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Power is as addictive as cocaine. The more power you have, the more you want. It is also as deadly as cocaine. When the bill he co-sponsored fails to make it through committee, Senator Barry Carpenter starts to investigate the senator behind the failure. He goes on every political talk show hinting that he has discovered something that will shake up the government. When he is found hanging in his closet by the belt of his robe, Arianna refuses to believe her friend and boss would kill himself. But without any evidence, the police won’t investigate further. Days after deciding a life in ...

THE BOOK CLUB LADIES What happens when your past comes back to haunt you? Some people in the small town of Tumbleweed were about to find out. Mable took her position as head of the book club seriously. It was a position she felt she’d earned as the longest-standing member. She wasn’t going to let anyone take it away from her. Especially not an outsider. Gladys had her own agenda. Having her finger on the pulse of the town and knowing all the secrets, she would be able to use them to her advantage. She was willing to do anything to take over the position as head of the book club ladies. ...

A GAME OF CAT AND MOUSE When Jennifer Miller's parents are brutally murdered she knows who killed them, but who would believe her? After all, she's only fourteen. Besides, his fingerprints and DNA are supposed to be in the house since he lives there. When the social worker charged with taking care of her is found dead in her bathtub, Jennifer knows it's only a matter of time before he comes for her. Her only option is to dis-appear before that can happen. Fourteen years later Casey Gibson returns to Phoenix. Now a Forensics Scientist, with a new identity and appearance, she hopes to catch ...

When Parker Evans inherits a farm from a great-aunt she never knew, she is confronted with a past she knew nothing about, finds a new home, a grandmother who loves her, unearths the answers to a sixty year old mystery, and finds a love directed from beyond the grave. In order to inherit the farm and all that goes with it, Parker must live in the house for a year: a house with no electricity, running water or bathroom. While living there she can modernize it, but she can’t move out. Her great-aunt, Rosie, has already selected a handsome contractor, and has drawn up the plans, all Parker ...

CHASING HIS SHADOW Lara went to the small town of New Haven, Arizona, to confront the husband who deserted her, and to introduce him to his daughter. With his brother in jail, Chase hoped his troubles were behind him. Neither of them got what they were looking for. They got so much more. When his twin brother escaped, Chase knew he had to protect Lara and Morgan from the scheme Charles had been planning for so long. Could Charles hide his obsession to control those around him long enough to win? How would Chase keep everyone safe if no one could tell if he was Chase or Charles?

ROSIE’S LEGACY Parker thought once she had discovered all the secrets her great-aunt had wanted her to find life would be simple. But that wasn’t the case. It seemed like everyone had an agenda these days. She just wanted life to return to normal. But what passed for normal in the small town where she was living? Something strange was going on at one of the old homes on the historic registry. Talking to the head of the Historical Society didn’t turn out so well. When the woman turned up dead, the chief of police was ready to arrest Parker. Someone was still trying to get in her house....

THE GAMES PEOPLE PLAY Romance has to take a backseat when someone begins following Pattiann and then breaks into her house. But she can’t figure out why anyone would do that when they didn’t take anything. Does the sexual harassment happening at the small hospital where she works have anything to do with it? When two people are killed, there is only one person linked to both victims: Chase Templeton. He owns one of the premier wineries in the small southeastern Arizona town. But why would he kill either victim? Is he behind the push to buy up the other small wineries in the area? Or is ...

BACK FROM THE GRAVE Meeting the father she had always assumed was dead wasn’t the birthday present Cady Townsend was expecting for her twenty-first birthday. Neither was finding out that her parents had never been married. At least not to each other. But the surprises kept coming. Not only does she have a father she knew nothing about, she also has a half-brother and half-sister. The man she had been casually dating wasn’t who she thought he was either. Instead, he’d been spying on her. But for whom? Her life is further turned upside down when someone shoots at her. When she manages ...

NEVER CON A CON MAN After being away ten years, Holly Foster was back in Pine Mountain, Arizona. As a teenager, she’d had a crush on her then step-brother Drake Cox. It was time to figure out if she still had feelings for the rugged Chief of Police. When someone empties the town’s bank accounts almost everyone believes Drake’s uncle Max is behind the theft. After all he’s been a screw up and con man most of his life. But Holly is just as sure he didn’t do it. When Max turns up dead, she plans on proving he didn’t take the money with the evidence he left behind. First she has to ...

MAN ON THE RUN Watching a television show, Becca Dutton is certain she’s seen the man the FBI is looking for in Flanagan’s Gap, Arizona, a small mountain town of less than six hundred people where she and her mother own and operate the general store. Mrs. Dutton is just as certain she’s mistaken; pointing out the man she has seen is much younger than the fugitive the FBI is looking for. Becca can’t let go of the feeling he’s somewhere around, especially with the petty thefts the town has recently been experiencing. Does that mean there is more than one man living in the forest ...

TRADING PLACES Returning home after being away for five years, Lindsey discovers that the more things change, the more they stay the same. Janice had been a bully in school, and she still was. She didn’t want Lindsey in ‘her’ town. Was Janice behind the attempts on Lindsey’s life? Or was it Shelley, the girl Lindsey had always considered her best friend? She had always wished she could trade places with Lindsey. Now she was claiming Lindsey’s accomplishments as her own. Or did someone else want her gone? Can Brad keep her safe long enough to discover the truth?

FAMILY IS EVERYTHING When Haley’s brother and sister-in-law are killed in an accident, she willingly puts aside her plans and takes her three-year-old nephew to raise. He’s the only family she has left and family is everything. When Steve learns that his sister and brother-in-law have been killed, he drops everything to find the nephew he knew nothing about. After all, he’s the only family he has left and family is everything. The two collide when Steve assumes Haley is a teenager just returning from a night of partying at six-thirty in the morning instead of returning from work. ...

FAMILY SECRETS Bonnie’s world turns upside down when her father is murdered and she learns all of the secrets her parents have been keeping from her. Why wouldn’t they tell her these things? What was so horrible that they kept her and themselves isolated from the world for twenty-three years? When confronted with items Bonnie finds, her mother is forced to admit the past as Bonnie knows it is all a lie. She doesn’t know what she’s supposed to do, or how she’s supposed to feel. But when someone comes after her, she knows her parents were right to do what they’d done. Can Walt and...

DRAWING CONCLUSIONS Kari had two passions; art and antique glassware, specifically sun purple glass. When they intersected, she ended up embroiled in a case of two missing women, stolen diamonds, and befriending a young girl. Someone was watching her every move. Was it the homeless man who tried to steal her sketch pad? Or was it the man who bought one of her paintings? Officer Liam O’Connell wanted to keep her safe in the midst of all this. When Kari’s apartment was broken into and her roommate was attacked, he knew he had to do something to keep all of them safe.

Revenge Served Cold When vandals first began plaguing Skylar Bishop’s boutique winery in southeastern Arizona, she hoped it was just bored teenagers out for mischief. When it turned violent, she knew better. The middle of the night call confirmed her suspicions. Someone was going to take revenge on her father by ruining her. But who was he? Why had he waited thirty years to come after her father? She’d been building her winery in New Haven for five years, why had he waited until now to exact his scheme of revenge? Finding the man doing this won’t be easy; after all the authorities ...

KILLER INSTINCTS Every cruise has its share of drunks, but missing wallets and jewelry is an entirely different matter. Is the current shipboard drunk involved? Lizzie O’Connell doesn’t think so. Convincing Dean Templin, the head of security, isn’t easy though. He wants her to stay out of his investigation. As a dancer onboard the Sea Star, it isn’t her job to find a thief. But what’s she supposed to do when she’s given the message that someone onboard is going to be killed? How can she stay on the sidelines waiting for something horrible to happen? Investigating on the sly gets...

TRAPPED IN A WHIRLWIND The murder of Quinn Reed’s husband throws her life into turmoil. He left her buried in debt with no foreseeable way out. Who would murder him? Had he been into something illegal, or was he just a cheating husband? She had no answers. When the boy she had loved in high school reenters her life, her already topsy-turvy world is turned upside down again. Is Sergio DeCosta the same sweet person she had known seven years ago or a cold blooded killer as the police believe? Her heart didn't want to believe the latter, but could she trust her heart? She was discovering her ...

ROSIE’S TEXAS FAMILY Jeremy Fallon was looking forward to seeing Shep and Parker Baker again after meeting them during the previous summer. The only family he’d been close with was his great-grandparents. Having a large extended family was exciting and scary. Crime had been on the rise recently in Shep’s hometown of Promise, Texas. With Jeremy’s arrival, someone upped their game. Why had the Baker family been targeted? How was any of it connected to Jeremy? He’d never been in Texas before. But when the past rears its ugly head and grudges are held too long, they can lead to murder.

PLENTY OF GUILT Murder doesn’t happen often in the small town of Bisbee, Arizona. When it does, the police are eager to pass it off as a suicide. Jillian Connors isn’t willing to let that stand. She is convinced her sister, Claire, didn’t kill herself, and she’s willing to pay for the autopsy to prove it. Someone else is just as determined to stop that from happening. While falling in love with Jillian, Detective Dan Tobin is willing to help her as long as she doesn’t get involved in the investigation. He doesn’t want the same thing to happen to her. When a second person is ...

SOMETHING SHADY When Gwen’s great aunt Bess was suddenly diagnosed with dementia she knew something else was going on. Dementia didn’t happen overnight. The courts named an attorney as guardian for Bess to oversee her accounts even though Gwen held Power of Attorney. Something fishy was going on, and it was beginning to smell. Gwen and Jake, a college friend, worked to get Bess out of the greedy grasp of the guardian and his accomplices at Shady Acres before they managed to drain her accounts. Things turn deadly when someone at Shady Acres ends up dead on the floor of Bess’s room. Who...