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Teenaged sleuths investigate a dark murder mystery “Oh, there’s those gorgeous girls,” Regina crowed. “Pepi Nok and Cheyne Somerset. They make me think of glazed marble bookends, you know, like perfect statuettes only polar colors, dark and light.Cheyne and Pepi are 16-year-old beauty pageant princesses sitting on a flowery float waving their white gloved hands at the public as they pass by in the annual May Day Parade. It’s a beautiful day that ends in ghastly tragedy.The teens join the horrified throng circling the grisly site on a float that didn’t go out in the parade. Lying dead in the center of the float is Lareina Castilla.Lareina was a well-known vain, very mean girl so, although she’d been ruthlessly murdered, no one is too upset over her gruesome demise, and the police are only halfheartedly pursuing a suspect.When Megan Milan, Cheyne’s beloved teacher is framed for a deadly bombing, the teens believe that travesty and Lareina’s murder are connected. The amateur sleuths vow to bring Megan’s framer to justice, and expose Lareina’s killer.As the girls follow the evidence to the despicable suspects, their own lives hurl into dire danger when they uncover an insidious plot to put the entire state in deadly peril.In the midst of all this, Pepi’s nightmarish childhood drags her down into a dark, harrowing spiral that she may be unable to climb out of.Their very lives in terrifying jeopardy, will the teens live to see justice prevail? Will Pepi survive her atrocious past to live happily ever after? Will each girl find her own romantic hero? Read on and find out! This book contains dark themes of child abuse, domestic violence, addiction and endangered children. There are no words that would be offensive to underage readers, and there is a HEA.

While on an archeological dig in the Amazon, Tani Starleen’s brother Holt is abducted and his two friends are murdered. Tani tries to hire Rogan Damiano, a disgraced ex-soldier and disreputable owner of a sleazy saloon to help her find Holt.Rogan’s soul is angry and bitter from what happened while he was in the military. His heart is stone cold and he refuses to help Tani, whom he has obsessed over since the first time his eyes lit on her blonde ringlets.But then, Rogan realizes she and her fiancé, the professor of the dig will be in dire danger, he rushes to her aid and rescues them from ravaging pirates.While guiding them down the perilous Amazon River in search of Holt, Rogan and his team fight off rampaging animals and rapacious humans along the way.Rogan is smitten with the delicate beauty, however there are the small problems of Tani’s abusive fiancé and Rogan’s own past that continue to barge between them.Tani is young and sweet, Rogan is tough and coarse. He knows he’s no good for her, but that won’t stop him from doing his damnedest to eliminate all of her menaces and winning her heart.

This tongue-in-cheek, quirky murder mystery is a jaunty yet grievous tale. Self-admitted geek, happy-go-lucky Rusty Dixon suddenly finds himself smack dab in the middle of a murder mystery. Devastated at the harrowing death of a good friend, Rusty finds himself bumbling through as he happens upon threads of evidence to uncover the devious deceptor. Still in the early throes of wedded bliss, the earth falls out from under Rusty's feet when murder, betrayal, and dire danger hit too close to home. As the lead suspect in his friend's as well as other connected murders, Rusty finds himself stumbling onto an exotic clue that drops him right into the murder's scheming path. Is it too late for Rusty to run away as fast as he can? Or will he be the killer's latest victim? Or, could Rusty be kidding himself and everyone else and actually really be the...vile perpetrator? Mind the sneaky little twist at the end...

Her hands cuffed behind her back, Cherriana is being led onto the prisoner transport bus. All the males on board, deputies as well as prisoners don’t hold back their aroused reactions at the approach of the beautiful felon.One corrupt deputy in particular, Vance Malone, has instigated Cheri’s trip aboard the bus that is traveling across numerous states to bring all the convicts to a new prison. Malone plans some us time with him and the unwilling, falsely convicted, very young woman.A prisoner, Shawn Darkonn, is dismayed at the sight of the female prisoner as well as the two female deputies boarding the bus. This was supposed to be an all-male transport, and with this new wrench thrown into the spokes, Shawn fears the outcome will be a SNAFU to the max.He was right. Halfway into the trip the bus careens off a mountain and crashes. The bus is too damaged to drive, so the group heads out into the vast and perilous wilderness on foot.Besieged with dangerous people, shootouts, wild vicious animals and treachery from within, Shawn puts all his efforts into getting the people to safety. And, from the very start he decides he wants to keep Cheri for himself.Vance Malone along with other despicable thugs attempt to teach him otherwise.Can Shawn win Cheri’s heart, and will he be enough to save her from imminent danger and threat of rape from multiple directions? And if so, will he be able to get Cheri’s insurmountable conviction with her sentence of life without parole revoked so they can have their HEA?

Stuffing the grief and guilt from his sordid past with alcohol, Neco Bardiche is driving through a horrific storm when he spots something in the gully. He finds a young woman badly injured and unconscious. The storm has closed the roads, he has no choice but to take her to his home.When she recovers, she has no memory of who she is, who beat her, or how she ended up in the ditch. However, her subconscious tells her a danger is after her.As Neco searches for the woman they name Casie's real identity, he falls for her and presses her to stay and build a relationship with him.But, the danger she'd feared finds Casie and abducts her. Neco races to find Casie before the menace silences her forever.

The second Commander Bayou DaRocco's gaze lights on Livy Stirling, his green eyes turn into molten emeralds. Bay thought he'd been shot through the heart with Cupid's freakin' arrow.Heeding the advice from his friends that directly asking her out will have her turning her nose up in the air and freezing him out, Bay makes a plan. He doesn't count on Jered Kenaz, the deranged serial killer who had kidnapped, raped and murdered numerous women to come out of the woodwork and snatch Livy up, the only one of his victims who got away. The first time.How on earth is Bay going to find Livy and rescue her before Kenaz succeeds this time in his sick savage desires to brutally torture then kill Livy?

Fourteen years after an inexplicable devastating event, exiled Kessa Kent returns home to Oregon attempting to reconcile with her estranged family. Unfortunately, her family members remain unforgiving, blaming and hate filled towards her. Rejected once again, Kessa thinks it's best she cuts all ties with them and return to her lonely cabin in Maine. That is, until the murders start and the police suspect Kessa is somehow involved. A local deputy, Grayson Whitewolf, decides to plunge into the past and investigate the mysterious, unsolved tragedy that caused Kessa's family to shatter into pieces and throw her away. Will Grayson ultimately end up arresting Kessa, or loving her? Can he uncover and stop the killer that is quickly cutting all the loose threads that could expose the past?

Anyalia Marvaux is on her way to work when she is suddenly snatched off the sidewalk and tossed into a luxury bus. Inside the bus is a group of debauched people, half are on their way to suffer their comeuppance for wrong doing, the other half are the mercenaries hired to take them to Anton de Vos. Déisi Zukov, the cold, harsh man who abducted Anya keeps her away from the other rapacious men, yet he manhandles and threatens her himself as he transports her from bus to plane to train until they land far away in a foreign country. Anton de Vos is an evil man who has kidnapped Anya's beloved grandfather to obtain a formula that will devastate millions but will make him wealthy beyond all means. He hired Déisi Zukov to capture Anya and bring her and the formula to him. Once he has the formula he will kill Anya's granddad and keep Anya for his own depraved pleasure. The wrench in the works, is that the brutal Déisi falls hard and fast for Anya and plots to save her from de Vos. Moreover, he plans to seduce her and keep her for himself. Problem is, de Vos owns Déisi, and if Déisi defies him, de Vos will see that Déisi and his brothers are imprisoned for life. Will Déisi live up to his nickname, a čelu vlad, Death Comes, and defeat de Vos and rescue Anya and her granddad? This story contains graphic language and explicit adult content.

Shantilly Lane and her twin sister, Summer run their family-owned restaurant called Crystal Petals. Not only is she beautiful, but Shanti is a spectacular artist and has a shop displaying her paintings and crafts next door.Shanti is occasionally hired to paint portrayals of wealthy owners' gorgeous estates. At the last one in Napa, a multiple murder occurred in a winery chateau, and while unwittingly pursuing evidence, Shanti exposed the assassin.Relieved that the whole ordeal was behind her, she excitedly tells Summer that she has been hired by a blue-blooded rancher to paint his ancestral posh manor and farmstead. Throw in outings of horseback riding and fancy barbecues at Red Gem Farm and Shanti eagerly flies to Brimstone Glen, Utah to meet the affluent clan and begin her magical artistry. But then, a heartbreaking murder occurs, then another, then an attempt on Shanti's own life spurs the young woman to uncover clues leading to the identity of the killer.Finding herself in dire danger, can Shanti depend on help from a handsome stranger and a possible budding romance, or is he the very one she should be suspicious of?

A young woman washes ashore on an island that hovers between the archaic and the modern. She has no memory of who she is. Because she is unmarked, belonging to none of the three factions on the isle, brutal Warlord Kultur holds her prisoner until he can discover who she is and what her agenda may be. He wants her and is cruel and ruthless to Sislla when she denies him. Sislla, as they name her, is in dire danger as the deadly Iminims are coming from across the sea. They come to war, and they will kill any who are unmarked. For a stranger to become marked, they must have sexual relations with a marked person on three golden moons. Kultur's mother insists either he tosses Sislla back to the ocean and let her fare on her own, or have one of the village warriors mark her thereby protecting all the people from detection. But, Kultur has an issue with that. He decides he will be the one to mark his captive. The problem is, Sislla refuses to be marked. Once marked she can never leave the island and her instinct is urging her to return to the sea and find her home. The menacing Iminims are coming. What will the fearsome Kultur do, save his people, or save Sislla against her will?