The Princess of Coldwater Flats (30 page)

“Damn right,” Sammy Jo murmured, as she and Cooper sealed their bargain with a kiss that quickly turned into another wildfire of passion.

Out September 2013…

Nowhere To Run

Some Secrets

When Liv Dugan ducks out of work for lunch, it’s just an ordinary day. When she returns, she stumbles onto a massacre. All her colleagues at Zuma Software have been shot. Only luck has left Liv unscathed, and that might be running out…

Will Follow You

Liv suspects the shootings are tied to her past--and to the package she recently received from her long-dead adoptive mother. Sensing she’s being followed, Liv jumps into a stranger’s car and orders him to drive. Her “hostage” complies, listening carefully as her story unwinds. Skeptical at first, he ultimately begins to believe all Liv’s fears are justified…

To Your Grave

Together, Liv and her unlikely confidant try to uncover the truth about her adoptive family, her birth parents, and her troubled childhood. Because somewhere in Liv’s past is a secret worth killing for, and a nightmare she can never outrun…

Nowhere To Hide

There Are Sins

“Do unto others…” Carefully, he carves the words into their flesh. The victims are all young, brunette, pretty. But she’s the one he really wants. The others are just a way to ease the rage that has festered for years, until the only thing that calms him is his knife slicing through skin…

You Never Live

Detective September Rafferty--Nine to her friends--recognizes the artwork that arrives in the mail. She created it back in second grade. Now a killer’s words are slashed across it in what looks like blood. He knows her. September’s investigation leads to her old classmate, Jake Westerly. She wants to believe Jake is innocent. But trusting anyone could be her last mistake…

To Regret

Every slight, every slur, he remembers them all. They turned him into a monster, and now they will suffer for it. Starting with September, he’ll show them that the past can never stay hidden, and the time of vengeance is at hand…

Something Wicked

You Sense Him

Some refer to it as the Colony. To others, it’s a cult. But few locals in the Oregon coastal hamlet of Deception Bay have ever been invited to the inner sanctum of Siren Song. Even the sisters who live here, far from strangers who might recoil at their unnerving psychic abilities, don’t know all the terrors buried within its walls…

You Fear Him

Eight months into a surrogate pregnancy for her sister, Kristina, Detective Savannah Dunbar just wants to wrap up paperwork before taking medical leave. But her department’s investigation into a brutal double homicide has suddenly become much more complex--and personal. And now there are disturbing rumors about the Colony, its matriarch, and a long history of bitter secrets…

But You Can Never Stop Him

Death has come to Siren Song before. But this time there will be no refuge and no remorse. For everything born in wickedness must die that way--and a killer will not rest until he has claimed them all…

Dear Diary

THE ONE THAT GOT AWAY…

Rory Camden fell for Nick Shard in the third grade when he helped her save a hapless frog from several older boys. But it seemed that Nick and Rory were destined to be just friends and Rory put her unrequited feelings into her diary.

As they grew into adults, Nick’s feelings for Rory shifted to something more, and he began a campaign to win her love. But Rory had learned – through her father’s infidelity – that no man could be trusted and she couldn’t bring herself to believe she and Nick had a chance together, either.

And then tragedy struck and Rory feared she’d lost Nick forever.

Summertime Blues

Maggie Holt had never stopped loving Tanner Baines, no matter how hard she tried. She was a girl from the wrong side of the tracks and he was a wealthy “lake kid” who’d won her heart during several long, sultry summers when they were both young. But Tanner had thrown their love away at the end of that last summer and married someone else, a girl with all the right connections, a girl who was Maggie’s nemesis. Now, fourteen years after leaving Lake Chinook, Tanner was suddenly back. Though Maggie wanted to hate him, she just couldn’t, even though Tanner still held secrets from the past – the same secrets that had ripped them apart so long ago and still had the power to destroy their happiness. Though Maggie tells herself to forget him – she’s had enough summertime blues for a lifetime – she forces Tanner to reveal the soul-destroying barrier that has kept them from being together all this time and finds a way to love him again.

Imaginary Lover

Still reeling from painful news that would irrevocably change her life, Candace McCall didn’t want to attend her father’s annual Christmas-in-July party at his mansion on the island – or pin on a smile to deal with his colleagues, even the dashing Connor Holt. But it’s Con who becomes intrigued with Candace, when he sees a woman in a silvery dress standing at the edge of a rocky point looking like she’s about to jump.

Then Con realizes who Candace is and all his own past mistakes come rushing back: he’d fallen once for the boss’s daughter and he’d be damned if he was going to do it again! But history may be doomed to repeat itself because Con catches glimpses of the vulnerable woman hiding behind her icy façade and he finds he cannot turn away.

The Princess and the Pauper

THE PRINCESS…

One reckless teenage night, well-to-do April Hollis tempted a boy from the wrong side of the tracks, and it changed her life forever. Motorcycle riding, leather jacket-clad Jesse Cawthorne was everything her family forbade: poor, dangerous, with no future that they could see. A man who would only break April’s heart. But April couldn’t resist Jesse, and they spent a lost, tempestuous summer together.

THE PAUPER…

As summer turned to fall, however, Jesse realized April was playing with his feelings, and his terrible pride forced them apart. He believed she was what he’d always thought: a spoiled, little rich girls from Windsor Estates. And knowing he would never fit into her wealthy world, he fled.