"After a shootout during a convenience store holdup led to the accidental death of a twelve-year-old, Max Freeman left behind the Philadelphia police department for a life in exile in the Florida Everglades. Since then, he has lived in seclusion, haunted by guilt, with the humid night and the nocturnal predators of the swamp as his only company. But everything changes when Freeman discovers a young girl's body floating in the muddy waters and becomes...

Newly minted private detective Max Freeman learns that someone is willing to kill to keep old secrets from coming to light when he sets out to investigate what really happened to three workers who disappeared eighty years earlier while working on the first road built through the Florida Everglades.

Undertaking a technology-free vacation in an isolated region of the Florida Everglades, private eye Max Freeman and detective Sherry Richards are caught in the path of a violent hurricane that tests their survival skills and pits them against murderous looters.

Jude Deveraux’s sizzling New York Times bestseller is a page-turning mix of thrilling sensuality, warmhearted wit, and hot-blooded suspense.A rising corporate star, Fiona Burkenhalter is a New Yorker through and through. When her boss sends her to the Florida Everglades to accompany a wealthy new client on a rustic fishing expedition, it may as well be another planet to city slicker Fiona. She’s more than a little steamed at this detour from the...

"After Parker Buckman is mauled and nearly killed by an alligator, he sees the Everglades as a place of death. Even though he's a park ranger's son, he's convinced he won't be truly okay until he can leave the glades. When his friend Maria goes missing, Parker knows he can't leave until he finds her-- or proof that she's dead. When his search brings him face-to-face with a rogue monster gator, will be find the strength to face his fears?"--

Ashley Montague is nearing the end of her police training-but nothing has prepared her for the shocking discovery of a body on the highway. When she links the body to Detective Jake Dilessio's case, they are forced to work together to find the killer. The body discovered has marks identical to the victims of a cult leader Jake put behind bars five years ago. Is this a copycat killing, or have Jake's deepest fears been realized? Is the wrong man behind...

Meeting a former lover whose husband has disappeared and been pronounced dead, Doc Ford investigates the woman's suspicions of foul play and finds himself deep in the Everglades.

A novel on a sugar baron's rise to riches by violence and murder. He is E.J. Watson, a 19th century pioneer who builds a sugar-cane empire in Florida on the back of blacks.

Charleston, 1799: A daughter of Southern gentility and a gifted painter, Catherine Edilean Harcourt has no lack of suitors at home in Virginia, waiting to fulfill her dream of marriage and family. But Cay's adventurous spirit, fostered by growing up with her three brothers, is piqued while visiting her godfather in South Carolina. Bedridden with a broken leg, he asks Cay to fill in for him on an urgent task: on her way to a fancy dress ball, she must...

"'I need your help.' Bodyguarding is Kyra Morgan's business--but this was supposed to be a vacation. Still, she can't refuse the request from childhood friend and neighbor Michael Hunt. Michael's sister Amy ran away after witnessing a murder. Michael needs Kyra's help to find her and keep her safe. Yet as Kyra and Michael follow the trail along the Florida coast, their search grows more dangerous by the day. Terrorists are at work, and the stakes...