A small-town scandal quickly turns into a national media event. Is the murderer one of the obvious suspects . . . or someone they have no reason to doubt?

Ben Jackson is going head to head with Jonathan Cleary in Cape Refuge's mayoral race—and he's even expected to win—when his wife Lisa turns up missing the day before the major debate. Suddenly the town is in turmoil as proof of an alleged affair surfaces, indicating

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What begins for eighteen-year-old Mary Parson as a retaliation against her father, the mayor of their small town who abandoned his family after suffering a midlife crisis, turns into a full-scale war as Mary becomes the lone challenger to his re-election. In the end, armed with truth, love and faith, she must work to not only save her town but her family as well.

The second novel in the Missing Pieces Mystery series. The mayor of Duck, North Carolina, Dae O'Donnell is a woman with a gift for finding lost things. Sometimes it leads her to to find lost keys or earrings--and sometimes it leads her to investigate a murder.

Thirty-five years before Barack Obama was elected President, the question of race and the possibility of bridging racial and ethnic barriers was put to a test in an overlooked and untold story in American politics: The 1973 election of Tom Bradley, the first African American mayor of a major U.S. city with an overwhelmingly white majority. Tom Bradley's extraordinary multi-racial coalition redefined Los Angeles, transformed the national dialogue...

A Democratic strategist assists a retired veteran run for mayor in a small, conservative Midwest town.

"Life in the newly independent city-state of Rosewater isn't everything its citizens were expecting. The Mayor finds that debts incurred during the insurrection are coming back to haunt him. Nigeria isn't willing to let Rosewater go without a fight. And the city's alien inhabitants are threatening mass murder for their own sinister ends... Operating across spacetime, the xenosphere, and international borders, it is up to a small group of hackers and...

Life is turned upside down for the handsome mayor of Homestead when a movie comes to shoot there in the middle of the Christmas season. And when the movie's leading lady starts falling for him, things get a whole lot more complicated.

"Trent July has been the mayor of this historic town for the past four years, but now he's ready to let someone else take up the mantle. Barrett Payne, a former Marine, decides he wants the job. But when a surprise candidate also enters the ring, the town has opinions on who would be the best candidate. And of course that's not the only drama, as Malachi 'Mal' July continues to make reparations for the damage he's caused and to the people he's betrayed,...

The mayor of New York has a daughter who's missing and in danger. Detective Michael Bennett has a son who's in prison. The two strike a deal. Bennett and the mayor have always had a tense relationship, but now the mayor sees in Bennett a discreet investigator with family worries of his own. Just one father helping another. The detective leaps into the case and sources lead him to a homicide in the Bronx. The victim has ties to a sophisticated hacking...

As the newly elected mayor of Maple Notch, war widow Clarinda Finch must lead her town through the dark days of World War II. But where she finds comfort in tradition, the town council wants new approaches to homefront challenges. Her most untraditional opponent? Councilman Ralph Quincy. The high school principal never expected to become a friend to Clarinda and her family. But, sparring with her over the war effort, Ralph finds the smart, spirited...