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My teaching career ended and my fiancé walkedout. I survived—and learned to lip-read. I grewvery good at it. Maybe too good. So here I am,two years later, starting my new life as a coldcasefile clerk turned undercover agent forthe police.My task: Infiltrate the mansion of a ruthlesscrime boss and read his deadly plans off hislips. My contact to the outside world: DetectiveSteven Barlow, a tough cop who's convincedI'm on a suicide mission....
2) The Tempted
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The frightened woman standing before millionaire Jared Spencer hardly looked like the housekeeper's spirited daughter who'd once captured his heart then betrayed him. But the moment their gazes met, he felt the same fiery, forbidden desire. Tess Campbell had come with a plea to help find her missing child. A child who should have been theirs. Tess tempted fate by going to Jared. But for her little girl, she'd face the devil himself. Jared's millions...
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"A complex look at the long-standing consequences of privilege and toxic masculinity…. Compulsively readable!" -Kate Moretti, New York Times bestselling author of The Vanishing Year
"This story particularly resonates now, in the throes of the #MeToo movement."-Booklist
Megan Mazeros and Lauren Mabrey are complete opposites on paper. Megan is a girl from a modest Midwest background, and Lauren is the daughter of a senator from an esteemed New England...
4) The Forgiven
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Naomi Cross knew evil. She'd felt its presence when her daughter disappeared, years ago, and she felt it stalking her now. But this time, danger drove her into the strong, sheltering arms of the one man who could help her-Alex DeWitt. The man whose cherished daughter might be Naomi's child. He was handsome as sin, and just as irresistible. And when he heard her desperate claim, Alex shocked Naomi with a wild proposal of his own. Naomi needed protection;...
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When a woman takes justice into her own hands, her husband suddenly finds himself accomplice to murder in this tense psychological thriller.
On their first date back in law school, Natalie and Will Clarke bonded over drinks, dinner-and whether they could get away with murder. Now married, they'll put the latter to the test when an unchecked danger in their community places their son in jeopardy. Working as a criminal defense attorney, Nat refuses...
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Families with nothing to hide don't have so many secrets.
Life can change in an instant. For Ryan and Karen Lane, it happens on the morning they discover their twelve-year-old daughter's window open, their beloved Maddie missing from her bed.
Police investigate. Suspicions swirl. A teenage boy admits he was outside her bedroom window the night she disappeared. A halfway house for convicts recently opened in the neighborhood. The Lane family is thrown...
7) Her Alibi
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When she woke up next to her ex's body, fear made her flee the scene. Now desperation drives her to another man's doorstep . . .
Savannah Martell has no memory of how she ended up next to her philandering ex-husband's dead body. Facing too many unanswerable questions, she turns to Connor Wells. Years ago, their romance burned hot and deep, and the flame still smolders . . .
But when the death count rises and evidence leads back to Savannah,...
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A woman with amnesia stirs up trouble for an English village and its residents in this psychological thriller by the bestselling author of Find Me.
Who can you trust if you don't know who you are?
She arrives at the train station only to realize her bag had been stolen-her passport, credit cards, laptop, house key now all gone. And even more disturbing, when she goes to report the incident, she can't recall her own name. All she has on her is...
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In this domestic thriller, a terrifying home invasion unravels everything a young woman thinks she knows about her perfect home and marriage.
Lisa Taylor has friends, family and a job she loved back in Cleveland. But when her husband Jeff lands the promotion of a lifetime, she gives it all up to go him. Their whirlwind move to Miami feels like an adventure, their idyllic new neighborhood the perfect place to start a family. But their dreams are...
10) Last Seen
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A Chicago crime reporter's idyllic home life comes undone when his child disappears in this thriller by the USA Today–bestselling author of Six Seconds.
As a reporter for a big Chicago newspaper, Cal Hudson has journeyed into society's darkest corners and expose the vilest crimes. But the world he and his wife share with their nine-year-old son is much nicer. They have made sure of it, creating a tranquil haven in suburban River Ridge to protect...
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Ivory Nation trilogy volume 2
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Closing the door doesn't always keep you safe...
Laura Elizabeth Clark saw herself as a peacemaker. Until the day she went against her parents' wishes and married Harry Kendall, a brilliant history professor who happens to be black.
But happily-ever-after goes horribly wrong one night when an intruder forces his way into their bedroom and commits an unthinkable crime. The police say it was a random act of violence, but Harry will never...
Laura Elizabeth Clark saw herself as a peacemaker. Until the day she went against her parents' wishes and married Harry Kendall, a brilliant history professor who happens to be black.
But happily-ever-after goes horribly wrong one night when an intruder forces his way into their bedroom and commits an unthinkable crime. The police say it was a random act of violence, but Harry will never...
12) The Innocent
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A personal relationship was strictly forbidden, but that didn't stop Sergeant Abby Cross from wanting Sam Burke. She'd thought the FBI profiler cold and arrogant-until she worked with him, side by side, late into the nights on her town's desperate search for two missing little girls. Sam hid his emotions well, but beneath the surface Abby sensed his fierce determination to bring the innocent children home. Falling for Sam could cost her reputation...
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City doctor in the Outback…Dr. Abby Hampton is the ultimate city doctor, and is absolutely dreading being stuck in a bush hospital for three months-until she steps off the plane! Midwife Kell Bevan is there to greet her and he's absolutely gorgeous! The sexual chemistry between the pair is ignited. But Abby is determined not to get involved because her life is in the city. But each dramatic medical emergency pushes their proximity and emotions to...
14) Fortune
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A mother's ultimate sacrifice...; A brother's dark obsession...; And one woman's desperate fight for survival...;
Something dark and dangerous had long shadowed Skye Dearborn's life. She had seen the fear of it in her mother's eyes. It was there, locked in her memories of blood spilling across a gleaming floor. In the sound of her own screams. And in the terror she'd felt the night her mother disappeared.
Then fortune smiled on Skye. With help she...
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Many women went missing outside Mystic Glades. She escaped. When he took the job, Zack Scott heard about the horrors waiting in the swamp. So when Kaylee Brighton dashed into the road like the devil was on her tail, the new police chief gave her a safe place to recover. Imprisoned for months, Kaylee could lead Zack to her captor. Though Zack swore to protect her, only Kaylee knew the darkness that awaited them if she returned. She couldn't begin to...
16) Dead Run
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"I'm in trouble, Liz. I've uncovered something....; They're watching....;"
That panicked message on her answering machine is the last time Liz Ames hears from her sister Rachel, pastor of Paradise Christian Church in Key West, Florida.
Compelled to uncover the truth about her sister's disappearance, she heads to Key West. Within hours of her arrival a successful banker jumps to his death. Then a teenage girl whom Rachel was counseling is found brutally...
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The case that's haunted one FBI profiler for years may have finally met its match in a sexy-;and dedicated-;detective...;
When FBI profiler Isabella Cortez finds a stranger outside her office, she's in trouble. Because even though Detective Logan Greer is one of the good guys, their instant attraction is a serious distraction. Ella's got one mission: to find the criminal who hurt her friend and drove her to become a profiler. But Logan's appeal...
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When the wind blows the cradle will rock.
When Sarah Taylor-Cox wakes up to find her beloved baby not in his cot, her whole body starts to shake. Someone has been sending her threatening notes, and now her precious boy is in danger. Who has taken him, what do they want and how far will they go to destroy Sarah's life?
Time has run out. She must confront the past once and for all. The only question is, will she and her baby survive, or are the consequences...
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To catch a serial killer and exonerate his father, an FBI Agent must reconnect with a beautiful criminal psychologist in this tense romantic thriller.
Ethan Barrow's father was the most brilliant FBI profiler of all time-until he became a suspect in the murders he investigated. Now he's in a psychiatric ward, and Ethan is an Special Agent determined to clear his name. When Ethan finds evidence that the Twilight Killer is still at large, it leads...
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Sometimes secrets are better left in the past
Renowned anthropologist Catherine March fears she's the biological daughter of a convicted serial killer. Tormented for years by nightmares and vague memories, she'd make a deal with the devil to investigate her mysterious adoption. Nick LaSalle eagerly takes the case, determined to prove someone is willing to kill to keep Catherine's past buried. But when the evidence hits too close to Nick's home, he...
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