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Duty and Marriage in Bangkok Author: Iris Mitlin Lav When Crystal’s husband, Brian, comes home one day to tell her that they are moving from a rural Oklahoma town to Bangkok, her world is turned upside down. It’s 1975, and Brian has a powerful job with a company called FirstGas. This is his chance to make it big, going to Bangkok for an indeterminate amount of time to investigate the failing oil rig there. It goes without saying that they will move, that his wife and two children will follow, that this decision brokers no warning and no discussion. Or does [...]

Murder, Romance, Chocolate, and Cats Author: Joanna Carl Infamous defense attorney Clementine Ripley is throwing an opulent party in her strange, minimalist mansion in the small Michigan town of Warner Pier. In preparation for the upper echelon only celebration, she’s contacted TenHuis Chocolade with a $2,000 plus order of fancy chocolates, including a few specialized feline shaped goodies to celebrate her expensive prized feline, Champion Yonkers. Aunt Nettie, the owner of TenHuis, can’t say no to the money, but she also cannot bear to set-foot in her enemy’s mansion. Enter new divorcee Lee McKinney, who has just returned home and [...]