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Young vet Rachel Goddard's life changes one day when a child's scream activates a long-forgotten memory from her own childhood. Fearing that nothing about her family is what it seems, Rachel begins a quest for answers.

A scrappy, hot-blooded woman can only take so much! Violet Parker is on fire...or rather under fire yet again. New evidence has fanned the embers of a cold murder case, and her alibi is smoldering at the corners. While battling a dogged detective determined to pin the murder on her, Violet scrambles to find the real killer. Will she escape "the heat" with singed tail feathers? Or will Violet go down in flames?

When Kenzie’s friend asks her to investigate the sudden disappearance of his happily married brother-in-law, she doesn’t expect it to lead to a dark family secret and a vengeful voodoo curse.

When the witness in a high-profile trial is shot before he can testify, Kenzie jumps to investigate. She infiltrates the loan shark’s inner circle, only to find she’s in deeper than she intended. When her cover is blown, she's not only racing to stop a killer, but also stay alive.

FBI Agent Lucy Kincaid takes on her most explosive case yet in New York Times bestseller Allison Brennan's Dead Heat DEEP IN THE HEART OF TEXAS Assigned to San Antonio's Violent Crimes unit, Lucy Kincaid joins a team of seasoned veterans and newer agents for a task force called Operation...

When investigative reporter Kenzie is asked by a teenager to look into her boyfriend’s murder, she stumbles upon a secret so great, that just knowing about it could get her killed.

Maggie Cumberland is on the road to finding a murderer. Or on the road to jail, if she can't prove her innocence when a woman at a truck stop ends up dead and happens to have something of Maggie's with her. More details to come in this fun second installment of the Longhorn Trucking Mysteries where Maggie goes from shopaholic without a care to truck driver extraordinaire — at least in her own mind. ;-)

Having an executive chef boyfriend guarantees Chloe Carter the best table at Simmer, Boston's hottest new restaurant, any night of the week. But the Back Bay foodie's incredible comped dinners are usually enjoyed without Josh, whose pressure-cooker job has taken over his life. The same can't be said of Leandra, the pretty blond Simmer server whose body was just found in a seafood delivery truck. The truck belongs to Owen, the fiancé of Chloe's best friend, Adrianna. And Owen has no alibi for the night Leandra was strangled with her apron strings and dumped in his truck.

Ottawa is in the middle of a summer heat wave and PI Anna Sweet takes on her hottest case yet. Brent Rose secretly dated three women at the same time. One of them wants to make him pay for his cheating ways. As Anna and her partner Jada Price try to sort through the clues, the anger threatens to boil over...and the list of suspects keeps getting longer. Will Anna stop Brent's tormentor in time? Or will he meet his end in the killer heat?

When the bodies of local women begin appearing on the city streets, all evidence points to Detective Jessica Barnes' best friend and former colleague, Blaine Cooper. Found unconscious beside a dead woman on the east side of town, with a damning pile of evidence, the former police officer's fate hangs in the balance. Is Blaine the notorious Scorned Killer, or has he been framed?