"My name is Nicolette Dazincourt DeLande, and I have committed murder. . . ". So begins this spellbinding novel, the passionate story of a young girl's marriage into a Louisiana family so monstrous that only an extraordinary woman could escape from it alive.

At 21, Bonnie makes her way to New Orleans, filled with an artist's zeal and an obsession to lift the shroud surrounding the past. Yet, she feels a strange sense of deja vu. Someone is watching her. Following her. Now, she must fight to be the survivor her mysterious mother meant her to be--a woman who will defy fate itself. From the author of Betrayal.

Ashlee Chadwick Davenport has been a widow for only a month when she finds disturbing evidence suggesting that her husband Jack--pillar of the community, church deacon, principled businessman--might have been much less honorable than he seemed. There are recordings of anonymous phone calls alleging Jack was involved in unsavory business transactions. Records of shady land deals. And she finds letters that hint at even darker dealings.

Worse, from an emotional standpoint, Ashe discovers racy photos of her deceased husband with her best friend. She feels as if her marriage and her life have...

Book 2 in the Rhea Lynch, M.D. Series Working in the ER of a small South Carolina hospital, Dr. Rhea Lynch has seen it all-most of it at 2:00 a.m. But when an interracial couple is rushed in, beaten and bloodied by a mysterious hate group, the patients show signs of a fast-acting pulmonary infection Rhea has never seen before. Within hours, it proves fatal. Soon, more victims are rushed in, and an epidemic has Dawkins County in an icy grip of terror. As the puzzling illness claims more lives by the hour, Rhea begins to draw some startling conclusions about the nature of the illness . . . and...

Life in a small town can take some interesting twists--especially for ER physician Dr. Rhea Lynch. When the chief coroner is shot in a hail of gunfire that leaves a man dead and a teenaged boy searching for clues to his missing sister, Rhea is deputized as an assistant coroner. Then a mass grave is discovered--along with a killer's baffling clue. Although she is a doctor dedicated to saving the living, Rhea is suddenly forced to find answers from the dead. Soon her skill and courage put her back on the front lines of the battle she fights best: a race between life and death.