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"What Grows in your Garden" is a cozy mystery with a touch of romance. The main character is a Jewish woman just starting a career as a college history professor. The antagonist is a student with bipolar tendencies that sometimes make her violent. And the love interest is a police lieutenant with a law degree. This particular story will deal with poisonings and witchcraft--so there's also a cat! Dr. Sarah Chomsky harbors a romantic view of her new life as a college professor. She has a new apartment, an adorable new kitten, and a cozy office full of wonderful books. Sarah quickly becomes an inspiration to her undergraduate students and a friend and colleague of her graduate students. She has made new friends, including a police lieutenant with a law degree who fits her mother's description of "a nice Jewish boy." But someone has other plans for her. The serenity of the campus hides a stalker with a talent for gaslighting. Sarah soon must deal with unwanted gifts, polarizing debates among the faculty and students, hate speech keyed into the car doors of faculty members, unexpected illnesses and maladies, an April Fools prank gone astray, and an unexplained poisoning. As the problems increase in their intensity, Sarah will face a life-threatening show-down. Only by teaming up can Sarah and her policeman handle the final confrontation.

Little Sarah Chomsky decided to become a teacher in first grade. Twenty-six years later, she is Dr. Sarah Chomsky, about to start her second year of teaching at Smoky Mountain University. She has a five-year plan for earning tenure as a college history professor, but the world is determined to distract her from her path. On campus, three of Sarah's students face serious problems that threaten to drag their sympathetic professor into their private lives. An American-born teenager-a brilliant student but challenged by her social and cultural inexperience-struggles to protect her family of illegal immigrants. A football star suffers a traumatic brain injury and finds himself unable to cope with the changes in his life. Now he stands accused of a crime he did not commit. And a privileged young woman shows signs of being the victim of a psychological, as well as physical, abusive relationship. In her personal life, Sarah has written a children's book about her little black cat, and the two of them are much in demand from local bookstores and libraries. Her policeman boyfriend has a distracting new job as district attorney, while his parents cannot understand why he does not settle down and marry that "nice Jewish girl." A whistle-blower threatens their cozy little town when he warns of toxic chemicals in the local water supply, and someone ends up as a murder victim. Can Sarah avoid becoming involved in these crises, or will they pull her away from her lifetime goal?

Vanishing Trails is the continuation of the story of Daisy McLaren and Jake Smith told in Appalachian Trails: A Smoky Mountain Mystery. It picks them up again during the Fourth of July weekend of the following year. Daisy is living with her small calico cat named Rescue above her father's garage; Jake is living on the family farm.Daisy still believes her mother had been murdered just before Daisy's graduation from UNC-Chapel Hill. A young woman, Keira Swan, returns to Franklin after a long absence, and she has with her an infant. Before she can explain herself, she disappears in the middle of the night. Jake and his hound dog Susie Q track her to a spot down the road where Keira apparently got into a car to vanish.When Daisy visits the trailers that the Swan family call home, she is knocked out and wakes up in her Jeep in front of an abandoned cabin high above the Cullasaja Gorge. When the county sheriff investigates, he finds the skeletal remains of eight persons, none of which could be Keira's. Secure in her belief that Keira might still be alive, Daisy continues her search for Keira and hopes that, by finding Keira, she might also learn why her mother died.