Bücher von William Speir

Will a thief steal a heart along with priceless art, or will love change the thief's ways? Two Americans in Europe on Business, Josh MacGregor and Erica Longwood, meet each other on a train to Paris. Against all expectations, the attraction is immediate, and they start spending time together so they won't feel so all alone while they're working in the City of Lights. Attraction turns to romance, and soon they find themselves falling for each other. But one of them has a secret. One of them is Le Chat Rusé (The Cunning Cat), a notorious art thief who is in Paris to steal a priceless statue from Raphaël Janvier-who obtained it illegally-so it can be returned to the rightful owner. When Josh and Erica attend a formal party together at Janvier's Paris mansion, during one of the worst winter storms in over a century, all hell breaks loose when the statue is discovered missing. As security detains and interrogates the party guests, Le Chat Rusé must find a way to escape without being caught... and without suspicion falling on the thief's companion for the evening. When Janvier's security finally allows everyone to leave the mansion, Le Chat Rusé gets away with the statue. But the thief's companion follows and discovers who and what the thief is. Will Le Chat Rusé break the companion's heart and continue a life of high-stakes capers, or will love cause one of them to change so the couple can be together.

Katherine Delaney is a successful actress and single mom of two young boys-Jack and Ben. She is friends with her ex-husband, but her career and her devotion to her sons has left her lonely and feeling unloved. Marcus Buchanan is an award-winning novelist and screen writer. He is a widower, and his step-children from that marriage live in other parts of the country. He keeps busy writing so he won't feel the emptiness of his life. When Katherine is cast in a film that Marcus wrote, the two meet. During the film's production, they discover love again with each other. There's just one catch: Katherine lives in Los Angeles, and Marcus lives in Chattanooga. When she visits him in Tennessee, she falls in love with the beauty and the lifestyle his home offers. But she needs her sons to be happy uprooting their lives in California and moving across the country to live with the new man in her life. She brings the boys to visit Marcus for a week in Tennessee, but when one of her sons doesn't want to leave L.A., Katherine puts her duty to her children first and says goodbye to Marcus, leaving behind her chance for love and happiness with a wonderful man. Katherine regrets her decision, but an unexpected turn of events changes the situation. Is it too late to find love with Marcus? After the way her goodbye hurt him, will he be willing to risk giving her a second chance?

The world is at war… again. Three regional wars rage across the globe. Only the United States, Canada, Greenland, Iceland, and the Caribbean island nations have yet to be dragged into one or more of the conflicts. But it is only a matter of time. Surrounded on all sides, and watching its allies fall one by one, the United States must not only determine how it will defend itself against the forces bent on complete domination, but how it can come to the aid of the few remaining nations that are still free.As America's political and military leaders contemplate the nation's very survival, two members of the intelligence community uncover a terrible truth: the world is not embroiled in three separate wars; there is a single enemy playing a global game of chess behind all three regional conflicts-an enemy that the United States isn't prepared to fight. How can the United States and its allies survive against such over-whelming odds?

Riley Gordon is a young woman adrift when she experiences a life-altering event. Her parents, recognizing that discipline is needed to help Riley get past what happened to her, enroll her in martial arts. As Riley turns her life around, studying martial arts becomes her center. When a mysterious stranger offers to show her what true martial arts are, she accepts his offer. After she has learned all that he can teach, she travels to Japan to continue her education at the school where he was taught. There''s only one problem: the school has never accepted a woman as a student before. After convincing the school to let her in, she finds herself caught up in the ancient world of the shadow warriors, who have existed in secret for more than a thousand years. As she joins their ranks, she is sent on assignments around the world to bring justice to her clients, but not always in the way she expected or wanted. As she progresses in her skills and understanding of the arts of the shadow warrior, she reaches a level that few before have ever reached. In a world dominated by ancient traditions, will she be able to break through the male dominated hierarchy to reach her destiny so her power can finally be unleashed?