Once he's done with her . . . She wants him to what? That's Marine Corps captain Travis McCormick's reaction when his old friend Tess Bartlett asks for basic training in sex. He's back in his hometown to recover from injuries and is glad that sweet, easy-to-talk to Tess will be his physiotherapi...
Code Red: Hurricane A hurricane is heading straight for the tiny coastal town of Turning Point, Texas. Four volunteers from Courage Bay Emergency Services rush to the town's aid. Their lives will never be the same again... Paramedic Nate Kellison is as solid as a rock - and just as stubborn. An...
“Captain Cutler, this is Murdock. Can you hear me?”Michael Cutler’s voice buzzed over the connection. “Loud and clear, Murdock. Now give me eyes on what you’re seeing.”She went back into the sterile white computer lab to find both Quinn and the sergeant examining the briefcase bomb with flashligh...
Luke's Hospital. Hawk was only marginally aware of the man making faces and little cooing noises beside him. He looked through the glass of the hospital nursery at the same pink-hatted infant Rafe did, but his thoughts were more than a hundred miles away in Marysville, Kan...
He was as restless and ready to work as the muscular German shepherd lying beside his handler’s feet at the end of the conference room table. At least the dog got to pant and gnaw on his knotted rope to disperse some of that energy. Sitting through long meetings had never been Nick’s favorite thi...
Edward Kincaid turned away from the funeral service in the distance and limped back up the sloping hill of Mt. Washington Cemetery to his own hell. It wasn’t the first time he’d been to a ceremony to bury a fellow cop. But it was the first time he’d shown up for one without wearing his own unifor...
Not even the blast of cold through her coat or the swirling snowflakes that stuck to her hair and melted against her cheeks could temper the frustration brewing inside her. The heels of her leather boots clicked a quick staccato down the salted concrete steps until she crunched into the pristine ...
He knows she’s the wrong woman for him and figures if he helps her out of her current mess, it will get her out of his system for good. Lily Kirk—After years of an abusive marriage, she ran away with her small son. Then she fled her sanctuary, the Hastings Ridge Ranch, aft...
Inside, the window was framed with a shiny green garland and the corners had been dusted with that fake white spray snow. She’d been here before for a couple of family gatherings, a few outings with her friends and even on a pleasant-enough date with a detective who worked with AJ. But she’d neve...
But the terrors in her dreams refused to let her go.“Help me. Help me!” she cried, her voice lost in the rush of wind whistling past her ears. She was flying through the air, propelled by clouds of fire. Flaming tendrils reached out like clawing hands, grabbing at her limbs, singeing her skin.And...
He thrashed in the bed, knowing he could wake himself in an instant. Instead of saving himself, however, he wrestled with the demons that had haunted his dreams on and off, from nowhere, Texas, to Kansas City, Missouri, for nearly two years now. The violence and pain had h...
Thank you, Coach Hernandez. Yes, I know. Thank you, Michael,” Maggie corrected at his insistence. “I’ll make it up to you, I promise.” Maggie locked her double-cab pickup and hurried after the other woman and two men striding through the sliding glass doors into St. Luke’s Hospital. She’d been wo...
“Gun!” The redhead nudged open the glass storm door and slipped the pistol behind her back as though they wouldn’t notice it. “I asked you to step—” “Damn it, lady. Keep that thing where we can see it.” Max put up one hand to swing the door open wid...
He had a look of no turning back in his eyes, and the promise of making it worth her while in every deliberate step. He braced one then the other hand against the door on either side of her face and leaned in. “I told you a man likes surprises.” His deep voice feathered against her eardrum as he ...
Randall’s reputation if he did not leave Rachel Abram alone. A transfer to another hospital had clearly not done anything good. He was still visiting her every single day. He brought her red roses, yellow lilies, and eight get better cards every Thursday mornings. Supposedly, he touched her hands...
I think he knows what he’s talking about.” Audrey paced in front of the judge’s bench, pointing to the man on the witness stand. “Objection overruled. I don’t think we need to debate the experience of this witness, Mr. Shipley, so sit down.” Judge Shanks paused to take a sip of what had to be roo...
Jeffrey Beecher, wearing a clear plastic raincoat over his suit and tie, carried a clipboard and his cell phone. He greeted each vehicle, checked his guest list and either signaled to the guards to let the people inside pass, or got on the phone to verify whether someone should be allowed to ente...
Hope squinted and averted her eyes from the bright headlights that filled up her rearview mirror. “You’re following a little close, buddy.” She gripped the steering wheel more tightly and pressed on the gas to put some distance between them. She wasn’t a nervous driver at ...
Olivia read the numbers spotlighted on the front of Gabe’s building in downtown Kansas City as he pulled into the parking garage beside the remodeled textile factory that had been turned into condominiums. Thirty-six twenty. The street address to Gabe’s building. &nb...
It wasn’t known for its fritzing lights or questionable air-conditioning. Elise finally gave up pushing her salad around the plate and picked up her napkin to fan herself. “In Lukinburg, we do not have this unseasonably hot weather.” Alexsandr Titov...
Major Ethan McCormick paced across his Pentagon office, needlessly adjusting the gold oak leaf on the impeccably pressed epaulet of his khaki shirt. He attacked the imaginary speck of lint on his sky-blue slacks next. Nervousness was a whole new experience for him. He’d graduated at the top of hi...