Three friends with secrets. One luxurious lake house vacation. A killer on the loose.Lauren, Drew, and Rob go on a relaxing vacation that turns into a nightmare. As Lauren sunbathes by the lake, she sees the man from next door lugging something heavy into a boat. The night before, Lauren thought she heard a woman screaming. What is their rich and famous neighbor hiding?Women are vanishing in this beautiful corner of Tennessee, full of woods and water. Detec...

Detective Bailey is in a race against time to catch a killer.It isn’t every day that Detective Chris Bailey is handed a triple homicide.They may have their share of problems in the scenic wooded hills of Tennessee, but news that a young man—a child, really—wiped out his entire family sends a ripple of shock through the whole community.Seventeen-year-old Colin Simon is witnessed fleeing the scene, gun in hand. He’s arrested for murder, but refuses to...

A killer with a dangerous obsession. Three young women shot to death. Each victim with one shoe missing.It’s the middle of the night when Detective Chris Bailey is called to the side of a rural Tennessee highway. A young woman’s body is found sprawled on the shoulder of the winding country road, a glossy dark pool of blood around her head.The victim has been shot five times. She isn’t wearing a coat, though it’s late February. Her empty purse is discarded a...

Two hidden bodies. One crumbling Tennessee mansion full of secrets. A killer who’s always one step ahead.Detective Chris Bailey thought he’d heard it all. But he’s never had a call like this.What if I told you I knew where his body was buried?Bailey is called to Ivy Manor, out in the sticks. An eerie old pile like this—ringed by dark woods and deep lakes on all sides—is sure to conjure rumors.And now the new owner’s...

TIES OF PASSIONThe perfect match?Christ Brodey could have any woman he looked at-and he was looking at Tiffany Dean! On a strictly casual basis, though. As far as he was concerned, she was just another gold digger….Tiffany had no money, no job and no chance of getting either. Her plan to gate-crash the Brodey's party for a magazine story was her last chance….The deal:

Could you save the world if your world was falling apart?Chris Collins is a CIA deputy director with a history of rogue missions. He's lost his wife, his career, and maybe his friends...but there are new "friends" around every corner. And along with the new friends, some powerful new enemies.On a bitterly cold night in Washington DC, Chris Collins is heading home to open his favorite bottle of red, when his past walks right by him. A day later, his world fa...

Could you betray the ones you love for the greater good?Chris Collins is an ex-CIA agent with a history of rogue missions. His enemies took away everything he had, and now it's time to pay. He knows his adversaries will stop at nothing to remove those who stand in their way - including himself. But they move in the shadows, and smoking them out means taking himself to some dark places.As he hunts them down, he's reminded that for spies like him, romance is ...

A stolen shipment of nuclear weapons, a reckless dictator on the warpath, and a kidnapped sister in the middle of it all.Chris Collins is an ex-CIA agent with a history of rogue missions. After crossing the world to bring his enemies to justice, he's burned out and in need of a break. When a shipment of nuclear weapons is stolen at a Turkish air base, Chris decides to leave this one to his former agency. But things soon get personal.Holed up in a plush Rio ...

A museum curator travels to Italy and looks into a murder in this mystery by the Edgar Award–winning author of the Gideon Oliver series.Mild‑mannered and law‑abiding, Chris Norgren, curator of Renaissance and Baroque art at the Seattle Art Museum, is an unlikely undercover investigator, but when a priceless Rubens portrait is discovered in a shipment of "authentic reproductions" in a local warehouse, Chris is pressed into service to find out how it got there. The q...

After the devastation his brother endured at the hands of a woman, Deputy Chris Dolan vowed to never get involved with them. The quiet introvert is not looking for love and believes he never will.Tragedy has Charlotte Jones fleeing to River Valley for a fresh start. Will their innocent charade, to appease a match-making aunt, backfire on them?Author's Promise: This is a heartwarming Second Chance Romance with a happily ever after ending and no cliffhangers. It is a clea...

An American museum curator in Berlin must find a fake painting—and a real killer—in this mystery from the Edgar Award–winning author of Switcheroo.Chris Norgren, museum curator and Renaissance art expert, heads to Berlin to assist in mounting a sensational exhibit: The Plundered Past—twenty priceless Old Masters looted by the Nazis, thought for decades to be lost forever, and only recently rediscovered.But things quickly get out of hand when Chris'...

• First Digital Edition• Grier Rating: A***A young and passionate girl, Chris Hamilton, is also an incredibly handsome one. You would hardly have suspected her of harboring powerful hungers and unconventional desires—unless you knew of her love affair with another woman, a lovely blonde appropriately named Dizz.Dizz accepted the advances of Chris, yet withheld her love. Deliberately, perhaps to torment Chris, she allowed herself an affair with a man....