romantic suspense fiction

"'Twas the night before Christmas...and dozens of rich, influential hostages are trapped inside a sprawling lakefront mansion in New Orleans. The perp? Detective Reed Ware, model cop turned outlaw. Reeds' out for truth, and will stop at nothing to get it -- including waging a coup against the city's most elite, including the mayor, the council chairman, the sheriff, and the superintendent of police...who just happens to be hostage negotiator Caroline Wallace's father. Cool, calm, controlled. That's Caroline's reputation. But when Reed, looking even hotter than he did years ago when seventeen-year-old Caroline tried to seduce him, becomes her next case, she's swept up by their still-sizzling tension. Nothing about tonight is what it seems, and it's up to Caroline to put the pieces together -- if she can think fast enough over the pounding of her heart. But the harder Caroline tries to do her job, the more she begins to wonder whose side she's really on.

Presents five romantic suspense novellas based on fairy tales, including J. D. Robb's "Taken in Death," a twist on the Hansel and Gretel story in which Eve Dallas searches for a pair of missing twins.

When a formidable killer she brought down years earlier escapes, New York homicide cop Eve Dallas races to prevent him from resuming his attacks on child victims and exacting revenge on Eve herself.

NYC Lt. Eve Dallas investigates the death of a young actress with the assistance of her husband Rourke and Detective Peabody.

After she witnesses the fatal shooting of an FBI agent, Dr. Ellie Sullivan is targeted by a shadowy criminal couple called the Landrys; and, after Agent Max Daniels pledges to protect Ellie until she takes the witness stand, the two of them find their close quarters leading to passionate feelings.

"Ever since feisty criminal attorney Jessica Ford started her dream job at a prestigious Washington, D.C., law firm, her mind has raced with questions. Like why the hell her hunky ex, Secret Service agent mark Ryan, insists on being her personal bodyguard. Maybe winning her first high-profile trial wasn't exactly the key to hiding her true identity, but nobody is actually trying to kill her...right?"--back cover.

From the moment Raven Anderson literally knocks Josh Long off his feet, he's determined to keep this elusive beauty in his tight embrace. While Raven denies their electrifying attraction and fends off his advances, Josh uses the resources of his business empire to crack the mystery surrounding Raven's true identity. But Josh can't bring himself to believe what the background check confirms--that Raven is an international criminal wanted for her connections to worldwide terrorism.

When a serial killer who leaves a blue ribbon at the site of his victims' last sightings appears in the peaceful town of Cleary, North Carolina, police chief Dutch Burton finds the case complicated by his ex-wife's disappearance during a blizzard.

Jolie Royale cannot remember what happened twenty years earlier when she witnessed her mother's murder, but when she returns home for her father's funeral, she discovers that she is still in danger, and the only one who can help her is former nemesis Max Devereaux.

After her son Danny disappears from his daycare center, Molly Driscoll enlists the help of a police detective to help search for the boy, and after exhausting every lead, the mystery deepens when a miracle occurs.