Title: SAVING HOPE-Author: Margaret DaleyPublisher: Abingdon PressMarch 2012ISBN: 978-1-4267-1428-3Genre: Romantic suspenseWhen a teenager goes missing from the Beacon of Hope School, Texas Ranger Wyatt Sheridan and school director Kate Winslow are forced into a dangerous struggle against a human...
Leah Taylor moves her family from town to town because her 6 year-old is a genius and her grandfather is an eccentric and they just can't fit in. In the latest town, she meets a sexy doctor whose wife died three years ago. The chemistry is instantaneous, but Shane O'Grady (the doctor) and Leah ar...
As a detective in Chicago, J.T. Logan had put away a lot of criminals-- and had made a lot of enemies. However, the last thing the widowed father and current small-town sheriff expected was crime in his own backyard. Until his young daughter was kidnapped. FBI agent Madison Spencer found herself ...
Wade continued, “would you have stayed home?” Lacey looked at him. “No. My brother’s dead. I won’t stop until I know why.” “I already told you. Because of me.” “Those guys out there weren’t sent by you. There’s more to the st...
He stared at a spot before him and didn’t look up when she came in. She approached slowly and sat next to her son. Give me the wisdom to reach my son, Lord. “Hon, you know I’ve been seeing Peter.” He twisted toward her, his eyes pinpoints. “I thought you were working...
The woman grabbed her daughter and smoothed her hair away from her face while Kayla sobbed. “Dad, she said mean things about Annie.” Jasmine’s eyes shone with unshed tears, a scratch down her right cheek. “I couldn’t let her get away with it.” “What...
Since showing up at the station that morning, Liam had wanted to pull Brandon to the side to talk to him about what was happening with Madison. He had two sons close in age and might have gone through the same problem. Brandon pulled out of the parking space. “You’ve been ...
You all did great.” Spread out before Elizabeth in the exercise room were five teenage girls from the cheerleading squad and Abbey. Sweat beaded Elizabeth’s forehead, and she took the towel slung around her neck to wipe it away. “Any questions?” “When can we do this again?” Lily, breathing hard, ...
She poured some for Tanya and herself. “I’m glad Alice doesn’t mind us monopolizing this table for several hours.” She held up the glass pot. “Any other takers?” “No, strictly tea for me.” Zoey dunked her used tea bag into her hot water and added some sugar. “I’m thinking about getting another ma...
She hoped for its soothing effects to work quickly. She couldn’t believe what her mom had said to her out in the street. “What happened?” Alexa took a long sip of her warm drink. “You two have been married for twenty-five years.” “I told him I wanted to go back to work.” Gloria’s voice quavered w...
Austin settled his hand on her shoulder. “Or not.” “This is the best possibility so far. They’re from Chicago and so was this Eloise woman, but I know Chicago is a big town.” She turned back to the screen and printed the information concerning Eloise Hill who had gone missing years before. “There...
Strapping on his air pack, he started toward his captain. A hand gripped his arm and stopped his forward progress. He turned toward the blonde woman who held him, her large blue eyes glistening with tears. She looked familiar, but he couldn’t place where he knew her from. His neighbor’s daughter,...
Max Connors opened his front door to discover the one woman he wasn’t quite ready to meet. Rachel Howard. Mother of his child. Although she didn’t know that. Yet. Prim, proper Rachel, with her reddish-brown hair pulled back in a twist, held up a plate full of fudge. “Welcome to the neighborhood.”...
Someone had been here—and still might be. Broken terra-cotta pieces crunched beneath her sneaker treads as she took the first tentative step up. The new beginnings of her signature bed-and-breakfast flowers were strewn about the landing, their futures dashed in an instant. A sign of her own futur...
“What do you mean? I accept help. My aunt watches Carly in the summer when she isn’t in school.” “Anyone else?” Kim had told Susan at church how much Nathan had retreated after his wife’s death, spending more and more time at the farm with his strays. He may be grieving, but his behavior was affe...
“Where’s it coming from?” “Don’t know. To be safe, I’m getting everyone out of the house.” Kim rushed down the hall. “I’m taking a look to see if I can find the source of this smoke. Call 911.” “Y’all need to get out of here. We smell smoke,” she said as soon as she burst into the game room. Magg...
Abbey heard Dominic ask in a voice full of dread. Whatever it was, it wasn’t good. Although his back was to Abbey, his body stiffened and the grip he had on his cell phone tightened until she glimpsed white knuckles. “Okay. Let me know what arrangem...
Rachel jumped and gasped. Maddy’s eyes widened, and she scanned the main room as if she were searching for a place to hide. As Rachel moved toward the front window to see if she could spy who was outside, another rap filled the cabin. Although the noise was not that loud, Faith started crying in ...
Where am I?Blinking, she examined her surroundings, her mind groggy from sleep. Boxes were stacked against one wall while an old desk was pushed against the opposite one. A musty smell assaulted her nostrils. She shoved her fingers through her hair, trying to bring some order to the unruly strand...
He rose from the bed of leaves. Walking to the fire, he sat on his haunches and poked at the dying ashes with a stick. Last night he’d wanted to make love to her, and if she’d encouraged him at all, he would have. But Ellie was right. Caring about her would only complicate an already complicated ...
Standing next to the hood of her car watching the interplay, Jordan Masterson stiffened. The animal’s hooves plunged down toward the man. Barely missing him. She gasped. Even from a distance the flare of the animal’s nostrils indicated agitation. She glanced at her ten-year-old son as he climbed ...
Daniel scanned Alicia Wells’s living room. “Yes. No signs of a pet. But the lab will have to confirm it and the blood type.” “Why do you think she ran?” Daniel spotted a desk with some open drawers. The sheriff stiffened. “Because her clothes and most of her personal belongings are gone. I didn’t...
Carrie stood in front of the mirror for her private lesson. “Back straighter. Chin up,” Kit said from her side, demonstrating the correct posture. Her niece did exactly as Kit had said. “Point your right toes more. That’s goo...
Aubrey Mathison, and she peered up at him with huge brown eyes widened by fear. He’d seen that look many times over his twenty years in the military. Removing his goggles, he smiled. “I’m here to take you and Jeremiah back to Anchorage, Dr. Mathison.” She blinked, transfix...
Kathleen said the second the waitress left their table at the restaurant. “And we will be just as soon as I get some food in you. Otherwise, I’m not sure you’d be going too far.” She smiled, a fleeting upturn of her mouth. “Is that your roundabout way of saying I don’t look too good?” Jared took ...
Tonya Waters hunched lower in the bullfighter barrel and held her breath. Don’t move. Don’t make a sound. Don’t even breathe. She closed her eyes and sent up a prayer. Would he look in the barrel? It seemed like such an obvious hiding place. Then again, it was one of many barrels in the equipment...
Today, she was standing in front of her son’s Cimarron High principal’s door. They’d only been in town for two weeks, and her oldest was already in trouble. Probably some kind of record. Her hand shook as she knocked. When the door opened, she took a small step back. The t...