"A bohemian artist is everything Jefferson Lambert never knew he wanted in a woman." The minute he meets his date for the night, Jefferson Lambert knows someone tampered with his matchmaking profile. How else would a conservative lawyer end up with a gorgeous, spirited woman like Sylvie Marchand?...
After five years of commitment, Savannah Perez is worried her marriage to Cruz is doomed. His backbreaking devotion to their new ranch is ruining their relationship. Can Cruz show Savannah that she's everything to him before it's too late? Original.
Heck, the reclusive officer hardly spoke to anyone other than his faithful K-9 companion. So what harm could come from Patience Cavanaugh letting the haunted rebel protect her from a dangerous stalker? She might be a veterinarian, but Patience had enough cop sense from the rest of her family to k...
FAILURE WASN’T AN OPTIONThe Honorable Brenton Montgomery would break every rule to recover his kidnapped little girl. But he wasn't prepared to clash with the one woman he'd secretly loved for years, Detective Callie Cavanaugh, whose job it was to find Rachel. And when tensions grew hot between t...
Until Jack Hawkins, Teri Cavanaugh had never encountered a case she couldn't crack or a cop whose life wasn't an open book after day one as her partner. Male detectives wanted to be "Hawk." Women flat-out wanted him. Teri simply wanted to know the man behind the badge, because her sixth sense sme...
Someone else might crave excitement, but Dr. Natalya Pulaski was enjoying her ordinary life. Then she received a chilling call from her best friend-- and the line mysteriously went dead. She felt in her bones something bad had happened. And that she had to get answers. Detective Michael DiPalma's...
THE LAST CAVANAUGH TO FALL… Assistant district attorney Janelle Cavanaugh understood how dangerous working on a high-profile criminal case could be. But when her assignment took a deadly turn, she was given a ruggedly handsome and infuriatingly quiet bodyguard. Detective Sawyer Boone absolutely...
PERHAPS SHE SHOULD BORROW A CUP OF SUGAR? When the vivacious MacKenzie Ryan met her dour new neighbor, it was hardly love at first sight. Not only was the self-contained research scientist gruff and rude, but MacKenzie was also grappling with a heartbreak that had shattered her heart --- and lef...
When Detective James Munro discovered a cameo necklace on a New York City street, he hoped only to return the keepsake to its rightful owner. He certainly didn't expect that owner to be so adorable and perfect for him. Indeed, Southern belle Constance Beaulieu was beautiful and as set on showing ...
Devil-may-care detective Jared Cavanaugh dove into his undercover assignment--investigating a money laundering operation in a popular restaurant--but working in close proximity to his beautiful "boss" was sweet torture. With her killer looks and cool attitude, restaurant manager Maren Minnesota w...
Dr. Peter Sullivan might be the only one who could save Raven Songbird's little brother, but who was going to ease the widowed neurosurgeon's secret sorrow? Raven figured she was more than up for the job. The barefoot, black-haired beauty was a healer in sprite's clothing. Like a passionate force...
When talk show host Dakota Delany agrees to allow bodyguard Ian Russell to shadow her for two weeks, she doesn't count on constantly battling the drop-dead-gorgeous man who monitors her every move. And she definitely doesn't expect the strong and silent Ian to immediately take hold of not only he...
CONSIDER CAREFULLY BEFORE THAT FIRST CALL TO THE LOCAL CONTRACTOR: Can your marriage take it? Stacey Sommers certainly hoped so...but it was looking a little questionable. After the stunning news that her uncle had passed away and left her his dog (aptly named Dog) and a quarter of a million d...
USA Today and Publisher's Weekly bestselling author Marie Ferrarella is releasing her three hard-to-find women's contemporary novels written in the tradition of Danielle Steel, Nora Roberts and Debbie Macomber. Finally available again, these heart-tugging stories explore the tangled emotional li...
WOMAN'S BEST FRIEND?Being stranded without electricity in a houseful of orphaned dogs wasn't high on Alain Dulac's agenda. But when a car accident landed the West Coast attorney in the care of Kayla McKenna, he had a change of heart. Something about the compassionate but oh-so-seductive vet was m...
Detectives Bridget Cavelli and Josh Youngblood are on the trail of a serial killer who targets young redheaded women throughout the month of February, and then disappears for the rest of the year. Bridget's also trying to come to terms with being part of the Cavanaugh dynasty, after it was discov...
Too close to emotions that had absolutely no place in this kind of investigation. Not that she would allow them to cloud her judgment or stand in the way of her doing the right thing. She had too much integrity for that.But Patrick did make it extremely difficult to concentrate, difficult to thin...
And when she actually did manage to fall asleep, she wound up dreaming about what was keeping her awake, perpetuating her dilemma. She dreamed about a magnetic pair of blue eyes that pulled her in and thick, dirty-blond hair that curled just enough to make her fingers itch...
All his family members. The former chief of police hadn’t merely extended an invitation this time, as was his habit—he had instructed everyone to come, telling them to do whatever they had to in order to change their schedule and make themselves available for a family gathering.When his oldest so...
As far back as he could remember, barring some momentary crisis or other, he'd always been a happy person. It was a natural state of being, coupled with the optimism that seemed a given within most of his family, immediate and extended. But he'd never been happy, reallyhappywith a capitalHbefore....
While the reaction of the man standing next to the chief of detectives’ nephew was sweet and more than a little flattering, ultimately it would only get in the way of what she wanted. She needed to get inside her character, and to do that, she needed a clear, unobstructed view of what life was li...
Clay searched for a way to distract the woman on his right who sat staring straight ahead, as rigid as the principles of right and wrong that had brought her to this juncture.He glanced again in the rearview mirror. His line of vision shifted from the vacant area beyond the rear of the car to the...
She didn’t like going around in circles and that was exactly what they’d been doing since they’d arrived at Sunflower Apartments. Taking down statements and going nowhere.As they left the apartment of a very talkative woman who’d jumped at the chance to have some live company instead of her daily...
Stevi announced as she walked into the kitchen. Her sister had her back to her and was busy preparing an order on the industrial stove. “Seriously, Alex thinks she’s eating for a small village and wants, like, one of practically everything on the breakfast menu. And Andy will have her usual two s...
Lucy asked in surprise when Noelle broached the subject of Duncan’s invitation to her grandmother that evening. “Yes.” They were in the kitchen and Lucy was getting dinner started. Tonight’s fare was chicken parmesan, Melinda’s favorite. “My partner’s brother is getting ma...
She hadn’t expected him to be that honest. Though she didn’t doubt that his assessment of her was dead on. After all, the man seemed to have an eye for that kind of thing.“I bet you say that to all the women you’re trying to sweet-talk.”Inside, she looked around as she stripped off her coat in th...
The absence of noise allowed him to clear his mind and to think more clearly. Occasionally he might put on the radio as he was driving, but for the most part, silence suited his purposes quite well. But as he drove them back to the precinct, the silence inside his car stru...
He wasn’t a man who believed in very much of anything, actually. But there were times when Sheriff Garrett Tanner felt as if fate, or the powers that be, or whatever it was that gave order to the universe, had it in for him. This feeling involved more than just his childhood, which for all intent...
Trevor had secretly hoped that both the questions would have been resolved by the time they buried Faye. But the slain nanny’s funeral had come and gone and still the questions remained. Who had done this and why? And where was Avery? The situation ...
Lydia called out to Cate as she and Christian approached. Cate stopped in midpace and shook her head in response. Rather than a few minutes, Lydia had been gone for almost half an hour. She couldn’t help wondering what was going on. Lydia looked a little more somber than when she’d left. As for t...
The sympathy was self-explanatory. The guilt was because he’d had to force her to relive the ordeal, and the anger was directed against the narcissistic bastard who’d assaulted Lilli. And ultimately robbed them of a life they could have had together. “No, I’m not,” he told her. “I won’t be satisf...
“Something to look forward to.” “You realize that you don’t have to,” Blake pointed out. “No one’s holding you prisoner.” She caught his meaning. “You’re not a prisoner, Judge,” she told him with all sincerity. “It just so happens that you and your ...
“Please tell me you’ve found a buyer for all those things in the house. Either that, or you suddenly need a funeral home, because otherwise, you have absolutely no reason to be here right now, hovering outside my mother’s viewing room,” he informed her. He wasn’t all that ...
And everything had changed. Sebastian’s kiss still had the power to set her pulse racing, to set desire exploding in her veins, swiftly growing and wiping out every thought in her head. That part hadn’t changed. But life in general, their lives in g...
Somehow, when he hadn't been paying attention, love with its steel-binding nylon tentacles had networked all through his soul, hopelessly enmeshing him and taking him prisoner. He thought he had shored up his defenses rather well and that he was impervious to any assault. ...
There definitely had been nothing ordinary about making love with Micah Muldare.Consequently, despite her very best efforts and intentions, Tracy’s mind kept wandering and finding its way back to Micah and the magical experience that they had shared together. But even when she allowed herself a f...
Along with the raised voices of reporters who were all vying to snare the majority of Lukkas’s attention, she heard the lower somewhat rhythmic sound of cameras going off, automatically snapping photographs while other cameras were videotaping their every move until the next stellar subject came ...
The sun was at his back, peering intently into the room like an odd man out kibitzing at a bridge table. Lacy had worked her magic in here. It didn’t look like the same room he’d first seen. For that matter, it didn’t look like the same house. In a little more than three short weeks, like a tirel...
She could feel it. Feel it despite the fact that there were no signs of a struggle and nothing out of place. The longer she stayed, the more convinced she became that she was right. As was her custom, the petite, pleasantly p...
Traci went straight toward the new piece of furniture that stood in its stead and looked at it as if it were an intruder. If she tried hard, she could visualize the old one—a honey-colored triplechested bureau that gave the room a crammed, homey quality. Coupled with her double bed, it had turned...
Repeatedly. Had she not just left him behind at the dining room table, her first reaction would have been to think that Wyatt was trying to get her to hustle back. But, unless he’d learned how to move faster than the speed of light, it couldn’t have been Wyatt.  ...
Returning to the kitchen, he found that the small, circular table in the nook had been set. His daughter was currently seated at one of the place settings and, miracle of miracles, she remained still. Well, still for Ginny, he mentally amended. “Dad...
Kristin asked, surprised to see Malloy turn up so quickly when he walked through the morgue’s door less than five minutes after she’d spoken to him. He’d had his own reasons for hurrying, but he refrained from saying so. Instead, he told her, “A magician never divulges his...
Brandon sat on Victoria’s canopied double bed, watching his daughter debating between which pair of almost identical white cutoffs to take with her to summer camp. Was it his imagination, or were there fewer stuffed animals lining the bottom shelf of her bookcase in her ultrafeminine bedroom than...
Johanna felt only pity for Harry. And pity on its own was a dreadful thing. It spelled the end of everything between Harry and Johanna. It set her free. Still, there were things to be done because of the past and because he was Jocelyn’s father. She called their lawyer as soon as she read the art...
Ashley asked, feeling herself growing restless and antsy in the passenger seat of his car. Shane had talked her into leaving her car parked at the police station and going with him in the sedan rather than following him in her own small, close-to-ancient white Corolla. She...
Some of the younger Cavanaughs with very small children had said their good-nights and then gone home. But a lot of the others with sleepy children had availed themselves of portable cribs or one of the beds that had been left standing in rooms that Andrew’s five adult children had long since vac...
the building superintendent, Walter Meyers, said for a third time as he shook his bald head.It was obvious that he was having trouble wrapping his mind around the concept. The barrel-chested older man had insisted on coming along with them to unlock the late William Reynolds’s fifth-floor apartme...
She and Wyatt, along with the other detectives in Robbery, didn’t lack for cases to work on. But due to the publicity that the home invasion cases had garnered and the fact that there were now three of them, they had gone to the top of the priority list.Day in, day out, despite the fact that they...
Lieutenant Bailey’s disgruntled voice greeted Logan even before he crossed the threshold into the squad room.This, Logan thought, did not sound good.Usually it took a few hours before the day began to look as if it was going to hell. Having it begin in hell guaranteed a slow, unmerciful torture f...
act of selecting which surname he was legally supposed to be using.For more than five decades, he’d thought of himself as Sean Cavelli, a man whose relatives on both sides of the family had their roots in Italy. Never mind that he didn’t resemble either of his parents or any of his three siblings...
Waiting until she was sure he was gone. Then, bracing her shoulders, she opened the door again, needing to fill the small apartment with fresh air.Needing to feel that fresh air on her skin.Her eyes swept up and down the path that led to her garden apartment.There was no one else around.He’d brou...
Neither was there anything written on the single sheet of paper besides the one ominous sentence, all in capitals. Erin blew out a breath, doing her best not to panic. “Okay, not a fan letter,” she said, refolding the paper and slipping it carefully back into the envelope....
All he knew was that it’d happened so effortlessly, so naturally, that, at the time, he wasn’t even aware of it. Wasn’t aware of saying yes to Kennon until after the fact. Thinking back to how all this shopping came about was a little like searching for the seam in a skirt that appears to be seam...
The slight whiff of the perfume she always seemed to wear announced her presence in the vicinity even before he heard that annoyingly lyrical Southern drawl of hers. Marcos turned to face her. “You made the dessert.” It was not a question so much as a statement of disbelief. “Yes.” Separated by a...
Charley didn’t want this kiss. She struggled. She lost. It was all well and good to walk off and pretend that she wasn’t affected by Reese McDaniel, by his dark, smoldering good looks, or by his tender manner. But as soon as his mouth touched hers, all her carefully fabricated lies went down the ...