Deputy D.A. Kathryn Mackay takes on the case of her career as she works to convict a criminal of attempted murder while balancing the personal crisis of a lifetime in this courtroom drama by New York Times bestselling author Christine McGuire.In a history-making case, the California district attorney’s office has charged a defendant with attempted murder by intentional infliction of HIV, and they’re counting on Deputy D.A. Kathryn Mackay to make the conviction. But when a bomb explodes in the courtroom, disabling a young inspector, Kathryn joins the investigators in a deadly race against time and she suspects a connection between the bombing and trial. Working alongside her lover, Dave Granz, the inspector assigned to the case, and balancing a personal crisis of one of the most frightening challenges a woman can possibly face, Kathryn is in a race against time to solve this case and stop the criminal in his tracks.
Gwen Maudsley is pretty enough to be popular, and plenty wealthy, too. But what she's best known and loved for is being so very, very nice. When a cad jilts her at the altar--again--the scandal has her outraged friends calling for blood. Only Gwen has a different plan. If nice no longer works for her, then it's time to learn to be naughty. Happily, she knows the perfect tutor--Alexander Ramsey, her late brother's best friend and a notorious rogue. Unbeknownst to Gwen, Alex's aloof demeanor veils his deepest unspoken desire. He has no wish to see her change, nor to tempt himself with her presence when his own secrets make any future between them impossible. But on a wild romp from Paris to the Riviera, their friendship gives way to something hotter, darker, and altogether more dangerous. With Alex's past and Gwen's newly unleashed wildness on a collision course, Gwen must convince Alex that his wickedest intentions are exactly what she needs.
"A poignant and funny tale of a woman whose best friend, Smidge, wants her to take over Smidge's family after Smidge dies of cancer"--
A team of acclaimed medical writers track the impact of one deadly drug and its lethal course through the politics of modern medicine in this high-tech medical thriller perfect for fans of Robin Cook.In the emergency room of St. Catherine’s Hospital, the death of a healthy seventeen-year-old girl due to a massive cerebral hemorrhage leads Dr. Gabe Austin to an investigation of a web of fraud, corruption, and murder. In his search, Gabe uncovers two cases similar to the St. Catherine teen’s death, with all three victims having took the new drug Virzaine, Kimberly Lab’s hottest, FDA-sanctioned wonder drug. With the help of Kate Reilly, his Yale Medical School love, Gabe tracks down Kimberly’s chairman, who offers him a lucrative consulting deal and a septuagenarian scientist whose precise experiments promise chilling answers to the Virazine puzzle. As the hunt quickens, Gabe uncovers an elaborate corporate coverup engineered by top-level strategists, enforced by payrolled conmen, and fueled by potentially staggering drug benefits. A thriller of unremitting excitement, filled with authentic and fascinating detail, No Deadly Drug pits one man’s persistence against raw greed in a life-or-death race guaranteed to keep readers on the edge of their seat.
The final book in the Midnight Liasons romance series, set in a “fun, sexy world” (USA TODAY) where paranormals seek love through a dating service, follows Ryder as she does everything in her power to avoid becoming a dragon forever.Ryder is hiding a dark secret from her coworkers at Midnight Liaisons—every time she’s sexually attracted to a man, her dragon side breaks through. Not exactly man-bait! But to avoid becoming a dragon forever, Ryder must lose her virginity before her twenty-fifth birthday. Her solution? Big, hunky Hugh—the appointed guardian of her chastity. While Hugh is clearly hot for her, he has powerful reasons to resist Ryder. Can temptation—and love—possibly find a way?
In the first book of the Swan Maiden trilogy, Wulfsun, a lonesome battle-scarred warrior, has his untamed heart conquered by a young, innocent woman new to the ways of men. Moira has grown to womanhood in the realm of Myr: a land wise in the arts of women, but utterly innocent to the ways of men. Though her delicate beauty belied her inner strength, she still wondered, trembling, what it would be like to feel the touch of a man. Passing into the circles of stones and into the world of men for one night came with a lot of surprises, but Moira never thought she’d find Wulfsun. Every mesmerizing inch a man, he was hard-muscled, tawny-maned, and always fought without mercy…until he captures a maiden as beautiful as moonlit shadows and becomes enslaved to her love for all time. His blood courses hot with wanting for Moira, but he will have her willing or not at all. One long northern night, they will surrender at last to their sweet destiny, but Wulfsun must go forth once more, to die—or to claim forever the free, enchanting heart of his own.
In this historical western romance from the author of Swan Bride, a Boston firebrand and a hard-riding scout discover a passion that defies the wild frontier. In the years after the Civil War, Miss India Simms left the comforts of Boston to preach women’s rights throughout the Wyoming Territory. At her arrival, the raw town of Cheyenne and her guide, Gat Ransom, are shocked by the petite aristocrat and her mission. Gat’s rough-hewn appearance and quick, good-natured smile embody the contradictions of the West, but his scarred, taut power sets fire to disturbing, unfamiliar feelings in India’s veins. As the ride the sweeping plains and towering forests, India and Gat find themselves sharing laughter, danger, and a sensuous promise as they both share a deep need for freedom that keeps them achingly apart. It is not until they cast off their stubborn pride that they will discover the pure bliss of surrender and a fiery love that will be theirs forever.
A story told from the point-of-view of a young woman fighting for her life while trapped in a coma.
HELL IS TOO GOOD A PLACE FOR A SADIST. . . . Twenty years after ex-CIA special ops agent Ian Wallace watched a KGB colonel brutally murder the love of his life and their unborn child, he’s still wishing the monster Vladimir Ivanchenko had killed him off, too. Endlessly haunted by nightmarish memories of torture, Wallace, the fanatically conservative private investigator, can’t seem to escape the bowels of Moscow’s Lubyanka prison, even while reaping the comforts of life in suburban Boston. But when the devil himself comes to Beantown on another twisted mission, who better to hunt down Ivanchenko—the Russian mafia don now deemed the most dangerous man in the world—than the fueled-by-guilt and hungry-for-revenge Wallace? All he must do to earn the forty grand the CIA offers him for the task is dedicate the next two weeks of his life to guarding Ivanchenko’s target—an obnoxious, greedy, and big government–loving MIT professor, whose research on Ballistic Missile Defense is a matter of national security. That, and partner up with the irresistibly sexy and tough-as-nails Kathy Donahue. Straight from the bleak deserts of war-torn Afghanistan, she just might be the secret to opening up Wallace’s sealed and scarred heart. Tension between the highly experienced agents builds, but Wallace’s bloodthirsty desire for Ivanchenko’s demise reveals his own evil nature, scaring Donahue away. And, as friends and enemies sacrifice their lives to harbor and reveal secrets, Wallace doesn’t know to what maniacal extreme he will go to bury his own.
With nine dead already, Bob Mitchell, millionaire president of Tate Pharmaceuticals, is in a race against time as he tries to identify the man seeking revenge against him by poisoning his company’s products in this action-adventure thriller. Before Bob Mitchell rose to the chairmanship of Tate Pharmaceuticals, he was a soldier in Vietnam. Though he was confident he had rubbed out his past, there is one man that remembers Mitchell from his past... and he’s got a powerful motive for revenge. The ghost of Mitchell’s past is jeopardizing the career he’s built for himself by poisoning Tate Pharmaceutical’s products. The police have nothing, the body count is nine, and Mitchell’s got four days to track down the killer before he strikes again. From Hollywood, where death is just the hook for a movie, to Switzerland, where sex is just a numbered account, Mitchell’s hunt leads him to a shattering discovery. Someone’s about to blow his life apart, and he’s got one chance to win the fight.
Sharie Kohler dazzles with the dark, sensual world of the Moon Chasers, where two half-breed lycans are locked in deadly combat over the fate of the world—and their own hearts. Sorcha is no longer the pitiful teenage orphan who roamed the streets of Paris after her pack was destroyed, but despite all she now has—wealth, beauty, strength—she is still haunted by memories of Jonah, her fellow half-breed who broke her innocent young heart years before, and who now believes her dead. Determined to drive Jonah from her dreams forever, Sorcha vows to kill the witch whose curse first condemned the lycans to soulless immortality . . . doomed to be ruled by their dark passions, yet never truly able to love or be loved. Still devastated over the girl he failed, Jonah has found purpose as a demon slayer. When a stranger starts stalking the world’s most powerful demon witch, he is assigned to kill the huntress before her meddling releases an evil that threatens all mankind. Face-to-face again at last, can Sorcha and Jonah put their anger and hurt behind them to defeat the darkness . . . and dare they hope to find a love neither dreamed possible?
"Based on the hit series CSI: Crime Scene Investigation produced by CBS Productions, a business unit of CBS Broadcasting Inc."
In the vein of classic authors like Julia Quinn, Sarah MacLean, and Eloisa James, award-winning and USA TODAY bestselling author Meredith Duran returns with a bluestocking bent on justice who plays a dangerous game of seduction with London’s most scandalous viscount.Silver-tongued Viscount Sanburne is London’s favorite scapegrace. Alas, Lydia Boyce has no interest in being charmed. When his latest escapade exposes a plot to ruin her family, she vows to handle it herself, as she always has done. Certainly she requires no help from a too-handsome dilettante whose main achievement is being scandalous. But Sanburne’s golden charisma masks a sharper mind and darker history than she realizes. He shocks Lydia by breaking past her prim facade to the woman beneath...and the hidden fire no man has ever recognized. But as she follows him into a world of intrigue, she will learn that the greatest danger lies within—in the shadowy, secret motives of his heart.
They left behind everything that mattered to them-- friends, lovers, country-- to journey to the stars. Now Sergeant Flynn Taggart and Pfc. Arlene Sanders, USMC, have reached their destination... the homeworld of the demon invaders who destroyed Earth. But there, they find a scene of destruction that rivals any they left back on Earth. And suddenly, "Fly" and Arlene find themselves face-to-face with an even deadlier enemy than the demons they came to fight. The war for Earth is over. But the battle for the stars has just begun...
The aeroscout's job is seeking out friendly forces trapped behind enemy lines in Vietnam by flying their helicopters 10-15 feet above tree level. In 1968, Holley arrives in Pleiku. His mission: locate the enemy. The method: use scouts as bait. An unforgettable chronicle of aerial exploits and incredible courage.
"When an infant gets snatched from her wealthy Santa Rita County home, Kathryn Mackay and her former lover, Detective David Granz, are called in to investigate. Supplied with few leads and almost no help from the family, Kathryn takes to the airwaves, broadcasting the story nationwide on Larry King Live. But when babies start disappearing from birthing centers and bedrooms all over the county, she soon realizes things are much more complex than they seem. As Kathryn and Dave work to uncover the conspiracy behind the crimes, a shocking call from halfway across the country reveals a plot more widespread than they ever imagined."--Page 4 of cover.
New York Times bestselling author Christine McGuire, a real-life criminal prosecutor, packs her legal thrillers with authentic details and "human characters who...leap right off the pages" (The Pilot, Southern Pines, NC). Now, in Until The Bough Breaks, McGuire's tenacious heroine, Assistant D.A. Kathryn Mackay, confronts a scorching controversy in the courtroom -- and a shattering revelation in her private life. The Fourth of July is winding down, but in Santa Rita County the fireworks have just begun. A house in the well-to-do Mission Heights district has gone up in flames. Inside are the charred remains of Lawrence Lancaster, with a .22 caliber slug in his brain -- courtesy of his wife. Kathryn's convinced it's premeditated murder, but she's pitted against a high-profile, media-savvy attorney who's vowing to turn the trial into a referendum on Battered Women's Syndrome. Kathryn's greatest challenge will be focusing on the defendant's love life...and not on her own. Her colleague and lover, David Granz, has also been accused of a crime -- the brutal rape of a former girlfriend -- and the evidence seems airtight. With her personal and professional worlds on a collision course, Kathryn races to uncover the truth -- and becomes the next target in a spiral of rage, recrimination, and explosive violence.
25 years have passed since humanity quarantined the mysterious aliens known as Moties within the confines of their own solar system. They have spent a quarter century analyzing and agonizing over the deadly threat posed by the only aliens mankind has ever encountered-- a race divided into distinct biological forms, each serving a different function. Master, Mediator, Engineer. Warrior. Each supremely adapted to its task, yet doomed by millions of years of evolution to an inescapable fate.
This lively and engaging novel in Mary Kruger's cozy mystery series follows the adventures of amateur sleuth and yarn shop owner Ariadne Evans as she untangles another knitting-related murder at a Massachusetts Yarn and Wool Festival. She found the body. Again. Sensing a pattern? Ariadne Evans swore her sleuthing days were over after her very own knitting shop became a crime scene a few months back. But she hadn't anticipated that the Freeport Wool and Yarn Festival would become the site of another murder -- with hers truly as a prime suspect. Since Ari was the one to find the body of Felicia Barr -- the much detested and influential owner of Knit It Up magazine -- with a knitting needle stuck in her back, the cops are needling Ari for answers. In a stitch, Ari dons her hand-knit detective cap and helps her on-and-off boyfriend, Detective Josh Pierce, untangle the day's events and solve a very woolly crime -- before the killer strikes again....
A collection of holiday romance stories from the most spellbinding romance authors, including New York Times bestselling Judith McNaught, Jude Deveraux, Andrea Kane, Kimberly Cates, and Judith O'Brien.A Gift Of Love captures holiday magic as it transports us to...New York City, where a schoolteacher slips an antique gold ring on her finger and travels back in time to a man who desperately needs her love...to a village in Victorian England, where an embittered earl seeks a governess for a lovely, defiant little girl named Noelle...to a starry London night, on which a Christmas pony heralds a gift greater than any king's ransom...to the snow-covered hills of Virginia, where a young widow learns during a holiday trip that miracles really do come in the least expected packages...and to a reclusive tycoon's Newport estate, where a determined young woman sets out to unlock the secrets of a man's heart. Let A Gift Of Love open the door to worlds of passion and adventure, where love—and miracles—are always in the air!
Susannah Stacey's Superintendent Bone mysteries have won her comparisons to Ruth Rendell, P.D. James, and Agatha Christie. Now in a charming English tale, Bone brings his instincts to bear on a case of deadly prenuptial disagreements.
A tragic and riveting true story of teenage obsession, torture, and murder. From Michael Quinlan, staff member of the Louisville Courier-Journal and the only journalist to interview all the parties involved, meticulously recounts the shocking and horrific events surround the murder of twelve-year-old Shandra Sharer by a group of teenage girls.
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