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It's London, 1857, and everything is at stake for Serafina Trent, a woman of means, but not the typical Victorian lady who feels her place is to be seen and not heard. Wealthy widow of a nobleman and daughter of a famous scientist, she's a skeptic who only trusts what can be proven. When her brother's most recent female dalliance, a beautiful actress, is found murdered, all evidence points to him. Especially since the actress had just rejected him...

The fatal crash was no accident. The killer's only mistake was leaving behind a survivor ... a four-month-old boy. For his sake - and for his murdered mother's - Sheriff Mandy Scott will see justice served. And she already has her prime suspect: the boy's father. Yet despite the evidence against him, something about the reclusive rancher makes Mandy question his guilt. Nothing is as it seems as crime starts spiraling out of control in Timber Wells....

Longing to atone for the choices that drove him to Tucson, J.D. Jessup disobeys his employer and hides Maria, an illegal alien he found near death in the desert, and unleashes a chain of deadly events he could never have imagined.

Cate Kincaid is just dipping her toe into the world of private investigating until one of the many r�esum�es she has floating around lands her a real job. All she has to do is determine that a particular woman lives at a particular address. Simple, right? When the big and brooding house happens to contain a dead body, this routine PI job turns out to be anything but simple. Is Cate in over her head? Readers will be hooked from the very first...

What happens when the promise to protect and serve forces a police officer to do the unthinkable....? Police Officer Ashley Walters is being stalked. Her wedding plans are interrupted by an attack on her fiancé, and a detective is shot protecting her. Ashley is forced to flee for her own safety and the lives of those she loves. Ashley finds refuge in a Mennonite community in Shipshewana, Indiana. But even in a peaceful town among gentle people she...

What if you could travel inside another person's soul? Thirty years ago that's exactly what Reece Roth did. Until tragedy shattered his life and ripped away his future. Now God has drawn Reece out of the shadows to fulfill a prophecy spoken over him three decades ago. A prophecy about four warriors with the potential to change the world...if Reece will face his deepest regret and teach them what he has learned.

Officer Brinna Caruso has built a reputation in the precinct as the cop to call when a child goes missing. For Brinna, it's personal: she was one of them. Detective Jack O'Reilly isn't ready to return to his homicide duties after losing his wife to a drunk driver. When he's assigned as her partner, Brinna isn't sure she can rely on Jack. But when a man surfaces with an MO similar to the criminal who abducted Brinna, they must combine efforts to catch...

For math prodigy Leonhard Euler, the Bernoulli family has been more than just friends. But his mentor, Master Johann, and his sons are engaged in a ruthless competition for prestige among Europe's mathematical elites. And now, their aspirations may have turned deadly. Lured into an investigation of the suspicious death of Jacob Bernoulli, his master's brother, twenty years ago, Leonhard soon discovers he's facing an elusive puzzle as complicated as...

Colliding Worlds After a tragedy rips through her Amish community, Sarah Lapp doesn't remember anything. She can't recall her Plain upbringing, her deceased husband or the shooting that landed her under the protection of handsome undercover cop Samuel King. She is, however, aware of the confusing feelings he creates in her from the moment he walks into her life. Sam is determined to protect Sarah and her unborn baby in case the shooters return. Because...

As the four members of Warriors Riding deal with their own personal problems they are being hunted by the Wolf who will not stop until he destroys them.