V. J. Chambers

Six months ago, werewolf tracker Dana Gray barely escaped from Cole Randall, the wolf serial killer who kept her in his basement torturing her. Toying with her. He almost killed her, but he couldn't. He let her live. Now, she finds herself obsessed with Cole. His voice haunts her, hypnotic and liquid, flowing through her, both horrifying and arousing. She can't shut him up. At her job, she struggles with a bewildering case in which rehabilitated werewolves are going astray and killing again. From his maximum security cell, Cole claims he has all the answers. But he'll only talk to Dana. Maybe Cole knows something. Maybe he doesn't. Dana doesn't know. She only knows she's grateful for the excuse to go to him. And once she hears his voice again, she'll do anything to see him, whether it helps the case or not.

The Killing Moon

They have the power to overturn wrongful convictions... and a target on their backs. Elke Lawrence welcomes the long hours and relocation her “promotion” requires. She hopes leading the new Conviction Review Unit, an experimental investigation team, means leaving her wrecked marriage and troubled past behind. Their first case challenges that notion. Twenty-five years ago, someone sat Dr. Abeer Mukherjee and his wife Tempest on their couch and shot them in the head, execution style. Their eighteen-year-old daughter and her boyfriend were sentenced to life in prison. They insist they are innocent. The evidence suggests they’re telling the truth. But as Elke and her team delve deeper into the case, it becomes clear there are those determined to keep the truth buried... even if that means burying the team with it. Is this all somehow tied to her murky past? Will the CRU's first case be its last?

Grain of Truth

Everything should be idyllic now that Jason and Azazel are settled down in sunny Florida. But Azazel can't shake the fear that the Sons are still after them, no matter how much Jason reassures her they're safe. He wants to have a normal life. She can't stop looking over her shoulder for danger. Lilith's back, and she's got her eye on Jason. Jason doesn't like Azazel's new gay best friend Jude. Someone put a bell, engraved with a picture of the sun rising over water, in Azazel's purse. Azazel's worried, but Jason thinks she's paranoid. Jason and Azazel might be at the beach, but the clouds are rolling in. . .

Trembling

Cade "Ripper" DaviesI don't do attachments. I don't do affection.I do my job, and it's all I need. I'm a contract killer, and I'm a bad man. But this girl, Shell, she's getting to me. She started out as a convenient hostage, a means to an end. But for some reason, I'm keeping her safe, even though it means turning against a man I once considered my best friend. There's something about her, and not just that she's sexy as hell. I can't get her out of my head, and I can't let her go. Shell BirchThe first thing I notice about Cade is that he's ridiculously attractive. The next thing I notice is that he's pointing a gun at me. I'm not one of those girls who gets hot for dangerous men, but let me tell you, the shoulders on this guy. . . Looking at his hard, broad body makes me warm in all the wrong places. He's got a filthy mind and clever fingers, and he makes me dizzy when he touches me. I'm at his mercy, completely and utterly.I've see another side of him, something unguarded and honorable. That side of him takes me and makes me his. But I can't be his. . . not with the kind of life he leads, not with the kind of demons he has. Oh, and I think I might be pregnant. This a standalone romance novel with a HEA and no cliffhanger. --Provided by publisher.

Ripped

Cade "Ripper" Davies I don't do attachments. I don't do affection. I do my job, and it's all I need. I'm a contract killer, and I'm a bad man. But this girl, Shell, she's getting to me. She started out as a convenient hostage, a means to an end. But for some reason, I'm keeping her safe, even though it means turning against a man I once considered my best friend. There's something about her, and not just that she's sexy as hell. I can't get her out of my head, and I can't let her go. Shell Birch The first thing I notice about Cade is that he's ridiculously attractive. The next thing I notice is that he's pointing a gun at me. He's dangerous, more dangerous than anyone I've ever met. But there's so much more to him than that, and from the moment I glimpse that other side of him, I'm stuck. The side that wants to take care of me, the side that ends up protecting me even when it hurts him. The side of him that takes me and makes me his...but I can't be his for very long. Not with the kind of life he leads, not with the kinds of demons he has. Oh. And I think I might be pregnant.

A teenage girl found strangled to death, tied up, and posed. Lorelei Taylor's autistic son, Simon, is a suspect. But he didn't even know the girl. Did he? Simon is sixteen, vulnerable, and diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome. Lorelei knows her gentle son could never harm another person. But then she finds Simon's camera full of photographs of the murdered girl, and her certainty begins to waver. As the police circle in on her son, Lorelei has only one choice-to solve the murder and exonerate Simon. But does she know her teenage son as well as she thought she did?

Child of Mine

Hope Ross isn’t crazy, but she knows crazy. Crazy is... ...a father telling his daughter to pretend her twin sister doesn't exist. Worst. Game. Ever. ...a sister never leaving the house. ...a disturbed woman hidden away in the attic. ...bodies rotting in the basement. ...being accused of attempted murder. ...the police blaming the victim. No, Hope’s not crazy, and she’s through playing games. As soon as she gets out of this mental facility, she’s going to prove it. Topics: female protagonist, murder, dark, disturbing, racy, scary, vengeful, small town, police, serial killer, gothic, family saga, twisted, unreliable narrator,

a psychological thriller

The Twin Game

Would you help your sister bury a body? Danae Ericson arrives at the family lake house to find her brother-in-law dead in the kitchen and her sister Athena hysterical. Athena insists it was an accident, that her husband fell. But when Danae gently suggests they call the police, Athena refuses. Danae has to admit that the bloody scene doesn't look like an accident. She wants to believe her sister, but she isn't sure. Out of loyalty to Athena, Danae agrees to help her sister bury the body and cover up the death. But now Danae's paranoid. Because there's an inquisitive police detective that won't leave her alone, and she's since done some research on trace DNA. They will get caught if anyone ever finds the body. So, Danae goes back to dig it up and remove the evidence. Except the body is gone.

A Psychological Thriller

A Bad, Bad Thing

Has the killer escaped prison... or was she never caught? True crime writer Samson Black remembers the trial and the headlines... twelve-year-old Lola Ward cowering on the stairs, paralyzed by fear, while Nicholas Todd murdered her parents and took her hostage. She barely escaped with her life and later testified against Todd. Nicholas Todd told a very different story. A preposterous tale of a diabolical twelve-year-old with nerves of steel. Nicholas Todd went to prison. Eleven years later, Lola's all grown up—brash, confident, and alluring. She's ready to tell her story, and she wants Samson Black to write it. Samson would love to reveal the truth about that fateful night and resurrect his flagging career. But before he can make sense of Lola's twisty tale, Todd escapes from prison, seeking revenge against the woman-child who betrayed him. Now, Sam's life is in danger. But from who? The escaped con hot on his heels, or the woman at his side? **Originally published as Rough Edges** Topics: psychological thriller, crime fiction, murder, serial killer, spree killer, amateur detective, Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl, Girl on the Train, Chelsea Cain, unreliable protagonist,

The Girl on the Stairs

**A BBW alpha werewolf story that takes its cues from "Beauty and the Beast" ... The mind of a beast. The body of a man. Calla Reynolds awakes in a dark room but not alone. There is someone else with her. He is a wild man--beautiful and sculpted, possessed of a feral sensuality. He cannot speak. He only growls and whines. He stirs complicated feelings within her--fear, pity, and shamefully ... desire. She vows to help him escape their dark prison, whatever it is, wherever they are. Ryder Pierce changed into his werewolf form ten years ago, and he lost himself inside the animal. Now, he is back in human form, but he can't remember how to be a man. In his mind, he is still a wolf. He is drawn this soft woman, however, to her curves and swells, to her quiet voice, to her calm strength. If anyone can tame his wild beast and bring back his humanity, it will be her

Midnight Moonlight

Gail Germain isn't quite sure how she ends up sharing a blistering kiss with superhero Steel, but she has to admit she wants his sizzling, chiseled body. Steel's seven feet tall, carved from rippling muscles, and dizzyingly luscious. He also happens to shift back into Finnegan Flint, the billionaire head of the Sorrelco corporation, who's sort of, um, her boss.Thing is, when Finn is Steel, he's out of control, and he's afraid he might break her. What's worse, getting close to her flips his Steel switch.No matter what they both want, Finn insists that, from now on, they have to keep their hands off each other.Yeah, right. Gail wants Steel bad. And not just his body. She wants the whole package. The superhero and the man behind him--a complicated guy who hides his pain behind a wry smile.He makes her quiver. He makes her yearn. He makes her crazy. No matter the risk, she can't give him up.

Steel

Dana Gray is no longer mated to Cole Randall, but as his former female alpha, she is still tied to the werewolves he forced into his pack. Now, she searches for a way to undo that bond and free herself from the wolf pack structure entirely.Following a lead to sever the ties to her beta wolves, she arrives at Hunter's Moon Farm, a commune of werewolves whose atypical approach to wolf packs may offer her a solution.When Cole discovers where Dana is, he risks capture by the authorities and goes after her.Cole knows Hunter's Moon Farm well. He was born there, raised there, under the thumb of the charismatic and manipulative Brother Jimmy--the head of the commune and Cole's father. Jimmy blames Dana for seducing his son and taking him away from the family. Cole knows she won't be safe there.Jimmy doesn't forget. Jimmy doesn't forgive.And Cole will do anything in his power to get Dana away from his father's influence.

Cole and Dana

Bad Moon Rising

Dana Gray loves her husband and her two-year-old daughter, but her life is far from perfect. Domestic strain weighs down her marriage, and her role as a stay-at-home mom cuts her off the rest of the world. It's a thankless, never-ending job, and her only escape is shifting into a wolf and running beneath the trees and sky. When Cole Randall is captured again, he leverages his knowledge about a threat to the werewolf community in exchange for a pardon. And he's got a plan to neutralize this threat. He and Dana will go undercover. She'll have to pretend to be his prisoner. Dana knows that her draw to Cole is irrational and unwise. She knows that her life is far more stable without him in it. And she knows this plan of his is dangerous-not only to her safety, but to her relationship with her husband. But she can't resist Cole. She can never resist him.

Moon Dance

Griffin left after New Year's Eve. There was a misunderstanding. He thought he saw something Leigh swears he didn't see.He came back a month later. But by then, she'd already done something that Griffin thought was horrible. He couldn't be with her anymore. So, he left for good.Now, three and a half months later, a madman named Marcel is threatening Leigh, demanding that she get a message to Griffin. She doesn't have a choice. She has to go to Griffin for help.More than anything, she wants him back, but he's made it clear that he'll never forgive her. Stuck together in the same apartment, they will have to confront their problems.Because what Marcel has planned for them is so harrowing, they'll need to be able to depend on each other.

Assassins

Slow Agony

Dancing Days

Demetrius "Danger" GalloI'm too rough for her. I'm coarse. Untamed. Brutal.I'm a dangerous man. The things I want to do to her. . .Things like that should never be done to a girl like her. If it weren't for the fact I need her hacker skills for this job, I wouldn't allow her anywhere near me. Because fighting my urges, well, that's not easy for a man like me. Kiera QuillI'm a virgin, but I'm not a prude. It's only that I've got rules. My work comes first.I'm here to rescue a woman from the mob. He's here to kill a man. We're busy. Anyway, he doesn't think of me that way. He treats me like a kid sister-one who can't get anything right. He might be massive and masculine, with a deep, rumbling voice that gives me shivers. But that doesn't mean that I'm attracted to him or anything. Because if I were, things could get rough. This novel is set in the same world as Ripped, but it follows a different couple and stands alone. Expect a HEA and no cliffhanger. --Provided by publisher.

Rough

Abigail London has always trusted the elders in her strict polygamous community to decide who she would marry. After all, they’ve got a direct line to God, or so she’s always been taught. But when she is caught holding hands with Jesse Wallace, the elders bring down punishment swiftly and severely. They banish Jesse from the community, telling him never to return. They assign Abby to an older man, who already has three wives. They tell her that submitting to her new spiritual head will curb her willful nature. Abby wants to please God by forgetting Jesse and doing as she’s told. But she can’t shake the feeling that this is somehow… wrong. And she’s beginning to doubt the wisdom of the elders. Separated, Jesse and Abby struggle alone—him to find his way in a secular world he doesn’t understand, and her to accept her place and submit obediently. But eventually, they both realize they must embrace a more difficult struggle: to find each other again. Recommended for mature readers. polygamy, romance, women's fiction, sister wives, cult

Out of Heaven's Grasp

Breathless

Leigh Thorn is hiding out in a backwoods college because her father put her in danger, and if the wrong people find her, she's dead. She'd rather snort lines than think about that. She'd rather do shots of marshmallow-flavored vodka until she can't remember. When Griffin Fawkes arrives with the news that her father's dead, she isn't sure if she cares. He wasn't much of a father anyway. The only silver lining here is that Griffin's jaw-droppingly gorgeous, and Leigh wants him bad. Griffin owes his life to Leigh's father. The man begged him to keep his daughter safe. But Griffin didn't expect a cocaine-fueled party girl who barely seems to care about her own safety. It seems like she'd rather destroy herself than anything else. Even worse, he didn't expect he'd care about her. He knows he's too damaged to ever really be with a woman. The best he can do is to make sure she's safe from whoever could hurt her. Including herself. Including himself. Of course, fighting off men with guns is starting to seem easier than keeping his hands off Leigh.

Slow Burn

"Hope Ross isn't crazy, but she knows crazy. Crazy is...a father telling his daughter to pretend her twin sister doesn't exist. Worst. Game. Ever...a sister never leaving the house...a disturbed woman hidden away in the attic..bodies rotting in the basement...being accused of attempted mruder...the police blaming the victim. No, Hope's not crazy, and she's through playing games. As soon as she gets out of this mental facility, she's going to prove it"--Back cover.

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