Erica Spindler

Nearly killed as a teenager by a hit-and-run boater, Jane Killian is a woman with everything to live for. A series of surgeries restored her lovely face. She's the toast of the Dallas art community, her sculptures lauded as both disturbing and beautiful. And Jane and her husband, plastic surgeon Dr. Ian Westbrook, are expecting their first child.Then a woman with ties to Ian is found brutally slain and the police make him their prime suspect. At first determined to prove her husband's innocence, Jane cannot escape her own growing doubts. Then her nightmare escalates. She begins receiving anonymous messages and quickly becomes convinced they're from him--the boater she always believed deliberately hit her and got away with it.Now Jane must face a terrifying truth. Her tormentor knows everything about her--her likes, her dislikes, her daily routine and, most frightening of all, her deepest fears. And he will use them mercilessly until he sees Jane dead.

Officer Miranda Rader of the Harmony, Louisiana PD is known for her honesty, integrity, and steady hand in a crisis - but that wasn't always so. Miranda comes from the town of Jasper, a place about the size of a good spit on a hot day, and her side of the tracks was the wrong one. She's worked hard to earn the respect of her coworkers and the community. When Miranda and her partner are called to investigate the murder of one of the town's most beloved college professors, they're unprepared for the brutality of the scene. This murder is unlike any they've ever investigated, and just when Miranda thinks she's seen the worst of it, she finds a piece of evidence that chills her to the core: a faded newspaper clipping about that terrible night fifteen years ago. The night she'd buried, along with her past and the girl she'd been back then. Until now that grave had stayed sealed... except for those times, in the deepest part of the night, when the nightmares came: of a crime no one believed happened and the screams of the girl they believed didn't exist.

Lance Alexander might have been named after the noblest of romantic heroes, but he was all business when it came to looking for a wife, or hiring a fund-raiser for his favorite charity--and free-spirited Madi Muldoon wasn't at all what he had in mind! She was cocky, confident, a shameless flirt who couldn't be intimidated... but the tawny-eyed beauty was wickedly irresistible, and determined to prove she could deliver on any promises she made. How could Lance care so much for saving the sea turtles, she wondered, and yet refuse to let his heart choose the woman who'd share his bed and raise their children? Madi secretly shared his dreams of home and family, but she'd lost her faith in marriage--and Lance found it hard to trust in any woman's love. No man had ever touched her soul or shaken her foundations the way Lance did, but could Madi make him believe that wishes made on the full moon would always come true?

Mira Gallier finds her personal life and career are blossoming after years of pain over the loss of her husband in Hurricane Katrina, but everything changes when she is attacked by a man known as "The Preacher," who is soon after found dead, and a series of events unfold, leading Mira to become a suspect for the murder of her own assistant, and mirages of her dead husband cause Mira to question her own sanity.

A trio of women discover a connection to the same man. It turns out David Sandler has business dealings with Raven, is a patient of psychologist Andie and is dating Julie. They will discover another connection--to a murdered woman whose bondage games they spied on as teens.

"Hayes Bradford -- the very handsome man sitting on Alice Dougherty's sofa asking for her advice -- is the widowed father she'd once come close to marrying. That was twelve long years ago, but Alice remembers Hayes breaking her heart as though it were yesterday. His adorable son is now all grown-up and about to be a dad, but Hayes isn't ready to be a grandfather. Suddenly Alice finds herself in the middle of the family she still very much wants to call her own."

Rush Cousin's search for his roots leads him to Ashland Plantation, an elegant, decaying estate deep in the Mississippi Delta. After landing a job on the plantation as a handyman, Rush finds himself getting closer to Ashland's long-buried secrets -- and Annabelle Ames, the plantation's beautiful, embittered mistress, who has a lonely obsession with the past which strangely seems to mirror his own. Can Rush uncover the truth but keep his passion for Annabelle at bay?

Jennifer Joyce would have recognized Ryder Hayes anywhere. The local bad boy who had left Hazelhurst and broken her heart ten years ago was back-a dangerously seductive man powerful enough to decide the fate of the entire town. Despite their heated pass, Jennifer would stop at nothing to keep Ryder from ever hurting her or family again. This time, she would make no mistakes. But could she escape the lure of a bad Boy gone good?

Detective MC Riggio is about to get married. In her late twenties, she is at a crossroads in her life. After a lot of knocks, it seems as though everything is on track for her. But then MC's cousin Tommy is brutally murdered and suddenly nothing will be the same again. A cold, emotionless serial killer is on the loose; some one who kills cleanly and without leaving ay trace. A killer who has the potential to rip apart MC's family - and to leave her dreams torn to shreds. -- back cover.