Lucien Martin has spent most of his life building Valmont.He bought the old water factory when few people saw anything worth saving and spent the next twenty years turning it into a successful family business. Now he and his wife, Violette, are finally ready to step away. Their children will take over, and Lucien intends to do something that has never come easily to him: leave the company behind and let them run it their way.Then, over a family dinner, he learns about the o...

THE NAME YOU CARRYHe has spent his life uncovering other people’s secrets. Then one case leads him to his own.Raymond Schmid trusts facts: names, dates, records, evidence. They are solid, verifiable, and safe.But when a seemingly ordinary case begins to expose impossible connections between missing children, altered identities, buried files, and people who were never supposed to find one another, Raymond discovers something far more disturbing than ...

NOTHING TO DECLARESandra Herrera has built her life around one simple belief: everything leaves a trace.As a customs officer in Málaga, she knows how to find the mistake in a document, the inconsistency in a shipment, the detail that doesn't belong. At forty-three, she has a career she fought for, a man she loves, and a life defined by order, routine, and control.Then, during an ordinary inspection at the Port of Málaga, she sees Gabriel Hurtado. Th...

THE LAST RUNAt sixty-eight, Vuk Lambert has everything money can buy: a transport empire, homes across Europe, a yacht in Monaco, and enough influence to make almost any problem disappear. But there is one thing he has spent more than forty years trying to leave behind.His name used to be Vuk Markovic.When a man from his past resurfaces with a dangerous request, Vuk is forced back into the life he thought he had escaped. The job sounds simple: trave...

For almost fifty years, Milan Várady has lived another man's life.He has the name. The fortune. The family. The influence. To Budapest's elite, he is the patriarch of one of Hungary's most powerful dynasties.Only a handful of people could ever expose the truth.Then his twenty-eight-year-old son dies.Ernest Várady collapses after drinking a bottle of wine at the family estate. His final words convince Milan that his death was no accident and that the secret M...

THE HEIR’S BLOODA dynasty can survive death. But can it survive the truth about its own blood?In the aftermath of two devastating deaths, the Várady family is left without the men who once held its empire together. Ernest Várady is dead. His father, Milan, has been pulled from the Danube. And Péter Farkas, the man who may know what really happened, is still missing.Katalin Várady has buried her son and her husband within weeks of each other. Now she...

SINS OF POWERBook Three of The Várady House TrilogyEvery dynasty has secrets. But the most dangerous ones are not buried in the past. They are the choices made to keep them there.Years after the deaths that shattered the Várady family, Katalin has done what she has always done best: survived.The family empire still stands. The Várady name still commands wealth, influence and respect. And Károly, the grandson for whom Katalin sacrificed almos...

The last time Victor Vart did his father a favor, it nearly cost him his career. So when his father calls again, Victor knows exactly what to say: No.Victor Vart Jr. is a police officer in Regensburg. His father is charming, persuasive, and dangerously good at making other people's problems sound harmless. Victor has fallen for it before. One small favor. One supposedly innocent intervention. One mistake that left his career hanging by a thread. Never again.Then his father ...

A mother will do anything to protect her son.A son will do anything to escape his father's shadow.But what happens when the perfect safety net finally rips?Before he was a murder victim, Victor Vart Sr. was a young man with a dangerous charm and an extraordinary talent for making poor choices. But he had one ultimate weapon: his mother, Zita.Driven by unconditional, suffocating maternal love, Zita built an e...

Eighteen years ago, Christian Laurent disappeared.He walked away from power, violence, and a name that once opened doors and closed graves. He entered a monastery, became Brother Maurice, and built a life governed by routine, responsibility, and silence.Then his younger brother finds him.Patrick Laurent arrives exhausted, terrified, and with a death sentence hanging over his head.Patrick has spent years doing business with men he knew better than to trust. N...

Adam Robertson has a good life. He teaches English, has been married to Claire for years, and has two daughters he adores. There are problems, of course, but nothing that makes him think his whole life could disappear overnight.Then Xenia arrives at his school.She's new, intelligent, a little difficult to read, and she soon becomes close friends with Adam's daughter Larissa. Adam doesn't think much of it. Why would he?Then Xenia accuses him of something he says he d...

For almost fifty years, Milan Várady has lived another man's life.He has the name. The fortune. The family. The influence. To Budapest's elite, he is the patriarch of one of Hungary's most powerful dynasties.Only a handful of people could ever expose the truth.Then his twenty-eight-year-old son dies.Ernest Várady collapses after drinking a bottle of wine at the family estate. His final words convince Milan that his death was no accident and that the secret M...