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To Tempt An Angel (Book 1 Douglas series)
Once she got an idea fixed in her mind, she dug in her heels and refused to budge an inch. The word compromise was not in her vocabulary; she saw the world in black and white, with no shades in between.And I love her.That disturbing thought stepped out of the shadows of his mind. He scowled at it...
Quest's End: The Broken Key #3
As soon as the storm broke and the roads cleared to a manageable level, Raestin decided to make a visit to Quillim to see the woman who so captivated him. He made a brief stop at a friend’s home in Wardean and now was on the road making his way through the forested hills a few hours south of the ...
A Trust Betrayed
DOD It is a World Trade Center in slow motion. —DAVID OZONOFF, EPIDEMIOLOGIST, BOSTON UNIVERSITY When the industrial cleaning solvent trichloroethylene was found in Camp Lejeune’s water supply in 1980, toxicologists had a pretty good idea that TCE was a killer even if ingested at small doses. Gov...
The Marriage That Didn't Stay in Vegas (BWWM Romance)
I reached out to both of sides, not knowing what I was reaching for. I opened my eyes, but there was nothing but darkness. I didn’t see a strip of light anywhere. I’d gone blind. I remembered that I had been in the stables arguing with Xavier, and there wa...
Shattered Dreams (Vegas Dreams Book 2)
Rae smirked and slid an attractive blue drink over to me. I say attractive because it was lit up like a glow stick. I’m not kidding. I could have used it to find my way out of a dark alley. Rae had watched me walk in and decided a stiff drink was the cure to what ailed me. I propped my elbows up ...
The Black Robe (The Sword and the Spell)
Across the river the remnants of his army waded through the shallows, their blood colouring the water with long red streamers. Men staggered through the knee high water propping themselves up on pike staffs or clutching comrades for support whilst trying to stop blood pumping from their wounds. C...
Compulsion
Compulsion The hot water cascaded over her head, her shoulders, over her body, and she luxuriated in the comforting warmth. She’d been in the shower less than two minutes, but the mirror was fogged up, and the metal surfaces in the tiny bathroom were already slick with beads of condensation. L...
PsyCop 2: Criss Cross
He didn’t seem mad, exactly, but he had his cop-face on and my nonexistent interpersonal skills were no help in figuring out if he was leaving for now, or leaving for good. He said he was just going to go figure some things out. But how many guys have gone out for a pack of smokes and just kept o...
The Milkweed Triptych 01 - Bitter Seeds
His counterfeit lieutenant-commander uniform enabled him to slip through crowds as easily as the Götterelektron enabled him to slip through a French fortress. It rendered him a ghost, or perhaps invisible like Heike. People saw the uniform, not the man within. Perhaps that meant they didn’t notic...
Temporary Monsters
He lay flat on his back in the comedy club. “Are you all right?” It was Lenore’s voice. She leaned over him in concern. “We found the letter,” he replied, glad that he could talk again. “But it was far more dangerous than we imagined.” &...
Unworldly Encounter Complete Series
Two days after Jan had first brewed the potion that made him pass for human, his communication device was buzzing constantly. She was amazed the alien seemed to be utterly nonchalant about the escalating tensions surrounding his long absence from his fellow researchers. “They are worried,” he sai...
The Sapphire Heist (A Jewel Novel Book 2)
Over. Towel thrown in. “They won,” she said when Jake returned that evening from his stakeout. After she told him about the ring, he grilled the front desk for information. The clerk simply held up her hands and said she was so sorry and she knew nothing more. “The hotels on this island need to d...
Candy Kid
But not as raspingly as the names he was calling himself. The bright guy. The kid with the medals. The prize package of the cloak-and-dagger boys. So he stood there and handed the package over to the old man’s granddaughter. Whoever didn’t want that package delivered didn’t need to strongarm Jose...
Act of Will (2014)
His death was so unexpected, so swift, that everyone was stunned and disbelieving. One minute he was a healthy, robust baby, laughing and gurgling in his crib, the next he was gone from them. On that fateful Saturday evening, Doctor Stalkley had come to the cottage at once, following sharply on t...
Close Call (2011)
Across the table, his legislative assistant Randi Rickert picked up a spoon and began idly stirring her bowl of plain yogurt. She was very thin and intended to stay that way. “Any progress with Wilgis?” she asked, referring to Langmeyer’s fellow representative, William “Wi...
