Beverly Barton

Maleah Perdue is tough, outspoke, and completely dedicated to her work at the Powell Security Agency. But her fearless exterior shatters when a madman begins killing relatives of her colleagues one by one, mimicking a notorious serial killer already behind bars. Working with profiler Derek Lawrence, Maleah will do anything to find the killer, even if it means playing a psychopath's twisted mind games.

"Malcolm York is a sadistic monster, guilty of unspeakable crimes. And with his endless wealth, he's funded a series of depraved hunts. The few who survived can never forget. They can only be thankful the terror is over-until rumors start swirling. Griffin Powell knows the twisted depths of York's madness. He's also sure that York is dead. But then Griff's wife Nicole disappears, and the phone calls begin--that familiar voice taunting him, promising...

TRUSTING HER...
They all loved her. That was their mistake. Two husbands, her college fiancé, an influential boss—every man who gets close to Jordan Price is made to pay in blood. And the list is growing...

COULD BE...
Hired by the Powell Agency to investigate Senator Dan Price's death, Rick Carson can see at once why people would believe Jordan Price incapable of cold-blooded murder. Slender,...

"To most people, men like Mark Cantrell are fine, upstanding pillars of the community, completely beyond reproach. But their killer knows better. They are sinners of the worst kind, and they must burn on earth before they burn in hell... Eighteen months after her husband's unsolved murder, Cathy Cantrell has returned to her Alabama home, eager to build a new life for herself and her son. But pieces of her past are everywhere--including Jackson Perdue,...

Lucie Evans wants a fresh start, and the chance to show ex-boss Sawyer McNamara that she no longer craves absolution for a crime she didn't commit. So when she's offered a trip to South America as the personal bodyguard to a billionaire heiress, Lucie jumps at the prospect. But then she's kidnapped in a case of mistaken identity, and her only hope of survival rests with the one man she never wanted to see again.

Play To Win. . .

It's the ultimate game--the adrenaline surge of the hunt, the thrill of victory, the agony of defeat. For in this game, the rules are simple: To win, you only have to kill. To lose, you will have to die. . .

Play To Scream. . .

The victims are former beauty queens found with a single rose beside their bodies. Lindsay McAllister has seen this signature before, when she was a rookie...

"Mary Beth Caine has always been the good girl in her small Mississippi town. But when a big, protective, shamelessly sexy stranger offers to console her on the night of her disastrous engagement party. Mary Beth lets him--only to discover that Parr Weston also happens to be the older brother of her fiancé, Bobby Joe. Parr left Mississippi after years spent holding his family together. Now that he's back, he can't steal Bobby Joe's woman, and he...

War with their archrival, the evil Ansara clan, is unavoidable. For Mercy Raintree, a war means she must assume her position as guardian of the Sanctuary--the sacred Raintree home place deep in the Smoky Mountains. But doing so threatens to disclose her most prized secret--one Mercy has kept to herself for six years.

As the solstice looms and the battle heats up, Dranir Judah Ansara gathers his forces, intending to wipe every

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The last thing Peggy Jo Riley wanted this holiday was a hard-boiled charmer in her house 24/7. But if she wanted to stay alive, she needed Jack Parker. And once she was in Jack's well-muscled arms, she realized just how much she needed him....
Up until the moment he'd seen desire flicker in her pretty eyes, bodyguard Jack Parker had thought Peggy Jo Riley was just another assignment. But the vulnerability he'd glimpsed under this cool beauty's...

"Leenie kept the birth of their son a secret from Agent Frank Latimer, but when the boy is kidnapped she is forced to reveal the truth." --