U.S. Marshal Jake Taylor has seen plenty of action during his years in law enforcement. But he'd rather go back to Iraq than face his next assignment: protection detail for federal judge Liz Michaels. His feelings toward Liz haven't warmed in the five years since she lost her husband--and Jake's best friend--to possible suicide. How can Jake be expected to care for the coldhearted workaholic who drove his friend to despair? As the danger mounts and...

Author Jane Morrow has a dilemma. She's engaged to Seth Ballantine, a member of the National Guard's 30th Heavy Brigade Combat Team, and he's returned from Iraq severely wounded. Jane hasn't seen him for nearly a year, and with trepidation, she heads to the VA hospital in Asheville, North Carolina, where he is being treated.Seth isn't happy to see her. He'd asked her not to come. He wants to end the relationship. But Jane loves him, and despite his...

Chicago celebrity Charles James can't shake the nightmare that wakes him each night. He sees himself walking down a long, broken highway the sides of which are lit in flames. Where is he going? Why is he walking? What is the wailing he hears around him? By day, he wonders why he's so haunted and unhappy when he has all he ever wanted -- fame, fans, and fortune and the lavish lifestyle it affords him. Coming from a childhood of poverty and pain, this...

After one of their classmates kills himself, seventeen-year-old Morgan, whose faith in God was already wavering, makes a suicide pact with some other students.

"Emily Leland sheds no tears when her abusive husband is killed in a bar fight, but she arrives back home in Sweetwater Crossing to discover her father has died under mysterious circumstances. Then the house where the new schoolteacher and his son are supposed to board burns, leaving them homeless. When Emily proposes turning the family home into a boardinghouse, her sister is so incensed that she leaves town. Her family name sullied by controversy,...

Matt and Irene Moore, anxious to leave horrific tragedies behind them, relocate to a small coastal town with their 14-year-old daughter, Casey. But rather than find peace, their world is once more turned upside-down when their lives become entangled with Billy Thurber, a drifter who arrives in Breakers with a rash of crimes following at his heels. As the town goes after Thurber with murderous intent, eager for someone to blame, the Moores find unexpected...

"Seventeen-year-old Maddie is left reeling after the unexpected passing of her beloved father. No one has any idea why he betrayed them all so spectacularly, but that's exactly what his death feels like: a betrayal. With their world shattered, Maddie's grieving mother sends her to spend a few months with her grandparents, thinking a change of scenery will do her good. Susan and Frank, Maddie's grandparents, are heartbroken over the loss of their son,...

Eleven months after the horrific Masonville High shooting, Owen Edmonds is determined to uncover why the Creepers have converged on his land and the school--a necessary step in his mission to drive evil forces out of his town. A supernatural visitor tests Owen's ability to discern between truth and lies as the community is rocked by abductions and disappearances. While the town comes together to find those who are missing, Owen must fight to discover...

Dr. Jake Hampton is suffering from traumatic amnesia when his wife, Sarah, dies suddenly. Jake is accused of assisting in his wife's death, and now there is a stalker following him.

Dr. Gates McClure suddenly finds her quiet life and medical practice turned upside down when Dr. Norman Meade, an old acquaintance, arrives to assist a dying woman commit suicide. --- {Excerpt from back cover.}