Bücher der Reihe By Death

After losing two close friends three years ago in a snowboarding accident, Stacy Carter has become a loner and can't seem to make peace with this loss, not when Death intrudes upon her personal life again and takes two more people she loves. Meeting new people and trying to make a normal life for herself proves to be harder than anything else she's done. Meanwhile, in her career, being a forensic pathologist puts her in close contact with the dead. While fascinating and never dull, it isn't exactly a cozy conversation starter. When her brother tries to coax her out for a mountain vacation to help her heal, she has reservations, even as she tells herself rationally that she needs to face this. Reservations and rationale, however, were in short supply the last time she saw Royce O'Connell at that mountain ...Royce is floored when Stacy finally returns to the spot where she lost her two best friends, intending to deal with the depression that she's battled for some time. Royce and Stacy have been longtime friends, but Royce wants so much more between them. Yet he's well aware that he blew their last time together. Stacy makes it clear she's not looking for reconciliation. However, he can't help seeing her reappearance in their tight-knit group as a second chance, maybe his only chance.Out in their winter wonderland, the vacation atmosphere shifts from merry to mayhem in a hurry, when they come across a dead man. Then, not long afterward, Stacy's brother goes missing. The nightmare is only just beginning, as the realization settles in that they can't trust anyone.Maybe not even each other ...

This collection is the first 3 books in the By Death series. Those books are:Touched By DeathDeath had touched anthropologist Jade Hansen in Haiti once before, costing her an unborn child and perhaps her very sanity. A year later, determined to face her own issues, she returns to Haiti with a mortuary team to recover the bodies of an American family from a mass grave.Visiting his brother after the quake, independent contractor Dane Carter puts his life on hold to help the sleepy town of Jacmel rebuild. But he finds it hard to like his brother''s pregnant wife or her family. He wants to go home, until he meets Jade - and realizes what''s missing in his own life.When the mortuary team begins work, it''s as if malevolence has been released from the earth. Instead of laying her ghosts to rest, Jade finds herself confronting death and terror again.And the man who unexpectedly awakens her heart - is right in the middle of it all.Haunted By DeathDeath haunts anthropologist Meg Pearce...In her last summer before college, an innocent camping trip ended in a friend''s disappearance...and destroyed her life. She lost everything. Her innocence. Her plans for her future. Her best friend and lover. Seventeen years later, she returns reluctantly to the same area, hoping to move on. But a gruesome discovery sends her reeling back to that dark time. Detective Chad Ingram has spent the last seventeen years trying to solve the mystery of that camping trip so he too can regain his life...and the lost love of his life.Only death isn''t done shaking up their lives...and this time they are in the crossfire.Chilled By DeathAfter losing several friends in an accident, Stacey became a loner. She knows she needs to grow past it, but a career working with the dead is not a warm and cozy conversation starter. When her brother coaxes her back to the same mountain for a holiday to help her heal, she realizes it''s time.Royce can''t believe Stacey is back and fighting her depression. He blew their last time together and this might be his one and only second chance with her. Now if only he could figure out how to not blow it...But once out in the winter wonderland, the holiday atmosphere quickly shifts when they find a dead man. Then one of their own goes missing...It will take everything Stacy and Royce have to make it through this nightmare.... They can''t trust anyone - maybe not even each other...