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The Man You'll Marry
The First Man You Meet... Shelly Hansen was horrified when her great-aunt's wedding dress arrived - because, according to family legend, she was destined to marry the next man she met. So when she tripped on an escalator and fell into Mark Brady's arms, she told him - and herself - that she wasn't interested in marriage. But then she started seeing him everywhere.... Coincidence?
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A Necessary Evil
When a monsignor is found knifed to death in a Nebraska airport restroom, FBI special agent Maggie O'Dell is called in to profile the ritualistic murder of a priest, the latest in a series of killings. Maggie soon discovers a disturbing Internet game that's popular among victims of abuse by Catholic priests. With this first real lead in the investigation, she wonders if the group has turned cyberspace justice into reality. Then Maggie gets a second lead–one that leaves her stunned. For the past four years she has been obsessed with finding Father Michael Keller, whose brutal acts against children continue to haunt her. Now, it seems, he has become a target. When Keller offers to help Maggie solve the ritual killings in exchange for protection, she decides to ally herself with the elusive child killer, stepping into a world of malevolence from which she may not return unscathed. Maggie knows the bargain is a necessary evil…one that may be made in blood…. Alex Kava is an international bestselling suspense writer. Her work has been widely praised by critics and fans alike, and her previous novels in the Maggie O’Dell series, A Perfect Evil, Split Second and The Soul Catcher, have spent several weeks on the New York Times extended and USA TODAY bestseller lists. Growing up in the country outside Silver Creek, Nebraska, Alex Kava fantasized about becoming a writer. Her parents, although they understood the value of education, had a tremendous work ethic. Reading was seen as frivolous unless required as schoolwork. As a teenager, Kava wrote short stories on the backs of calendars, sharing them only with her younger brother and hiding them in a shoe box under her bed. / Kava earned an art scholarship to attend college. To pay living expenses, she worked in a nearby hospital’s central supply department collecting and sterilizing all of the basins, instruments and equipment from surgery, pathology and the morgue. In 1982 she graduated magna cum laude from College of Saint Mary in Omaha, Nebraska, with a B.A. in art and English. /After graduating, Kava held a variety of jobs, mostly in advertising and marketing. Starting her own graphic design firm, Square One, she designed food packages and logos for national corporations, wrote brochures and newsletters, created a line of greeting cards and directed TV and radio commercials. In 1992 she returned to her alma mater as its director of public relations. /Kava quit her public relations position in the summer of 1996, wanting to dedicate more time to writing fiction and getting published. To pay the bills, she resurrected Square One, refinanced her home, maxed out her credit cards and even took on a newspaper delivery route. /Alex Kava is a member of the Mystery Writers of America and Sisters in Crime. She lives in Omaha, Nebraska.
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After Moonrise
ossessed by P.C. Cast Being a psychic detective who can channel only negative emotions makes Kent Raef good at catching murderers, but bad at maintaining relationships. Then Lauren Wilcox arrives with a most intriguing case: her twin sister has been murdered and is communing with Laurens spirit and sharing her body. Raefs the only one who can track the killer and free the spirit. But soon he begins to wonder just which twin he wants to save...and why.... Haunted by Gena Showalter Artist Aurora Harper is convinced shes witnessed a crime a murder so brutal shes repressed the memories, only to paint the scene by the light of the moon. Now she needs her new neighbor, Detective Levi Reid, to help her track down the victim and the killer. Levis dealing with his own memory issues, but one thing he knows for sure: Harper is meant to be his, and nothing can take her away from him not in this life...and not in death...
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Shadow Bound
After weeks spent paying for betraying the boss she’s bound to, Kori Daniels is done with Jake Tower and his syndicate. But they’re not done with her. Tower has a new task for her--a chance to prove her loyalty--but Kori knows this assignment may be her only chance to free both herself and her sister Kenley. For good. The job? Recruit Ian Holt- or kill him. Ian Holt knows he’s being courted by the Tower syndicate and that Kori’s been sent to reel him in, but he has no intention of actually being caught, by her or the syndicate. Ian is an independent--sworn to serve only himself--and he’s only pretending to be recruitable so he can breach Tower’s practically impregnable security. His goal? Free most of those unwillingly bound to Tower by killing his top Binder, Kenley Daniels--Kori’s little sister. Instantly attracted to each other in spite of opposing goals, both Kori and Ian fight a connection they cannot deny. But when that initial chemistry grows into something stronger and deeper, they’ll be forced to choose between love and liberty--or they can risk everything for the chance to have it all
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The Arsonist
The game has just begun. It’s impossible to douse the fire... Once he solved the Nero case, arson investigator Michael Gannon blasted out of town on his motorcycle. No way would he return to the job, but his nightmares persisted. Gannon found some relief in a small Virginia town...until the fires started again. When evil strikes the match Back in the public eye, he had to face his demons and the incomparable Darcy Sampson, a feisty reporter who urged him out of hiding. But Gannon had to ask himself: What, or who, would it take to push him over the edge?
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Grace Notes
Was she helping a woman in danger . . . or walking into a dangerous trap? Early in her marriage Grace Loring became the victim of her husband's sudden, unpredictable rages. Taking her infant daughter and a few belongings, Grace fled to the safety of her brother Gus's home in Vermont. Now, years later, Grace is a successful author. Accustomed to abused women writing to ask for advice, Grace is sympathetic when she is contacted by a troubled young woman named Stephanie Baine. In the course of their e-mail correspondence, Stephanie reveals details of a nightmarish life -- her terrifying abduction as a teenager, the psychological and physical abuse at the hands of her husband. Grace's advice is clear: Stephanie must do whatever is necessary to escape this madman. After several weeks of an intensive exchange, the e-mails abruptly stop, and Grace begins to fear the worst for Stephanie. Then the e-mails resume, and what Grace learns casts doubt on everything she believed. Who is Stephanie Baine? Has anything she's told Grace been the truth? Is she really a young woman in danger, or is something else -- something sinister, even deadly -- going on?
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Tiger Prince
Escaping from her high-pressure Washington job and a painful divorce, Caren Blakemore finds romance with Derek Allen, a mysterious man hiding from a scandal-hungry press, but she soon discovers that their affair has painful repercussions. Reissue.
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In Hot Pursuit
Sometimes you have to go backward to move on. . . All roads eventually lead back to the truth After the brutal murder of her husband, police officer Liz Rivas entered the witness protection program to save her young son. Today, twenty years later, she's Jenna MacArthur, shop owner in Pfister, Missouri. Jenna and her son, Sam, a rookie cop, have build new lives in a small town where everybody knows everybody's business. Or at least they think they do. Then a stranger arrives in Pfister, a men who remembers Liz Rivas. He is Paul Haggerty, a fellow cop from her past. There are memories here, sure. . .and a fierce attraction. But is he a connection to her former life -- or a threat to the life Jenna has sacrificed so much to build?
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Kane
Regina's up to no good. Kane knows it, but he can't prove it. He's sure she's linked to the big conglomerate trying to put his grandfather out of his business. Why else would she pay so much attention to the old man? His only choice is to stick close to Regina. But that's when emotions take over. And even as they're falling in love, both refuse to let go of the one belief certain to tear them apart: family comes first
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The Devil's Necklace
The second book in Martin's passionate Bride's Necklace trilogy. British privateer Ethan Sharpe abducts Grace Chastain, who he believes to be the mistress of the traitor responsible for his years in a French prison. Original. Ethan Sharpe is a privateer for the British government who has been held prisoner by the French for the last year. Ethan is embittered by the cruelties he faced in prison and is bent on revenge against Harmon Jeffries, the traitor responsible for his capture. When he abducts Grace Chastain who he believes to be Jeffries' mistress, unexpected emotions surface that he cannot deny-except Grace is not what she seems.
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Scandalous Miss Howard
The boy who left to fight for the Confederate army twenty years ago had been a trusting fool. He had trusted the girl who promised to wait for him. He had trusted the friend who betrayed him. Now he has come home to Alabama to avenge what they stole from him: his heart, his soul, his world. Laurette Howard, too, lost her innocence in the cruelest of ways -- with news that the boy she loved had died in the war. After a loveless marriage, she contented herself with caring for the sick, knowing her own heart could not be healed. Then Sutton Vane arrived in Mobile, shattering her composure, releasing the wanton, passionate woman that had been locked away. She surrendered totally to a passion so scandalous, it could only be destiny . . . But was it a passion calculated to destroy her . . . Or to deliver the sweet promise of a love that refused to die?