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It may have been a ghost that led Eleanor Wilde to set up shop in a quaint English village. But now that shes established herself as the town witch, Ellies contentedly casting spells on anyone desperate enoughor gullible enoughto request her mysterious potions Selling mystical elixirs and tantalizing tonics is a pretty good way for a fake medium to earn a living. Or at least its Ellies main source of incomeuntil a villager turns up dead. The cause?...

When fire chief Jim Swopes traces the unknown disease that's wiped out half his department in less than a week to a truck crash on a western Washington highway, he knows his days are numbered--like the other victims, all of whom died, he has just seven days to live unless he can find an antidote to a chemical poison no one else believes exists. Helped by a beautiful doctor whose comatose sister drove one of the trucks in the crash, he traces the poison...

"President Teddy Roosevelts daring daughter, Alice, leaps into action to exonerate a friend accused of poisoning a man just about everyone hated. Alice Roosevelt, the brilliant, danger-loving daughter of President Theodore Roosevelt, has already risked an assassin's bullet to solve one murder. She never expected to have to sleuth another, but she'd never pass up the opportunity, either. Anything to stave off boredom. And such an opportunity presents...