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Under Suspicion, With Child
Harlequin Intrigue
August 2008

 

A serial killer has struck the small seaside town of Raven's Cliff, Maine claiming yet another life. Will his next target be Jocelyn Baker or will Raven's Cliff cop, Andrei Lagios stop him?

Books included in this continuity :

With the Material Witness In the Safehouse ~~Carla Cassidy, May 2008
With the M.D. ... At the Altar?
~~Jessica Anderson, June 2008
In the Manor With the Millionaire
~~Cassie Miles, July 2008
Under Suspicion: With Child
~~Elle James, August 2008
Solving the Mysterious Stranger
~~Mallory Kane, September 2008
Motive: Secret Baby
~~Debra Webb, October 2008

 

 

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Texas-Sized Secrets
Harlequin Intrigue
March 2008

Lone Star Cowboys and secret babies. Only Texas is big enough to contain 'em both!

At five months pregnant, Mona Grainger was facing danger on all fronts. With cattle rustlers driving her ranch to ruin, she needed a man ready for long hours and hard work. Enter Reed Bryson, who could ride, rope, kiss...and certainly handle a gun.

His new boss may have depended on him more than she liked, but Reed wasn't hired to do her dirty work. She could do that herself. He was there to defend her land and cool down the hot-headed sheriff, whose advances threatened everything Mona held dear. Now the lone cowboy had more than his honor to uphold--he had a petite, pregnant powerhouse running his senses wild.

 

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Alaskan Fantasy
Harlequin Intrigue
December 2007

ON THE TRAIL OF A KILLER

Grieving for her dead husband, Stealth Operations Specialist, Kat Sikes, returns home to Alaska to vacation. Instead of relaxing in a cozy cabin, she ends up taking her brother's position on the Iditarod dogsled race when her brother's sexy friend is targeted by a crazed killer.

Oil geologist, Sam Russell's participation in the Iditarod race, becomes a struggle for survival. Together, he and Kat race through the Alaskan landscape dodging bullets while fighting their growing respect and love for each other. Will the frigid cold of the Alaskan trail chill the fiery passion building between them or will the killer succeed in eliminating them from the race?

 

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Blown Away
Harlequin Intrigue
September 2007

Two months after her lover, Sean McNeal, is killed in an African embassy explosion, White House Staffer T.J. Barton, thinks she’s hallucinating. She sees her dead lover on the jogging trail and in her office complex. When she corners him, he pretends he doesn’t know her and introduces himself as John Neal, new White House Staffer. But T.J. knows better. Why would he lie and let her think he was dead for all those months.

Stealth Operations Specialist (SOS) agent, Sean McNeal, should have died in the explosion that took the lives of Congressman Haddock and fellow SOS agent Marty Sikes. Presumed dead and feeling responsible for the tragedy, Sean goes undercover to determine who funded the bombing that killed his friend. The trail leads back to Washington D.C. and T.J., the woman he allowed to distract him from his mission. Fighting their attraction, they join forces to find the person responsible for the embassy being blown away.

Bodyguards Unlimited

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Cowboy Sanctuary
Harlequin Intrigue
May 2007

A JOB HE COULDN'T REFUSE

Ten years ago, Army Ranger Cameron Morgan left his family's ranch with no plans to return...until his job as a bodyguard reunited him with his former sweetheart and the life he'd fled.

A PAST HE COULDN'T FORGET

Jennie Ward had been injured and her ranch sabotaged, so Cameron was critical to surviving an investigation that was getting riskier by the minute. But keeping his professional distance was nearly impossible, especially after Jennie nearly lost her life on his watch. Still, as his need to guard her mixed with his hunger to find the truth, Cameron found it hard to resist the pull of his old life--not to mention Jennie's offer of a second chance...

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Lakota Baby
Harlequin Intrigue
December 2006

When Joe Lonewolf got that call that Maggie Brandt's baby was missing, he knew he couldn't walk away. He'd done it once when his reserve unit was called to war in Iraq. Before he'd left his Lakota Indian reservation, he'd told Maggie she didn't have a place in his life as a Lakota and not to wait for him. While he'd been fighting for his country, Maggie married his stepbrother and together they had a son. Now Joe was back, his brother was dead and his nephew was missing. With angry teens on drugs, poverty corrupting the people he's sworn to protect and casino giants calling the shots, will Joe be able to protect Maggie and find her baby before anyone else gets hurt?

RT Top Pick!
Nominated for Reviewer's Choice Award

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Dakota Meltdown
Harlequin Intrigue
August 2006

The target of a psychotic serial killer, North Dakota Criminal Investigator Brenna Jensen must find the killer before he kills another or kills her. When the FBI takes over the case, she's forced to work with the egocentric team leader, Nick Tarver to protect her hometown of Riverton, ND. Brenna fights her growing attraction for the agent knowing he could never love her and all her scars.

Burned by his ex-wife, Agent Nick Tarver is determined to ignore his attraction to his newest team member, solve the murder case and get the hell back where its warmer. Working closely with the North Dakota Criminal Investigator, he learns to trust her even though he knows she's hiding something from him. With the snow melting, the river rising and more women missing, Nick must put aside his prejudices and dig a little deeper to discover the truth beneath the surface to solve the mystery and win Brenna's love.

Award Winning!
RT Top Pick!


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Beneath The Texas Moon
Harlequin Intrigue
March 2006

By moving her son to Spirit Canyon, Texas, Eve Baxter had hoped to help Joey overcome the trauma of bearing witness to his father's tragic death. Sworn off men until her son is grown and on his own, Eve resists her attraction to the haunted cowboy, Mac McGuire. But when the town falls victim to bizarre animal mutilations and the death of a teenage girl, Eve realizes she or her son could be the next casualties and reluctantly accepts Mac's protection.

Plagued by survivor's guilt, Mac finds an immediate connection with Eve's little boy and a deep desire to protect the boy's beautiful mother. With a murderous creature on the loose, Mac fights his own demons of self-doubt the struggle to save the community, the child and the woman he grows to love.

2004 Golden Heart Winner!
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Best Paranormal Romance

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To Kiss A Frog
March 2005

Wanted:

Single woman, very nearsighted, who doesn't care about height (3") or skin flaws (green and bumpy) who can see past minor details.

Craig Thibodeaux was cursed. Frog by day and man by night , he had until the next full moon to break the spell by finding someone to love him. Elaine Smith seemed perfect. She was beautiful and smart, and even passionate about frogs. And truth be told, he'd been a bit more frog than Prince Charming even before he'd tangled with the Voodoo Queen. Elaine deserved more. She deserved to be the queen of someone's lily pad: a wife. While fighting more than one fly in the ointment, the magic of a single kiss brings Craig to realize fairytale endings really can come true.

 

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Nick of Time
Harlequin Intrigue
November 2008

Just when Mary Christmas thinks the Christmas season has lost its magic, the former resident of North Pole, Alaska receives word that her father needs help and she must return to the town she swore she'd never return to. When she arrives, her father is missing. All her life, she'd assumed her father had always lived in North Pole, Alaska and that he and her mother had always bought into the fantasy of Santa Claus with the year-round Christmas store Christmas Towne. What she discovers is the man who'd played jolly old Santa for thirty years had a huge secret he was hiding behind his long white beard. Apparently, his past had finally caught up with him.

Assigned to the Missing Santa case, danger junky and Stealth Operations Specialist (SOS), Nickolas St. Clair, resents being shipped off to the wilds of Alaska. Having grown up in the foster care system, being shuffled from one family to another, Nick never believed in Santa and never understood the big deal about Christmas and presents. And he definitely doesn't see the national importance of one missing old man. What he finds is a determined young woman deeply afraid for her father, caught up in a dangerous intrigue spanning thirty years.

Baby Bling
Harlequin Intrigue
April 2009

Self-made shipping tycoon, Jackson Champion, fought his way to the top of the shipping business in Houston. From ragged urchin, Jackson earned his position, one hard knock at a time. During his climb, he's made enemies and learned to keep women at bay, unwilling to invest in emotions that he considers debilitating. When his fiance dumps him for a bike-riding, bad boy, he's shaken, his ego taking a hit. It takes only one night of mind-blowing sex with his executive assistant to learn he wasn't missing anything in his ex. But he isn't ready to follow his heart to what he really wants and needs. Not yet.

Pregnant after one night of consolation sex with the boss, Ysabel Sanchez is on the verge of submitting her resignation to Jackson Champion. Ignorant of the baby she's carrying, Jackson asks her to stay long enough to help him find and stop a possible terrorist plot to attack Houston, one that will implicate his shipping business and him in something he would never have a hand in. Unable to say no without telling him she's carrying his child, Ysabel agrees to stay until the terrorism threat is neutralized. Too bad she can't neutralize her attraction to Jackson as easily.

Final Analysis
Harlequin Intrigue
September 2009

Undercover for the FBI working to expose Vincent Del Gardo, Ben Parrish was captured, imprisoned and tortured by the Wayne Organization for weeks. During his absence he's been framed as an accessory to murder and accused of working for organized crime. After weeks of abuse, he learns his days are numbered and his pregnant wife is on the crime boss's hit list. Determined to protect what is his, he formulates a plan to escape his prison in the bowels of one of Nicky Wayne's Las Vegas casinos. In the process, he kills two of Wayne's men. Score two for Ben, and Wayne's organization is minus one captive.

Eight months pregnant forensic scientist Ava Wright member of the Kenner County Crime Unit is forced into maternity leave early due to stress. At her sister's place in the Vegas suburbs, she's on the verge of stir-crazy insanity with nothing to keep her mind and worries away from her problems, namely her absentee husband. If having a disappearing husband accused of being an accessory to murder and collaboration with a crime family's ruthless activities, and the associated on-going investigation uprooting her life, isn't enough to make her go into early labor, having him reappear from the dead! And he's demanding that she go into hiding with him! It's a sure-fire way to give birth a month early. Raised by a single mother after her father ran out on her, Ava is determined to be the rock in her child's future and protect her from the pitfalls of a lying, deadbeat dad who has no intentions of sticking around for the duration.

 

For Better or Worse
Harlequin Intrigue
December 2009

Dear Alice,
For better or for worse until death do us part. Let death begin.

Those words struck terror in Elise Johnson's heart. No one but her husband, Stanley Klaus, could have written those words to her. Nobody but the Dakota Strangler who'd lived under her roof, all the while killing innocent women. Her husband, the Dakota Strangler. The man who almost killed her sister during the final chase of the investigation that tracked him to Elise's doorstep. Supposedly, her husband, the serial killer died in a fire, his body swept away by rising floodwaters along the Red River.
But did he really die?


 

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