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By Cynthia Eden. 2014
He pledged to protect his neighbor, in New York Times bestselling author Cynthia Eden's Shadow Agents: Guts and Glory miniseries…
When Gabrielle Harper's gutsy investigative reporting attracted a serial killer, her new neighbor began keeping an eye on her. But Cooper Marshall was more than his chiseled frame suggested. He was an Elite Operations Division specialist who thrived on adrenaline, who always took risks, whose every instinct was geared to protect. Even if it meant breaking cover. Gabrielle wasn't the sort to hole up in her Washington, D.C., walk-up, waiting to be the next victim. So when the time came, he'd throw her on the back of his motorcycle and ride with a vengeance to save her life. Until then, he'd watch and wait, and try not to get carried away with attraction to the girl next door....By Jenna Mills. 2007
Lawyer Gabe Fontenot lives for the day he brings down his father's murderer. And after years of chasing phantoms, he's…
finally closing in. Until his longtime adversary Evangeline Rousseau interferes. The district attorney's little darling wants to see Gabe fail, whatever the cost. Then Evangeline's secret agenda and Gabe's vow of revenge force them to ally with each other. But trust each other? Never. Yet now that they're posing as lovers, neither can run from growing temptation. And when a toxic threat is made against Evangeline, Gabe must concede that his plan for justice could be the undoing of them allhellip;.By Christa Paige. 2010
Six months of desire explodes in one wildly passionate night! Now they have to find a way to get over…
the issues of the past to find the path to their future. Irish Kiss is Book 1 of Christa Paige's suspenseful romance series, Kissin' Cops.For six months, Gavin has kept a tenuous hold on his desire for Cassidy, knowing policy forbids them from taking it to the next, inevitable stage. With their case all wrapped up and ready to go to trial, he is eager to pursue a deeper connection with her. A Saint Patrick's Day party seems like the best place to explore their growing passion.Not very successful in love, Cassidy is hoping to break the streak of bad luck in her relationships. She thinks Gavin could be her Mr. Right and sets out to intercept him at the pub. Instead, she finds herself in a tense situation.Gavin intervenes and their passion flares wildly out of control. They barely make it to a private area before their desire ignites and their feelings are revealed. However, an unexpected predicament crops up. Cassidy is crestfallen at the possibility of losing what she found in Gavin's arms.Now that Gavin has finally claimed his woman, he will let nothing get in his way again. Whether it is the constraints of their law enforcement jobs or the issues from her past, he vows to stay by her side and shower her with his affection for as long as she wants him.Now all he must do is prove it to her.By Chantal Verlaine. 2009
An ambitious reporter and a homicide detective are on a collision course with a serial killer in Chantal Verlaine's passionate…
suspense romance, Miami Steam.Miami Star reporter Rebecca Challenger desperately needs a big story on the serial killer terrorizing the city in order to get a promotion to features writer. Her main source, lead homicide detective Rick Gonzalez, despises reporters. As the pair spar over the story, they're both jolted by a white-hot current of mutual attraction. They overcome their mistrust to start a promising love affair, but overheard gossip causes Rebecca to shy away. Baffled and hurt by Rebecca's sudden rejection, Rick vows to forget her. That is, until the serial killer, enraged by Rebecca's story about him, kidnaps her, and Rick must rescue the woman of his dreams. Can true love endure in the face of misunderstandings and a psychopath's wiles?By Michelle Perry. 2006
How hard could it be to kidnap a pampered little rich girl? Especially if you’re bounty hunter extraordinaire Dante Giovanni,…
who normally prowls the underworld in search of the most vicious criminals. Piece of cake, Dante thinks, when reclusive businessman Gary Vandergriff offers him a cool half million to bring home his estranged daughter, Nadia. His first meeting with her is stunning; both literally and figuratively. He foils an attempt on her life, and falls immediately under her spell. It’s not gonna be hard duty, Dante thinks, keeping her safe from the Mexican drug lord infuriated by her stepfather’s expanding meth operation. He’ll take her out of harm’s way, no problem, get her back to her father, and enjoy the ride along the way. Everything is great. Until he delivers her into enemy hands.By Joyce Lamb. 2009
By Joann Ross. 2009
Air Force Combat Controller Dallas O'Halloran is as tough as he is loyal. So he's not pleased when he's recruited…
into a new anti-terror unit and teamed up with Academy graduate Julianne Decatur-the icy blond JAG officer who nearly court-martialed his friends. Assigned to investigate a Navy flyer's apparent suicide, they discover the trail of a ruthless killer-and an attraction between them that can't be denied. And when their prey turns the tables on them, Julianne will have to depend on the one man daring and reckless enough to keep them both alive. . . .By Colleen Rhoads. 2005
There were diamonds in that old family mine, Skye Blackbird was sure of it. She'd be able to prove it,…
too, and fulfill her Ojibwa chieftain father's dream, if it weren't for paleontologist Jake Baxter, who was searching for dinosaur bones in the very same spot. When sabotage occurred at the dig's site, Jake wasn't sure if it was angry locals or a rival paleontologist who had done it. But someone didn't want the earth disturbed, and as the body count mounted, it appeared that same someone might also want to add him and Skye to the tally. . . .By Miranda Stowe. 2012
Bailey Fortune comes to Miners Bend intent on writing the biography of the man that recently terrorized the town. She…
just needs to keep her mind on business, which isn't easy with two equally desirable men trying to seduce her. When she catches the attention of the killer as well, he's ready to give her what she needs to make her book great ... an interview with a killer. Too bad it may cost her her life!Now that Miners Bend has discovered the identity of its woman snatcher and started a manhunt for the hiding killer, their story catches the interest of journalist, Bailey Fortune. Wanting to write her first biography about him, she comes to Miners Bend as a woman on a mission. Now if only she could charm a couple murder scene shots from local photographer, Shyler Daggert, without becoming too distracted by his ceaseless seduction attempts, she'd be on the right track. Then again, flirting with his cousin, Zane Bromin, the sexy librarian, isn't keeping her focused all that well either. What's worse, both men want her in return, and she can't seem to choose between them.Then a third, evil man decides he wants her too. The Snatcher throws a wrench into her grand novelist plans when he decides to give her his exclusive, intent to make her his next victim in the process.Content Notes: M/F/M ménageBy Rose Middleton. 2007
Liam Knox is beautiful, hot, tempting and ultra-confident. Everything a high-priced fashion model should be. Detective Ellie Bassi isn't denying…
he's sexy as sin, but that's not why she's watching his every move. She's following his toned behind for one reason and one reason only: to catch a murderer. And Liam is the prime suspect in the string of Glamour Murders.Undercover as the head designer at Glamour Puss Designs, she's on a mission to find a killer whose victims include the previous lead detective on the case. While every bit of circumstantial evidence points to the hard-bodied Liam, Ellie's instincts tell her he isn't the one. But someone with an inside edge in the Melbourne fashion world is, and she needs to uncover the killer's identity before she becomes the next victim.Note to readers: Content Notes non sexual graphic violence against women.By Bonnie Dee. 2007
One man discovers the power of love and fights to restore his damaged heart. Danger closes in and worlds collide…
as evil seeks to find the measure of a man!Sweet and cynical--when a pure soul plumbs the depths of a damaged heart.Ian Black believes in one thing--self-preservation. A petty criminal and drifter, he is cynical and solitary until the night his world collides with that of psychic healer, Mirabai Kashi. On the run from megalomaniac Raymond Brody, Mira took a mysterious box containing a key component of the Destroyers' plan for obtaining world power. Ian learns about the Terran realm and becomes Mira's reluctant accomplice in transporting the box to KOTE headquarters. Through capture and torture, he discovers within himself a conscience and capacity to love he never suspected.By Teresa Thomas. 2007
Crystal Lilly spent her youth roaming the world as a government agent, adventuress, and lover extraordinaire, but after being captured…
and held for three days by her enemies, she finds herself questioning what the rest of her life will be like. Unable to face her future, having lost her nerve and trying to escape the government's hold over her, she hunts down what she thinks will be her final villain.Marshal Verge is a private detective at the end of his career. Life and mystery have let him down. He's seen and done it all, and there's nothing new left for him. Only an anonymous letter draws him out of his funk and back to the hunt.When Crystal and Verge meet at the Mitchell Parks Hotel's front desk, it sets off a string of adventures where danger, humor, adversaries, love, and sexual tensions wait around every corner and threaten to overrun them both.By Etienne. 2011
An Avondale StoryProfessor and secret government analyst Ian Sanderson's bad day gets worse when he arrives home one miserable November…
evening to find an apparently incriminating photograph in a FedEx envelope in his doorway, followed by increasingly threatening photographs over the next two or three weeks. It isn't just Ian being set up: his partner, Randy, a lieutenant colonel working on a top-secret Pentagon project, is also at risk. Someone obviously wants something, but what? And from whom? Soon, a mysterious caller demands that Randy disclose information about the project he's been working on. When he refuses, Ian's and Randy's sons, David and Paul, are kidnapped from an Amtrak passenger train. Resourceful and intelligent, the boys manage to escape--only to find themselves lost and alone in a remote wilderness. With time running out, can Ian and Randy track down their blackmailers? Or will the man known only as The Broker claim another set of victims?By William Beckford. 2012
The novel chronicles the fall from power of the Caliph Vathek (a fictionalized version of the historical Al-Wathiq), who renounces…
Islam and engages with his mother, Carathis, in a series of licentious and deplorable activities designed to gain him supernatural powers. At the end of the novel, instead of attaining these powers, Vathek descends into a hell ruled by the demon Eblis where he is doomed to wander endlessly and speechlessly.By Charles Brockden Brown. 2012
One of the earliest major American novels, Wieland (1798) is a thrilling tale of suspense and intrigue set in rural…
Pennsylvania in the 1760s. Based on an actual case of a New York farmer who murdered his family, the novel employs Gothic devices and sensational elements such as spontaneous combustion, ventriloquism, and religious fanaticism.By Debra Webb. 2007
Willow Harris needed someone who was willing to go beyond the law to get her son back. It was a…
dangerous mission in a foreign land against ruthless kidnappers. Hope was all Willow had. . . until she found THE EQUALIZERS. Spencer Anders may have been new to the Equalizers, but he was a proven professional. Specializing in hostage retrieval, Spencer had earned his stripes overseas. Now with Willow in on the mission, anything could happen-- things he couldn't control. The only thing Spencer knew for sure: surrender was not an option.By Tracy Montoya. 2007
It had been six long months since his beautiful daughter had disappeared. When another girl was kidnapped in the Washington…
State woods, Detective Aaron Donovan was convinced the two crimes were related. After joining the search-and-rescue team, Aaron was forced to work with top-notch tracker Sabrina Adelante. . . and try to ignore the attraction they'd shared before his world had been shattered. Offering up his military sniper skills, the group soon uncovered some helpful clues. But then Sabrina nearly became a madman's next victim, and Aaron wondered how he could possibly get close to another woman he cared about when he might just lose her. Then again, how could he afford not to?By Etienne. 2012
The Ivory Solution: Volume OneThe Chronicles of Old TownWhen two young men set up an amateur sting to expose a…
pastor's pedophilia, they gather plenty of evidence not just of the pastor's predilections but of something even more sinister. Out of their depth, they call in FBI experts to investigate. Meanwhile, Clint Buchalla, investigative reporter for the Washington Ledger, is sent to Atlanta to interview a man about his top-secret study. Clint is so angry at his editor for cutting his vacation short that he gets drunk and winds up in bed with the man he was supposed to interview, Dr. Rodney Poucher. But it's exuberant grad student Lucien Cormier, Rod's houseboy with benefits, who really captures Clint's attention... when he isn't busy investigating the sharp drop in birth rates in metropolitan Black and Hispanic communities. Rodney's findings lead him, Clint, and Lucien to a meeting with the deputy director of operations of the FBI. But they only have so much time to figure out what's going on and arrest those involved--and for Clint and Lucien to work out whether the spark between them can span the distance between Atlanta and DC.By Charles Brockden Brown. 2012
Memoirs of Carwin, the Biloquist follows the life of a young man by the name of Carwin as he realizes…
his biloquial, ventriloquist talents. Carwin develops this ability to perfection, being able to manipulate his own voice to sound like any person he wants. Carwin is the sequel to Brown's previous work, Wieland; or the Transformation, because Brown wrote it five years afterwards; however, the events in Carwin occur prior to the plot established in Wieland.By Laura Bacchi. 2006
Tora Wolff craves domination, and at Club Xotica, she expects to get it. When the man who tops her at…
work shows up to top her at play, Tora can't believe her bad luck. And she hasn't even found the dead body yet...Jovan Creel wants a woman who's willing to submit, and not just any woman. He wants Tora. But after all the fun and games are over, will she want him?When Tora decides to explore her submissive side with another man, someone more experienced--and much more dangerous--Jovan soon discovers it's not a question of Tora wanting him when she returns to Atlanta. It's a question of whether she can return at all.Content Notes: D/s, non-sexual graphic violence, multiple partners, M-M-F, F-F, heavy spanking, light bondage, anal sex.