Jan Coffey

A summer in Aruba, on the beach, in the sun–what else could a girl want? A summer romance, of course! Imagine spending your entire summer vacation on the beautiful Islands of Aruba. Who could ask for anything more? Well, for Morgan Callahan, spending her entire summer in Aruba with the father, she hardly knows, is barely anything to look forward to. In fact, she is dreading the next few months. Nonetheless, she is in for the time of her life! From secret operatives to finding romance.Morgan is in for some international intrigue!

Tropical Kiss

May McGoldrick

From USA Today Bestselling Author May McGoldrick, a heartwarming holiday tale of second chances at love... THANKSGIVING IN CONNECTICUT Talented photographer Paige Coleman has stayed away from her beloved seaside Connecticut village of Stonington ever since being mortified by 'viral' YouTube video that captured her in the buff at the top of a whaling ship at Mystic Seaport. Now, four years later, Paige decides that the time has come to face up to her past when her quirky, eighty-six year old grandmother throws the mother of all Thanksgivings to celebrate her recent marriage to 'younger man' Ed Fenwick. But with hometown god and former flame Stanley Fenwick, grandson of the groom, sure to be a part of every event, Paige must now protect her heart as well as retain her sanity, even as her cougar-turned-matchmaker grandmother uses every resource at her disposal to rekindle old fires of passion. As Thanksgiving dinner looms, Paige must realize that the sacrifice of a little dignity is worth the New England home and family she has missed so much. What others say about Thanksgiving in Connecticut... TIMELY HEARTWARMING STORY FOR THE HOLIDAYS! In true May McGoldrick style bringing together former flames for a second chance at love. You can feel yourself being part of the crazy chaotic nature of a large Thanksgiving gathering. -Reader Review ★★★★★ This is so real to life I laughed and shook my head in disbelief all in the same chapter. Loved the inter-generational issues. The high talent of so many and yet the totally normal lives they lead. Read about Paige and Stanley, Shirley and Ed, Ryan and Bob, and enjoy your Thanksgiving Day. - Reader Review ★★★★★

Thanksgiving in Connecticut (A Romantic Comedy)

When their submarine is hijacked, ship superintendent Amy Russell and Commander Darius McCann, with the lives of millions in their hands, work together to take down the enemy, while, back in New York City, two investigators race against time to stop the impending attack. Original.

Silent Waters

Farsi/Persian edition Christina Phillips, grieving after a personal tragedy, leaves California for Istanbul, hoping the exotic sights and sounds and smells of the ancient city will help her heal. But when she finds herself being stalked by a young Kurdish woman and threatened by a driver who seems to know all about her family and her life, she must correct old injustices by unraveling family secrets before tragedy strikes once again. Zari Rahman fled the bombs and chemical warfare of war torn Kurdistan, seeking safety and a new life for her newborn daughter. In Istanbul, homeless and desperate, she receives an unexpected kindness that comes at a soul-crushing price. The lives of these women collide in the city where the East meets West, where together they must travel a perilous path to justice and redemption. When the Mirror Cracks connects the past and present narratives of mothers and daughters in a tale about women and sacrifice, community and exclusion, cultural identity and the refugee experience.

Persian Farsi Translation

When the Mirror Cracks (آنگاه که آینه ترک می خورد)

From USA Today Bestselling Author Jan Coffey comes a thrilling tale of corporate greed and corruption... BLIND EYE TRAPPED IN THE DARKNESS, SHE'S RUNNING OUT OF TIME.... Counting down to a Chernobyl-scale disaster, the clock starts now... Tick... Scientist Marion Kagan is the sole survivor after gunmen attacked the facility where her team was working on a top-secret project. Wounded and trapped in a collapsed building, Marion must stop radioactive testing samples from leaking out and killing millions Tick... In a Connecticut psychiatric hospital, Marion's twin sister, who has been in a coma-like state for years, begins to thrash violently in her bed. When an experimental program is used on her to read the images of her brain, researchers are shocked at what they find Tick... An American soldier just back from Iraq is searching for direction in his life. While he watches the news about the research facility explosion, he is unaware that fate has just chosen a direction for him—straight into a deadly game of international corporate intrigue. Tick...

Blind Eye

Nikoo McGoldrick

James A. McGoldrick

Nik James

Artistic collaboration is the most dangerous game around, except maybe for love. The McGoldricks have mastered both. I thought from the first time that I met them that they had something special going on. Now I understand the basis of their magical marriage. It’s called collaboration. – Evan Maxwell, NY Times bestselling novelist, collaborator, and writing columnist Part how-to book, part relationship book, Marriage of Minds offers strategies and techniques for creating successful collaborations and successful fiction. Drawing on their own personal and professional relationship, and on the relationships of other well-known collaborative teams, the McGoldricks walk you through the essentials of successful collaboration: – finding the “write” partner – developing skills in communication and the art of compromise – establishing guidelines – providing constructive feedback – working through “for better or worse” All you and your partner need are the ideas and the talent. Marriage of Minds will supply you with the rest. Nikoo and Jim McGoldrick are award-winning, USA Today bestselling authors of over four dozen novels and two works of nonfiction. They write under the pseudonyms May McGoldrick, Jan Coffey, and Nik James. They make their home in California.

Strategies for Successful Relationships and Collaborations

Marriage of Minds: Collaborative Writing

What can stand between America and a plague that devours human bodies from the inside out? Cases of sudden, unexplained deaths–marked by rapid decomposition–are cropping up across the U.S. Their cause: a supermicrobe that causes flesh-eating disease so aggressive that victims die within an hour and infect dozens more.

The Deadliest Strain (Mills & Boon M&B)

Four seemingly disparate lives are beginning to unravel...and one person is holding the strings. The Rocket Scientist On the eve of a new satellite launch, the fiancé of NASA project manager Alanna Mendes is apparently killed in a fishing accident...only to be spotted six months later in Silicon Valley. The Computer Genius Four years after being caught by Homeland Security hacking into NASA's mainframe computer, Jay Alexei is still blacklisted from the top colleges and computer companies. Now a changed man, he is desperate for a second chance. The Financial Wizard Once a successful international banking CFO, today David Collier is a broken man who can't afford the expensive treatment for his daughter's rare kidney disorder. The American Dream When a terrorist group abducts the son of rags-to-riches tech mogul Steven Galvin, the billionaire is trapped in a nightmare where no amount of money can help him.

The Puppet Master

From USA Today Bestselling Author Jan Coffey comes a thriller that will make you think twice before starting your car... FIVE IN A ROW There are no accidents… A Porsche careens out of control in a crowded parking lot. A brand new SUV smashes through a dealership’s plate glass window. A Mercedes races wildly down a pier before diving off the end onto the deck of a yacht. Then, two more wrecks. Witnesses report the vehicles had "a mind of their own" before each accident. Five in a row can’t be a coincidence. Computer guru Emily Doyle has become the single-minded obsession of a hacker determined to capture her attention. She recognizes the technology that is being used to gain control of the vehicles—and in some way, she is connected to each of the victims. Ben Colter is the investigator called in by the automakers to find the link. As the casualties mount, Emily and Ben must unravel the puzzle of the seemingly random attacks, as a twisted mind moves from virtual reality to international terrorism.

Five in a Row

PEACE AND WAR, FRIEND AND FOE, LIFE AND DEATH… A PERILOUS JOURNEY HOME! Fahimah Banaz has been wrongly held in a CIA “black site” for over five years. Now, as cases of unexplained deaths—marked by rapid decomposition—are cropping up across the U.S., Homeland Security is willing to bend any rule to find the source of the deadly infection, even if it means resurrecting a "dead" Iraqi biochemist. Fahimah’s sister risked her life trying to destroy the super-microbe that causes the flesh-eating disease. Fahimah tried, too, but landed in prison. Austyn Newman was sent to gain the cooperation of the scientist. Arriving in Afghanistan, he recognizes that the CIA has been holding the wrong sister all these years. They need her, but how will he gain her trust? With time running out, Austyn must help Fahimah find her way through war-ravaged Iraq and Kurdistan…for the answer lies at the end of her journey home. Winner: Connecticut Press Club — Best Book of the Year: Adult Fiction

The Janus Effect

From USA Today Bestselling Author Jan Coffey... TRIPLE THREAT Countdown to the Fourth of July… Just weeks before Independence Day, the President is targeted for assassination by a powerful financial cartel that is making plans to rip off the American dream. Only two people stand between a national disaster and a glorious celebration…and time is running out... A treasured Betsy Ross flag is missing, and FBI Special Agent Nate Murtaugh has just ten days to find it. His search takes him to the Philadelphia art world—and Ellie Littlefield. Daughter of a notorious art forger, she is a savvy dealer of American antiquities. Ellie has connections in the art underworld and Murtaugh will go to any lengths to get her to help him. As the countdown to Independence Day ticks away, Ellie and Nate must navigate a world where truth and lies are hard to separate, where murder is just a way of doing business and where corporate power brokers refuse to let anyone—even the US President—stand in the way of profits.

Triple Threat

Three survivors could not escape their deadly fate. Only one remains… Two decades ago, one adult and three children miraculously escaped a deadly New Mexico cult. The aftermath shocked the nation. But now it appears that none of them will escape… Someone is ushering the last of the cult’s ‘chosen’ disciples into the next world. He has claimed three of his final victims…only one remains. Kelly Stone—a survivor of the Butler Divinity Mission—grew up safely in the arms of an adoptive family, her identity concealed from public record. Now the owner of a New Hampshire inn and the single mother of a three-year-old daughter, Kelly is almost content with her life. But the past is closing in on her, and this time there is nowhere to run. Ian Campbell—a determined cop with personal ties to the New Mexico tragedy—will risk everything to keep Kelly alive. But it all comes down to a daring game of courage and confrontation to finally decide the fate of the fourth victim . . .

Fourth Victim

From International Bestselling Author Jan Coffey, a ghostly tale of lost love spanning centuries... MERCY A vengeful ghost. An old secret. A weekend getaway they’ll never forget. Julia Klein’s life has begun to unravel—her daughter Amy has been suspended from school, Julia is about to lose her job, and her boyfriend Garrett is being transferred thousands of miles away. Overwhelmed, she and Amy leave for a weekend at a rambling old colonial inn. Julia never suspects that Garrett, desperate to find a way to keep Julia in his life, has decided to surprise her by joining them. Nor does she expect her daughter to befriend a mischievous ghost…or that she herself would be possessed by the malevolent spirit of a long-dead mother. As a dark secret emerges, Julia, Amy, and Garrett find themselves pitted in a fight for survival against a ghostly presence that intends to resurrect/repeat/relive a crime committed two centuries ago. And this time, Amy and Julia will be the victims... About MERCY... "What a great ghost story penned by Jan Coffey. She had me riveted to my seat from the very first page and held my attention until the very last word. She entwined so many things into this storyline that I became an instant fan of hers early on in the story. I can’t say enough how I really enjoyed her writing style. It was fun getting to know her characters, both alive and deceased, and I really became engrossed in all the haunted history she included in this short ghost story. This is the first story that I read by this author and it surely won’t be my last. This is definitely a perfect story to read for Halloween or for that matter, anytime of year. Don’t pass this one up!" - Diana Coyle, Night Owl Reviews -TOP PICK

Mercy

From International Bestselling Author, a tale of passion and revenge... The Gavin MacFadyen Suspense series begins… Two decades ago, a sleepy New England town is torn apart by murder when a group of teens lure their unsuspectingvictim to a lakeside beach. The prosecution’s witness is the troubled fifteen-year-old Lacey Watkins, who happened to be at the wrong place at the wrong time. Haunted by the ghosts of her family’s past, Lacey has returned to this place of scandal. With the help of her sister Terri, she is starting over. With nowhere left to run, Lacey is struggling to build a life…until her sister is found dead. When she discovers crime-scene photos of two murders mixed in with her work, Lacey suddenly finds herself at the center of a police investigation...and the target of a killer’s obsession. After twenty years with the New Haven Police Department, the ex-Detective Gavin MacFadyen is starting a new career as a private investigator. But when his ex-partner is killed in a suspicious ‘hit-and-run’, he is pulled back into that world of corrupt cops, child prostitution, gang murders, and crime bosses who litter the shore with headless corpses. Gavin has secrets of his own, but Lacey needs an ally, now more than ever…because the murderous fury of an avenger is about to destroy them both.

Road Kill

From International Bestselling Author Jan Coffey... TRUST ME ONCE A woman runs through the glittering streets of Newport with killers on her trail. She needs help. She needs someone she can trust... Attorney Sarah Rand returns home from abroad to discover that she is a dead woman. In shocked disbelief she realizes the murder victim mistakenly identified as her was really her best friend. No one knows that Sarah is still alive—except the killers still hunting her down. Alone and on the run, Sarah desperately searches for answers. Why has her boss and mentor, a prominent local judge, been arrested for the crime? What does she have or know that’s worth killing for? And what are the most powerful people in exclusive Newport—a senator, a dying professor and his embittered wife, a top-notch security expert and a cadre of criminals—determined to hide. With danger closing in, Sarah must turn to a man she barely knows—Owen Dean, a Hollywood celebrity with dark secrets of his own...

Trust Me Once

From International Bestselling Author Jan Coffey comes this collection of award-winning thrillers.Blind EyeIn a story of political intrigue and corporate greed, the sole survivor of an attack on a nuclear test facility must rely on the help of her long-lost twin and a wounded war veteran to stop a disaster that could trigger Armageddon.Silent WatersOn the eve of a presidential election, a female shipbuilder and a discredited Navy commander must fight a crew of terrorists aboard a hijacked submarine armed with enough weapons to level every city from New York to Chicago.The Janus EffectAs a biochemical plague rages across the U.S., a desperate Homeland Security agent must help a Kurdish scientist find her way through war-ravaged land, for the answer lies at the end of her journey home.From a secret research facility in New Mexico to the wilds of Kurdistan in Iraq to troubled waters around New York City, these thrillers will keep you on the edge of your seat.

Blind Eye, Silent Waters, and The Janus Effect

Jan Coffey Thriller Box Set

From USA Today Bestselling Author Jan Coffey… A thrilling tale torn from today’s headlines! A nuclear submarine cuts silently through the waters of the North Atlantic, commandeered by two-dozen armed terrorists. The target: New York City Fighting for their lives aboard the hijacked submarine, Commander Darius McCann and Ship Superintendent Amy Russell have only one hope for survival. With the lives of millions at stake, they must play a dangerous game of cat and mouse where capture would mean certain death. On land, two NCIS investigators are working feverishly to learn the details of the hijacking in time to stop the attack. As mass hysteria paralyzes New York City, they uncover a trail of secrets as dangerous as the silent weapon aimed at the heart of America. Drawing on fifteen years of submarine-building experience, Jan Coffey crafts a military thriller that will keep any reader turning the pages…

Silent Waters-FREE-PREVIEW (First 6 Chapters)

May McGoldrick 

Killian knows all about vampires and aliens. They’re not real. But when a handsome swimmer climbs into her storm-tossed boat an hour from her summer destination, the worlds of fantasy and reality suddenly collide… Cuttylea Island has no mall, no social scene, and no action. But it does have a mysterious stone tower, ageless islanders, and a secret as astonishing as a mermaid’s tale… Before the summer is through, Killian will find the truth of her family’s past…and the role she is destined to play in a centuries-old curse.

Aquarian

From International Bestselling Author Jan Coffey comes a Hitchcockian tale of murder and revenge... TWICE BURNED RWA RITA AWARD FINALIST KISS OF DEATH MYSTERY/SUSPENSE DAPHNE DU MAURIER AWARD WINNER NATIONAL READERS' CHOICE AWARD FINALIST A man awaits execution for a murder he did not commit . . . A woman returns to a place of scandal and death to save her brother . . . A small town's simmering secrets are about to ignite in a blaze of suspicion and deadly retribution . . . Twenty years ago, Lea and Ted Hardy came home from school to find their parents dead, victims of a murder-suicide. Lea leaves the small town of Stonybrook and the painful memories behind. But Ted can't seem to escape the past. Marrying the pampered daughter of Stonybrook's leading family, he starts a new life–until he discovers secrets that lead to the death of his wife and daughters. And to accusations of murder. Now, convicted and facing execution, Ted has given up hope. Then Lea receives anonymous letters proclaiming Ted's innocence. Determined to save her brother, she must return to a town that harbors a fierce desire to see Ted die . . . taking long-buried secrets with him. Desperate, Lea turns to Mick Conklin, a man she is deeply attracted to but cannot fully trust. She needs an ally, now more than ever. Because the fuse has been lit, and the bright fires of truth are about to blow Stonybrook wide open.

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