Haunted by a near-death experience, a troubled son, and a failed marriage, advertising executive Kate Rollins is ready to escape the harsh glamour of Los Angeles for the small-town vibe of Lost Peak, Montana. All she wants is the simple life of running a café inherited from her grandmother, Nell. What she gets is a suspicious feeling about Nell's death, and a sexy rancher named Chance McLain . . .Kate may be determined to resist him, but Chance can't...

"Allie Parker knows her best friend's death was no accident, and her quest to find the truth soon puts her in the wrong place at the worst possible time. An unwilling passenger on a boat carrying deadly cargo and dangerous men, her only ally is mysterious Jake Dawson, who warns her that she must play the role of his reluctant bedmate if she wants to stay alive."--Page 4 of cover.

All over the city, beautiful women are being murdered, mutilated to death by a stranger known only as The Beauty Queen Killer. Former pageant queens fear for their lives as more women are found dead, a single rose next to their ravaged corpses. It's up to private detective Lindsay McCallister to hunt down the sadistic killer -- and uncover the truth behind these murders before more women are found dead. But what she finds is that these innocent women...

"To most people, men like Mark Cantrell are fine, upstanding pillars of the community, completely beyond reproach. But their killer knows better. They are sinners of the worst kind, and they must burn on earth before they burn in hell... Eighteen months after her husband's unsolved murder, Cathy Cantrell has returned to her Alabama home, eager to build a new life for herself and her son. But pieces of her past are everywhere--including Jackson Perdue,...

"Twenty years ago, wild child Jessie Brentwood vanished from St. Elizabeth's high school. Most in Jessie's tight circle of friends believed she simply ran away. Few suspected that Jessie was hiding a shocking secret-- one that brought her into the crosshairs of a vicious killer-- Two decades pass before a body is unearthed on school grounds and Jessie's old friends reunite to talk. Most are sure that the body is Jessie's, that the mystery of what...

Maleah Perdue is tough, outspoke, and completely dedicated to her work at the Powell Security Agency. But her fearless exterior shatters when a madman begins killing relatives of her colleagues one by one, mimicking a notorious serial killer already behind bars. Working with profiler Derek Lawrence, Maleah will do anything to find the killer, even if it means playing a psychopath's twisted mind games.

After the brutal murder of a Chattanooga judge, homicide detective Julia Cass, shocked by this recent killing, teams up with FBI agent Will Brannock to stop a killer who is mutilating his victims and leaving behind a gruesome souvenir.

When she discovers that the serial killer she is chasing is linked to her past, Detective September Rafferty wonders if her former classmate Jake Westerly, who she recently reconnected with, could be her quarry.

EVERY SERIAL KILLER KNOWS . . .
The vicious burns scarring the victims' flesh reveal the agony of their last moments. Each woman was branded with a star, then stabbed through the heart. With every death, a vengeful killer finds a brief, blissful moment of calm. But soon it's time for the bloodshed to start again . . .
 
THE PERFECT TIME . . .
Ten years ago, Eva Rayburn and her sorority sisters were celebrating the end of...