An MPM Celebration

Listening: Killer Queen Ariadne "Sandy" Bishop has never met her birth father, a classical archaeologist with some obsessive fringe theories. Their estrangement has never bothered her, since she's more athlete than scholar. But when he shows up on her doorstep with a proposal she help him with some under-the-table underwater archaeological diving on Santorini, she's tempted. It sounds better than a boring summer waiting tables, anyway. But once she's there, it no longer seems so tempting. What is this mysterious discovery her father has her diving for? Who is the German hiding in the villa above the bay? And above all, what are these dreams--almost memories--she's having of a woman in a labyrinth and a monster hiding in the dark? It will be up her to her and the strangely familiar archaeologist Jim Sanchez to find a way to survive when the past starts to rumble ominously in the belly of the nearby volcano... Spoilers Below

Listening: Jackie Blue Amelia Peabody #1 A prim late Victorian spinster, when Amelia Peabody inherits her father's fortune, she shakes off convention to go globetrotting. Along the way, she rescues the sweet-tempered 'fallen' noblewoman Evelyn Barton-Forbes from poverty and suffering in Rome. The pair travel to Egypt, where they fall in with a pair of archaeologist brothers. While handsome, gentle Walter seems poised to break Evelyn's heart as she dreads the effect of revealing her past to him, Amelia meets her match in ferocious, loud-mouthed Emerson. But when an animated mummy starts taking an interest in the women, all that delicious chemistry catches fire and takes off in a mystery-suspense-gothic spoof that is pure delight.

Listening: I Feel the Earth Move When Jo McMullen gets the call from her wealthy brother-in-law asking her to come visit her sister, Jo thinks its another ploy to curtail her recently acquired freedom in San Francisco. But the more she hears, the more worried she is--her beloved older sister has recently had a miscarriage, and is now haunted by the ghostly cries of an infant. So she packs her bags and flies to the isolated island off the coast of Maine where they've recently relocated. But what she finds in the historic old home seems less like a psychological breakdown, and more like a ghost out of the past looking for something...but what? Spoilers Below

After her beloved father's death, Damaris Gordon defies convention and courts scandal when she accepts a post as an antiquarian secretary to a distant relative rather than marry her cousin. Gavin Campbell, Master of Blacktower, is scarred, brooding, and brusque. And his isolated Scottish manor house isn't exactly inviting. The longer Damaris resides there, the more she questions the confused story about his wife's death...and the more she feels drawn to the Master himself... Listening: When a Man Loves a Woman Spoilers Below