Страна: США
Место проведения: г. Анахайм, отель Anaheim Marriott, вечеринка Death by Chocolate Party, ежегодно проводимая во время Национальной конференции RWA
Дата проведения: 21 июля 2023 г.
Carol Potenza0.0 A treasure beyond value. Her mother's life on the line.
When a murder victim falls out of a closet at Police Sergeant Nicky Matthews' feet, her investigation leads her to a powerful tribal fertility medicine. What Nicky keeps secret is this medicine was once at the center of her father's scientific research. He'd isolated the single most-important compound in a fertility treatment worth a fortune ... and one worth killing for. But when her father died, the identity and location of the plant that produced this compound was lost.
Or was it? Nicky's estranged mother may hold the key to the plant's rediscovery. Nicky insists her mother stay away because she is a target. Instead, her mother barges back into her daughter's life, determined to help Nicky solve the murder, and heal their contentious relationship. But her mother's return is the opening the killers need.
No way Nicky is ever going to let anyone hurt her mom, even if it means tracking the murderers into New Mexico high country in the depths of winter. Will she bring them to justice? Or just make them disappear?
Working as a Hollywood photographer means Riley Temple has seen it all, but that theory is put to the test when she finds herself staring at the chilling image of a dead woman. When her questions about the film's origin results in an assault, a murder, and an attack on Riley herself, she finds herself reluctantly turning to the only person who assures her he can Detective Quinn Burton. To find those responsible for harming her friends and to protect those closest to her, she's willing to do anything. Even trust a cop. After more than a decade on the job, Quinn Burton knows a dangerous situation when he sees it. Those pictures Riley stumbled onto could very well overturn a notorious murder conviction--a conviction partially secured by Quinn's own police commissioner father. Quinn has always prided himself on being loyal, but seeing this case through means he'll have to betray his job, his family, or the woman he's falling in love with. As Quinn and Riley's relationship deepens, their investigation reveals the false conviction is only a small part of a much bigger conspiracy. They soon find themselves targeted by The Circle of the Red Lily, a secret society that for decades has maintained influence and violent control over Hollywood's powerful elite. A group that, until now, has remained hidden in the shadows.
Vonny Kwan wakes up in a Nevada hospital, the victim of a hit-and-run accident she doesn’t remember. As she struggles to recover from her injuries, she learns that she also has no memory of the past nine years, including her marriage and what she was even doing in the West.
While she’s still reeling from the shock of her amnesia, two detectives visit and inform her that her husband, John, was recently murdered. As more information comes to light, Vonny grows increasingly suspicious of everyone around her.
Vonny realizes she must piece together the last decade to uncover the truth. The missing chunk of time holds secrets about the person she became, the mysterious man she fell for, and the life she never wanted.
Adrian Reilly has the life he's always a beautiful wife whose strength and tenacity match his own, and new friends that have become family, but retirement from Army Special Forces and a life lived in shadows is not all it's cracked up to be after a life of hunting evil men.
Embedded in Seamus Finnegan's illegal arms trade, CIA operator Andrea Williams has posed as Finnegan's business partner, wife, and mother of his child while covertly feeding Headquarters with unprecedented information. Her methodical and patient expertise has thwarted sales to those hostiles to the U.S., disrupted political rebellions, and saved countless lives in Europe and Asia until unexpected forces threaten to expose her and destroy all she has done.
Buried memories and broken promises threaten Reilly's marriage and friendships as he's pulled back into the clandestine world of misdirection and secret agendas. To find the truth behind what Andrea was bringing the CIA and what Seamus Finnegan is planning, Reilly compromises not only the vows he's made and the safety of those he loves, but the safety of the child that binds them all.
HOOKER AVENUE is the second in the Queen City Crimes series, which sees the return of attorney Jessie Martin in upstate New York’s Hudson Valley. Jessie is on her way home during a pop-up thunderstorm when she spots a woman drowning in a storm drain. She pulls over to save the woman—only to discover that no good deed goes unpunished.
Responding to the scene is Jessie’s former best friend, Detective Ebony Jones. Ebony and her partner are investigating a string of disappearances of sex workers, and the assault matches the other crimes with one difference—the victim is still alive.
Before Jessie can make amends with Ebony, she’s thrown into a dilemma. A former rival has offered her a job in his law firm, and as an unemployed single mother, she can’t say no. But this also means she can’t help Ebony with her case. Jessie’s employer is now the attorney of record for the victim, Lissie Sexton, and Lissie has gone into hiding, which places the two old friends on opposite sides of the law.
As the evidence builds, Jessie’s personal life goes into a tailspin. She’s being stalked by the killer she helped put away, and the man in her life is ready to take their relationship to the next level. With her allegiance being pulled in every direction and horrific revelations coming to light, will Jessie be able to figure out where her loyalties lie and stop another killer plaguing the Hudson Valley before her own life hangs in the balance?
Грейс Каллауэй0.0 She is a member of a secret society of lady investigators. He is a spy for the Crown. Both want a marriage of convenience as a cover for their true activities... What could go wrong?
When her overprotective family tries to curtail her activities, spirited and independent debutante Fiona Garrity decides marriage is her surest way to freedom. All she needs is an accommodating, and preferably not too perceptive, husband with his own hobbies so that he will not interfere with hers. Destiny puts her into the path of a reputedly staid and scholarly earl. He would be the perfect candidate…if only his grey eyes were not quite so magnetic, and his virile nearness didn’t affect her in such a stimulating manner…
After the death of his first wife, Thomas Morgan, the Earl of Hawksmoor, has sworn off love. He is torn between his duty to produce an heir and his true passion: his work as an agent of the Crown. Fate gives him a solution when a dazzling debutante proposes a practical union that would allow them both to maintain private lives. She would be an impeccable choice…if only her heavenly gaze didn’t lay bare his secret needs and her delectable form didn’t tempt him to unleash his darkest desires…
Fiery passion threatens the negotiated rules of Fiona and Hawk’s marriage. As desire turns into love, a dangerous case brings them into shocking contact. Will their marriage of convenience survive attacks from the past and present and transform into a love for all time?
Grace's books feature hot historical romance, fun and feel-good happily ever afters, and exciting mystery and adventure. Her books are standalones which can also be enjoyed as part of her interconnected series.
A London heiress rides out to the wilds of the English countryside to honor a marriage of convenience with a mysterious and reclusive stranger. Tall, dark, and dour, the notorious Captain Jasper Blunt was once hailed a military hero, but tales abound of his bastard children and his haunted estate in Yorkshire. What he requires now is a rich wife to ornament his isolated ruin, and he has his sights set on the enchanting Julia Wychwood. For Julia, an incurable romantic cursed with a crippling social anxiety, navigating a London ballroom is absolute torture. The only time Julia feels any degree of confidence is when she’s on her horse. Unfortunately, a young lady can’t spend the whole of her life in the saddle, so Julia makes an impetuous decision to take her future by the reins—she proposes to Captain Blunt. In exchange for her dowry and her hand, Jasper must promise to grant her freedom to do as she pleases. To ride—and to read—as much as she likes without masculine interference. He readily agrees to her conditions, with one provision of his own: Julia is forbidden from going into the tower rooms of his estate and snooping around his affairs. But the more she learns of the beastly former hero, the more intrigued she becomes…
Separated by Time. Joined by Fate.
Life was tough enough already for Air Evac nurse Willie McAllister, and that was before she started living two lives.
After failing to save her cousin Josh's life following a horrific single-car accident, Willie finds herself overcome with grief and guilt. More than that, though, she's haunted by Josh's last words-a warning for her to stay away from the small Missouri town of Nevada. When a Deputy U.S. Marshal shows up at her door asking questions, she begins to suspect there's more to the whole thing than just a random car accident. Could Josh have been murdered?
In the depths of her sadness, though, Willie also begins seeing things she can't explain-glimpses of a distant figure, flashes of another time. She witnesses the life and tragic death of the Osage warrior, Stone Shaper, and the grief of Beth, his young bride. But why is she seeing these things, and what does it all mean? Why has she suddenly become connected to a man murdered almost two hundred years in the past?
As Willie's life begins to spin out of control, who will be there to catch her? The handsome marshal she thinks she may be falling for? The gentle old Osage minister who seems to know what she's seeing? Or the helpful local firefighter who keeps popping up whenever she needs a hand? All she knows is that she must find justice for Josh and closure for Stone Shaper. But will she have the chance to do it when the killer she seeks now has his sights set upon her?
From the author of Healer comes Connection, a tale of supernatural suspense in which one man's search for redemption pits him against a cunning religious leader and his community who are preparing for a violent end of the world.
Retired Army Captain Jackson Howe views his ability to "connect" with others as invasive and inconvenient, but he deals with it by only using his power to help others. He's found purpose at Havenhart Academy using art therapy with child victims of trauma and his friends have embraced him and his quirky behavior, but after meeting Delaney's friend Cassidy—and developing a stronger than usual "connection" with her—he fears he's destined to forever be on the outside looking in.
But when Cassidy's link to Havenhart makes her a target and the plane she's flying is hijacked, she's forced to crashland in the Florida Everglades and becomes a pawn in the struggle between good and evil. Jackson will call on his training—and special skills—to save her from an enemy determined to spread evil and hurt those Jackson holds dear.
Follow the continuing saga of Havenhart Academy in Book Two of the Gifted Series.
Archaeologist Sabrina Jefferson joins the dig in world-famous Chichen Itza so she can secretly work to prove a popular Mayan myth about forbidden love is a true story. When a freak accident connects her with the spirits of the famous lovers, she risks her life to search for an ancient artifact containing the body of their infant son. But if she accepts help from the sexy head of security, will she also be risking her heart?
Former Navy SEAL Pearce Talbot has a secret mission beyond supervising security for the Mayan dig funded by his wealthy boss. To get justice for his murdered fiancée, he must trap the black-market antiquities collector who evaded punishment. His plans for revenge take an unexpected detour when a fiercely independent archaeologist discovers the perfect bait to snare his prey…and also captures Pearce’s heart.
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