who wants to love her for the rest of his life. Who can she turn to when her simple life takes a dangerous turn? She must rely on her wits if she wants to survive-or maybe just a little sprinkle of magic.

Rhia Blaxwell Hart is desperate. Worse than that, she's desperate for a man. She needs a husband in the worst way. An introverted, small-town widow and daughter of a dairy farmer, she's inherited the dilapidated family business in the foothills of South Carolina. She's got forty acres of farmland, forty head of Jersey cows to tend, and no one to help her. She decides it's time to take matters into her own hands and places an ad for a husband. Can she find a husband on the internet? Not exactly. But since beggars can't be choosers, she does find one willing to pose as her husband. Only one man...

One for sorrow, Two for joy, Three for a girl, Four for a boy, Five for silver, Six for gold, Seven for a secret, never to be told. Eight for a wish, Nine for a kiss, Ten for a bird, you must not miss. The Lipstick Strangler, the moniker I'd given the killer, using a nursery rhyme as inspiration for murder, one line for every dead body, was out there somewhere, circling me. Trouble was, I couldn't be certain when he would make his next move, only that he would. I just knew I had to stop him before the deadly countdown reached ten - Ten for a Bird.

Former Fredericksburg County deputy sheriff, Jon Cavanagh, has joined SLED, the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division. As a SLED agent, Jon's new job is to work in tandem with other law enforcement agencies, in this case, his old boss, Alec Harmon. Melissa Cavanagh has been separated from her husband and children for more than a year. And time has come for her to try to pick up the pieces of the life she left behind. In order to do that though, she's going to have to convince her estranged husband that she needs him back and that she never stopped loving him. She hopes that her husband can...