High Stakes Featured
A Mafia don who's not afraid to get his hands dirty to find the truth, and a reporter that can't resist his dark charms. Killian O’Neill controls the pulse of the vibrant horse racing world in the Finger Lakes region of New York. He also has ties to a powerful Syndicate in Ireland. Carlyn Murphy ...
Collision Course Featured
Serve his country or rescue his wife?
Federal Air Marshal Reese Donovan has sacrificed everything he loves to keep another 9/11 from occurring again.
After living apart from his wife, Verity, for a year, the last thing he expects is harrowing news that will force hi ...
The Girl Who Killed You Featured
From USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Amy Vansant - the most fun you can have holding a Kindle Reader!
When Mick and his retired military gun-for-hire “fixer” service is hired by a United States Senator to find his missing so ...
Rocky Mountain Dogs Featured
Is that a vintage RV–– painted top to bottom with paw print-shaped polka-dots –– driving into town? You can bet your pupper’s next bubble bath it is! Get ready to plunge into the pages of the third book in the always pet-friendly Rocky Mountain Romances series. When Kathrina gets chased out of her S ...

Savage Warrior Featured
In the aftermath of a devastating accident that claimed the life of his friend, Stefan Romansque - Rome - finds himself consumed by survivor's guilt, clutching onto it like a suffocating cloak. His sole intention is to tend to his wounds in seclusion, but his plans are abruptly shattered when he dis ...
Rocky Mountain Kid Featured
Can even the coldest heart be thawed? You bet! And your friends in Independence Junction prove it’s possible when a new kid comes to town. Get ready for some horsing around in the fourth book of the Rocky Mountain Romances series. What happens when nosy reporter Paige catches wind of a kiddo name ...
Reckless Mate Featured
Not everyone is what they seem. Sometimes that’s good and sometimes not. Kyra My life is… complicated. I’m a deputy in the small town of Mystic River; my boss used to be my lover; and my brother is the local gangster. If that isn’t enough, Scott, the town’s very sexy baker, has told everyone ...
Luke Savage is a DEA agent assigned to go undercover in a criminal organization that wants to expand its “business.” Bree Kelly is a local cop assigned to go undercover with him. She thinks he’s an arrogant sexist. He thinks she’s an irritating liability. Their cover? They have to pose as a loving c ...
The Scavenger Featured
He can protect her but only if he can earn her trust! When Royce is assigned to protect a new high profile client, he doesn’t understand how it’s any different from any other case… until he meets the woman he’s supposed to protect and hears her story. Camille’s brothers work for Russian ma ...
Kilty Conscience Featured
Your favorite modern-day Highlander and Hollywood fixer find themselves embroiled in another thrilling, funny, adventure from USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Amy Vansant.
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My Bestie's Bad Boy Daddy Featured
My best friend’s father is my new boss. And I want him for more than a paycheck. After catching my boyfriend cheating, I need an escape. My best friend offers me her home, but there’s a catch. I have to work as an assistant for her insufferably arrogant, billionaire father. Not only is her father ...
Bossy Bad Boy Protector Featured
Hannah Grace is off-limits. Not only is she my new employee, but she is also testing my control. She thinks she can do anything a man can. But, despite her driving me crazy, I want her. She is the definition of trouble- sassy, strong-willed, and dangerously alluring. Hannah is also younge ...
Trusting Grace Featured
A broken analyst. A former SEAL. One chance to uncover the truth and each other.
NCIS cyber specialist Grace Harlan was once the sharpest mind in military intelligence until a drone strike killed her team, left her scarred inside and out, and made her the convenient scape ...
The Man Who Came Back Featured
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "Think Stephanie Plum goes to Florida. With Jack Reacher. Highly recommended." —Carmen Amato, bestselling author of the Detective Emilia Cru ...
Atomic Secrets Featured
Eighteen-year-old Alice has always lived in the shadow of her beautiful, bossy cousin Betty. So when she is forced to move with her family out west to work for the war effort, Alice wants to prove her worth almost as much as she wants to make enough money to move back home to Wisconsin. As a typist ...

Enjoy this steamy romantic suspense series from USA TODAY Bestselling romance author Rene Webb! A Kidnapped College Student While studying abroad, I was drugged, kidnapped, and imprisoned . . . in a Hong Kong brothel. After several failed attempts to escape, I know my time is running out. My inno ...
Kilty As Hell Featured
"This series is getting better and better." - Amazon Reviewer
Catriona is having a strange year. First, she found a dazed Highlander on the Hollywood studio lot where she works as a fixer and now it seems she and that big hunk of haggis are supposed to save the world from corrupted t ...
My Fair Thief Featured
Danger and deceit lurk around every corner when Claire is forced to go on the run from a mysterious enemy. Claire was determined Fletch would not be the one who paid the price. Running was her only option. When Fletch finds her she has no choice but to reveal her secrets in order to protect him. So ...
Three deadly accidents that might have been magical murder. A dark witch with a grudge against the King family. Federal agents with supernatural abilities. And, as usual, Dawson and Grady are smack dab in the crosshairs of trouble even they can’t outrun. When Grady King’s brother Knox is targeted by ...
Shadowplay Featured
My simple life was safe…until he pulled me into the shadows. Falling for Hunter Brigham, a billionaire single dad, was never the plan. Despite the dangers, past traumas, and powerful forces of D.C.'s elite, we can't stay away from each other. Can we stop them from tearing us apart?
Savage Lovers Featured
It was an honest mistake. I believe that much, but even honest mistakes have consequences. Deathly consequences. Ruth Lowison blundered into my world. She may be an innocent, but she could so easily destroy me and all that I hold dear. I can’t let that happen. I won’t. There’s only one way to sil ...
The Man Who Kept Secrets Featured
Enter the series at any book - each is a complete standalone mystery.
By USA TODAY and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Amy Vansant.
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A heart ...
Danger. Corruption. Passion. She’s digging deep. He’s hiding the truth.
When preservationist Samantha Jordan’s team discovers a woman’s remains at a controversial San Antonio construction site, she won’t let handsome police detective Nick Ballard sto ...

Strength & Honor Featured
This charity anthology contains 11 spicy romantic suspense stories of love and honor, brought to you by top Amazon authors, coming together to support our military heroes when they need us most. All royalties are going to stopsoldiersuicide.org. Join us in our efforts and get great stories (and good ...
Rocky Mountain Yoga Featured
A hot tea or a glass of wine in your left hand, the book in your right, the cat or the dog by your side, you will be transported into Jasmine's world. Side by side you will catch her boyfriend dealing shady business out of the apartment they share in Seattle. You accompany her, when she grabs her ...
Rescued Featured
Breaking down in a nowhere town called Providence wasn’t part of the plan. When her life falls apart in a matter of hours, all single mother Amy Lawson wants is a fresh start. She doesn’t expect to break down and find herself at the mercy of strangers. Securing a safe place for her and her daught ...

Roustabout Featured
A con man and a government agent walk into a carnival… Bartlett Gibson is a necromancer and an agent for the Tennessee Bureau of Supernatural Investigation. He’s hot on the trail of RJ Tucker, a psychic con man who has eluded him at every turn and led him on a merry chase. Pursuit leads to grudgi ...
Ruthless killers. Deadly deceit. Fiery passion.
She’ll do anything to catch a polluter. He’ll do anything to stop her.
Undercover Texas PI Brock Emerson has one job—to keep chemical engineer Adelaide Reese from shutting down his client’s paper mil ...

A favor for my best friend leads me straight into danger—
and the arms of her irresistibly hot detective brother.
Helping at a small-town bakery should have been simple.
Instead, break-ins and threats have me living under Jackson Harding’s roof.
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He’s the last person she’d turn to. But he’s her best bet to keep her and her daughter alive. Many authors would kill to be invited to do a private book signing for the woman who could be the next first lady. Regan Christenson isn’t one of them. Someone is willing to kill her if she doesn’t accep ...
Like Driftwood On The Salish Sea Featured
When they met in the fourth grade, it was love at first sight for Mitchell Brody and Jessica Ramirez. He was the freckle-faced kid who stood up for her honor when he silenced the class bully who’d been teasing her because of her accent. She was the new kid whose family moved to San Juan Island, W ...
One sexy billionaire... One Fiery temptress, defying his every move... Boardroom battles are just foreplay leading to forbidden nights of ecstasy. Can she he resist Noah's allure, or will the boardroom become their playground of passions? Just as I was ready to claim my CEO throne, along comes Noah, ...
Shameless Mate Featured
They thought she would break when the cage door slammed shut behind her... she didn’t. Nova’s life was shattered when her father, the alpha, banished her fated mate, Mark, and he left without her. When she refused to bend to her father’s will he locked her in a cage for weeks in her fox form. Inste ...
Sweet Realms of Deception Featured
Lizette Hill, pencil pusher and paralegal for the FBI How deep would she have to go? Assigned to a desk job for the last ten years, the FBI had a major shift due to upper echelon decisions and Lizette was assigned to her first undercover position in an office owned by a mafia family involved in the ...

From The First Moment Featured
Amy Jordan Sullivan returns to Chicago from her home in the Hollywood Hills for a starring role in a run of the musical Grease. She moved seven years ago to establish her now successful acting career leaving her first love behind. CPD Homicide Detective Michael Sullivan Lynch heads the next generati ...
Chasing An Obsession Featured
Two stalkers. One prize. Each other.
The bar is packed, the air buzzing with laughter and mindless chatter, but I only have eyes for my obsession. She commands my attention without trying, every move hypnotic, every glance a new addiction. There's no stopping myself tonight from interveni ...
Savage Prince Featured
A ghost from my past comes out of nowhere with life-changing news: I have a son. A son who desperately needs my help.To protect him and his mother, I bring them to Caraskay, hidden away from the dangers of an increasingly unsafe world. My family and I will do everything we can to help the boy. ...

Paint Me A Murder Featured
Writing thrilling mysteries is a fun and exciting job until a real life murder mimics fiction. Fiona Fowler, a bestselling mystery writer known for her captivating werewolf detective novels, finds herself thrust into a real-life murder mystery during a fateful, full moon. When a prominent artist ...
An explosion. A suspected criminal. An undeniable attraction.
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Defenseless Featured
A murdered woman, a powerful politician, and a witness who’s no longer willing to stay in the shadows. Eighteen years ago, Bela Houseman became a loose end. The powerful man who murdered her mother knows who she is and exactly what she saw that night. Giving up everything she’s ever known, includ ...
Reluctant Heiress Featured
In this thrilling small-town adventure, Dulcie Brisand knows her family has secrets, but they were buried long ago… until they suddenly refuse to stay that way. Now, she’s on the run and must face hidden conspiracies as she attempts to save herself and those she loves. The fallout from a decades-old ...
Greed. Lies. Corruption.
Sarah Chandler must rely on the enemy to save her brother and escape a killer. But will joining forces mean losing her heart…or her life?
Texas rancher Sarah Chandler is having a tough month. First her b ...
Frozen in Jeopardy Featured
Her routine night turns terrifying. As the storm of the century howls through Destiny, Texas, Dr. Paige Wade remains at her clinic to care for any animals that might need assistance. Her quiet night is disrupted when a man dumps an injured dog on the doorstep just hours before Paige is attacked i ...
New friends, a book signing, and a dead author. All the makings of an exciting mystery. When Jessica Murdoch, the successful, established author, Fiona, Lori, and Christie convene at the East Coast's largest book signing, they never expect to find one of the authors dead at the foot of the stairs ...
A Honeybun and Coffee Featured
Surprised into hiding in a men's room stall at work, Angie Peterson, owner of the Dunk and Run Coffee Shoppe, overhears two men talking about killing someone named Alastair Honeybun. Picturing a frail, helpless old Englishman, Angie rushes to warn him. There's only one, small problem, Alastair Honey ...
To Love A Thief Featured
When the thief he is chasing becomes more than just a job, will the distraction be his undoing or her death sentence? Claire Mitchell is a master jewel thief, who has a secret. Although the thrill of the heist is exciting there is a reason behind her choice of profession. Family honor above all e ...
The Scoundrel Featured
He was hired to protect her. Samantha Someone doesn’t like what I write. That’s okay, erotic romance isn’t for everyone, but I like it and it pays the bills. First, there were private messages on social media, followed by emails—both full of vitriol and venom. Coming home after a day out in Lo ...
Welcome to Valhalla From USA Today Bestseller RJ Gray comes a sizzling military romance sure to leave readers gasping! After being forced into medical retirement, Navy SEAL amputee Hudson “Phantom” McGhee hunts for a way to invest his time and family inheritance to help him feel fulfilled. The ...

The Girl From Her Mirror Featured
A good deed gone dangerously wrong….
Kindred spirits Makenna Reagan and Kenzie Reese have been best friends since college. There is nothing one would not do for the other. So when a car wreck lands Kenzie in the hospital, Makenna agrees to pose as her friend on a photo assignment for ...
Island Shadows Featured
Tayla Faraday’s tragic past still haunts her nightmares. But when she discovers her only living relative—her dear uncle, Leland—is in danger, she curbs her fear and rushes to a remote island in the Caribbean to warn him.
He’s kept a secret from her. And the truth stings. But maybe that’s unf ...
Fake Marriage To My One Night Stand Featured
This passionate one-night with bad boy CEO Jason Grant, left me wanting more. Until I went to work for him. Shockingly, he didn't remember me, sparking an electrifying tension - borderline enemies. Our workplace turns into a thrilling game, teasing and challenging each other amidst the office bu ...
Savage Union Featured
Making gorgeous, feisty Casey Savage my wife was already in my plans. Finding out she is carrying my child, well, that only seals the deal as far as I am concerned. And although our passion burns as hot and fierce as it did the night I first claimed her, she doesn’t accept my proposal as easily as ...
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "Think Stephanie Plum goes to Florida. With Jack Reacher. Highly recommended." —Carmen Amato, bestselling author of the Detective Emilia Cruz police series and 30-year veteran of the Central Intelligence Agency.
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Dax Featured
We were friends with benefits, until Paisley slipped up and called me Daddy. Suddenly, all bets were off. Paisley had always put her business first, and I valued our friendship too much to complicate things. But our agreement to keep things casual couldn't prepare us for the rush of feelings that ...
Hidden Island Featured
She’d waited years for this moment…for him. You can always go home…but what will you find when you do. Jonathan Hansen is about to find out. For years they’ve hidden a huge secret…an island. But danger might be right beyond the water’s edge. Together, two guarded hearts are willing to face the impen ...

A Valhalla Proposal Featured
When someone asks you to marry them it shouldn’t come as a surprise... right? There is a proposal in the works and the veterans of Valhalla are throwing a party to celebrate. Drop in and visit with your favorite characters as they support and celebrate as one of their own gets down on one knee and p ...
The Girl Who Found Joy Featured
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "Think Stephanie Plum goes to Florida. With Jack Reacher. Highly recommended." —Carmen Amato, bestselling author of the Detective Emilia Cru ...
Love. Betrayal. Bitter resentment. Unwavering loyalty. One man inspired all four...and expected nothing in return.

Brandon Davis is a psychic and a moose shifter. He makes his living as a wilderness guide in Fox Hollow, NY—a town that is a haven for misfit shifters and psychics. Brandon has a profitable business, a found family of close friends, and a cozy cabin in the woods. Life is good, but he wishes he co ...
Capri Heat Featured
I came to Capri to paint. I wasn’t looking for a relationship, and certainly not one that would involve finding myself tied to the bed of a sensual Latin lover. But Rafe proves hard to resist. His practiced, knowing touch easily overcomes my defences, such as they were, and promises to fulfil all my ...

Midnight and Malice Featured
Tara Mitchell keeps her cool under pressure—it’s practically part of the job as a 911 dispatcher. But bombing her drone pilot certification? Not exactly part of the plan. Now, her dream of using drones in fire and rescue missions is st ...
What Critics are saying: 5.0 out of 5 Stars – Could NOT put this down. This series was one of the best ones I have read in a long time. Riveting, suspenseful, passionate. Everything you could want and more. I could not put it down and I read the entire series in 6 days! LOVE LOVE LOVE Sad it ende ...
from USA Today bestselling author Stephanie Queen -a Romantic Detective Series Novel The trouble with being stupid-in-love is that it makes you stupid. And you have your whole world to lose… Dane Blaise was once a special ops legend, so he'd been in danger before. But not like this. This time it cou ...
The hint of smoke. The flash of flames. When the wildfires burn through our towns, THEY step up to the fireline and risk their lives. Help us honor their bravery and sacrifice in this charity romance anthology. All proceeds benefit Grassroots Wildland Firefighters organization. Fall in love with the ...
Kath Cameron’s acting career plunged off a cliff thanks to the divorce from her mega-star ex-husband. She has one last shot at a reboot when casting for the lead in the Welsh version of Braveheart reopens weeks into production. On location in Wales, she finds herself working around the clock with th ...
Mary Elizabeth has agreed to become a slave to Master Devlin but as time passes, she starts to question her decision. She expected things to get better as time went by, but his treatment of her becomes worse. He loans her out to his friends without her consent, and when she questions him about it, s ...
Warning! There is explicit language and sexual content!
Mayor Joshua Steadman's biggest accomplishment is marrying his perfect first lady, Melissa. But when Melissa falls terminally ill and confesses a disturbing secret on the eve of her death, the mayor's life is thrown into ...
I moved to the mountains to get away. Just a small cabin tucked into the hills, it was perfect. I needed some solitude after a rough stint in the military. It changed me, and I needed some time to reflect. Now my demons and the big city are just tiny dots in the rearview mirror. Small town life was ...
A tourist is found dead in Istanbul, the victim of what appears to be a ritual killing. An elderly man is murdered in the same manner, in his house by Lake Como. The third murder is the most perplexing of all: the priest of a small, isolated Greek island lies dead in the sanctuary, his body ritualis ...
A shooter’s sudden attack compels Navy SEAL Garrett Flynn to block the bullet aimed at a beloved movie star’s heart. When Garrett takes the job as her bodyguard, he vows to protect her from harm. But he doesn’t expect to fall in love. Marlene Parks struggles to the top in Hollywood but with a heavy ...
Cassie is suffering from trauma-induced amnesia. Weekly visits to her psychologist are proving challenging until fragments from the night of her attack begin to surface. Cassie spirals into a dark hole of fear and confusion – Pandora’s box spills open, revealing contents that she is ill-prepared for ...
Evil incarnate has a name. It’s Alek Goncharov. He shattered Gabriella’s dreams, her life, her body. But he never broke her. Now she’s on the run. Without money, a job, or connections. But she has a plan… if she can outrun Alek. Fate leaves Gabriella stranded and beholding to Ronan Greystone, A man ...
The perfect family? It cracked when Jenna Bergstrom was fourteen and shattered a few years later. Secrets followed by tragedy will do that to you. Now Jenna’s ailing grandfather needs her expertise to restore the family’s legendary artists’ retreat known as Sinner’s Grove. Reluctantly she agrees to ...
For Polly Carson, working the land on a Montana ranch is a dream come true. No one knows she’s on the run, carrying a secret that could endanger the big eclectic family she’s found on the ranch. Not even the man who rescued her broken body from the bottom of a ravine recognizes her. He doesn’t know ...
She’s determined to unravel their plan to control the world’s water supply. They’re out to silence her—permanently. Oceanographer Alexis Hayes can’t resist an impromptu dive when she spots a school of basking sharks. But the moment of pleasure takes a dangerous turn. Alexis discovers a sunken mot ...

Lacey Jordan is expecting dinner, and hopefully, an engagement announcement. Not her own, of course. After two serious screw-ups, she’s all but sworn off relationships. When she arrives at her father’s house to celebrate his future happiness though, he’s nowhere to be found. As the hours pass, th ...
In California’s Wine Country, Someone Wants Lily Dead When Lily Callahan returns home to California’s wine country, sparks fly amid a hail of bullets as she and U.S. Marshall Austin Jennings take cover. Money, fame, and love all come into play as motives when Lily and Austin try to find out who sent ...
I had a one-night stand with Natalie, a girl who’s half my age. Now I must protect her at all costs. In this small town, I keep running into her…accidentally, at first. I’m on a case and cannot get involved… but will break all my rules to save her. Each time we meet, we fall into each ot ...
One cruise ship. Multiple kidnappers. In the dark waters of the South China Sea, a handful of Black Raven agents are the only hope anyone has of living to see Christmas... Seventy-five of the world’s wealthiest gamblers are ringing in the holidays with a high-stakes, three-day tournament aboard the ...
Miller's Secret Obsession. Ambition. Betrayal. Left in an orphanage as a young child, Miller Dreeser vowed to someday live a life of wealth and prestige. He obtained that life, with no thought of the consequence to those he used as puppets on a string to get there. His acceptance into the world of t ...
Bonnie’s about to take you on the ride of your life…that is, if you can convince her to let you join the club. This feisty, sultry anti-heroine, and her rebel renegades will have you falling hard, secretly rooting for the bad guys, and craving more. Join Bonnie, aka Bee, and the Boys for the biggest ...
Romantic Suspense BESTSELLER And AWARD WINNER • Will his stubbornness prevent him from trusting the woman he desires? In Sheila Kell’s provocative novel of suspicion and need, a handsome security specialist and a feisty FBI agent are tied by grief and attraction… and the fervor of the unknown. He’s ...
The residents of Rosehill Home for Gentlefolk have their peaceful, but tedious, lives overturned when recently bereaved Frank Chambers arrives. He immediately becomes the target of the wealthy, statuesque doyenne Joan Holloway-Potts-Jones who plots to make him her fifth husband. Frank is flabberga ...
She had my baby and now she’s mine. Women know I’m a bad boy. They know that they should keep their distance, but they never do. All they ever get is one night. The dirtiest, wildest, hottest night of their lives. Court appointed shrink Dr. Julia Connors shouldn’t have been any dif ...
When Aaron Stryder was forced into marrying Mary Doyle – a criminal mastermind – he knew that his life would never be the same. Trapped in a loveless marriage under the threat of violence, he soon falls for Mary's younger sister Sara, who is everything that her sister is not. They knew that their re ...
He thought it was just a structure fire.
As a firefighter, Bryce Keyes is no stranger when it comes to running into a burning building. What he didn't expect was coming face-to-face with the woman he loved years ago. Getting her out safely is one thing, but when it looks like she was t ...

He’s a disgraced ex-cop. She’s on a mad quest for justice. When they’re trapped in a deadly game, can they escape into each other’s arms? Protecting Her is a gripping standalone romantic suspense novel. If you like wounded heroes, steamy twists, and happy endings, then you’ll adore Alessa Kelly’s sc ...
A young man determined to protect his girl... A teenage boy offering prophecies... and a series of unexplained events. Lefteris and his darling girl, Evgenia, live a quiet and happy life together in a mountain village in Zagori, Greece. One day, as Lefteris crosses an old stone bridge, he meets a ...
The killer knows they’re coming for him. Can Seth and Evan save the next victim and shut down the dark witch, even when they’re cursed?
Seth Tanner and Evan Malone head to Savannah, GA, to hunt the seventh of the coven members responsible for the death of Seth’s brother and so many other ...
From Top 10 Bestselling author, Lia Fairchild Lies hurt. Lies destroy. But some lies protect...and heal. At least that's what Gray Donovan had hoped for. She's a compulsive liar using it as a defense mechanism to survive life and her shattered past. When she starts seeing therapist Daniel Harrison, ...
She's battling for justice. He's fighting for his life. If they team up, will they live long enough to explore the fiery need that burns between them? Heartbroken over the death of a young girl, medical examiner, Juanita will do anything to identify the killer and bring him to justice, even risk her ...
Every dream has its price.
Mac Cahill wants a quiet suburban life. Relocating her daughters to her hometown near Seattle, the girls have space to heal after their fathers sudden death. As they settle into their new lives, a phone call shatters their peaceful respite.
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A bwwm interracial suspense romance between confident twenty-five-year-old Natalie and Business owner and former detective Eric Dormer.
Natalie has learned one or two things about how an ...
Twice, Senior Airman Jason Moore let The Fixer, a maniacal bomber who’s fixated on destroying the Pararescue team, slip through his fingers. Last time, he was the hero for holding the killer captive. Now, he’s the goat for letting the guy escape…again. He’s got it bad…. Every member on the tea ...
Renny Butler races to Ireland in search of her mom Irene, who mysteriously vanished during a secretive trip. As Renny combs through Mom's belongings, she uncovers a shocking truth: she was adopted, and her birthmother was Aghna Shaw. With her decade of experience as an investigative reporter, Ren ...
An undercover mission gone wrong forces Detective Amelia Ray Drucker to hitch a ride with Micah Peak, Peak Securities CEO, while maintaining her cover as a twenty-year-old college student. Micah is charming as he is handsome, and his mile-long protective streak is hard to resist, but the last thi ...