Lynn Erickson

Teenage girls are disappearing from this town where an idyllic beach community is terrorized, and where one reporter must get to the truth to protect her family. Trying to mix business with pleasure, KEY News correspondent Diane Mayfield has brought her children and her sister to the New Jersey shore town of Ocean Grove to investigate a story on "girls who cry wolf" for the season premiere of Hourglass, television's highly rated news magazine. Diane lands an exclusive interview with a troubled young woman whose tale of being abducted and held against her will for three terrifying days had been disbelieved by the authorities. No sooner does Diane finish taping the interview, though, than a second victim disappears. The small community, already in the grip of a record heat wave, is now wracked by fear and terror, no one knows who could be next. With only the first victim as eyewitness, Diane and the police turn to her for clues. But it may be too late to save Diane and her loved ones from the mortal danger that lurks in Ocean Grove.

A woman in a bind For four years Grace Bennett has lavished care on her foster son, ever since his mother gave him up. Now his birth mother wants him back, and under the law, she can have him. Grace has two choices -- obey a court order and hand the child over, or go underground with her little boy and become a fugitive mom. The man who could help her Luke Sarkov may no longer be working vice for the San Francisco P.D., but he's lost none of his edge. He could help Grace flee -- and get the goods on just how unfit a parent the biological mother of Grace's little boy really is. If he and Grace can control what has started to happen between them...

Secrets and lies... Jim Mitchell, chief park ranger of Canyonlands National Park, Utah, has his hands full. Not only is his rebellious teenage daughter giving him grief about living in the isolated park, but he's got a gruesome murder in his jurisdiction that needs solving. The sudden appearance of National Park Service budget lady Anne Winslow is not about to make his life any easier. Especially once she starts nosing around in affairs that have nothing to do with budgets, as far as he can tell. Mitch is pretty certain the murder is connected to moki poaching -- the looting of Anasazi ruins for their valuable artifacts -- and careful sleuthing will reveal the murderer. He's less certain about the beautiful, enigmatic Anne Winslow. She attracts him deeply, and he begins to want something real with her, something real and lasting. But he can't shake off the sense that she's lying to him....

When a senator who aspires to the Presidency is assassinated, his brother-in-law searches for the missing witness, a mysterious woman called Sarah.

(Second Opportunities, #3) After 30 years, Sloan Reynolds is about to meet the father she never knew. Claiming that his ill health has led him to attempt reconciliation, Carter Reynolds invites Sloan to meet him and his other daughter, Paris, in the glamorous world of Palm Beach, Florida. With all the sense and courage that her job as a cop requires, Sloan refuses the invitation, convinced that nothing good could come from meeting her absentee father. But when FBI agent Paul Richardson intervenes and explains that Reynolds is under suspicion, she agrees to enter the world of the social elite in order to help investigate her father. Prepared to hate Palm Beach and all its inhabitants, Sloan is surprised to find herself drawn towards Paris, her cranky great-grandmother, and Paris's neighbors, the Maitland family--particularly Noah Maitland. Noah has all the characteristics of Mr. Perfect, which is exactly what scares Sloan. How could someone so sophisticated, smart, and handsome be attracted to her? But just as the two begin to explore their attraction, Sloan's hopes for her new family and friends crumble. Paul closes in on the dark truth about Carter Reynolds and his suspicions expand to include Noah. Soon, Sloan is an unwilling accomplice in the investigation against Noah, and when a horrible murder occurs, she just may be the next victim. Second Opportunities Series: Paradise (Second Opportunities, #1) Perfect (Second Opportunities, #2) Night Whispers (Second Opportunities, #3) Every Breath You Take (Second Opportunities, #4)

SOMETIMES ONE JUST KNEW... International intrigue was not the usual preoccupation of Willy Patterson, art gallery owner, world-class skier. But she could not refuse to help an old friend take refuge in the U.S. Hyde Vandemeer, quintessential CIA agent was necessary to the plan. He was also totally devastating--but too controlled, too businesslike. She couldn't know Hyde had to suppress his teary for her safety in cosmopolitan Aspen, as well as his blossoming love. But she did know she had to trust her instincts. She sensed that under Hyde's mysterious veneer was the man who could share her life ....

Captain Craig Saybolt was a dangerous man He'd spent a year in jail for a crime he didn't commit. But someone had run his Alaskan oil tanker aground. Now heaven help that someone when Craig caught up to him. Marie Vicenza was in it for the money If she could prove Craig's innocence, the Pacific Insurance Group would pay her a huge bonus. But when she saw how Craig had been hurt, her heart went out to him. Maybe they could work together. Maybe they could even fall in love--if only Craig could learn to trust her....

IN A WAR-TORN LAND, SHE WAS THE PRICE OF PEACE. She was Dawnlyn Renfrew--born on an island off the storm-tossed Scottish coast, daughter of the Earl of St. Abb. He was Gaard, a gray-eyed Viking lord. He had scaled the walls of her castle and vanquished the fiercest warriors. He could claim all that he saw as his own. He claimed Dawnlyn.

Pregnant. Broke. Alone. Late one night, Bettie Gay Bryson finds herself sitting in a police station in Tucson, Arizona. Her cowardly ex-boyfriend held up a store and took off, leaving her there to face the law. Leaving her with only the clothes on her back--and the baby growing inside her. Greg Tyrrell, hard-driving investigator for the county attorney, offers her a deal. No prosecution, plus her living expenses paid- if she'll act as bait in his plan to snare the ruthless head of a baby-selling ring. What choice does she have? B.G. agrees. This decision marks the beginning of her new life, especially when she starts to fall in love with Greg Tyrrell--the man who leads B.G. and her baby into danger...and out of it. 9 MONTHS LATER

First her vacation was sunny... Then it became a nightmare In Spain to visit her younger sister, Melanie Royce discovered that Cecily was friendly with a group of idealistic Basque students. Then Cecily was kidnapped for a half-million-dollar ransom. Melanie was forced to turn to Teo Sanlucar for help. Teo was Cecily's history professor, and a tall, proud, enigmatic Basque. The key to the kidnapping lay in Pamplona. Amid the frenzied running of the bulls fiesta, Melanie suspected that she had aligned herself with the man responsible for her sister's disappearance...