When my ex Sarah walks into my detective agency, I know fate's playing a cruel game. She's still brilliant, still magnetic, and still the one case I never solved. Now we're forced to work together, chasing shadows through Chicago's underbelly. Our old chemistry crackles like a live wire, making it impossible to focus on the job. But when Sarah vanishes, leaving only a cryptic message and traces of blood, I realize this was never about rekindling old flames – it was about survival. Someone's trying to finish what they started years ago, when my betrayal first tore us apart. The clock's ...

Working with my ex on a murder case should have never revealed my secret identity…. Mia is a smart, sassy detective and my former flame. We are like fire and ice, total opposites. But, as we dig into the investigation, things get hot, and we surprisingly start clicking. It's like magnets pulling us together, and we make this silent pact to keep it professional. But we couldn't help ourselves and jumped into a secret relationship. I could see the longing in her eyes, and the shiver she gets when I touch her. Now we can’t keep our hands off each other. Things were complicated our first ...

Fake Relationship, Workplace, Rancher Romance Bowen As the operations manager of Kingridge Ranch, my job is to keep things running smoothly—both on the ranch and within our chaotic family. Love? I’ve never had the time for it. But when a VIP guest walks in and threatens to upend everything, I’ll do whatever it takes to protect what’s mine. Priya’s here to polish our brand, but all she’s done is turn my world upside down. She’s brilliant, beautiful, and those curves? They’re impossible to ignore. The more we fake this chemistry, the harder it gets to deny how real it feels. ...

How did I end up playing the fake fiancé to a woman I just met? Well, it all started with a trip. A guilt trip. My family is wacky. And way too involved in my love life. So, when my sister demands I bring my fiancée to her wedding, there's only one problem . . . she doesn’t exist. Who better to play the role of my future bride than the woman who nearly kicked my bucket? Of course, it doesn’t hurt that Evie is gorgeous, accomplished, and funny. The plan? We’ll learn everything we can about each other, then ‘break things off’ a few weeks after the wedding. Except . . . The line ...

Named one of the Top 30 Mystery Novels of 2022 by The Strand Magazine! Winner of the Silver Falchion Award for Best Mystery What would you do if you found a bone record—a black-market Soviet recording made on an X-ray? What if you found it at the site of your father’s murder? "A wonderfully flawed protagonist and a complex mystery combine with current events in Zahradnik's best novel to date. The Bone Records had me hooked from page one." —Elena Taylor, award-winning author of All We Buried and the Eddie Shoes mystery series Grigg Orlov only has a few minutes reunited with his missing...