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VooDoo Bones (Novella) CobbleStone- Press
Coming June 20, 2008
Noel Galliano has always wanted her own business, and despite critics who believe she won't succeed, she opens a tiny French Quarter Voodoo shop. What she doesn't count on is finding a dismembered corpse upstairs. Detective Mathieu Bergeron is considered a screw up around the district station, until he puts away the Bayou Ripper. Then another body is found mutilated, and both his arrest and his competence are thrown into question. Matt and Noel must work together to solve this terrifying crime in the Big Easy...and along the way, they fall in love.
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Valentine Vendetta (Novella)
Nikki Brooks never thought she'd ever see her childhood nemesis, Marc Trapani, again after he played a heartless trick on her in high school that got her kicked off the paper staff. Until twelve years later when Marc, now a rugged detective, is assigned to guard her when a murderer threatens her life — and he lays siege to her heart.
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"Valentine Vendetta is a fast-paced, suspenseful and sensual read; the sexual acts are emotionally stirring. She shares her story with an audience which will revel in her ability to dispense the apprehension to all! This story is unusual with an unexpected ending. It is guaranteed to please even the most discerning reader!" -- Brenda Talley, The Romance Studio
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Haunted Memories CobbleStone- Press
Coming July 26, 2008
Olivia Bartlett is stunned to find her old friend, Deputy Tucker Hawkins, living in the house she has inherited, but she's even more shocked to glimpse her cruel stepfather lurking in the shadows. Has Walter come back to haunt her, or is he really alive--and trying to kill her? To survive, she must turn to Tucker, who not only stakes his claim to the old house, but also to her heart.
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Emily's Nightmare (Novella) CobbleStone- Press
Detectives Emily Rawson and John Cutter go from friends to lovers in a moment of unbridled passion, and it changes their lives forever.
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Brink of Sanity
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Fueled by grief after the brutal murder of his fiancée, Detective Sam Walker withdraws from life and focuses on finding her killer. Dani Barrington, the department’s new Victim’s Advocate, is a rape survivor determined to help the one victim who escaped the vicious murderer. Sam is struck by Dani’s tenacity in the face of danger, but is also disturbed that she is now in the killer’s sights. He must find a way to protect her, or risk losing the one woman who can bring his dead heart back to life. |
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Brink of Hell
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Atlanta Homicide Detective Jack Marston despises his ex-wife, but he didn’t kill her. At least, he doesn’t think so. Nobody knows for sure.
Then the lab releases evidence that points to him, and he’s indicted for murder. The press crucifies him. He tries to defend himself and becomes a pariah to everyone in the department—except his partner, Mikki Baker, who’s known for her tenacity and determination. The higher ups love her.
Her jacket is filled with commendations. Yet when she goes to bat for Jack, nobody backs her up. She’s forced to risk her career—and her life—to prove his innocence. |
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Brink of Death
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Sienna Wright had it all—an exciting career as an investigative reporter, a handsome husband who was also an ADA, and two beautiful children—until a vicious murderer took it all away and sent her tumbling into a terrifying black abyss. Now someone is after her, and she has no idea why. To survive, she must break free of her quagmire of depression and trust the brusque detective working her husband’s case, even though all she wants is to be left alone. Detective Nate Lincoln’s job is his life, and he jumps at the chance to reclaim his gun and badge once brutality charges against him are dropped. His first order of business is to solve the heinous murder of a local ADA, yet the man’s widow refuses to cooperate—until her life is threatened. Nate isn’t sure he can help her; her spiral into depression reminds him too much of the path his mother took when he was young. Yet he has to try. Solving the case means defeating his demons, and just might lead him to the love of his life. |
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Former Triskelion Books
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| Truth or Dare |
Kaitlyn Chambers is an experienced witch who's just been given the biggest assignment of her immortal life--to rid Scarlet Oak of the greedy ghosts plundering its refurbished halls. She doesn't count on running into a serial murderer. FBI Assistant Deputy Director Colin Winter doesn't believe in love or the paranormal. Yet when he is sent to Louisiana to solve the bizarre series of crimes, he is forced to rely on Kaitlyn to teach him not only the secrets of the grimoire, but how he can use a spell to unlock his haunted heart. |
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| Blood Rite (Single Title-Thriller) |
Women who have dated New Orleans Police Department detective Nick Marconi are dying. Haunted by the deaths of his sisters and partner, Nick is consumed with solving these brutal crimes. He's walking a tightrope of control. The only person who can help him is psychiatrist Gracie Simmons, whose bad-cop father is behind bars. Determined to see Nick as a man and not a cop, Gracie makes him her special project...which puts her at the top of the murderer's hit list. For protection, she must turn to Nick. Can he get to her in time? |
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| Flash Bang (Single Title) |
Allie Robbins would die to keep anyone from learning that her son, Caden, is FBI Special Agent Noah Sterling’s child. Then Caden disappears, and the only person she can trust to help her find him is the man who left her alone and pregnant ten years before. Noah thought he'd put his past behind him when he joined the FBI, and now it's returned to bite him in the ass. He and Allie pull out all the stops to find their son--and in the process, they rediscover love. |
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Skeleton Bayou
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Terrifying family secrets, a revenge-seeking ex-husband, and an environmental nightmare threaten a woman desperate to start a new life in her dilapidated family home deep in the Louisiana swamp. For protection, she turns to the only man she believes she can trust—a rugged ex-cop with his own batch of secrets.
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