Secrets of Silvergrove
by Mitchell R. White
Secrets Don’t Always Stay Buried in the Garden.
In the sleepy town of Silvergrove, keenly observant puzzle-solver Aileen Brannigan finds solace among her flowers and customers at Brannigan’s Bloomers — a vibrant garden center she lovingly nurtured after her divorce. When the serenity is shattered by the murder of parolee Ethan, found face-down on a pastor’s fresh grave, Aileen is forced to dig deeper into a mystery that runs far more sinister than she could imagine.
Ethan may have been a petty burglar, jailed for stealing a priceless red jade cat from the notorious Boucheron family six years earlier, but his death opens a Pandora’s box of secrets that threatens the entire town. With rumors swirling around Val Boucheron, the town’s tarnished playgirl, and her enigmatic chauffeur, Trey Spalding —suspected of leading the town’s criminal underbelly together — Aileen is thrust into the center of the search for the lawbreaker.
The stakes rise when her beloved garden center is vandalized, leaving Aileen’s sidekick, Rick, injured and their dreams of floral harmony in jeopardy. As she assembles a team of eager teens armed with enthusiasm and determination, the plots thicken and every blossom turns into a lead. With mystery budding around every corner and danger lurking in the shadows, Aileen must piece together the puzzle before time runs out. Will she uncover the killer before the petals fall?
Join Aileen in this lighthearted yet thrilling mystery where every flower holds a secret, and the blooming intrigue will make you long for a bouquet of justice, expertly arranged in every chapter.
Forget-Me-Nots and Forgotten Graves
by Mitchell R. White
In Small Towns, the Deepest Roots are Often Tangled In Secrets.
Garden center owner Aileen Brannigan has finally found her footing in the small Texas town of Silvergrove. With her business expanding and a team of local teens under her wing, things are looking up. Until broken ground reveals long-buried bones.
When excavation for a controversial supermarket development unearths two bodies, Aileen reluctantly steps into her role as amateur detective once again. The victims — a teenage girl, Dana Mitchell, and a teacher, Camden Matheson, who disappeared four years earlier — stir up painful memories throughout the town, especially for Mayor Tamryn Mitchell, who has been Aileen's closest friend since her arrival in Silvergrove.
As Aileen and her teen detective team dig through layers of corruption, blackmail, and small-town politics, they uncover a trail leading to the last place Aileen wants to look — the mayor's own home. With organized crime figures threatening her investigation and her own unresolved family wounds mirroring the case, Aileen must decide what matters more: friendship or justice.
In this second Brannigan Mysteries novel, Aileen discovers that bringing truth to light means first confronting the shadows in her own heart.
A Missing Heiress. A Billionaire Marked for Murder. A Conspiracy that Threatens Everything.
When Rikele Bloemfontein becomes the target of a ruthless killer, Cat and Max of Summers Rose Investigations step in. They aren’t just investigators — they’re the last line of defense between an evil villain and total destruction. With each revelation, the stakes climb higher. The killer knows their every move. The technology is deadly. With time running out, they will have to decide how far they’ll go to find and protect a client who might be their most dangerous assignment yet. Some races end in a dead heat; others, the only prize is survival.
Join Cat, Max, and their intrepid team as they romp their way through the San Francisco Bay area and play hide-and-seek with thugs and a determined killer. Ride along as they rush to find Rikele before it's too late.
The Golden Road Beckons. What You Find May Change Humanity Forever.
The Great Collapse nearly destroyed humanity’s interstellar civilization. For over a century, countless colonies were lost — some to oblivion, others merely to silence.
By 594 GC (2947 AD), the Sol League begins to rediscover these forgotten worlds. Among them is Samarqand, an ancient planet orbiting a K2 subgiant star, harboring biological treasures unlike anything in Known Space.
This collection of interconnected tales spans the pivotal years of 594-643 GC, chronicling humanity’s return to the stars. Follow corporate explorers, desperate smugglers, ambitious scientists, and hardened criminals as they converge on Samarqand and its coveted biological compounds.
Along the Golden Road — humanity’s greatest interstellar highway stretching from Sol to the Pleiades—old powers rebuild while new forces emerge. The rediscovery of Samarqand triggers a chain reaction that will reshape the balance of power across 880 worlds.
“Samarqand: Prelude” sets the stage for THE GOLDEN ROAD CHRONICLES, a scientifically rigorous space opera where humanity’s greatest journey unfolds among the stars.
One Molecule Away from Miracle. One Step Away from Disaster.
On the biodiverse jungle world Samarqand, where corporations harvest psychoactive compounds worth billions, pilot Maeve Chen navigates between the sterile moon base Spice and the teeming surface below. In reality, she is Siobhan Hu Tang, a former xenobiologist seeking scientific redemption through access to the planet’s unique flora.
Her superior piloting skills impress Chief Pilot Reyes but draw unwanted attention from her commander, Director Volkov, and the ambitious VP Vandermeer. A desperate expedition with enigmatic bioprospector Lance Paparelli goes disastrously wrong, forcing them to rely on Brynn, a fiercely independent young woman with extraordinary survival skills and a vendetta against the mercenaries who destroyed her village.
Following clues related to Brynn’s missing father, they discover the legendary Stellaris flower, possessing miraculous healing properties and terrible side effects. Their discovery reveals Vandermeer’s treasonous alliance with Roma Secundus, a fascist military faction secretly operating on Samarqand, creating biologically enhanced soldiers.
Captured and subjected to their experimental Chimera compound, Siobhan undergoes a terrifying transformation. Now hunted and changed, she must lead her unlikely allies in a desperate mission to infiltrate the military base and warn the galaxy. As Siobhan fights to control her unstable new abilities, she confronts a horrifying truth: on Samarqand, adaptation means survival, and she has become the very thing she fears most.
So Easy It's Criminal... So Deadly It's Personal.
Max Rose expected quiet times at Summers Rose Investigations when his partner Cat left for an extended sailing trip. Instead, he lands a plum assignment from LawForge: vet six lawyers competing for a junior partnership. It’s discreet, well-paid work, perfect for filling the weeks ahead. But the assignment turns into a descent into hell when the first candidate Max researches, Abequa Stolzenburg, is brutally murdered. Max finds himself the prime suspect, relentlessly pursued by Oakland Detective Rye Bright, who seems more interested in closing the case than finding the truth. As Max pulls together his team, including the strategically brilliant Sandra Ruffini, Kesh Unakrishnan, and Ambrose, tragedy strikes again: a second candidate is killed. The evidence points squarely at Max, leading to his arrest.
A third candidate’s murder occurs while he’s locked up, proving his innocence in that instance but deepening the mystery. Released into a fog of suspicion, Max knows he’s still Bright’s target. The focus shifts from background checks to finding the real killer. The team uncovers a conspiracy involving ambitious LawForge partner Suanne Wahlmann, who hired a shadowy fixer to sabotage Max’s investigation, leading to the corrupt involvement of Detective Bright. While Suanne denies ordering the murders, the conspiracy provides the perfect cover for the real killer. Max and his team must now operate in the shadows, using unconventional and risky methods to expose Bright’s corruption, unravel the conspiracy, and identify the murderer before they strike again or Max is framed permanently.