WINNER OF INDEPENDENT PUBLISHERS' 2009 BRONZE "IPPY" MEDAL FOR BEST REGIONAL FICTION Still reeling from the tragic loss of her family, Carly Malloy thinks she has found the perfect place to start her life over. But when Caribbean women hired as summer employees begin to dispappear, Carly questions how she can keep safe - and whom she can trust. A chance encounter further complicates Carly's situation, drawing her into the tragic circumstances of a privileged family with a harrowing legacy. As Carly consents to help these people in need, she is further plunged into a confrontation with issues...

To gain more money than he ever imagined, Ramm Prescott must fulfill the terms of his grandfather's will by producing a Prescott heir. When he meets Jeannie Stewart, she is the perfect one to become the mother of his children, providing she can become pregnant; a must before he'll marry her. Quickly drawn into a maelstrom of desire, Jeannie finds love in Ramm's bed and arms nightly, never once suspecting an ulterior motive. Yet, beneath Ramm's strong sensual nature is a planned scheme that will uproot her life when he leaves Montana following his father's heart attack. When his deceit...

For years Juliette Pardeau worked to support her husband and send him to law school. Then he tricks her into signing a Quit Claim Deed to their house and locks her out. Terror stalks Juliette when she finds herself homeless, penniless and desperate. Club Eros, a strip club, offers her refuge. With her life in transition from respected housewife to a shamed stripper her self-worth crumbles. Craving revenge, she sets out to ruin Russell. During a police investigation into missing young women, she places a telephone call to his law firm, disclosing his secret fetish for young girls. It gets him...

Two young women are murdered in the basement of Thomas Marshall's elegant home. The crime goes undetected. Twenty-five years later, Maria Anna Marshall, lives with a sense of terror that consumes her every time she steps inside the front door of her late father's home. The strength of that terror centers on a basement door, locked for years and made inaccessible to her. She knows she isn't crazy, but the house gives her strange chills and causes her to suffer bouts of anxiety heightened by terrible nightmares that spiral when... Someone Wants Her Dead Someone has a stake in silencing Maria...

Emotionally ravaged by the bloody murder of her adoring parents, a young daughter vows on their graves to avenge their deaths and bring their killers to justice. That vow becomes an obsession after Rianne's godparents sprint her away from the only home she has known. Taking up residence with them, she grows and blossoms into a beautiful young woman, soon finding herself attracted to and seduced by a dashing pursuer who claims her heart. She struggles between love and her obsession to avenge the tragic and violent murders of her beloved mother and father. Before she is free to pursue her goal,...

Autumn Marsh, violently assaulted the day of her mother's funeral, believes her ordeal is behind her, until she encounters her attacker at the birthday party of Dawson Rutherford, her grandma's employer. Autumn suspects her hated enemy's deceptive charisma has charmed Dawson's wife, Laurette, into an affair. Later, Dawson is discovered mercilessly strangled to death in his bathroom. With sixty or more guests attending, anyone could be the killer. The sheriff is of a different mind. Colby, fiance to Autumn, and eldest son of the Rutherford's, is the last known person to see his father alive....