Product Description: When the new house needs fixing up, it's off to the hardware store to find the tools and materials needed to get the job done―a hammer, a screwdriver, a shiny tape measure, and even a stepladder.This family outing explores a familiar errand that fascinates plenty of young children: the hardware store...read more

Product Description: San Francisco millionaire Andrew Stirling wants to sell his Victorian mansion, but ghostly music, the squeaking of a long-disappeared weathervane, and an angry ghost keep running off potential buyers. After a famous psychic is called in, she informs the Stirlings that their multi-million-dollar renovations to "update" the home have left its resident ghost extremely agitated...read more

Product Description: In this new Home Repair Is Homicide Mystery, a killer with a screw loose sets his sights on Jacobia “Jake” Tiptree, whose latest renovation project becomes a dire matter of life and deck.   Driving to a cottage in the Maine woods with her best friend, Ellie White, Jacobia “Jake” Tiptree has a challenging week ahead of her...read more

Product Description: When Maura inherits the manor house in Picton near Salisbury, she is busy living in London and working as a model. However when she returns to Wiltshire to put the property on the market, Maura is overwhelmed by her memories and longs to keep the house...read more

Product Description: Jacobia "Jake" Tiptree is deep in her latest home improvement project when she notices the man repeatedly biking past her house. His face is unsettlingly familiar, but his chilling message seems inexplicable: Blood shows up again...read more

Product Description: A tale of otherworldly temptation and erotic elation as a woman encounters a spirit with some very mortal desires. When Zoe Bell was young, every summer would bring the promise of spending two weeks in Cape Cod, where she was fascinated and awed by the big, rambling house on Chapin Point...read more

Jacobia “Jake” Tiptree abandoned Wall Street to its bankruptcies and bailouts for a far more rewarding life fixing up an 1823 Federal-style house in Eastport, Maine. But in Sarah Graves’s chilling new mystery thriller, Jake discovers that no matter what your address, the most terrifying crimes always hit closest to home.The infamous Dodd murders are hardly among Eastport’s proudest legacies. So when bestselling true-crime author Carolyn Rathbone arrives to research the case for a new book, the locals in the seaside town let her know that she’s about as welcome as a spoiled clam. But surely no one would harm a crime writer out of a sense of civic pride–or would they?Jake has her own problems, from the mysteries of old-house insulation to an anonymous caller plaguing her with death threats. But with Carolyn’s arrival, the slayings of the wealthy Dodd women suddenly go from cold case to hot topic–much to someone’s dismay. For Carolyn Rathbone’s untimely investigation hasn’t only reopened old wounds and stirred up new suspicions; it’s unearthed a string of deadly secrets–ones that a cunning killer is grimly determined to rebury right along with Carolyn herself.Suddenly Jake finds herself inescapably targeted by one of the most deranged criminal minds she’s ever encountered. For as much as she fights to insulate herself from his grisly compulsions, someone with a taste for terror has already crept closer than she dares to imagine. She’d rather die than lose the home and family she’s built–and that suits her nemesis fine, because her death is just exactly what he has planned.

Product Description: For want of a screw, the doorknob was lost; for want of a knob, the door was lost…and, from there, comic chaos builds in a series of hilarious steps!Linda Ashman (Stella, Unleashed) serves up a heaping helping of humorous fun as one big, happy family bands together to handle a series of household calamities—and save their beloved home...read more

Product Description: Their husbands were gone, their families were grown, and the future stretched out before them like an unfulfilled promise... Tired of always dreaming and never doing, Cici, Lindsay, and Bridget make a life-altering decision. Uprooting themselves from their comfortable lives in the suburbs, the three friends buy a run-down mansion, nestled in the picturesque Shenandoah Valley...read more

Product Description: There?s a killer in the orchard? and he?s rotten to the core.INCLUDES RECIPESMeg Corey has come to the quaint New England town of Granford, Massachusetts, to sell her mother?s old colonial home and apple orchard. Instead, she becomes embroiled in development plans that include her land?and her former flame from Boston...read more

After the charming Jonathan Raines appears at her home and then unexpectedly disappears, Jacobia Tiptree investigates to find out what is going on, and what his disappearance has to do with a cursed violin, before anyone else goes missing.

Product Description: Two boys and their mother spend a week fixing up an old mansion that belonged to their mysterious Great-Uncle. An ancient family secret lies somewhere within that sealed-up house.

Product Description: When a mysterious book is unearthed from the foundation of Jake s 1823 fixer-upper, she immediately sends it off to local book historian Horace Robotham. After all, there must be a logical explanation for why the long-buried volume has her name in it written in what looks suspiciously like blood...read more

Product Description: As a doctor's office nurse in New York City, Cherry Ames faces new challenges and makes some extraordinary new friends. First in importance is her dynamo of an employer, Dr. William Fairall. Glamorous theatrical patients flock to his Victorian brownstone offices...read more

Neighbors work together to repair and beautify an elderly woman's house, and have a wonderful time along the way.

A fierce storm brings together three very different people--Quinn Thompson, a widower seeking an escape from his feelings of guilt; his neighbor, Maggie Dartman, grieving over a loss; and Jack Adams, the carpenter brought in to repair both of their homes--in an extraordinary friendship that will transform all of their lives. Reprint.

Product Description: With a ringing phone, Jeanne Ray's charming and amusing novel gets off to a rollicking start that never lets up. Not for a minute. On the other end of the phone is Caroline's daughter, Kay, a public defender like her father, sobbing at the improbably good news that the richest, most eligible boy in Raleigh, North Carolina, has asked her to marry him...read more

Invited to a housewarming party at her friends' recently acquired old lighthouse on the Alaskan Inside Passage, sled dog racer Jessie Arnold is delighted to spend the weekend with friends restoring the old building until a guest ends up dead and an unknown killer cuts off all radio and telephone communications. Reprint.

Product Description: Successful real estate saleswoman Marty Francis vowed she would never depend on anyone after her divorce, and she hasn't. But Marty didn't count on meeting a tall, dark - and dripping wet - stranger in coveralls when she's trying to sell a house...read more

Bella's parent's investment in a New England bed-and-breakfast literally stinks thanks to a newly resident skunk, and seven-year-old Bella decides to learn about repairs at the town library so she can help.

Aware that her parents' investment in a New England bed-and-breakfast is going to take a lot of work before any visitors can come to stay, Bella does her best to lend a hand where she can, but when little progress is made, Bella turns to the local librarian who gives her helpful advice as well as lends a helping hand with a hammer and some nails. Original.

Invited to a housewarming party at her friends' recently acquired old lighthouse on the Alaskan Inside Passage, sled dog racer Jessie Arnold is delighted to spend the weekend with old friends helping restore the old building, until a guest ends up dead and an unknown killer cuts off all radio and telephone communications.