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Going back to the ranch to bury her father is hard enough, but Gracie’s ranch is falling apart, both financially and literally, she has a maniac as a prospective buyer, and there is a murderous man or woman on the hunt for her life. Her plans to leave Montana after a week now seem like a fantasy and so does leaving alive. Romance is the last thing on her mind, but a certain handsome, tall, and dark haired man who turns her mind to mush whenever he’s around, changes things.

Elizabeth wasn’t born to be queen. But when her uncle abdicates and her father steps in as king, everything in her life changes. There is one thing that never wavers, however: her endearing love of her Corgis—especially the new puppy Susan, a gift for her eighteenth birthday. Susan is by her side during Elizabeth’s WWII service, falling in love with Philip and getting married, the death of her father King George VI, her accession to the throne, the birth of her first child, and the early struggles with running a country—an ever-present reminder to find the balance between self and crown.

Mary Roberts Rinehart, known for her best-selling mystery novels such as The Circular Staircase published in 1907, earned a reputation as “the American Agatha Christie” through the success of her novels. Yet Rinehart was also a WWI correspondent. After convincing her editor at The Saturday Evening Post to send her to the Belgian front, and armed with letters of introduction, her status as a well-known writer and member of the American Red Cross, as well as plenty of fearless initiative, she became the first American to report from the front.

Als FBI-Agentin Olivia Parker ein mysteriöses Päckchen erhält, ist das nur der Auftakt zu einem makabren Wettlauf gegen die Zeit. Der Absender gibt Olivia und ihren FBI-Kollegen 24 Stunden Zeit um das Leben seines nächsten Opfers zu retten. Dafür müssen sie sich auf sein Rätselspiel einlassen, wobei ihnen der psychopathische Mörder immer einen Schritt voraus zu sein scheint. Bei einem Päckchen bleibt es nicht und so kreuzen sich die Pfade von Olivia und Officer Decker, einem Bostoner Cop mit etwas eigenwilligen Methoden.