HEIRESS TO DANGER. When elderly communications magnate, Owen Byrnside, learns that twenty-six years earlier his deceased son fathered a daughter, he yearns to locate his heir. It won't be easy. The night the girl's mother abandoned the baby at a foundling home, two other infants suffered the same fate. It doesn't take long for Byrnside's lawyer to track down the first orphan, Kate Humphrey. Contacting her is another story. Beautiful, redheaded Kate is a struggling jazz pianist performing in London. When her gig goes sour, Kate takes on a job shepherding a pair of fractious youngsters to join their father in Italy. Little does she know their dad is a gangster. But handsome steeplechase jockey, Nick Coni, knows. He's coping with death threats from the man and stalks Kate to find out the actual nature of her connection. Kate mixes it up with hired assassins while falling in love with Nick. Will she turn out to be Owen Byrnside's lost granddaughter? This is the first thrilling novel in The Byrnside Inheritance, a three-book series. High Stakes delivers excitement and passionate romance. Get started on The Byrnside Inheritance today!
It's 1882 and Oliver Redcastle, an ex-Pinkerton detective and a former Union Army sharpshooter, has inherited a house in Baltimore and a new daughter. Oliver dreams of putting his violent past behind him. When John D. Rockefeller forces him to investigate a railway explosion Oliver finds himself plunged into mayhem once again. The plot thickens when a Civil War encampment in the city digs up old betrayals, triggers death and breeds a fresh murder plot that Oliver must foil to prevent his future from becoming as bloody as his past.
Mystery/Suspense: Toni wants a decent home of her own. Instead, she gets "Metal Men," a drive-by shooting, a puzzling death by fire, a mysterious faucet, two hunky men vying for her favor and more flack from her family. Is Toni up to the challenge? You needed to ask?
In this fantasy/romance, the water goddess Reawen must steal back the stone that confirms her mystical power. But the young king who tricked the stone from Reawen's mother proves to be a worthy match. As the two duel, they threaten a kingdom and shake the very foundations of magic. Illustrations.
Toni needs an inexpensive place to live, so she moves into an apartment where the previous tenant was murdered. Toni realizes what a mistake she's made when her upstairs neighbor is also murdered. Her only hope for peace of mind is to help attractive police detective Gus O'Dell catch the murderer.
When her executive boyfriend breaks up with her, probation officer Sally Dunphy feels like one of the walking wounded. But his apparent suicide shortly afterward snaps her into action, and she teams up with a handsome police detective to investigate what looks like foul play.
Since the tragic day when she shot her abusive cop husband in self defense, dyslexic Toni Credella has been barely scratching out a living. To make ends meet Toni plays bodyguard to a beautiful opera singer with underworld connections and a violent boyfriend. When that boyfriend threatens Toni she knows she's in trouble again. Add a murdered activist socialite, a contract killer, a disappearing uncle, and a suspicious homicide detective to the evil mix and Toni realizes that if she's going to stay alive in Mysterious Baltimore she has to make sense of this mess before it messes her up for good.
Ex-Pinkerton and ex Union sharpshooter Oliver Redcastle is hired to find a kidnapped boy. His search takes him to the mean streets of Baltimore in 1884 and the dangerous harbor where many unwary immigrants are sacrificed in the "Oyster Wars." To save a child Oliver must confront grave-robbers, mediums, unscrupulous physicians, a mad scientist and the "ghost of an old love." Before his mission is complete he even has to outshoot Annie Oakley.
It's a scorching July in the summer of 1884. William Pinkerton has sent Oliver Redcastle to the Midwestern island paradise of Put-in-Bay. The assignment seems simple: capture a tight-rope-walking train robber. But two beautiful women, a dangerous cult, and reminders of Oliver's Civil War past complicate the mission. The sharpshooting detective must fight his way free of a tangled web of personal and professional hazards. In the process he meets John Brown Jr., Jay Cooke, Ulysses S. Grant, and some of the other power-brokers that made the Midwest a center of industry and political clout in this fascinating period of american history.
It's a scorching July in the summer of 1884. William Pinkerton has sent Oliver Redcastle to the Midwestern island paradise of Put-in-Bay. The assignment seems simple: capture a tight-rope walking train robber. But two beautiful women, a dangerous cult, and reminders of Oliver's Civil War past complicate the mission. The sharpshooting detective must fight his way free of a tangled web of personal and professional hazards. In the process he meets John Brown Jr., Jay Cooke, Ulysses S. Grant, and some of the other powerbrokers that made the Midwest a center of industry and political clout in this fascinating period of American history.
THEY WERE DEADLY BEAUTIFUL. 1886 New Mexico and troubles swarm. Sharpshooter and ex-Pinkerton detective, Oliver Redcastle, opts for the quiet life. Hoping to leave his violent past behind and provide his asthmatic young daughter a healthy environment, he settles on a sheep ranch with a mountain view. As capricious as she is gorgeous, Marietta Dumont, his fickle lady love and the mother of his daughter, joins him vowing to make a go of it. Wrong! A brutal winter, a vicious viscount, and two beautiful kidnapped twins make her long for the glamorous life she led on the stage. But Marietta's discontent is just the beginning of Oliver's ordeals. After that it's trouble all the way. Murder sets him on a deadly quest for a killer as lethal a sharpshooter as he. What he finds is much worse. Read Murder Mountain to learn just how much worse!
When Toni Credella teams up with a tough private investigator in hopes of getting her own PI license, she finds herself investigating one crime too many. What's the connection between the murder of a homeless woman and a young girl who met a mysterious death decades earlier?
Oliver Redcastle Takes on London Intrigue. His on-again, off-again lover, Marietta, faces a murder charge and, possibly, the hangman. To save his daughter's fickle mother, Oliver, reluctantly, crosses the Atlantic. Little does he know that to rescue her he'll have to deal with a ruthless spymaster, professional assassins, and a murky welter of intrigue and betrayal. Who is behind Rufus Prock's poisoning? Why would a train explosion in Baltimore create an international incident? What will happen when Oliver teams up with his old partner, Hannah Kinchman? Read this exciting historical mystery, Murder Mob, to find the answers.
It's 1882 and Oliver Redcastle, an ex-Pinkerton detective and a former Union Army sharpshooter, has inherited a house in Baltimore and a new daughter. Oliver dreams of putting his violent past behind him. When John D. Rockefeller forces him to investigate a railway explosion Oliver finds himself plunged into mayhem once again. The plot thickens when a Civil War encampment in the city digs up old betrayals, triggers death and breeds a fresh murder plot that Oliver must foil to prevent his future from becoming as bloody as his past.
Toni needs an inexpensive place to live, so she moves into an apartment where the previous tenant was murdered. Toni realizes what a mistake she's made when her upstairs neighbor is also murdered. Her only hope for peace of mind is to help attractive police detective Gus O'Dell catch the murderer.
Dr. Cole Herlihy, an expert in the field of aging research, finds himself drawn to beautiful antiques dealer Ariane Bragonier, a mysterious and secretive woman who bears a startling resemblance to a socialite who vanished in 1926. Original.
Amber and Samantha take part in an international high-pressure ice show in London to learn the details of whether or not a Communist bloc skater is going to defect.
When Valeska Wolff's daughter is injured while horseback riding, Valeska, a world-famous ballerina, looks back on her career and wonders if it was worth the sacrifices
When her executive boyfriend breaks up with her, probation officer Sally Dunphy feels like one of the walking wounded. But his apparent suicide shortly afterward snaps her into action, and she teams up with a handsome police detective to investigate what looks like foul play.
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