Three times married, twice widowed, once divorced, she live beach side on the Oregon coast. The purchase of a bargain lid for her septic tank occasions the discovery of the body of a local real estate developer/good old boy. The local sheriff, a poker playing buddy of the deceased could be the killer The sheriff likes her friend Rob, the business partner of the dead man for the deed.

    But now he’s forced to take over his late parents ranch, and to raise his cousin’s four-year-old daughter, Jade. Sure, he can run the place for a year to satisfy his parents’ will. But take care of a kid? No way…To make matters worse, Lacey Cameron, his sweet housekeeper, is leaving to open her own Bed and Breakfast. Desperate for help, Trevor makes Lacey a deal: stay and help with Jade, and in return he’ll help her fix up the B&B. But as the two of them work together, Trevor realizes the girl he’s known all his life has grown into a beautiful woman…For years, Lacey’s been saving to start her business, and nothing’s going to stop her from leaving the McCalls. Not that she doesn’t love the family… It’s just that she loves one particular McCall a bit too much. But Trevor plans to leave as soon as his obligation to his parents will is over. And Lacey is forced to make a choice.Keep things with Trevor strictly business? Or give in to their attraction, knowing she’s just setting herself up for heartache…

    With the whole town on high-alert, he refuses to let this dead city kill what’s left of his relationship. But, a house in the woods may hold a deadlier fate than the town ever could.

    But then she stepped outside the law.Now, demoted and suffering with PTSD, she finds herself facing the deadliest threat of her career -- a serial killer who is preying on vulnerable women, murdering them in a shocking and bizarre ritual.A master of deception, he selects his victims at random. Or so it seems. But as Phillips investigates, she begins to see a method in the killer's madness. Perhaps these victims aren't random at all...As the pressure mounts, can Phillips find the link between these ritual murders before the killer strikes again -- or will her dogged determination to solve the case bring his deadly silence to her door?Deadly Silence is a gripping mystery thriller that will keep you up all night as it races towards its shocking conclusion. Perfect for fans of Robert Bryndza, Angela Marsons and Peter James.

    Hot, seductive, enticing. He’s at least ten years older than her seventeen years, and he knows exactly what he’s doing to her with that look. Walking away would be the smart thing to do…But she can’t. Not that first night when he takes her home and claims her body. Not when he shows up in her life again with expensive gifts to win her trust. Not even when she’s falling for him, and everything else is falling apart…GOLDLove. That cursed four-letter word no longer belongs in Bryna’s vocabulary. The only four-letter word she knows now is gold…and fuck.She’s well acquainted with that one. And that’s exactly what she plans to do. She’s no longer the golden girl, and when she meets a businessman who promises everything she could ever want from the arrangement, she intends to get her money’s worth.Find out how Bryna goes from golden girl to gold digger in these tantalizingly scandalous books in the USA Today bestselling author K.A. Linde’s All That Glitters series.

    Nothing unusual there--this is at least the sixtieth couple the ranch has brought together! But unlike those other Loves, this one ended in disaster. It's been three years, and Faith Kalani is like 92% certain she's over her broken heart. Sure, her professional skiing dreams ended with a broken leg, but she's happy being back here at River's End Ranch, giving ski lessons... Right up until she offers to take over a colleague's snowboarding lesson, and she gets a good look at her new student.Patrick Quinn broke Faith's heart three years ago, and has never forgiven himself. But when he sees the incredulous look on his snowboarding instructor's gorgeous face, he knows he's been handed a second chance. Despite their awkwardness, the two of them are good together...too good, maybe. Faith can't decide if she loves or hates that reminder, but when Patrick is badly injured during his first lesson on the slopes, she knows she's the one who needs to step up and take care of him.Forced into close proximity, she finds herself falling fast for the man who once held her heart. But how can she possibly trust him again, after what he did? With the Founder's Day Gala approaching, Valentine's Day right around the corner, and a Leap Day birthday, Faith doesn't have time to figure out her feelings.But maybe all this couple needs is a little bit of that River's End Ranch magic!***Please enjoy this visit back to our favorite ranch! Fans of the popular series will be thrilled to catch up with their favorite characters, and meet a few more. Jaclyn, Bigfoot, fairies and root beer floats...Welcome back to River's End Ranch!

    While an ambitious reporter pursues an Exclusive story into the White House on a trail of lies and intrigue.

    What’s that mean? It means that if my brothers need information they call on me to get it out of you. You should see the art I can create with a blow torch or a serrated blade or my favorite, barbed wire. I have been known to have a cold fearless heart. To stand in the middle of a gun fight without a care in the world, tear flesh from bodies and not even blink when my mark would scream and cry. Nothing reached me, I was numb to the world. Chaos was my meditation. That was until I met Keeley. Now one small piece of false information, one wrong victim and one war later she is completely under my skin. Keeley- He just showed up in my backyard pointing a gun in my face and bleeding profusely. If I would have known at that precise moment my world would turn on its head I would have never let him in. I left my home to get away from the violence and the wars yet here I am back in a world I don’t want to be in. I would run but no one excites me like Dillon does, no one protects me like Dillon does, and no one makes me scream in pleasure like him either. As hard as his life is and even with my own life in danger there is no where I would rather be than in his arms, I am his.

    I wanted him to escape the life he hated. I thought I was doing the right thing by not telling him how I truly felt. Until it was too late, and my silence turned into my biggest regret. Twelve years ago, Shane Owings died, taking my heart with him. I was left devastated and broken hearted. Time didn’t heal, as the years went on I only missed him more. She was my best friend… the only woman I ever loved.When I ran off to join the Army, I left behind everything I had ever loved. I thought I was doing the right thing, but my good intentions quickly turned into my biggest regret. Every year on the anniversary of Shane’s death I watched as Lillian Nelson visited Shane’s grave and spilled her secrets to a dead man. Each year I hoped she wouldn’t be back, that her heart would finally heal and she would move on. But year after year she was back. So many times I wanted to reach out and comfort the beautiful woman, but I knew she would never forgive me. It was my fault Shane was dead. Until… A terrorist shows up looking for revenge.I had to come out of the shadows and protect the one woman I had no business falling in love with. Free is a steamy last chance at love military romance. No cheating. Guaranteed HEA. Over 18! Bad boy alpha military men use foul language and enjoy dirty talk. For more information about Riley Edwards and to join the Riley's Rebels newsletter please visit www.RileyEdwardsRomance (dot) com.

    An adoring husband, two beautiful daughter’s and a successful career.In a split second, a tragic accident causes Lindy’s world to come crashing down around her.Mia, personal fitness trainer and glamorous wife of a local tv personality seems to have everything.Slowly Lindy learns more about Mia’s ‘perfect’ life and becomes convinced that they are each other’s saviours.As obsessions grow and the lines that shape reality become blurred, Lindy’s and Mia’s lives are now forever dangerously intertwined as personalities mergeNobody with a conscience can survive, can they?A breathtaking psychological thriller that will keep you up all night. –Fans of Samantha Downing, Lucinda Berry and Teresa Driscoll will devour this twisty thriller in one sitting

    But the "party" has just begun.Now, Chris and Riley face their demons as they fight to survive a hellish nightmare full of spoiled secrets, carnage, and vengeful spirits lost to the hotel dating back to the turn of the 20th century.Will they survive the night? Or will their souls be devoured by the most haunted building in Michigan?

    12 full-length novels by 9 best-selling authors. The Madness of Viscount Atherbourne and Secrets of a Viscount are available exclusively in this bundle to KU readers. TEMPTING HIS MISTRESS Samantha Holt What could possibly induce at woman to follow in the footsteps of her mother and further sully her reputation by becoming a mistress? ALEXANDRA Lauren Royal and Devon Royal Alexandra Chase likes being the perfect daughter, thank you very much. Why bother chafing against society's restrictions when she could be basking in the warm glow of its approval? But when her brother's best friend—and secret obsession—returns from a long spell abroad, she loses interest in the suitable young lord she's expected to marry. Suddenly, family duty and a flawless reputation seem less important than the chance, however slight, that her girlhood crush might notice her now that she's all grown up... TO TAME A HIGHLAND EARL Tarah Scott Miss Eve Crenshaw wishes to marry for love. When London's most notorious rakehell breaks into her bedchamber in the dead of night and ruins her, she plans a daring elopement that shocks even the earl. LADY STAR Claudy Conn Never, in all her twenty years of life, had Star Berkley seen the likes of Sir Edward. He was so damned arrogant, so damned fashionable, and so damned insolent—and he was the most handsome man she had ever come across! THE UNWANTED HEIRESS Amy Corwin An American heiress nobody wants; a duke every woman desires; and a murder no one expects. Some nights just don't go as planned. THE KISS OF A VISCOUNT Linda Rae Sande A kiss is just a kiss ... or is it? George-Bennett Jones finds himself in love with Lady Elizabeth. His competition for her hand is the blond, blue-eyed Gabriel Wellingham. George has been tutored by his mistress, though, and employs the rules he has learned in an attempt to gain the upper hand in his quest for Elizabeth's hand. THE GRACE OF THE DUKE Linda Rae Sande They say time heals all wounds, but what of those left by love? Lady Charlotte takes matters into her own hands when she travels to Wisborough Oaks to marry Joshua Wainwright. The Duke of Chichester is recovering from burns and has no intention of subjecting a woman to what the ton refer to as "His Grace with half a face." When it appears someone is trying to kill him, Joshua sends his estate manager to London to find out who would benefit from his death. THE SEDUCTION OF AN EARL Linda Rae Sande You can't teach an old dog new tricks... but what about his mistress? It will take the antics and devotion of man's best friend to teach Henry and Hannah that sometimes love is right in front of your nose. TEMPTING MISS ALLENDER Wendy Vella Seven years after her disastrous debut, Miss Patience Allender has reluctantly returned to society. No longer the meek, mild Miss, she will never again allow a man to humiliate her.

    Felt—a fabric made of tangled fibers—becomes a metaphor for the interweavings of humans, animals, and planet. But Felt is also the past tense of "feel." This is a book of emotions both ordinary and untoward: the shadings of humiliation, obsession, love, and loneliness—as well as states so subtle they have yet to be named. Reticent and passionate, elliptical yet available, Fulton's poems consider flaws and failure, touching and not touching. They are fascinated with proximity: the painter's closeness to the canvas, the human kinship with animals, the fan's nearness to the star. Privacy, the opening and closing of doors, is at the heart of these poems that sing the forms of solitude-the meanings and feelings of virginity, the single-mindedness of fetishism, the tragedy of suicide. Rather than accept the world as given, Fulton encounters invisible assumptions with magnitude and grace. Hers is a poetry of inconvenient knowledge, in which the surprises of enlightenment can be cruel as well as kind. Felt, a deeply imagined work, at once visceral and cerebral, illuminates the possibilities of twenty-first century poetry.

    In a restless and mobile nation he could have escaped from the past, assumed another identity. But in the close-knit community of South Kenton at the turn of the century, he could not escape. — From his earliest years, Dan seemed marked out by fate as one of its victims. In the eyes of the small respectable American town he was an outcast, a social misfit. His mother was dead; his father was only a blacksmith and , what was worse, a drunkard, and the two of them lived in a two-room shack behind the smithy. When Dan fell in love, it was with a woman twenty-two years older than him; when he got married, it was to a woman who hated him and wanted to make him suffer, and who succeeded - even after her death.This is the poignant story of a man who chose to do more than to look and pass'; a man who was good, honorable and high of heart, but whose end was lonely and tragic.

    everyone has gone home hours ago.As Harold prepares to close up the office, he receives an email from someone claiming to be Stephen King.