Michael Richard Plowman

Credited with both unifying China and tormenting its citizenry, Qin Shi Huangdi, the "first emperor of China, " is one of the most controversial leaders in the nation's history. His reign brought advances such as standardized currencies, weights, and measures, unified written and spoken language and transportation systems. In battle, too, he was centuries ahead of his time--creating assembly lines to mass-produce precision-crafted swords, arrows and...

Heiress Frederica Dumay has everything to live for, inclusing a gorgeous new husband and half ownership of a multi-million dollar winery. But her happiness is short lived when her business partner's wife is slain. Frederica suspects foul play, but she cannot tell whether the murder was the result of greed, obsession or both. In addition, her old flame, suggests that her seemingly perfect husband is hiding a guilty secret. Now Freddi must find a way...

A brilliant crossword puzzle editor finds her life turned upside-down when she is pulled into a police investigation after several of the clues in her recent puzzles are linked to unsolved crimes. Proving her innocence means leaving the comfort of her sheltered world and working with a tough police detective, puzzling through clues together in order to crack the case, as the two are fish out of water in each other's worlds.