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Liam by Nyssa Kathryn
Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars · 22 ratingsShe’s looking for a fresh start…she finds him.Nylah Walker knows what it’s like to be protected. You don’t grow up with five brothers without having someone close by, watching your back at all times. She craves independence, and Cradle Mountain is her fresh start. Her new beginning... -
A Day Like This by Kelley McNeil
Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsWhat if everything you’ve ever loved, ever known, ever believed to be true…just disappeared?Annie Beyers has everything—a beautiful house, a loving husband, and an adorable daughter. It’s a day like any other when she takes Hannah to the pediatrician…until she wakes hours later from a car accident. When she asks for her daughter, confused doctors tell Annie that Hannah never existed... -
Chill of Fear by Kay Hooper
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 35 ratingsNew York Times bestselling author Kay Hooper turns up the heat even as she chills readers to the bone with a new suspense novel that distills the essence of fear itself. In this relentless thriller, two psychics put more than their lives on the line to stop a killer darker and more evil than they could ever imagine. . . -
Shattering Dawn by Jayne Ann Krentz
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsAn unsettling investigation teaches two deeply suspicious people how to trust in the next thrilling novel of the Lost Night Files trilogy by New York Times bestselling author Jayne Ann Krentz.Amelia Rivers, a member of the Lost Night Files podcast team, hires private investigator Gideon Sweetwater to catch the stalker who has been watching her... -
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Knock Out by Catherine Coulter
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 38 ratingsSeven-year-old Autumn Backman needed a hero. When she saw Special Agent Dillon Savich on TV after he'd brought down bank robbers in a Georgetown bank, she knew she'd found him. She called Savich, but she didn't use the phone... Ethan Merriweather, sheriff of Titusville, Virginia, a small mountain town near the Titus Hitch Wilderness, goes looking for a missing little girl... -
Chesapeake Blue by Nora Roberts
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 42 ratingsSeth Quinn is finally home. It's been a long journey. After a harrowing boyhood with his drug-addicted mother, Seth had been taken in by the Quinn family, growing up with three older brothers who'd watched over him with love... -
Quinn by Iris Johansen
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 37 ratings#1 New York Times bestselling author Iris Johansen explores the darkest corners of the human heart as forensic sculptor Eve Duncan closes in on the killer who stole her daughter so many years ago. As a former Navy SEAL turned cop, Joe Quinn has seen the face of evil and knows just how deadly it can be... -
Silent Truth by Sherrilyn Kenyon, Dianna Love
Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsIn the sizzling new adventure from New York Times bestselling authors Sherrilyn Kenyon and Dianna Love, a red-hot BAD boy teams up with a sexy television reporter on an explosive quest for revenge. Tough-as-nails Bureau of American Defense agent Hunter Thornton-Payne is no stranger to uncomfortable top-secret missions, but tonight takes the cake... -
Scraps of Paper by Kathryn Meyer Griffith
Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars · 35 ratingsAbigail Sutton’s beloved husband walks out one night, doesn’t return, and two years later is found dead, a victim of a long ago crime. It’s made her sympathetic to the missing and their families.Starting her new life, Abigail moves to small town and buys a fixer-upper house left empty when old Edna Summers died... -
CHECK by Mimi Jean Pamfiloff
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFrom New York Times bestseller, Mimi Jean Pamfiloff, comes CHECK, book #3 of the Romantic Suspense series, Mr. Rook’s Island. (Approx. 225 pages) SHE’S ONLY GOT DAYS TO LIVE. HE’S GOT HOURS. BUT WHEN IT COMES TO SAVING THE WOMAN YOU LOVE, WHAT WOULD YOU DO FOR MORE TIME? Mr. Rook, eccentric billionaire and owner of the most exclusive island resort in the world, has a secret... -
The Secret of the Chateau by Carrie Bedford
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA JUG OF WINE, A LOAF OF BREAD—AND DEATH.SHE KNOWS IT’S COMING; SHE HAS TO STOP IT!London architect Kate Benedict has barely shucked off her coat before she spots her host's aura, a swirling pattern above his head that Kate has come to recognize as a prediction of death within a few days.And she’s barely realized he’s in danger when he drops to the floor, shot by an unseen assailant... -
Whisper of Evil by Kay Hooper
Someone is stalking the little town of Silence... Three victims have fallen to a killer’s savage vengeance. Each of the dead men was a successful and respected member of the community — yet each also harbored a dark secret discovered only after his murder... -
The Librarian's Vampire Assistant: 2 by Mimi Jean Pamfiloff
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsFrom New York Times Bestseller Mimi Jean Pamfiloff comes a humorous, standalone mystery, The Librarian’s Vampire Assistant, Book 2. (Yep! It’s a standalone. The boring title is just to mess with you!) HOW MUCH LONGER CAN HE KEEP HIS SECRET AND HIS FAVORITE HUMAN SAFE? Michael Vanderhorst has always been a lone wolf. Or lone vampire? Whatever... -
Labyrinth by Catherine Coulter
Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars · 34 ratingsThe #1 New York Times bestselling FBI Thriller series returns with another tour de force in which Agent Sherlock risks losing her career—and her sanity—over a case that is more complicated and twisted than any she’s ever encountered. On a dark night, Agent Sherlock is driving along circuitous mountain roads in West Virginia when her car is suddenly T-boned at an intersection... -
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The Night Island by Jayne Ann Krentz
Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThe disappearance of a mysterious informant leads two people desperate for answers to an island of deadly deception in this new novel in the Lost Night Files trilogy by New York Times bestselling author Jayne Ann Krentz... -
Shadow Play by Iris Johansen
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 31 ratingsAn explosive new Eve Duncan thriller from the New York Times #1 bestselling authorEve Duncan is the most sought-after artist in the field of forensic sculpting. Dedicated to her work ever since her daughter Bonnie was taken and killed at the age of seven, Eve feels a sense of duty to those whose lives were lost and whose bones are now in her hands... -
Touching Evil by Kay Hooper
Sometimes evil lingers so close, you can feel it.... Seattle police sketch artist Maggie Barnes has an extraordinary gift. She listens as traumatized crime victims describe their ordeals -- and then uses those horrifying recollections to draw dead-on sketches of the assailants. Some cops think Maggie is telepathic, that she can actually enter the victims' minds... -
Chasing The Night by Iris Johansen
Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars · 40 ratingsA CIA agent's two-year-old child was stolen in the night as a brutal act of vengeance. Now, eight years later, this torment is something Catherine Ling awakens to every day. Her friends, family, and colleagues tell her to let go, move on, accept that her son is never coming back. But she can't... -
Blood Ransom by Sophie McKenzie
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsCLONES RACHEL AND THEO NOW LIVE THOUSANDS OF MILES APART. THEY KEEP IN TOUCH, BUT THINGS JUST AREN T THE SAME. WHEN RACHEL DISCOVERS THAT EVIL SCIENTIST ELIJAH IS STILL WORKING IN SECRET FOR A SECTION OF THE GOVERNMENT AND ABOUT TO MURDER DANIEL, SHE SETS OUT TO RESCUE THE LITTLE BOY, BUT HER PLANS BACKFIRE WITH DISASTROUS CONSEQUENCES... -
Sleeping with Fear by Kay Hooper
Fear has never been so close... New York Times bestselling author Kay Hooper returns with a relentless thriller that brings her readers face-to-face with fear itself. In this terrifying new novel, a psychic special agent finds herself caught up in a tangled web of secrets, lies... and evil. Riley Crane woke up fully dressed, a gun under her pillow, and covered in blood... -
Murder in the Bayou Boneyard by Ellen Byron
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsMaggie Crozat, proprietor of a historic Cajun Country B&B, prefers to let the good times roll. But hard times rock her hostelry when a new cell phone app makes it easy for locals to rent their spare rooms to tourists. With October--and Halloween--approaching, she conjures up a witch-crafty marketing scheme to draw visitors to Pelican, Louisiana... -
Pale as Death by Heather Graham
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsFrom the dark depths of Hollywood’s past The crime scene is horrific: the corpse of a young actress, drained of blood and cut in two. LAPD Detective Sophie Manning’s new case is high-profile and difficult—there’s no evidence to work with. And it’s a disturbing echo of the infamous Black Dahlia killing... -
Point Blank by Catherine Coulter
Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars · 35 ratingsFBI Agents Lacey Sherlock and Dillon Savich face the most explosive case of their careers, pitting them against an unstable villain-with a very long memory... -
Verdad silenciada by Sherrilyn Kenyon
Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsAgent Hunter Thornton is no stranger to top-secret missions, hes got nothing to lose until a beautiful brunette pulls him into her own dangerous agenda. When a heiress is murdered as Abbie tries to blackmail her for clues, Abbie realizes shes stumbled into an unforgiving conspiracy. They discover a connection and begin a battle against an evil enterprise... -
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Absolutely, Positively by Jayne Ann Krentz
Unconventional Molly Abberwick, trustee of her late father's scientific foundation and owner of Seattle's Abberwick Tea & Spice Company, was mad enough to fire her new consultant, Dr. Harry Stratton Trevelyan. She'd hired him when the foundation had needed the advice of the best expert in America on new inventions... -
Stalemate by Iris Johansen
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 37 ratingsEve Duncan has turned down the job twice already. Her skill and devotion in identifying murder victims and helping bring their killers to justice may be world-renowned. But Eve works exclusively for law enforcement and the families of the innocent, and the man on the other end of the phone is many thingsâ��none of them law-abiding or innocent... -
Sense of Evil by Kay Hooper
Kay Hooper is the brightest new star of suspense fiction. Now the New York Times bestselling author who's built a reputation for keeping her readers' pulse in the red zone delivers a thriller that will stun the senses -- all six of them. This time a psychic special agent and a gritty cop must stop a brutal killer with a chilling M.O. and an unstoppable... Sense of Evil... -
Quinn: A Novel by Iris Johansen
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsThe #1 New York Times bestselling author delivers the second book in the Eve trilogy.As a former Navy SEAL turned cop, Joe Quinn has seen the face of evil. When he first met Eve, he never expected to fall in love with a woman whose life would be defined by her dual desires to bring home her missing daughter and discover the truth behind her disappearance—no matter how devastating... -
Whiplash by Catherine Coulter
Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsYale professor Dr. Edward Kender's father is undergoing chemotherapy when the supply of a critical accompanying drug suddenly runs out. Unwilling to accept the drug company's disingenuous excuse of production line problems, Dr. Kender hires private investigator Erin Pulaski to prove that something more sinister is going on at Schiffer Hartwin... -
Marriage Lynx by Fiona Quinn
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsHer happily ever after is so close…and somehow still out of her grasp…Lexi “Lynx” Sabado is no stranger to stressful situations. She can handle the fact that the CIA won’t let her divorce her previously presumed dead husband. She can even figure out a way to legally marry ex-NAVY SEAL Striker Rheas, the love of her life... -
Deeper Evil by Vickie McKeehan, Dreamscape Covers J.D. Stroube
Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFor forty years the double murder of an elderly couple in the Hollywood Hills remained unsolved and all but forgotten. But a stranger, bent on revenge, is out to change all that. Baylee Scott grew up in Beverly Hills, the daughter of renowned director William Scott and actress Sarah Moreland... -
Deadly Obsession by Jaycee Clark
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 15 ratings”DEADLY OBSESSION is the third story about the Kinncaid family and is a heart-wrenching tale. A well-written, in-depth romantic suspense, Jaycee Clark's DEADLY OBSESSION is one of those stories that will linger in your mind and heart long after the story is over.” --Sinclair Reid, Romance Reviews Today She’s his angel . . . his love . . . his obsession. . . -
Close Your Eyes by Iris Johansen, Roy Johansen
Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars · 33 ratingsIn Close Your Eyes, The New York Times bestselling duo Iris Johansen and Roy Johansen are back with a suspenseful novel about a once-blind woman with a talent for tracking serial killers The FBI doesn’t usually consult with music therapists to solve their cases... -
Finding Harmony by Pamela Fagan Hutchins
Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsKatie’s already on edge when a dead guy shows up at Estate Annalise and shady locals claim there are slave remains in the foundation, but when Nick doesn’t come home to her and the kids from work one day, she’s ready to lose it... -
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The Hidden by Heather Graham
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 28 ratingswww.eHeatherGraham.com Can the same killer strike again—a hundred and fifty years later? Estes Park, Colorado, is a place of serenity. But it wasn't always so serene. Shortly after the Civil War, Nathan Kendall and his wife were murdered there, leaving behind a young son. The crime was never solved... -
Night and Day by Iris Johansen
Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars · 32 ratingsFrom the #1 New York Times bestselling author comes the explosive third book in the latest Eve Duncan trilogy.Iris Johansen's third book in her latest explosive trilogy starring forensic sculptor Eve Duncan takes readers on a high-energy adventure with Eve fighting to overcome the odds. Protecting Cara Delaney from the enemies who want her dead leads Eve to be their target... -
Bonnie by Iris Johansen
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 32 ratingsWhen Eve Duncan gave birth to her daughter, she experienced a love she never knew existed. Nothing would stand in the way of giving Bonnie a wonderful life - until the unthinkable happened and the seven-year-old vanished into thin air. Eve found herself in the throes of a nightmare from which there was no escape... -
Split Second by Catherine Coulter
Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars · 35 ratingsThe number-one New York Times-bestselling author returns with another pulse-pounding thriller featuring FBI agents Dillon Savich and Lacey Sherlock, and introducing Speical Agents Lucy Carlyle and Cooper McKnight. A serial killer is on the loose, and it's up to FBI agents Dillon Savich and Lacey Sherlock to bring him down... -
Secrets in the Dark by Heather Graham
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsOver a century after Jack, a new Ripper is on the loose. Following in the footsteps of notorious serial murderer Jack the Ripper, a killer is stalking the streets of London. The self-dubbed Ripper King strikes at night, leaving a trail of eviscerated bodies in his wake... -
Kill Me Again by Maggie Shayne
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsI'm not who they say I am. TRUST ME.But can she?Reclusive novelist Aaron Westhaven, a man she's admired -- and more -- for years, has accepted Olivia Dupree's invitation to speak at a local fundraiser. But the day he's due to arrive, she gets a call summoning her to the bedside of a John Doe whose sole possession is her business card... -
Kiss Me, Kill Me by Maggie Shayne
Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsShe's protected him since the day he was born. Since the day the LIE BEGAN.A long-ago act of kindness to a desperate woman changed Dr. Carrie Overton's life forever. Before disappearing, the grateful stranger had given Carrie her newborn son. When the woman is murdered, the secret becomes Carrie's alone.She had kept both it and her son, Sam, safe for sixteen years... -
Hide Away by Iris Johansen
Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars · 28 ratingsIris Johansen's beloved forensic sculptor Eve Duncan is back and now the stakes are higher than ever. Dramatic changes are on the horizon for Eve and Joe Quinn and their relationship may never be the same... -
Deadline by Judy McDonough
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsCaroline's life is on track. She's about to get her nursing degree and she's engaged to rich, handsome Trevor. But, before they get married, Trevor wants Caroline to spend the summer in Louisiana, getting to know her father, who's never been in her life. She reluctantly agrees and heads south, deep into bayou country where she meets Cade... -
Shadow of Danger by Kristine Mason
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsFour women have been found dead in the outskirts of a small Wisconsin town. The only witness, clairvoyant Celeste Risinski, observes these brutal murders through violent nightmares and hellish visions... -
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Haunted Destiny by Heather Graham
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 25 ratingswww.TheOriginalHeatherGraham.com Between the evil and the deep blue sea… A historic cruise ship, a haunted ship, the Celtic American Line's Destiny, sets sail from the Port of New Orleans—with a killer on board. He's known as the Archangel Killer because of the way he displays his victims in churches. And how he places a different saint's medallion on each body... -
It Began With a Lie by Michele Pariza Wacek
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsAn award-winning, gripping psychological thriller. All Becca wanted was a fresh start. That wasn’t what she got.Becca was sure the move from New York to Redemption, Wisconsin was exactly what her troubled family needed. A way to get her crumbling marriage back on track, and to bond with her difficult 16-year-old stepdaughter... -
Three Fates by Nora Roberts
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts comes an unforgettable tale of luck and love in which the fortunes of three siblings depend on a simple twist of fate.When the RMS Lusitania sank in 1915, one survivor became a changed man, giving up his life as a petty thief... -
If Looks Could Kill by Heather Graham Pozzessere, Heather Graham
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsMadison Adair didn’t witness her famous mother’s brutal murder. But she saw it. Saw the gloved hand...felt the knife strike...knew her mother’s terror. That was a lifetime ago. But the nightmares have returned; only, this time they’re of a faceless serial killer stalking women in south Florida. A killer she can’t see but who knows she is watching... -
Countdown by Iris Johansen
Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars · 35 ratingsWhen it reaches zero, you die. #1 New York Times bestselling author Iris Johansen sets her readers’ pulses racing once again in this relentless psychological thriller of a young woman caught in a maze of secrets and stalked by a merciless killer. The countdown begins the moment you open this riveting novel that only grows more electrifying as the pages turn, more exciting as time runs out. . -
Suddenly One Summer by Barbara Freethy
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsIN THE CALIFORNIA COASTAL TOWN OF ANGEL'S BAY, AN OLD LEGEND SAYS THAT SOMETIMES, WHEN THEY'RE NEEDED, ANGELS FROM AN OLD SHIPWRECK APPEAR AND GOOD TRIUMPHS OVER EVIL. AWARD-WINNING, BESTSELLING AUTHOR BARBARA FREETHY ENCHANTS WITH THE FIRST BOOK IN A SERIES THAT WILL CAPTURE YOUR HEART...
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