What do you do when your murder victim is found in your ex-girlfriend's riding arena? For homicide detective Ben Haley, the answer is automatic: take the case. He's spent the past five years dodging her phone calls and keeping his kid at arm's length, but when Jade finds a body on her farm, Ben rushes to the scene. Eleven-year-old Heidi Latham, dumped at Jade's doorstep, is a painful reminder that his girls live in a dangerous world...and that their pull on him is absolute. Ben's charged with finding Heidi's killer, and keeping his relationship with Jade a secret. Jade Donovan has spent the past five years teaching lessons and training horses, leaning on the unswerving support of gay best friend, Jeremy, as she raises her daughter, Clara, alone. When she finds Heidi, Ben crashes back into her life, and she's too rattled to steel herself against his dark, stern magnetism. She needs him, she realizes, to hold at bay the terrifying evil that lurks in the shadows, claiming the lives of little girls. As the dark nights close in around them, they cling to the tatters of their relationship; Ben risks his job, and Jade risks her heart in the search for justice, keeping the daughter they both love safe.
Jessica Walker had the perfect husband, the perfect son, the perfect life…until she realized it was all a lie. In the wake of her husband's shocking infidelity, she knows only one thing: she has to start over. With her sister's help, she buys a dilapidated lakeside mansion with the crazy idea of turning it into an inn. If she can survive the renovations – and the attention of her contractor – she just might succeed. At least, she hopes so. But when has anything ever been so simple?Army Ranger turned contractor Chris Haley has big plans for the inn…and its owner. He's never met anyone as cool, as blunt, as totally impossible…or absolutely beautiful as Jess. He's been alone for too long, and he has a feeling she has too, even if she's hiding behind a bitter exterior as damaged as her new house. When it comes to renovations, hearts aren't so different from homes. Be sure to look for the first three volumes in the Walker Family Series: Keep You, Dream of You, and Better Than You.
Alma Morales never expected to be a widow so soon, least of all a pregnant widow. Three weeks after her husband Sam's murder, she's still asking questions no one seems to have the answers to. How does a landscaper from quiet, suburban Marietta get gunned down in the heart of Atlanta? What are the police not telling her? And most important, why does her family not care? Alone, a bundle of ragged nerves, she turns to Sam's cousin Carlos for comfort. Carlos grew up with his cousin Sam – they were more like brothers than cousins – and the death hits him hard, even harder than Alma knows because Carlos was there the night Sam was shot. As Alma searches for closure, Carlos tries to keep one step ahead of her, hiding the painful truth of Sam's dark associations, all while getting himself more deeply entrenched in the Atlanta drug trade. With the help of Sam's friend Sean, Carlos sets out to find the man who shot his cousin. But when the trail leads to a new, powerful entrant into the narcotics business, it's no longer Carlos's freedom that's at stake, but Alma's life.
Jordan Walker learned the hard way that dreams diminish with time and age. He dreamed of Olympic medals and golden shoes, of cheering crowds and endless stretches of red track laid out before him. Then he dreamed of state and nationals, of college scholarships. He dreamed of the unending support, the shining face of that angelic, flawless first love that gave him wings. And then reality reached out with jagged claws and crippled him just as surely as if he'd torn an ACL. Reality was more damaging than any injury. At twenty five, his track career is over, so he's settling for a gig as a college Health and Physical Science professor and coach at his alma mater. It's not his dream job, but really, who has the stomach for dreams anymore? Then he meets Ellie. English major Ellie Grayson has three objectives: graduate from college in three years, publish a novel, and let nothing distract her from either. But her young HPS professor is not so much a distraction as a fascination, and as she digs deeper beneath his impassive surface, she thinks he might just be someone worth dreaming about. Both damaged, both cautious, Jordan and Ellie have to decide where to draw the line between fantasy and reality, and more importantly, which one they really want. The second installment of the Walker Family Series, Dream of You begins a year after the end of Keep You, bringing new challenges for characters from the first book and introducing a new heroine who is a fresh addition to the family.
The Lean Dogs Motorcycle Club values family above all else. Be it club family...or blood family. In London, nine half-siblings rule at Baskerville Hall, all the product of a father who's more legend than man, a mystery even to his own children. Charlie Fox has a special role in the Lean Dogs MC, bouncing from chapter to chapter, doing the crazy, risky, deadly things the others can't. Uncomplicated, unfeeling, unaffected...until now. Fox's ex, former MI5 agent Eden Adkins, does freelance PI work now, and she calls when her latest case turns up a familiar face: Fox's father. Devin Green is in the kind of trouble it's going to take all nine of his children to get him out of, all his dark secrets revealed along the way. Spies, secret agents, sketchy organizations, and resourceful Brits abound in book three of the Lean Dogs Legacy series. **This is a complete novel, the final book in the LEAN DOGS LEGACY spinoff series. The novel is also available in parts One through Four. Look for the continuing adventures of The Brood in future Dartmoor Series novels.
Return to Rosewood Inn for a collection of glimpses at the Walker Family in three new short stories: “What Ails You,” “The Vacation,” and, "Totaled." Author Lauren Gilley returns to Marietta with the Walker siblings and their spouses, illuminating their struggles, and triumphs post-series. Don't miss the first four volumes: Keep You, Dream of You, Better Than You, and Fix You.
When her parents divorced, Layla Russell went to LA with her mother, and her little brother Johnny stayed behind with their father. In the eighteen years since, she's tried to maintain a relationship with the other half of her family in Georgia, but a real closeness is lacking...and when she gets the call that her dad has been shot and left for dead, the guilt is crushing. She should have spent more time with him; should have made the trip more often. She catches the first flight to Atlanta; Mark's surgery was a success, but he won't wake from anesthesia, and the doctors aren't optimistic. Layla quickly realizes that this shooting wasn't random, and that her uncle, her cousin, her brother, and the rest of the "family" are launching their own investigation. Her uncle's Business Security Solutions doesn't work strictly within the law, and neither does the powerful enemy they're chasing. The more deeply entrenched she becomes in the case, the more dangerous she realizes it is...and the more intrigued she becomes by her father's friend Sly. He's made her a promise to keep her safe, but how can she trust a court-martialed car thief turned mechanic? How can she afford not to?
When she was nineteen, Lisa Russell's life turned upside down…and kept turning. Now, at twenty-four, she's a bartender, a receptionist, and too jaded for her own good. An only child, she's served as daughter and son to her father, tagging along with his mechanics and security contractors. She tests his rules and his patience, absolutely fearless…until someone from her father's past reaches out to deliver a mysterious threat. With bouquets of flowers, and a strange note, a killer with a bone to pick brings a terror to her world she's never known.Prize fighter Drew Forester knows only two things: that he's good in the ring, and that he's instantly attracted to his new boss's daughter. He's been charged with tailing Lisa Russell, keeping her safe, and keeping his hands to himself. It's a tall order, though, because Lisa takes too many risks – and because it's not just about the job anymore. It's about the girl.
From the author of the Walker Series comes a family drama like no other, a sprawling character epic, a forbidden love story full of angst, adventure, heartbreak, and second chances. Welcome to the mother chapter of the Lean Dogs Motorcycle Club; meet the girl raised by outlaws, and the fearsome man who will always hold her heart.Ava Teague left for college with a busted heart and a deeply ingrained love for her biker family. She returns home to Knoxville for grad school, just in time for her father to accept the burden of president...and for Mercy Lécuyer to roll back into town, looking to patch into the Tennessee chapter once more. Felix Lécuyer left the swamps of Louisiana for a life as an outlaw biker named Mercy, but it was his family, and the retribution he dealt because of it, that made him famous within the club. Fourteen years ago he fled New Orleans for Knoxville, to become an extractor and bodyguard within the mother chapter, guarding Ghost Teague's family, becoming a constant companion to little Ava. When she was seventeen, he finally crossed the line. Now she's twenty-two, and he's back in town as an old nemesis rears its ugly head, and puts the entire club in danger. The fate of the club is uncertain, but Mercy has no doubts about his heart; it still belongs to Ava. Now available as a complete novel, Fearless launches a thrilling new series about the Lean Dogs of Tennessee, and the women tough enough to love them. Look for Book II, Price of Angels, coming March 2015.
When their family was threatened, the Russells made a pact: no more secrets. But Johnny's secret isn't one he can share. To keep his father safe, he prospects with the Lean Dogs Motorcycle Club, diving headlong into a whole new depth of counterculture, tangling himself in a war that his family started...and his new biker family is going to finish. If he wants to patch in, he must prove his unswerving loyalty to the club. If he wants to protect the people he loves, he'll have to learn to live with outlaws. Arlie Scott, runaway, bartender, longs to escape the mess she's made of her life. It gets messier the night she flirts with the cute biker boy across the bar...and witnesses a murder. Now she's swept up in the dark world of the Lean Dogs, forced to trust Johnny Russell when he says he won't let anything happen to her, determined to find her own place in this antiquated land of leather and lies.Evil lingers in the shadows, threatening families of blood and brotherly bond. In this third installment of the Russell saga, the family will be put to the test, fighting a common enemy alongside the might and malice of an unstoppable outlaw force. Johnny must choose between two worlds, because he can't belong to both, and he can't betray either.
Black dogs. Demons. Hellhounds. Damned souls that haunt crossroads, taking the forms of hulking dogs with glowing red eyes. Legends of the Old World, but just stories meant to scare lonely wanderers. Mostly. Knoxville, Tennessee boasts black dogs of its own: the mother chapter of the Lean Dogs Motorcycle Club. And like all legends, the Lean Dogs draw challengers from every corner of the underworld. War's brewing in Tennessee, and the Dogs' first family is about to face its biggest challenge yet: the past. Ghost Teague has spent the last twenty-five years transforming a once-rough club into an empire with his queen by his side, the fearless girl who turned his life around when he needed her most. This new threat is a personal one, aimed at him, at Maggie, and it's calling into question all the decisions they've made thus far. With a rival club in town, and an old nemesis preying on their doubts, they'll have to save the city, the club, and their family. And there's only one way to do it: together. With past and present storylines, the sixth installment of the Dartmoor Series explores the king and queen like never before, an epic tale of rising, and ruling, and leaning on one another.
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