There I was going along, enjoying the prim and proper good girl trying to tame the ultimate bad boy. Of course things aren't always what they seem, poor bad boy so misunderstood and she's really not THAT much of a prude.I liked getting to know Gail and Simon. The back up crew was a mix of "just l...
★★★½✩ (This is a review of the audiobook.) Amy Rubinate does a nice job of narrating this book. I thought this was definitely going to be a three star book for me. I wanted to feel happy while out doing my errands, or maybe even hopeful... or enthralled. Alas, I frequently felt sad. Howeve...
I absolutely love this series. So far I have read the first novella, and 3 full books of this series and can't wait to start the next one. I love the fact that there are 3 more already published and the author has more on the way.The series is about a small town and a group of friends and each ...
Adelaide Davis was gang raped years ago during a graduation party where drugs and alcohol were abundant. She did not report the rape and left town as soon as she finished high school. Now, she has returned to help her aging grandmother run her restaurant. Addy is helped by the twin brother of ...
I love Brenda Novak - her Last stand series (Watch Me, Stop Me, Trust Me) was awesome! when she writes murder mystery romance she is unstoppable - however something is lacking in these "fluffy" stories she is doing lately. Take me Home for Christmas was a page turner in the worst way - meaning th...
I was conflicted about this book. Started and stopped several times. While I can understand Cheyenne's reasons for hiding the nature of her pregnancy from Dylan, I'm so disappointed by her actions. Presley has really grown and matured, even she still has trust and esteem issues. Since this book i...
This is one of two books I read from this author set in the same fictious town in Montana. Of the two I liked this the better, because the romance and main cahracters (particularly the guy) are stronger. This is a 'what happened to my mother years ago' suspense as the heroine looks into it and un...
Wow, I really liked this one. 4.5 starsThis was my favorite in this series perhaps, well they are all good. I found the characters believable. They weren't all likable but fairly realistic. There was a bit of cliche to a few of them. I cared about the main couple Claire and Isaac. They both ...
I loved this book because it examines a rarely discussed problem created with the fight against mistreating women and children. Now that women feel less shame connected with a rape, some unscrupulous women are 'crying rape' just to cause problems for someone else. Though rarely happens, it does h...
I haven't read the others in this series, but it stood alone quite well. I almost always like reversals in the usual woman is stalked or in danger some how, so I suspected I would like this one, and I did, but I was a little disappointed that it wound up being a woman in danger at the end. Nevert...
I am rating this book only from crime angle part,the only reason i completed the book was cause i wanted to know who was the killer,twist and turns kept me glued to the story.On romance angle part did not like it.Jonah-Fran their relationship started on lies,Jonah hid that he was married before h...
He's a man from the past -- and a man with a past... When Harley Nelson got on his motorcycle and drove out of Portland, Oregon, 10 years ago, he left behind a bad reputation -- and a baby. Audra Worthington was the reason for both. Well, the baby, anyway. The reputation he already had. It's why...
When the past won't go away... The Seattle police suspect Madison Lieberman's father was the serial killer they call the "Sandpoint Strangler." Madison refuses to believe it. Her father is now dead, and all she wants is the chance to create a new life for herself and her six-year-old child. Then ...
There's a body buried behind a Mississippi farmhouse. Grace Montgomery knows who it is, and she knows why it happened. She was only thirteen the night it all went wrong. And now, like then, she has no choice but to keep her mouth shut.Grace left the town of Stillwater thirteen years ago, trying t...
Twenty years ago Madeline Barker's father disappeared. Despite what everyone else thinks, Madeline's convinced her stepfamily had nothing to do with it. But the recent discovery of his car finally proves he didn't just drive away. Worse, the police find something in the trunk that says there's mo...
She was on the couch, curled up and facing in the other direction. Her blanket had slipped onto the floor, leaving her uncovered and revealing her shapely legs. But it was the curve of her bare bottom beneath her sweatshirt-- his sweatshirt--that really caught his attention. She made such a prett...
After the day she’d spent, he was the last person she wanted to see. Especially since she’d already made it clear that she preferred he go back to Sacramento. Why hadn’t he gone? What made him think he could hang out at her place indefinitely? The fact that he was still here felt like an invasion...
Opening his eyes, he glanced around the colorless hospital room, noted the IV trailing to the shunt in his arm, the dotted yellow line on the monitor beeping steadily as it showed his heart rate, and finally Jane, who was standing with her back to him at the window, as she had much of yesterday. ...
Jake asked. Riley had known Jake was in the kitchen, making himself a snack before bed. But he’d been too immersed in what he was doing to realize his son had come up behind him. He minimized the website where he’d been browsing for swimsuits, but t...
CHAPTER SEVEN JASON STOOD THERE on his porch with his back to Mel. He squeezed his eyes tight and barely resisted the urge to throw something. Hell, yes, he’d wanted her to want him, but having not told her about Rose made him feel like the biggest jerk on earth. He’d met her under false pretense...
She’d thought some chamomile might help her relax, but it didn’t seem to be working. She was wide-awake and anxious, and looking at another long night. She wished she could read a book or watch TV. But ever since Detective Flores had told her about Sebastian, she’d been checking and double-checki...
“Hello?” he muttered, squinting to see the time displayed on his digital alarm.He was pretty sure it read 1:10.“Brandon?”Olivia. He recognized her voice immediately—although he could tell there was something wrong. “Yes?”“I’m sorry, Brandon.”She sounded genuinely distraught. “For what, honey? It’...
She is a great storyteller." -- Once Upon a Romance "Trust Me is a page-turner.... Sure to become a much-loved keeper-shelf read...I highly recommend Trust Me and suggest Brenda Novak be added to your 'to buy' list today. You won't be disappointed, trust me." -- Romance Reader's Connection "No on...
Long enough to decompose completely. Jasmine wasn’t going to dig the skeleton all the way out to make sure, but the cranium she’d exposed had only a small bit of leathery skin still attached to the scalp and a patch of sandy-colored hair. There were teeth in the skull but of course no eyes. This ...
“Smells terrible in here. What is that?” Cain followed him but didn’t seem to be in a particularly loquacious mood, so Sheridan spoke up. “Salve. For bruises.” “Where’d you get it?” “Cain made it for his clinic, I think.” Cain didn’t confirm her answer or offer an alternative. He obviously wasn’t...
“I really wish you’d let me put this off,” she told Cheyenne, who was standing outside the bathroom door. “Procrastination won’t help anything,” her friend responded, speaking in a low voice so no one at the B and B would wonder what they were doing hanging around the bath...
What had just happened? One minute she'd been thinking about Franky Bates, which never failed to leave a heavy, unyielding lump in her stomach; the next, Franky couldn't have been further from her mind. When Jonathan touched her so tenderly, she'd been consumed by a passion unlike anything she'd ...
It was as if she could feel every breath Dylan took—even though she’d sat as far away from him as possible. He hadn’t said she should sit closer. He hadn’t said much to her at all. She got the impression that he was skeptical of her presence, couldn’t quite figure out what she was doing. &n...
“Why all the hostility?” he muttered. Gail came to her feet. “What hostility?” Whatever they’d given him made him groggy, but even then he could tell she was covering up. “You two act like you want to choke each other.” “So w...
The discomfort she was inflicting on herself somehow seemed...not deserved exactly, but appropriate to her sense of tragedy and loss. She glanced at her phone, which was lying on the coffee table. Maybe she should call Jack. He knew her better than anyone, knew her family,...
She had Saturdays off and had spent the morning cleaning, too intent on finishing her housework to take a break, even to eat. She was also afraid that if she stopped, she’d only start obsessing over last night—what she’d said and done and how Keith had responded. What on earth had possessed her t...
MAXIM SPOKE into Adelaide’s hair, next to her ear, but she didn’t move. “You still with me?” he said, more loudly. When her head lolled on his arm, he grew alarmed enough to shake her. “What are you doing? Wake up!” No answer. With a curse, he leaned on his elbow. A moment before, he’d caught his...
Sitting in his Hummer with the seat back, he had his feet up on the dash and was reading the paper. It was getting fairly late—eight-fifteen, according to the clock in her cruiser—but the sun hadn’t yet gone down. Sophia didn’t know how long he’d been parked in front of her house, but he was the ...
Nate said while they ran. “What kind of funny feeling?” Rachel asked. “There was some sort of emotional current between the Spiritual Guides. Did you pick up on it?” “I noticed they got awfully quiet.” “It was as if everyone in the room knew what had happened to her but not a soul would say.” “Is...
Just as soon as he could get his hands around her delicate neck, he’d stop the black heart that beat beneath all that misleading beauty and put an end to his own misery. Although Truman Stanhope, the Earl of Druridge, had come all the way from London to Newcastle-Upon-Tyne and had a bit farther n...
Whoever her customer was, he sounded large and every bit as drunk as Caroline had said. Gunther was with him. Alexandra heard the whoremaster curse and tell his companion to watch his step. Then the key turned in the lock. Instinctively Alexandra drew the wrapper tightly closed. Setting the brush...
The Vanderlund residence had the wow of the Stanley’s, but not the history. “New money,” Grandma Roberta used to sneer. As a youngster, Micki had always wondered what that meant; she’d finally realized the ugliness was about the sender, not the recipient. The Vanderlund ...
He couldn’t risk going to the house in hopes of getting Butch’s family to help. What if they wouldn’t come to the door? Or stalled? It was up to him to use whatever tools he had at his disposal to save Francesca. As long as he wasn’t too late…. Pressing the accelerator to the floor, he clung to t...
—THE ZODIAC KILLER The first thing Amarok noticed was the warmth of Danielle’s small duplex. “Hello?” he called out. No one answered him. He figured if Danielle were home she would’ve come when he knocked. He’d had to break a window to get in, but … it didn’t hurt to make the attempt to be polite...