I'm giving this one three stars because it was enjoyable. However, it was very predictable, though well written. I knew immediately the killer and how the love interest would develop. Had it not been for these two things, I probably would have given it four stars because I really liked Kendra. Bu...
Not a favorite by this author. It couldn't catch or keep my interest. It was my first Krewe Hunters book, and I didn't like it. The beginning dragged on forever with civil war world building. Don't get me wrong, I love the author's ties to history in her books. However, here she took a wrong turn...
Heather Graham is a writer I favor. Her books are a combination of supernatural, romance, mystery and historic fiction. This book is one of her trilogy, Bone Island.The story is a very interesting one in that Ms. Graham offers a lot of the Island's history concerning pirates and the ghosts of pi...
Second in the Bone Island Trilogy. Intriguing ghost and pirate mystery of Mad Miller and Kitty Cutlass set in Key West and off of the Bahamas. Theories on mysterious disappearing ships. Bartholomew was back, but I was not as intrigued with Sean and Vanessa. It was still a good read, just not as f...
Christmas time in Rhode Island is beautiful , or so Caer had been told, she was spending time with strangers far from her native Ireland. She was there to nurse Sean O'Riley back to health and keep him safe. His partner and friend Eddie has gone missing, foul play is thought of and precautions ar...
Readers of paranormal/horror will probably like this book more than I did. The writing is crisp and taut, the red herring had me guessing the identity of the killer incorrectly, but I thought the revelation of the killer was insufficiently set up earlier in the book. The ghost element didn't add ...
Chloe Marin was a teenager when her life changed forever. While at a party at a friend's house in Miami, killers came in to the house and massacred all her friends in their sleep with the exception of three~Victoria, Jared, and Brad. The four who survived are the only ones who had a chance to ca...
När Jack The Rippers dyker upp och börjar mörda igen efter 100 år sätts New York i skräck. Polisen Jude Crosby får lov att ta hand om fallet, men tvingas få med sig paranormala utredningsgruppen Krewe of Hunters. Först ut är Whitney Tremont, film makerskan. Konstigt nog har dom bara varit i varan...
I can almost always count on a great read in this series and this book was no disappointment. The setting of this story is in the special effects that go into movies. I super enjoyed historical backdrop with the history of the movie theatre - Heather Graham kept the erie suspense going with the c...
The book Home in Time for Christmas was not very interesting. It looked like a really good book. But it was a really disappointing book once you get into the book it is a real disappointment. I didn’t like how it related to the Catholic Church. I feel like they have never been to a church in ...
Melody is on her way home for Christmas when she hits a man who appears out of thin air in the road in front of her. Rather than take him to the hospital, she takes him home with her, and he claims it is his home and that he is a revolutionary war patriot. Melody refuses to believe he is a time t...
I tend to be hit-and-miss with Heather Graham's books, but I really enjoyed this one!Ten years ago, as a teenager, Chloe was one of just a few teenagers at a house party in the Florida Keys to survive a horrific massacre by cult-members who ultimately took their own lives.Chloe grows up to become...
I liked this entry in the Krewe series. I like how Ms. Graham focused on a few select Krewe members. There were many supporting characters in this novel and I think that if we had the entire Krewe, things could have gotten confusing. Glad to see Agent Jane Everett take center stage here. She prov...
This is the last book of the Flynn Brothers trilogy by Heather Graham, but the first one I read. As always, the storyline was neat and detailed, the characters well fleshed out and the locations described extensively and vividly.Deadly Gift is based in Rhode Island essentially, with a short inte...
4.0 out of 5 stars Held my interest, February 23, 2014 This review is from: The Night Is Alive (Krewe of Hunters) This was my first book by Heather Graham in this series. The Night Is Alive" performed by Luke Daniels on CD.This story focuses on a grand-daughter, Abby, and her grand-father...
And again... so much to like about these characters and this series! I just wish the author wasn't so patterned in her approach to the story. While the details of the mystery and the ghosts are fresh, the pattern makes the books feel too familiar and trite, which takes away the fun and overall en...
Olivia Gordon is seeing ghosts: one of them is a Civil War general, Rufus Cunningham. The other is her employer, Marcus Danby, whose body is in front of her ... while his ghost is tapping her on the shoulder.Thus begins "The Night is Forever."Set on a fictional equine-assisted therapy facility ...
Great as the other two, Bartholomew finally passed on, the story-line was A class loved the whole trilogy, thou he wasn't much help in the stories i believe it just gave that mystique sense to the books none of the ghost in any of the three books did any thing major which is has it should be.but ...
I really love this book! I have a great love and passion for animals. I am thrilled this book was not only about ghosts and mystery, which I love as well, but about helping animals and people. I have always wanted to work for an equine place that helps to with children and adults with problems. T...
I've read a couple of Heather Graham's books that focus on Salem and they both have drawn me in wholeheartedly. The way the author describes the city, the people and the time of year that the book's set in, it makes you want to plan a vacation there and experience it yourself. The mystery, twist ...
This story deals with perceived slight and mass-induced accusations just for being different. Thankfully, there is usually at least one person out there standing up to bullies and determined to find out the truth, no matter what.This adventures is based in Salem - where else could it be? - and w...
I admit I like free shit. I also admit I’m not entirely rational in my thought process. For example, I happily hand over my Bouchercon and Left Coast Crime Conference fees and feel like I’ve won the lottery when I receive a bag filled with books. Seriously, this ends up being one of the major hig...
I am torn with these books. I love the history aspect of them, being set during the civil war, and this book partially takes place in Harper's Ferry, a town I have been in so I am familiar with the setting but I am unable to get into her vampire books as much as I can her other books. I did enjo...
Thought it was a good book however, being a huge True Blood fan of course I thought it was kind of a spoof off of the show although taking place almost hundreds of years before. Almost like the beginning of vampires. Thought the ending could have been a little more interesting, I felt like the wh...
3 ½ StarsBride of the Night is a paranormal romance set during The Civil War. Our main characters Tara and Finn are both half-blood vampires (human mother, vampire father). Tara had never met anyone like her before, she suspected there were more of her kind but had never encountered one until th...
Her Life Depended on It. Or at least her future as an aspiring young journalist. That was the only reason Katie Hudson would confront the man she'd always resented. Her in-depth interview with Kent Hart, super receiver for the Sarasota Saxons, turned into a series of threatening encounters,each o...
I was having a little difficulty deciding on 3 or 4 stars for this book. I leaned towards the four because, for me it was an easy and fast read. Once I reached the middle of the book, I finished the rest in almost one sitting, and the whole book in a 24 hour period. It kept my interest and I like...
I honestly think I've found a new favorite author, and I've only read her older books. Only a few. Wow, I'll be in things to read for a long time to come.Ahem.Moira Kelly produces and hosts a travel show on a cable network. She's a busy woman trying to maintain a life, so when her family--Irish t...
This is the second novel that is centered around Valentine Valley, a soap opera. Normally, I love Heather Graham's characters and her writing but this one was hard for me to get into, mostly because I disliked the main character, Serena. Yes, I understand that she was trying to show her as a spo...
She was his deffiant captive.With her flame gold-hair and azure eyes, Skye Kinsdale was a prize beyond compare. Betrothed to a lord she'd never met, she set sail for America sworn to reject him on sight until the infamous pirate Silver Hawk seized her ship and banished all other men from her life...
TWO BOLD WARRIORS, TWO PROUD LANDS, UNITED BY PASSION—AND REVENGE. . . . PRINCE OLAF OF NORWAY—Lord of the Wolves, the golden Viking warrior who came in his dragon ship to forge a great kingdom in the Emerald Isle. PRINCESS ERIN—Daughter of the Irish High King, the ebony-haired beauty who swore...
Buried under the ocean, deep within the Bermuda Triangle, lies a treasure worth killing for. Having already lost two men in her life to the lure of the bounty beneath the sea, Samantha Carlyle wants nothing to do with treasure hunts. She wants to be left in peace to run her dive resort on Seafir...
Gosh, I'm wondering how this book got 4 stars. But then we are all different. This was my first (and last) Heather Graham.This book had every device of a soap opera. Nothing happened for 50 pages at a time except one person having sex with another or the others trying to figure out who was shacki...
The woods have always been full of whispers in Transylvania, of terrors that go back centuries to the legendary Vlad Dracul himself. Ignoring their professor's grave warning—beware those who would prey upon the innocent—several visiting students travel into the forest and disappe...
And One Rode West is one of Graham’s earlier novels and the third in her Civil War series. (No, it is not necessary to read these in order, since each novel follows a different member of the same family.) The novel opens in the early days after the Civil War has ended and Reconstruction is rava...
HER REBEL SPIRIT DEFIED HIS YANKEE SOUL She was velvet and silk, emerald eyes and sunstruck hair, Kiernan Miller had married one man to protect her from another. She hated Jesse Cameron with a fierce passion. But she was a widow now, and he was the enemy at her door, come with weapons of fire to...
When private investigator Dane Whitelaw discovers he is being set up to take the fall for the murder of his former lover, Sheila, he teams up with Sheila's best friend, Kelsey Cunningham, to discover the truth.
note: Shannon Drake and Heather Graham are pen names for the same author.Drake researched her own family's roots in Scotland all the way back to the Middle Ages for this new series, which explores the history and lore of the 12th-century war of the Highlands.In the days when Scotland lay under si...
His family murdered and his heart hardened by hate, Sir Arryn Graham had come to seek revenge against Kinsey Darrow for his bloody deeds against the Highland rebels. And he d do it by claiming Darrow's bride, Kyra, for his own. But in the tangled gold of her hair and the emerald of her eyes, Arry...
MIRROR, MIRROR, ON THE WALL...Men! If they aren't accusing Lady Maggie Graham of witchcraft or murder, they're marrying her off to old men who drop dead at the altar. And now she's going to have to save her unruly stepdaughter from a band of thieving, lustful street ruffians (men, again) with the...
Her wild spirit made him crave her... Her firebrand—hair blazed as glorious as a sunrise. Her long limbs promised the sweet mysteries of the night. Rhiannon, King Alfred’s favorite niece, was enraged when her uncle sealed an alliance of war by pledging her to Eric, the towering golden-haired pri...
Private investigator Quinn O'Casey thinks Lara Trudeau's overdose is a simple case of death by misadventure--until he goes undercover at the Moonlight Sonata dance studio and discovers that everyone who knew the accomplished dancer had good reason to want her dead. Shannon Mackay is equally suspi...
Great Viking Romance!This is the third in Graham's excellent Viking trilogy. Set in 9th century Ireland (Eire), England and the north coast of France, the trilogy tells the stories of Prince Olaf of Norway, the first Lord of the Wolves, and his bride, Princess Erin, daughter of the Irish High Kin...
HE IS A MAN POSSESSED—BY A WOMAN WHOSE BEAUTY DRIVES MEN TO MADNESS. If there was ever a devil who could lure and seduce the innocent, Lord Sloan Treveryan is that man. Captain of the Sea Hawk and bound to the king’s business, Treveryan may be a lord but he is no gentleman. Yet even he cannot...
DEFIANT BRIDE From the first time Jasmine's eyes met those of Lord Jamie Cameron in a smoky British inn, theirs was the wrong kind of attraction -- not gentle, slow, and easy, but hot, hard, and all-consuming. The illegitimate daughter of an actress and a duke, Jassy had dreams no man could wenc...
HE KNEW HE WOULD MOVE HEAVEN AND EARTH TO HAVE HER Gayle Norman was too savvy to believe in love at first sight. And yet Brent McCauley, the brilliant artist, was irresistable. Within a month they were married. It was all so wonderful...so perfect... almost too good to be true. But when their bri...
The restless spirit of Beau Kidd, the original detective - and chief suspect - in the investigation of the Interstate Killer murders from 15 years ago, has been inadvertently summoned by Christina Hardy through a Ouija board. After a new murder takes place, Beau seeks Christmas help to clear his ...
While on a perilous mission to rescue Blair Morgan--an American woman--from a war-torn Central American country, special agent Craig Taylor and Blair are hurled into a world of political intrigue and betrayal as their passion for each other grows.
It was tragic enough dying on Christmas Eve...but what on earth are Cathy and Don Angel doing in a bar in Boston, MA. with an archangel, a rule manual and a seemingly impossible mission? It begins when the thirty-something Angels leave New York in a rush of traffic, headed for Connecticut and the...
When he appeared on his stallion, galloping over the hot sands, seizing her and sweeping her into a luxuriously carpeted tent in the oasis, Alex Randall wasn't afraid. She was furious. And her fury grew when she found he was no brigand but Dan D'Alesio, the renowned journalist and film maker.Blac...
She desired him above all others...Would he now be her executioner? — Lady Gwyneth Macleod has staked her fortune and her reputation to help Mary, Queen of Scots take her rightful place on the throne. But her struggle to guide the reckless, defiant queen has put her at perilous odds with Rowan Gr...
A delightful duo of contemporary romances. In A Season for Love, Ronnie lives a lonely married life on a South Carolina estate. When Ronnie falls in love with another man and he angrily discovers her marriage, will she reveal the sad truth or lose her lover forever? In Quiet Walks the Tiger, Sl...
Jon and Julie Radcliff are facing the last Christmas of a marriage in trouble. The love they once shared has been tattered by time and torn apart by divergent goals. Their teenagers, Christie and Jordan, are rebellious, and their youngest child, six-year-old Ashley, is showing the hurt and confus...
Like a hero out of the Old West, he rode out of nowhere to save her from losing everything she owned. But from the moment Kane Montgomery swept into her life, Martine Galway was lost. In his arms she felt wild abandon, even as she wondered about this mystery man who so quickly took over her life....
It splashed as it landed, then appeared almost to fly as it raced around the lagoon, thrusting itself out of the water with the power of its fins and flukes, all the while staring straight at Lara Mayhew. The dolphin emitted a chattering sound, something delightfully akin to laughter.  ...
He wasn’t a by-the-book guy in the sense that Marty was; he was by nature careful and thoughtful. He made sure he knew what he was doing, and when he chose a direction and moved forward, he always had a reason. This was crazy. He wasn’t a therapist....
Jackson said they should go by instinct in Gettysburg that night and to get some rest for the days to come. They should do whatever Meg thought they needed to that might lead them to the whereabouts of Lara Mayhew. When they stopped at his house to pick up Killer, Matt too...
Trying to communicate.It’s just human nature, I suppose. We so badly want to know what lies beyond the world in which we live and breathe, but we’re also terrified of that knowledge. It’s so much easier to opt for denial, to pretend that we’re immortal. That other people die, not us.Even people w...
Allyssa thought about telling him that she would feel more at home if he would let her share a little of the work that went with the place, but she decided it would be tactful to wait—and not appear as if she was attempting to take over the castle. Darryl had old-world ways, some of which were ve...
Everyone seemed to think that the rougarou had awakened, so they were all staying armed and close to home.“I’m going to have a bunch of shot-up tourists on my hands soon enough,” Deerfield said, looking a bit like a disgruntled bulldog.They saved Selena Duarte for the next to the last and planned...
He’d helped build the house, he’d lived the dream of its creation with his brother, and to this day he loved it. They’d planned to build another together. One that would be his home. Though they’d both grown up for the most part among the peoples who had traveled into Florida and become Seminoles...
That irritated him. Greatly. He was thirty-two, a veteran of foreign action and a professional who trekked through the wilds and jungles of the world. He was not supposed to jump at the sound of a silly girl’s scream. Of course, it had been stupid t...
Captain Craig Beckett applauded, watching as Andrew Morton, a businessman from Key West and a good friend, reeled in a giant blue marlin, a magnificent fish in truth. “What a fine beauty! You’ve done yourself proud, Andrew!” “Couldn’t have done it with the expertise of your young friend there!” M...
Their first business on board after walking every deck, including the holds and areas passengers never saw, was to go through the ship’s passenger and crew screening. There was a page for every passenger and crew member on board, including a photograph and information regarding citizenship and me...
Heartbreaking beauty, for she was gone. There was no hope of resuscitation; she was as pale as the snow-white sheets upon which she rested. Her hair was sable brown, the color of soft fur. Her lips had been highlighted with a rich shade of red, and her features were as del...
Scarlet jumped up to greet Diego, her smile wide and welcoming. Then the unknown man turned around, and even before Scarlet reached him, Diego froze. The man appeared to be flesh and blood. But, he wasn’t. He couldn’t be. “Da...
Kelsey told Hannah. “I don’t own a gun,” Hannah said. “And I’m not giving you one—not right now, anyway. But you need to learn how to use one in case there’s ever a need.” Once, Hannah thought, she would have argued. She’d ne...
Adam Harrison said over the phone. Adam never did waste time with pleasantries over the phone, Caleb thought. No “Hey, how are you settling in? Good trip?”In person, Adam Harrison—Caleb’s boss and CEO of Harrison Investigations—was charming. One of the most dignified and courteous men who had eve...
I mean, Key West is famous for the unusual person here and there, for some great ghost stories and history. Anything that hints of devil worship and the like, though—that’s unusual. But then again, I think it might all have had to do with the fact that Key West went into the spiritualism craze al...
But when they reached the docks, she found that Tyler had gotten Will’s keys to the rented Honda, and they could leave whenever they were ready. Alan King and the film crew would bring Sean and Will back. “Want to watch them unload?” Tyler asked Kat as they looked at the s...
But it hardly took a brilliant mind to know that. The trick was in figuring out what they meant. Were they a straightforward indication that witchcraft was involved, or were they a cold-blooded attempt to cast suspicion on the innocent Wiccan community? Jenna had looked at...
Aidan asked Mo as she returned to the car with Rollo. “There’s the large metal headless horseman by the bridge,” Mo said. “But that one’s huge. You’d need several people to get a head on top of it. And there’s one at the entrance to the village set up specifically for Hall...
Something had gone terribly wrong. For a moment David sat in stunned silence, listening to the absolute nothing that surrounded him in the pitch darkness. Then he heard a chair scraping against the floor. John Seymore. The man was up, and Alex was sleeping on a cot just feet away. Seymore could b...
Thank God for champagne.She also managed to miss dinner. By the time they landed, she was starving. She exited with David right behind her, making no attempt to help her with her overnight bag or jacket. He followed her step for step, and he was right behind her when they reached the car rental d...
1953) is one of the country’s most prominent authors of romance, suspense, and historical fiction. She has been writing bestselling books for nearly three decades, publishing more than 150 novels and selling more than seventy-five million copies worldwide. Born in Florida to an Irish mother and a...
The moonlight danced upon the dark waves of her hair, which had been loosened to form a glorious cloak around her shoulders. She was still, perfectly still, as if she didn’t even breathe, and the glow upon her skin gave it the cast of silken cream alabaster. In the darkness her eyes were prisms o...
May 28 The Templeton house was ablaze with lights. Chinese lanterns were strewn all around the gardens and the lawns. The pool reflected the colored shades with a mesmerizing beauty. The people in attendance were decked out in splendor, too, the men in tuxedos, the women in silks and satins and v...
Ian demanded, balancing on the balls of his feet. He stood watching as the soldiers advanced, still firing. “Sweet Jesus, what in hell is going on there?” “I don’t know. On Belamar itself, it’s been quiet as a cemetery. Ian, Julian, take the sail; we’ll let her out all the way. We can be on the i...
Mike MacDougal began, hurrying into the parlor as his sons stumbled in with the bleeding stranger. Morwenna looked at her father; she was worried about what they were doing, herself, but to avoid a family argument over Shayne’s absolute determination to be a physician at all times, she waved a ha...
I circled to the side and looked up at the closed shutters of the high loft window, one of them hanging precariously, like a small boy might hang from an apple tree. The house still had the massive trellis which held beach plumbs in the summer months, now only tendrils of dead and brittle vine, w...
She had been born by the seaside, had learned to swim before she had walked, and spent her entire life with boats. She’d never been seasick in her life. She felt like absolute hell now, tempted beyond all measure to throw herself over the side of the speeding launch. She didn’t move. She didn’t l...
Her mouth was dry, her throat was aching, and she couldn’t even croak to find out if anyone would listen if she begged for water.She finally opened her eyes. The room was still spinning. As long as she lived, she didn’t want to taste another rum swizzler. She tried to sit up. The spinning sensati...
She’d told him she wasn’t dressed. And that she was barefoot. But he knew many a man who fought without shoes, and her bare feet seemed no reason not to push the issue. Nor were they. But the nightdress. Natural linen. Sheer. Caught in the light of the fire. Not while she was seated at his side, ...
SPECTRAL vision time. And as always, she was a vision, the magic of dusk, of dreams. As he opened his eyes, she was simply there, across the expanse of clear water glittering beneath the fading light of day. She wore a cloak, a black cloak. Her eyes lifted, and she gazed upon the water. And then ...
1953) is one of the country’s most prominent authors of romance, suspense, and historical fiction. She has been writing bestselling books for nearly three decades, publishing more than 150 novels and selling more than seventy-five million copies worldwide. Born in Florida to an Irish mother and a...
Her place wasn’t exactly a farm, but it was an old Colonial set back on about three acres of land. There had been a house on the foundation as early as the 1840s when some of the first plantations had found their way down south, but that first house had burned to the ground in an Indian raid. Aro...
The existence of the special hospital outside of Richmond wasn’t a military secret, and he’d heard mention of what the soldiers termed the “All Saints Place.” Now he was here—put in charge. Throughout the day he had seen dozens of patients. Often, it was better to see a man maimed and bleeding th...
she told them.Robert was standing by the door with one of Eileen’s suitcases in hand. A heavy suitcase.Given that she traveled constantly on business, it was a bit strange that she didn’t seem to have mastered the knack of traveling light, he thought. Especially since she had a room at this house...
Once inside, she leaned against the door, gasped for breath—and longed to kick herself.What a fool! Trying to return via the balcony! But then, Leif had that kind of effect on her. Oh, God! She coveted her face with her hands, furious with herself. Leif should have had no effect on her—none whats...
She’d arrived at twilight. For a moment, she appreciated the fine lines of the house, and the size of it. She’d been in New Orleans plenty of times before, and she had always loved the city and the architecture. But Jackson Crow was supposed to have been there. She had a key, but she didn’t want ...
He still seemed tense, so she kept silent herself until they were back in her apartment. She didn't know why, but the minute she opened the door, she felt uneasy. Once again, she had the bizarre feeling someone had been in her home. "What?" Brent said. She shook her head, taking her key from the ...
She’d been to a ghost town or two in her day, but never a functioning ghost town. But then, of course, Lily, Arizona, had never really been a ghost town because it had never been completely deserted. It had just fallen by the wayside. It had seen good times—when the mines ...
She jerked free from the handholds around the table. "My God! That's horrible! Please, turn on all the lights, please, make this stop!" To Matt's amazement, he felt the same way himself. Hands were released. Darcy's eyes were wide and on Adam's again. She had a questioning look in her eyes. "We h...
She stared down into her coffee cup. She couldn’t meet his eyes any longer. They were right about one thing. She didn’t want to die! As she gazed into her coffee, she felt a sensation of strength slowly begin to fill her veins. She looked up; Tyler ...
The compound lights gleamed around the lagoon, but they were soft, and shadows from the foliage edging the path and beachfront fell heavily all around her. She took no notice of them. They were gathered in the family room, where the wide-screen television was showing something done by the History...
She stretched out a hand, but she was alone now. Quinn had already risen. She showered, then dressed and went downstairs. There were several people in the shop. She slipped through to the little kitchen and poured herself a coffee before investigati...
Patrick’s Day in Ireland.And so it was that the church service came first, and then the church parade, with Father Flannery bearing the relic said to contain a fragment of the saint’s bone. Then there was music and dancing and a fine flow of spirits and delicious food.Devin and Rocky found themse...
Jack said, grinning. “You mark my words—something is going on there.” “He thinks she’s a lunatic,” Victor said flatly. “And you’ve never wanted to sleep with a woman you thought was off the wall?” Jack asked. “What man out there hasn’t found himself dying to bang someone gorgeous, no matter what ...
“You’re sure you’re alone?” “Yes. I’ve just been around the room.” “Stay there. I’m on my way.” Ten minutes later, there was a knock and she heard Logan’s voice again. She opened the door. He was dressed, but his hair was askew over his forehead. “What’s wrong?” she asked him. He came into the ro...
1953) is one of the country’s most prominent authors of romance, suspense, and historical fiction. She has been writing bestselling books for nearly three decades, publishing more than 150 novels and selling more than seventy-five million copies worldwide. Born in Florida to an Irish mother and a...
She could see it, smell it. Hear it. Drip…drip…drip… The air was heavy with black powder, and the brilliant red color of the blood seemed to form a mist with the powder, and she was surrounded by a haze, a miasma of gray-tinged crimson. The day was dying, becoming red, red like the color of the b...
The Tremaynes had built a fortress, but not even a fortress could stand in the path of the ferocious gas blaze surely eating its way to them. There was no time for anything; he could only carry her through the tunnel space, locked to his body with one arm, while he used his feet and his free hand...
Men, she thought affectionately. Bless ’em. Whatever came, they could sleep.She could not. She had to keep playing over the day, minute by minute. Her wedding day.There had been the usual hassles in the morning. Her mom had gotten all teary every few minutes, and insisted on giving speeches about...
Warily she backed away from him, closer to the fire that burned in her grate, cornered against it. “Nay—get away from me!” Ondine cried, her temper soaring. “You, sir, are a beast! I’ll not be among your lusting number, a pet to be pawed and patted and stroked and kept in a cage! I, sir—” “You ar...
His gold card accessed his reservation without a hitch at the rental agency, and he was waiting when Rowenna called to say she and her luggage were ready to go.Her directions were perfect, and they arrived in Salem with enough time before the meeting he’d set up with Brad that he offered to take ...
He’d watched her from the time they’d reached the party that night, watched the material swirl around her, watched the rhinestones catch the light. He’d seen the easy sway of her walk and he’d listened to the sound of her laughter. He’d found himself praying just to have the night, no matter what...
Pieter von Hurst did attend the wedding. The papers, of course, got hold of the story, but the three involved found outside perplexity over the situation nothing more than amusing. Drake and Ronnie then flew to Chicago, where she met his parents. They were a charming coupl...
Whichever way she chose to look at it, Jude McCoy was here and not with Ethan or anywhere else because he was watching over her. And she was grateful for that. He was friendly and charming as he told her about the theater Alexi and Clara were renova...
“There, there,” he said ineffectually. “I’m sorry you had to see this. Linda will take you on back now. Roscoe can give you a double shot of whiskey, and maybe you’ll be able to sleep for a bit.”Linda stared at him. “Whiskey and sleep. Think that will cure her, do you?”“Please, Linda, take her ba...
Before God, I do not know what this man has said to you, but you are my life, and I’d not be tray you, ever. Dear God! I love you, Bruce!” she whispered. And looking down into her eyes, those pools of blue, sapphire with sincerity and the sweetness of the bond that had been theirs forever, he kne...
He was supposed to be writing his Sunday sermon. But it was hard to write a sermon when he’d just returned from his honeymoon. A week in the sun. Blue skies, bleached sand beaches, an aqua surf. A small cottage with complete privacy…Donna. The two of them making love on that bed of damp sand bene...
So damn close.But he hadn’t expected the trap, and that had been a serious—nearly fatal—mistake on his part. But when Deanna had screamed, he had known why. Pursuit had seemed the only possible option, even though he was working alone and had known Stephan had come with an army.What Stephan’s arm...
There was a certain commotion at the door. Elizabeth and the man were both standing there, talking to the redcoat before them. “I assure you, Sergeant,” the man was saying, “that I know nothing about any tea party at the harbor, nor do I know anything about any smuggled and hidden arms. And I ass...
Sheila told Tim as they surveyed the department’s snowmobiles, which were half buried, despite being parked under a carport behind the station. “Let’s start digging.” One big happy family, having what amounted to a pajama party on Christmas Eve, Craig thought, looking at the sham festivities goin...
Both Union and Confederate troops had died in the forests of the Wilderness. Riding hard along the trails as they sought the best ground to establish their field hospital, Brent, Tia, and their party passed by sad and ghostly remembrances of the deadly battles gone past: bones, bleached white by ...
She wished that Aunt Martha had made it back to the house that morning, but after whiling around for a few hours with nothing to do, Megan had called for a cab and come into town. And now . . . She wondered where Finn was. In town somewhere. Maybe meeting up with the reviewer and her husband. She...
. . everyone is tucked in?” Liz asked, closing the drapes as she turned and saw that Clay had come into the room. “All tucked in.” “And Lena? Did you see to her?” “Oh, yes.” Smiling, Liz strolled over to where he stood. She touched his face, and then reached for the top button of his shirt, and m...
Julie did see him again, and much sooner than—but certainly not where—she had expected. Just five days later she saw him in church, sitting just a few rows ahead of her. He was with a tall, slim woman with dark sandy hair and two children. An uneasiness spread throughout her. She hadn’t thought t...
The early crowd had come and gone.It was still busy, with the late crowd coming out in force. Several wore name tags that identified them as a group that would be leaving on one of the cruise ships in the morning. He was glad to see them there; he knew that the city’s economy counted on the passe...
She was delighted, but while the city was going crazy with talk and newspaper articles and the news on television, the last thing any of them wanted to do was join in the crowd. Still, Jenna wasn’t ready to leave Salem. She and Sam spent the night at Jamie’s house, dispensing candy during the ear...
Taking a seat at the table, Dillon frowned at Jessy. She should have been safe at work, surrounded by other people. If Rudy Yorba hadn’t died in what had clearly been meant to be mistaken for an accident, he might not be so concerned. But Rudy Yorba was dead, smashed almost beyond recognition. Ot...
The man and woman who walked the corridor were a vivid contrast, he so dark, she so vividly fair. Both tall, lithe, statuesque; something about them as a couple was very beautiful, arrestingly stately. Her silver eyes flashed with confusion and sparkling curiosity, and she demanded in a hushed wh...
She could wear an old raggedy T-shirt, worn jeans and no makeup then smile and seem to be the most sensuous creature on earth. He wondered if there really was such a thing as “inner beauty” and if that was shining through whenever he looked at her. Dressed to the nines, sh...
He knew the list. It was all old business. Didn’t matter. He was missing something, he was certain, and when he discovered what…Names suddenly blurred before his eyes.Disillusioned people, most of them young, looking for something meaningful in life, thinking they had found it. All had moved on.O...
Please, come to me.The words seemed real to Elyssa Adair, like a whisper in her mind, as she looked up at the old mansion.The Mayberry Mortuary was decked out in a fantastic Halloween décor, customary each year starting October 1. It sat high on a jagged bluff near the waterfront in Salem, Massac...
“Would you please get out of there—and out of my room!” Clay chuckled. “Give me a minute. If you toss a naked man out your door, your situation is going to appear even worse!” Muttering explosively, Cat decided to forgo a shower and hastily slipped into a pair of jeans and a tank top. If he would...
Friendships were formed, bonds were made that will never be broken. The face of South Florida will never be the same. I managed not to be home for Andrew—the storm struck in late August and my family and I were on our way home after the summer vacation. Early Saturday morning, I had spoken with m...
But she was. Daniel watched as she offered his officer water. Watched her move, listened to the musical flow of her voice. Even as he did so, he felt his fingers curling into fists, felt a sizzling heat of fury and bitterness come sweeping through him. He had to hate her. She had used her beauty,...
Except she was actually a nun, wearing a black habit and a cowl.And she was staring straight at him.He walked over to her.She was very old. Wrinkles creased every inch of her face, but as she smiled at him, there was a bright light in her eyes, and her cheeks seemed suddenly round and rosy. If th...
And during swatches ofsemiconsciousness , when he realized that his restless sleep was being pierced by dreams, he mentally assured himself that it was probably a normal occurrence Bryn Keller's words would combine withVictoria's face and the sense of helplessness that had assailed him at the tim...
He’d just had the pleasure of telling Shelby’s owners that their six-year-old German shepherd was going to be a mother again. They’d been trying for a couple of years. “Just make sure she’s not out in the heat too much,” he reminded the man and woman who were taking turns ...
DEREK ORDERED as she continued to curse him while trying to adjust the bathing suit. He was still annoyingly amused. “You’d better let me help you before the boat leaves without us.” Leigh stiffly turned her back on him and allowed him to retie the strings of her bikini. As soon as he finished, s...
She meant to come back as soon as possible. She couldn’t bear hurting her father by leaving, but neither could she hurt him with her situation. She’d actually considered writing Jerome McKenzie about the child, but their last encounter had been such a whirlwind tempest, so swiftly come and gone t...
James, Naomi, Mary, the children, and all those within their village would be leaving very soon, and she didn’t know how far away they would go, or how often she would be able to see them once they had gone. Without Jarrett at Cimarron she not only felt laden down by the wretched way that they ha...