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Linda Castillo
A BABY BEFORE DAWN 7/2007 ISBN: 0373692676 Mystery and passion thrive in the dark . . .He was her only hope of surviving the night. Chase Vickers never knew a day of fear. From one secret mission to another he'd stared down danger until the blackout hit Boston, and Chase's only love became the target of revenge. Lily Garrett, the woman he'd loved and walked away from eight months ago. Finding her wasn't difficult. Finding her pregnant was. Lily had always hated Chase's secret, dangerous life, but now, on the run in a dark city, Chase was her only hope for survival. And their baby's. For the first time, the daredevil turned daddy knew bone-chilling, pulse-pounding fear. This was one mission where he couldn't fail. Not when his baby's life was at stake . . .
DEAD RECKONING 12/2005 ISBN: 042520720X There is a fine line between justice and revenge . . . Assistant D.A. Kate Megason is about to prosecute the case of her career--a senseless double homicide caught on video. But before she can bring it to trial, someone starts sending her terrifying messages. Someone who obviously knows Kate's deep, dark secret... Eleven years ago, Kate and her seventeen-year-old twin sister were brutalized and left for dead. Kate survived, but her sister was left brain damaged, her life destroyed--and the perpetrators were never caught. Now, Kate needs the help of Frank Matrone--an investigator with his own shadowy secrets--to help her discover whether the maniac she escaped all those years ago is the same madman taunting her now. If she and Frank don't succeed, Kate's violent past will likely be repeated. Only this time she may not survive ...
DEPTH PERCEPTION 3/2005 ISBN: 0425201090 A killer is watching. . .Nat Jennings nearly died the night her family was murdered--and spent the next three years wishing she had. Now, she is returning to the sleepy bayou town of Bellerose, Louisiana, driven by cryptic messages only she can hear--messages pleading for her help...After serving six years for a crime he didn't commit, Nick Bastille is back in Bellerose, mourning his precious son, who drowned while Nick was away at prison, unable to protect him. But when Nat approaches him with a shocking revelation, his denial slowly turns to a desire for revenge...Together, they will hunt for a merciless killer who nearly destroyed them both once before--and is now preparing to finish them off once and for all...
FADE TO RED 5/2004 ISBN: 0425196577 After a childhood tragedy and betrayal, Lindsey Metcalf vowed always to protect her younger sister, Traci. Though the two women had drifted apart, Lindsey’s worst fears are triggered when Traci mysteriously disappears from her home in Seattle. After filing a missing persons report, she learns that her sister has been hiding a lurid double life. Having had her share of run-ins with the police, Traci isn’t high on the department’s list of priorities. And the only man able to help Lindsey find the truth has his own trouble with the law . . .Set to go to trial for a brutal assault charge, ex-cop Michael Striker plays by his own rules. Facing conviction and a possible prison term, he’s got nothing left to lose—except his final two weeks of freedom. The last thing he needs is more complications—and nothing about this case is, or Lindsey Metcalf, is simple. Their search for the truth will plunge them into a seedy world darker than they ever imagined—a seductive trap waiting for its next victim . . .
IN THE DEAD OF NIGHT 10/2007 ISBN: 0373692870 It was a night like no other...darker, longer and totally unforgettable Sara Douglas watched as Nick Tyson emerged from the heavy rain. In his face she saw little of the boy she once knew. She'd returned to Cape Darkwood to research her parent's murder. And stop the nightmares. Was Nick just another terrifying dream--or a flesh-and-blood man who would leave her breathless? Chief of police now, pain etched Nick's rough face, colored his eyes navy blue. He'd lost someone, too, but while Sara ran, Nick had nowhere else to go. Instead, he patrolled the cliffs. Nick wouldn't let that be Sara's fate, no matter how much it pained him to see her again. Together their investigation mounted and led them to horrifying consequences--but more lethal than the case was their undeniable and deadly desire for each other!
MIDNIGHT RUN 11/2005 ISBN: 0373273290 The clock is ticking…Former police detective Jack LaCroix had forty-eight hours to clear his name and keep his freedom. To do it, the escaped prisoner needed attorney Landis McAllister--the woman he'd once thought would share his life. The woman who thought he'd betrayed her. Landis had just pulled her life together. Now Jack was back, compelling her to believe in him despite the damning evidence, proving with a touch that the ashes of their fiery past still smoldered. With the law on their heels and bullets flying at their backs, could they rekindle their trust in each other and find the proof Jack needed before time ran out?
OPERATION: MIDNIGHT COWBOY 1/2007 ISBN: 0373692307 All Bo Ruskin wanted was to forget his tragic past and reclaim his quiet cowboy life. Instead, he had orders to protect Special Agent Rachael Armitage. Furious and frustrated, Rachael would rather die than abandon her dangerous mission. For even in the safety of Bo's Montana ranch, an international crime lord was out to grant her wish. Drawn to this mysterious, hardened cowboy from her past, Rachael was certain Bo was hiding something. But first she'd have to learn the lay of the land if she were to live to learn the truth. Riding horseback through the wilderness, would these two desperados go down in a blaze of glory-or passion?
OPERATION: MIDNIGHT ESCAPE 12/2005 ISBN: 0373228902 Special agent Jake Vanderpol swore he'd buried all feelings for Leigh Michaels. Until he learned that the arms dealer she'd testified against six years ago had escaped. Suddenly the memories were back...memories of urgent kisses in hiding. but after what happened, would she trust him to save her? Danger exploded from her past with the same raw male power that first drew Leigh to her former agent-protector. Then Jake used her as bait to get his man, and she'd fled into witness protection. Now a killer wants revenge. But who will shield her heart from the only man she'd ever let touch her--body and soul?
OPERATION: MIDNIGHT GUARDIAN 5/2006 ISBN: 0373229208 When a federal transport was ambushed and overturned in the wilds of Montana, MIDNIGHT agent Sean Cutter was given forty-eight hours to track down a desperate woman. But falsely accused, Mattie Logan didn't want to be saved. It was Sean's job to convince her otherwise. A former Department of Defense scientist now targeted by a terrorist known only as the Jaguar, Mattie couldn't risk betrayal again. But neither could Sean. Caught out in the blistering cold, Mattie sought shelter in Sean's arms. On the run for their lives, they soon realize that staying alive would prove more difficult than clearing Mattie's name.
OPERATION: MIDNIGHT RENDEZVOUS 9/2006 ISBN: 0373229402 Deep cover operative Mike Madrid tracked Jessica Atwood with ease, but one look at her revealed her innocence. On the run with an orphan in tow, the spitfire called out to Madrid, stirring passions he thought long buried. But on this terrifying night, the secrets of Lighthouse Point would be exposed. And there were those who wouldn't allow that to happen. Jess needed Mike's protection from a desperate community, but could they reveal the truth about a dead mother without cutting to the heart of the growing attraction between them?
OPERATION: MIDNIGHT TANGO 9/2005 ISBN: 0373228716 Deep cover can be murder...Posing as a prison inmate, undercover CIA agent Zack Devlin is forced to take corrections officer Emily Monroe as his hostage when he tries to escape with his life. But when high adrenaline led to passion, she didn’t know if she was in danger…or in love. Forced to go on the run against a band of ruthless killers, they find solace in each other’s arms. But as their search for evidence became a suicide mission, would they die having never said…I love you?
OVERKILL 10/2007 ISBN: 0425218295 It started with a case so horrific it sent Chicago cop Marty Hogan straight over the edge. Unable to put her disturbing memories behind her, she lost her job and was forced to flee to small-town Texas, to the only police department that would hire her. She's about to learn you can't outrun the past . . . Police Chief Clay Settlemeyer knows something about making mistakes, which is why he was willing to give Marty a second chance. But when her ex-partner is brutally murdered, it's clear that Marty's past has come back to haunt her. And she's the next intended victim . . .RR@H's Novel Thoughts
THE PERFECT VICTIM 8/2002 ISBN: 0515133701 Linda Castillo has been hailed as “masterful, heartwarming, and heart-stopping…an author to watch.”--Romantic Times. Now this rising star of romantic suspense follows a woman trying to solve the mystery of her past in The Perfect Victim. Despite a happy childhood, successful entrepreneur Addison Fox has always yearned to find her birth mother. And with the unexpected death of her adopted parents comes a renewed determination to fill in the missing pieces of her life—to find her “other” family. But she’s too late. Burnt-out from past investigations, Randall Talbot is looking for some relief while helping out at his brother’s detective agency. But when Addison Fox walks in, he can’t resist her plea for help—even though the cost is murder. Addison is the sole survivor of her bloodline—a line that a killer is determined to make extinct. And even if the world-weary Randall has little regard left for life, he may be the only man capable of saving hers…
THE SHADOW SIDE 7/2003 ISBN: 0425191028 There is a dark side to every passion . . .Elizabeth Barnes has devoted her heart and soul to research…at the expense of love in her life. But now-winning an award for her latest breakthrough drug-Elizabeth is at the top of her game, and she wouldn't change a thing. Until a detective contacts her about a recent wave of homicides. Cases of random violence have erupted across the country-murderous acts committed by previously non-violent people. Detective Sergeant Adam Boedecker, grieving brother to one of the suicide-murderers, has discovered that all the suspects had taken Elizabeth's new anti-depressant, Valazine. First, she dismisses it as the wild accusations of a burnt-out cop. But after another mysterious death, Elizabeth realizes that this intense, driven man may be the only one who can stop the killings…and save her from the dark side of her work, her passion, her life.
A WHISPER IN THE DARK 8/2006 ISBN: 042521138X Until now, no one has suspected the truth about down-to-earth bookseller Julia Wainright. But the arrival of six threatening letters indicates someone has discovered her secret—and wants her to pay for her sins... Ever since he accidentally killed a fellow officer, ex-cop John Merrick has been tormented by the mistakes of his past. Now, called upon to repay a favor, he will do anything to keep Julia Wainright safe. To do that, though, he’ll first have to figure out what the gypsy-eyed beauty is hiding... As the threats escalate, Julia and John must find a way to trust each other. Because if they don’t, a twisted stalker will make sure all the gruesome things he’s promised will come true...RR@H's Novel Thoughts
Brenda Castle
WHISPERS OF FEAR 10/1972 ISBN: 0709128592
Jayne Castle
AFTER DARK 9/2000 ISBN: 051512902X Life is tough enough these days for Lydia Smith, licensed Para-archaeologist. Seriously stressed-out from a nasty incident in an alien tomb, she is obliged to work part-time in Shrimpton's House of Ancient Horrors, a very low-budget museum. She has a plan to get her career back on track, but it isn't going well. Stuff keeps happening. Take the dead body that she discovered in one of the sarcophagus exhibits. Who needed that? Finding out that her new client, Emmett London, is one of the most dangerous men in the city isn't helping matters either. And that's just today's list of setbacks. Here in the shadows of the Dead City of Old Cadence, things don't really heat up until After Dark.
AFTER GLOW 3/2004 ISBN: 0515136948 Para-archaeologist Lydia Smith has spent her entire adult life digging into the past, and building a career. But all that changes when she finds herself lost in the catacombs below the city, with no memory of how she came to be there. Now it's her own past that is eluding her; and the secret of what happened to her will endanger everything she's worked to rebuild, including her new marriage to Emmett London, who has a dangerous past of his own to overcome.
AMARYLLIS 10/1996 ISBN: 0671569031 Amaryllis Lark is one of the best psychic detectives on St. Helen's, the Earth colony recently cut off from the mother planet. A bold hunch leads her from a wild murder investigation into a red-hot love affair with the rugged head of Lodestar Exploration, Lucas Trent--and no power on Heaven, Earth, or St. Helen's can keep them apart. Amaryllis Lark is undeniably beautiful. She's also one of the best psychic detectives on St. Helen's, the earth colony recently cut off from the mother planet, yet not so very different from home a place where love still defies the most incredible odds. Lucas Trent, the rugged head of Lodestar Exploration, isn't keen on the prim and proper type and, from her neatly buttoned business suit to her cool evaluation of his request to bust a corporate thief, Amaryllis is excruciatingly proper. Amaryllis may have psychic powers, but she can't read minds least of all her own. When a bold hunch leads them from a wild murder investigation to a red hot love affair, Amaryllis is shocked, Lucas is delighted and no power on heaven, earth, or St. Helen's can keep them apart!
THE CHILLING DECEPTION 8/1986 ISBN: 0440113490 Guinevere Jones and her partner, Zac Justis, are hired to protect businessman Edward Vandyke as he conveys valuable papers to the secluded San Juan islands, and find themselves caught in a web of treachery, revenge, and murder.
THE DESPERATE GAME 6/1986 ISBN: 0440119472 Lovely, savvy Guinevere Jones joins forces with rugged private detective Zachariah Justis to uncover a baffling computer crime and find a ruthless high-tech killer.
THE FATAL FORTUNE 12/1986 ISBN: 0440124905 Guinevere Jones and Zachariah Justis discover their true feelings for each other when they team up to expose Madame Zoltana, a blackmailing psychic who makes big profits on her client's fears.
ORCHID 5/1998 ISBN: 0671569023 Psychic romance novelist Orchid Adams has yet to meet her match on the space colony of St. Helen's--until an assignment with a lone-wolf private investigator puts her mind and her heart on a collision course.
SILVER MASTER 9/2007 ISBN: 0515143553 Cadence City matchmaker and para-resonator Celinda Ingram meets her match in security specialist Davis Oakes. On the hunt for the powerful relic that Celinda supposedly bought as a toy for her pet dust bunny, Davis must use all of his unique psychic abilities to try and wrest the ruby red object from the suspicious duo, keep his desire for Celinda in check-and keep them all safe from those who will do anything to possess the relic.
THE SINISTER TOUCH 10/1986 ISBN: 0440179963 A slashed canvas, a pentagram streaked by a bolt of lightning, chilling blood rites-they lead Guinevere and Zac into the dark heart of mystery where art, magic and money weave a dangerous spell.
ZINNIA 7/1997 ISBN: 0671569015 In a far-off world where lifelong marriages are arranged by coupling agencies, Nick Chastain and Zinnia Spring are deemed incompatible. But with the help of their undying love, the couple fights against the laws of society to be together.
Faith Cavandish
THE FINER THINGS 1/1988 ISBN: 0804100748
SILENT PORTRAIT 11/1988 ISBN: 1558020993
Diane Chamberlain
THE BAY AT MIDNIGHT 2/2005 ISBN: 0778321460 Her family's cottage on the New Jersey shore was a place of freedom and innocence for Julie Bauer-until tragedy struck when her seventeen-year-old sister, Isabel, was murdered. It's been more than forty years since that August night, but Julie's memories of her sister's death still color her world, causing turmoil in her relationships with her teenage daughter, Shannon, and her mother, Maria. Now, an unexpected letter from someone in her past raises questions about what really happened that night. Questions about Julie's own complicity, about a devastating secret her mother kept from them all. Questions about the person who went to prison for Isabel's murder-and the person who didn't. Julie must harness the courage to revisit her past and untangle the shattering emotions that led to her sister's death on the bay at midnight.
BREAKING THE SILENCE 2/1999 ISBN: 1551664844 Laura Brandon's promise to her dying father was simple: to visit an elderly woman she'd never heard of before. A woman who remembers nothing - except the distant past. Visiting Sarah Tolley seemed a small enough sacrifice to make. But Laura's promise results in another death. Her husband's. And after their five-year-old daughter, Emma, witnesses her father's suicide, Emma refuses to talk about it...to talk at all. Frantic and guilt ridden, Laura contacts the only person who may be able to help. A man she's met only once before, six years before. A man who doesn't know he's Emma's real father. Together - guided only by a child's silence and an old woman's fading memories - the two unravel a tale of love and despair, bravery and unspeakable evil. A tale that unbelievable links them all. A tale shrouded in silence.
THE COURAGE TREE 2/2001 ISBN: 1551667991 Eight-year-old Sophie Donohue just wants to be like everyone else in her Brownie troop. Which is why her mother, Janine, finally agrees to let Sophie go on a weekend camping trip with the other girls. But Sophie is no ordinary child - she suffers from a rare disease that requires constant treatment. When Sophie fails to return from the trip, Janine's worst fears turn to sheer panic. A full-scale search is mounted with no result, yet all her maternal instincts tell Janine that Sophie is still alive. Deep in the Virginia forest, another drama unfolds. Sophie finds refuge in a remote cabin inhabited by Zoe, a woman who wants nothing to do with the child. Zoe is struggling to save her own daughter from the law, and Sophie's presence jeopardizes any chance of that happening. She is as determined to save her daughter as Janine is to save Sophie...and only one of them can succeed.
Victoria Chancellor
FOREVER AND A DAY 11/1995 ISBN: 050552063X When Linda returned to her grandmother's South Carolina beach house to tie up loose ends, the beauty of the place charmed her, but she couldn't forget the evil presence that had threatened her there years before. Tormented by visions of a virile Englishman tempting her with his caress, she was unprepared for reality in the form of the mysterious Gifford Knight.
Elaine Raco Chase
DANGEROUS PLACES 11/1987 ISBN: 055326544X Investigative reporter Nikki Holden and Roman Cantrell, a private detective whose specialty is missing persons, become involved in a deadly scheme of blackmail, revenge, and murder as they struggle with their feelings for each other.
DARK CORNERS 7/1988 ISBN: 0553266616 Nikki is a street-smart, savvy journalist; Roman is a Vietnam vet-turned-private eye. When her bizarre new assignment and his baffling new case converge, merging their personal lives again, these two reluctant lovers become trapped in a plot stranger than science fiction and risky as murder.
ROUGH EDGES 1989
Marly Chevalier
PRECIOUS HERITAGE 1987
SHATTERED ECHOES 10/1988
Lisa Childs
BRIDAL RECONNAISSANCE 2/2004 ISBN: 0373227582 FAMILIAR STRANGERS...Amanda Smith's worst fear had been confirmed: the man she'd sent to prison was getting released. After surviving a brutal attack that had stolen her memories, she'd spent the past six years looking over her shoulder. And she was getting ready to run again, when she suddenly found herself in the protection of Evan Quade—the husband she couldn't remember. But proof of Evan's claim was stamped on the face of her five-year-old son. Though she knew she should keep her distance, Amanda was drawn to the larger-than-life man who sore to defend her—and their son—from a madman bent on revenge. Now, with only each other to trust, could they overcome danger—and desire?
RETURN OF THE LAWMAN 5/2002 ISBN: 0373226640 Wanting him couldn't be helped - falling for him had to be... Dylan Matthews had left Winter Falls a young man rocked by tragedy; he returned a seasoned big-city cop with a dangerous case to solve and scars that were still too tender to share. Lindsey Warner couldn't deny that she still wanted Dylan - had never stopped wanting him. But she was a woman now, a successful investigative reporter, and she hadn't come home to relive the past. No, if she was going to survive another encounter with Dylan Matthews, then she'd have to stick to getting her story and getting out...before she got in over her head.
SARAH'S SECRETS 7/2003 ISBN: 0373227205 Every woman has her mystery... And Sarah Mars-Hutchins had more than one secret to keep. But her tumultuous past caught up with the young widow in the flesh when a devastatingly handsome former FBI agent came to question her. Royce 'The Tracker' Graham was dangerous to the safe little world Sarah had created for herself and her son in the tiny town of Winter Falls, Michigan. Someone wanted to remove Sarah from her child's life, yet Royce was there, foiling kidnapping attempts and murderous plots - all the while disarming her with his sultry midnight kisses. But could Royce unlock the secrets of Sarah's heart before it was too late?
THE SUBSTITUTE SISTER 3/2005 ISBN: 0373228341 GHOSTLY WHISPERS... Rocking chairs moving to and fro in the night - and an inherited house straight out of the eeriest of ghost stories. These were the things Sasha Michaelson found when she arrived on Sunset Island to collect the body of her identical twin - and take charge of her newly discovered niece. But even more frightening to Sasha than her sister's shadowy presence in the old house, and the killer still running loose on the small island, was the fact that Sheriff Reed Blakeslee stopped her breath and made her heart pound fast. But was the brooding lawman's determined search for answers caused by a love that hadn't stopped with death - or by a desire - for Sasha - that he couldn't deny?
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