A NOTE FROM PORTIA BLANCHARD Boy, is Mick Campbell infuriating! The police detective is only doing his job, looking into the death of the private investigator my sister had hired to fi nd our presumed-dead mother (it's been a very eventful month!), but does he really believe a member of my family is a killer?I've been planning to spend time with Mick to keep tabs on the investigation, but lately I've been wondering, am I drawn to ...
RUNNING OUT OF TIME…After two months of protective custody, bodyguard Arianna Jackson is days away from testifying at a murder trial when the unthinkable happens. Her Alaska safe house is attacked, and Arianna is forced to go on the run with U.S. Marshal Brody Callahan.Arianna is used to issuing orders, not taking them, but now, out in the wild, with a bounty on her head and a killer on her heels, she has only one hope of making it to testify—th ...
"Is my father a murderer?"Caring for a mother with Alzheimer’s was heartbreaking enough for Lindsey Merrill. But when her mother made bizarre but adamant claims that Lindsey’s loving father was a killer, it was too much to bear. So she turned to detective Alan Cameron for guidance. Before long, the single dad’s soothing reassurances morphed into a smoldering attraction….Evidence quickly mounted that all was not as it seemed in the Merrill f ...
HE’LL KEEP HER SAFE—AT ANY COSTProtecting the royal family is Linus Murati’s job. So when the queen’s younger sister is attacked, the devoted Lydian royal guardsman goes into action and saves her life. But this was no random occurrence. Danger has followed Julia Miller across the Atlantic from Seattle.Now Linus has two missions: to keep the maddeningly independent future duchess in his sights at all times, and to catch the culprit who threatens ...
DANGER ON THE SLOPES Ava Stanton has no need for love or tales of hidden treasure—until her uncle is kidnapped at her family’s ski resort. Now she needs help from professional treasure hunter Luca Gage…the man she’d tried to forget.Signs point to a fortune hidden in the mountain, and Ava and Luca need to find her uncle before his assailant finds them. As their search for treasure draws them closer together, Ava must decide how long she’ll run fr ...
A KILLER’S CLOSING IN…When her client and old college friend is murdered, P.I. Kat Justice knows the killer will come for her next. Her survival depends on finding her unknown enemy first…and working with homicide detective Mitch Elliot, her one-time crush. It’ll take all her professional skills to ignore the sparks between them, but Kat can’t allow the handsome cop to get close.She’s seen too many people she loves die, so she vows just to do he ...
ASSIGNMENT: BLACKMAIL Stephanie Gage’s father has been kidnapped—by a dangerous man who wants to make a trade. Her beloved dad for a multi-million-dollar family heirloom that’s gone missing. Either Stephanie finds the valuable violin or her father dies. But to track it down, she must rely on Tate Fuego—the man who broke her heart years ago.Stephanie knows that Tate’s reasons for helping have nothing to do with her. And that the handsome demoliti ...
EVERYONE’S AT RISK There’s a murderer in the hospital, and nurse Tara Peterson is determined to prove it. With mysterious deaths in the cancer ward, anyone could be next. But no one wants to believe her…except for undercover agent Zach Davis. The murderer wants Tara’s suspicions silenced, permanently.To protect Tara, Zach lets her in on his secret, and unwittingly into his heart. Tara and her three-year-old daughter are like the family he lost y ...
After losing everything, Della Jackson tries to begin again as an investigator.But she can’t forget the past…and neither can someone else. Someone who won’t let anyone—even Della’s best friend, former Special Operative Paul Mason—stand in the way. As Della is stalked and those closest to her are targeted, both Della and Paul realize there’s only one way to survive.They each have to face their greatest fears, overcome the scars of the past and da ...