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Black Ice
Chloe Underwood lives in Paris, works as a children's book translator and shares a tiny flat with Sylvia, a translator from the UK. Comparing herself with Sylvia, who has a comparitively glamourous life - Chloe tells herself her life needs a little sex and violence.
Nothing in Chloe's life prepares her for the fullfilment of that wish. Sylvia arrives at the flat one day begging Chloe to step into a weekend gig she has as a translator for a group of b...
Into the Fire
Nate Kincaid was beloved his whole life. Doted on by his uncle and aunt, they treated him more like a son, after his parents died in a fire. They treated him more special than the daughter they adopted. So why would someone kill Nate Kincaid? Someone had, in a most brutal fashion: beaten him to death in a dirty garage on the edge of a dying town in Wisconsin.
Jamie's mother wants answers. Jamie wants answers, too. And since the police take an apathetic...
Lady Fortune
The hero of this book, Nicholas Strangefellow, is a court jester for Henry II. But this is an Anne Stuart book, so we soon find out that he is also an secret agent for the king, with secrets of his own and ambitions for the future. He is also quite the ladies' man, and is a favorite of the king's sister.
He is sent by Henry to Fortham Castle to steal the Chalice of St. Hugelina, a religious relic that the king covets, under the guise of being the ...
Moonrise
Annie Sutherland is fast finding out her life was built on nothing but lies. Her father had been murdered. The former head of the CIA hit squad (though she does not know this), left her instructions,that she should seek out his former 'pet' James Mc Kinley...and man she thought she knew, and once even may have been falling in love with.
Only nothing is as it seems, and nothing was as it seemed. James is holding up on an island. Gone is the conservati...
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Shadow Lover
Sally McDowell is dying and has many regrets, but most of all she regrets the disappearance of her son, Alex, nearly two decades ago.
Carolyn Smith loves Aunt Sally and is very defensive of the woman who treated her like a daughter. Eighteen years ago, she loved Alex, followed him around with stars her in hers. But one horrible night she shadowed him to the beach, saw him meet someone and watch as that person killed Alex. She went into shock, and the...
Shadows at Sunset
Jilly Meyers is saddled with a old house in Hollywood area and a sister that is one big pain. And despite everything telling her Coltaine, her father's new right hand man is bad news, a man who seems to move and take over their lives, Jilly is drawn to him. There is something very still about the man, a predator watching prey. He is there wearing a false face, looking for answers to the deaths that took place in the house decades ago, and won't stop u...
Still Lake
When Sophia buys a rundown inn, she moves her overly rebellious 19 year old half-sister and her mother, starting to lose control of her memory, into what she hopes it to be the answer to her problems and an island of peace. But that peaceful dream is shattered by echoes of murders committed 20 years ago. A man has rented the cabin across the lake, John Smith, and from the start, Sophia resents his presence, resents his virile attraction and would like hi...
The Widow
Aristide Pompasse, one of the world's greatest painters, is dead. His estranged wife, Charlie, goes back to Tuscany to make arrangements for the funeral, but has to put up with her late husband's menagerie of mistresses, whom he allowed to stay on at the villa. On top of everything, an arrogant insurance agent has come to assess the estate and look for three missing paintings. Connor Maguire and Charlie immediately dislike each other. She lets him sta...
