Download or read book The Paternity Promise written by Merline Lovelace and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2012-06-01 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "You're the father." After leaving her late cousin's baby on the Dalton doorstep, Grace Templeton poses as a nanny to discover which of the billionaire twins is the father. Grace promised to protect the child, but she didn't plan to fall for the seductive brother she learns is the daddy. For single dad Blake, there's only one priority—protecting his daughter from whatever secrets Grace won't reveal. He'll get the truth from her—any way he can. And until she talks, he'll keep the temptress at his side all day…all night. Not as the nanny, but as his wife!

Download or read book PRIVATE INVESTIGATIONS written by Jean Barrett and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2014-10-15 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TALL, DARK AND…DETERMINED TO "INVESTIGATE" THE GIRL NEXT DOOR! With his slow, seductive smile, broad shoulders and massive chest, Dallas McFarland was a threat to any woman's heart, especially plain-Jane P.I. Christy Hawke's! Except Christy's professional reputation was at stake, and she had no other choice but to team up with her sexy rival to investigate the murder of a prominent French Quarter socialite. But never in a million years did she expect that drop-dead-gorgeous Dallas would aim his sultry, passionate gaze on her. Now, as they worked together to locate the killer, the danger that loomed before them was nothing compared to the explosive attraction that threatened to consume them both…

Download or read book Vineland written by Thomas Pynchon and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-06-13 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Quite simply, one of those books that will make this world - our world, our daily chemical-preservative, plastic-wrapped bread - a little more tolerable, a little more human." - Frank McConnell, Los Angeles Times Book Review “Later than usual one summer morning in 1984 . . .” On California’s fog-hung North Coast, the enchanted redwood groves of Vineland County harbor a wild assortment of sixties survivors and refugees from the “Nixonian Reaction,” still struggling with the consequences of their past lives. Aging hippie freak Zoyd Wheeler is revving up for his annual act of televised insanity when news reaches that his old nemesis, sinister federal agent Brock Vond, has come storming into Vineland at the head of a heavily armed Justice Department strike force. Zoyd instantly disappears underground, but not before dispatching his teenage daughter Prairie on a dark odyssey into her secret, unspeakable past. . . . Freely combining disparate elements from American popular culture—spy thrillers, ninja potboilers, TV soap operas, sci-fi fantasies—Vineland emerges as what Salman Rushdie has called in The New York Times Book Review “that rarest of birds: a major political novel about what America has been doing to itself, to its children, all these many years.”

Download or read book This Storm written by James Ellroy and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2020-05-26 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: January '42. L.A. reels behind the shock of Pearl Harbor. Local Japanese residents are rounded up and slammed behind bars. Massive thunderstorms hit the city. A body is unearthed in Griffith Park. The cops tag it a routine dead-man job. They're wrong. It's an early-warning signal of Chaos. There's a murderous fire and a gold heist. There's Fifth Column treason on American soil. There are homegrown Nazis, Commies, and race racketeers. It's populism ascendant. There's two dead cops in a dive off the jazz-club strip. And three men and one woman have a hot date with history. Elmer Jackson is a corrupt Vice cop. He's a flesh peddler and a bagman for the L.A. Chief of Police. Hideo Ashida is a crime-lab whiz, lashed by anti-Japanese rage. Dudley Smith is PD hardnose working Army Intelligence. He's gone rogue and gone all-the-way fascist. Joan Conville was born rogue. She's a defrocked Navy lieutenant and a war profiteer to her core. L.A. '42. Homefront madness. Wartime inferno--This Storm is James Ellroy's most audacious novel yet. It is by turns savage, tender, elegiac. It lays bare and celebrates crazed Americans of all stripes. It is a masterpiece.

Download or read book Everlasting Love written by Jayne Ann Krentz and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1995 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Linda Howard Jayne Ann Krentz Linda Lael Miller Carla Neggers Kasey Michaels.

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Download or read book Premeditated Marriage written by B. J. Daniels and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2010-04-07 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charlotte “Charlie” Larkin believed she'd been cursed when it came to matters of the heart, especially since every man she'd ever been involved with had met an untimely end. To add insult to injury, to-die-for true-crime writer Gus Riley has come to the remote Montana town to research her for his next book! Following an attempt on Charlie's life, Gus insists the two join forces to pursue the investigation. Charlie is unwittingly drawn to her sexy protector, but she knows she should keep her distance...Except when Gus insists they fake a relationship to draw out the killer, her defenses crumble at his all-too-real advances. And being in close proximity to Gus is making Charlie forget that the arrangement is supposed to be temporary—a dangerous distraction from a very dangerous killer. From Harlequin Intrigue: Seek thrills. Solve crimes. Justice served.

Download or read book The Dying Game written by Beverly Barton and published by Pinnacle Books. This book was released on 2019-03-26 with total page 517 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 detective with the Chattanooga PD investigating the death of Judd Walker's wife, a murder that sent the handsome lawyer off the deep end. Now, Lindsay has the brutal task of telling Judd that his wife's killer has struck again, and she's going to need his help to outplay their opponent--because the killer is getting bolder, faster, and more ruthless. The game is escalating, and no one is safe. Play To Die. . . Now as the body count rises, the rules are changing. A killer will do anything to win. And the only way for Lindsay to stop a madman's twisted game is to play it herself. . .

Download or read book Big Shot written by Joanna Wayne and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2012-11-01 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fate brought Texas rancher Durk Lambert face-to-face with his ex-lover, Meghan Sinclair. The reckless but gorgeous P.I. had been beaten and left for dead, with no memory of her attacker, of Durk…or herself. Years ago she'd broken his heart, but no cowboy walked away from a woman in need. While Durk kept her safe on his Bent Pine Ranch, his own memories threatened him—laughing with Meghan, making love. He still wanted her, but he feared Meghan was the one woman he could never have—and the one he'd lay down his life to protect. Because while Durk wanted her to remember, a killer needed her to forget.…

Download or read book Day of Reckoning written by B. J. Daniels and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2010-04-07 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A woman searching for her missing father must trust a stranger with secrets of his own in this romantic suspense from a New York Times–bestselling author. He was an enigma . . . Somehow Ford Lancaster seemed to turn up just when Rozalyn Sawyer needed him most. And as much as she hated to admit it, she couldn’t help but want more of his steady presence . . . his smoldering kisses. Rozalyn was sure a crime had been committed against her family, but was her desperate search for the truth based on fear or madness? Ford had come to settle an old score only to find his investigation colliding with a killer’s next target: Rozalyn. She had every reason to doubt his hidden motives, but Ford knew he would pay any price to reconcile the past and claim Rozalyn as his wife.

Download or read book A Woman with a Mystery written by B. J. Daniels and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2010-04-07 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SHE HAD NO MEMORY AND NO PAST A year ago Holly Barrows had raced through a raging snowstorm—convinced someone was trying to kill her—into the arms of SladeRawlins. She'd appeared before him like a beautiful apparition in thedark of night. But she was real, flesh and blood, and his fingers hadmemorized every curve of her body. Then she'd mysteriously vanished,only to return the following Christmas with an outrageous claim ofkidnapping. COULD THEY HAVE A FUTURE?Monsters, she'd said, had taken her baby. But any baby she'd had wouldalso have been Slade's. And he was consumed by his need to protectHolly and locate their child before the family he desperately wantedwas lost…forever.

Download or read book Sheepdogs written by Gordon Carroll and published by Gordon Carroll . This book was released on 2022-06-05 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gil Mason is a simple guy with complex problems. Cross Phillip Marlow with Caesar Milan, The Dog Whisperer, and you create a new breed of private eye; courage of a Pit Bull, heart of a Labrador. Max, Gil's K9 partner, has a few problems of his own. It's a love-hate relationship. Part of Max wants to love his human master, while his alpha personality instinctively drives him to take control of the pack. So how does a former cop turned PI find a missing teenage boy who has been kidnapped by a corporate billionaire, while dealing with his own feelings of guilt and loneliness over the murder of his family, and keep his canine's homicidal tendencies in check? Brains, guns, and fists combined with an intimate understanding of dog psychology. As long as Max doesn't eat him first.

Download or read book The Masked Man written by B. J. Daniels and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2010-04-07 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A MAN SHE'D NEVER SEEN… His face was concealed by a mask…yet piercing blue eyesinexorably drew Jill Lawson into his arms. What came over her, she'dnever know—but a case of mistaken identity landed her in more thana little hot water, because now she was being framed for murder. Notto mention she'd made mad, passionate love with a stranger! A KISS SHE'D NEVER FORGET!Trying to establish her innocence proved a lot harder than Jillimagined, especially when she was so distracted by the memory of themystery man's kisses—kisses that were suspiciously similar toinvestigator Mac Cooper's. But was Mac set up, just as Jill was? In arace against time and a cunning adversary, could Mac and Jill unmaskthe real killer before it was too late…?

Download or read book B J Daniels The Cardwell Ranch Collection written by B.J. Daniels and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2013-10-15 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times bestselling author B. J. Daniels brings you back to Cardwell Ranch for more edge-of-your-seat intrigue. Trouble came to Cardwell Ranch when a pile of old bones was discovered. Since then, nothing has been the same. Follow the Cardwell family as they band together to overcome murder, mayhem and a family imposter.

Download or read book A Fool for a Client written by Parnell Hall and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-10-15 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sensational murder trial! A young woman found naked and stabbed to death in her apartment! The woman was the girlfriend of his boss, Richard Rosenberg, and the hotshot lawyer is charged with killing her.Now Richard's in court fighting for his life, and Stanley's out on the firing line trying to dig up some evidence in his favor. It won't be easy. The murdered woman was a law clerk for a prominent judge, and everyone Stanley needs to question is currently tied up in a high-profile Global Banking trial.As Stanley races back and forth between two courtrooms, searching for the key to the mystery through investigative techniques that could easily get him charged as an accessory, every fact tends to point to Richard's guilt: DNA evidence proves he is the man who had sex with the victim just before she died, eyewitnesses put him at the scene of the crime, and his fingerprints are on the murder weapon.In desperation, Richard resorts to a series of courtroom tactics so outrageous they would make Perry Mason blush. Before the case is over, everyone in the courtroom will be convinced that not only does Richard Rosenberg have a fool for a client, but the client has a fool for a lawyer.

Download or read book Double Trouble written by Susan May Warren and published by Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 2014-12-08 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With one solved case under her belt, PJ Sugar is ready to dive into her career as a private investigator. Or at least a PI’s assistant until she can prove herself to Jeremy Kane, her new boss. Suddenly PJ’s seeing crime everywhere. But is it just in her head, or can she trust her instincts? When she takes on her first official case—house-sitting for a witness in protective custody—Jeremy assures her there’s no danger involved. But it soon becomes clear that there is someone after the witness . . . and now they’re after PJ, too.

Download or read book Irish Stew written by Andrew M. Greeley and published by Forge Books. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: And what a stew it is. Here are some of the ingredients: Our heroine, Nuala Anne McGrail, in her guise as international singing star, accompanied by her spear-carrying husband, Dermot Coyne, is off to a major music festival in Milan, where they meet Seamus Costelloe, a Chicago Irish macher, and his family. Seamus is no better than he should be, and in fact the suspicion is that he's very bad indeed, but softhearted Nuala sees the sign of death on him-she hasn't lost her ability to see into the future-and decides to do something about it. She also sees something good in him. Which leads to a few hair-raising conflicts with some of Chicago's more desperate characters. Nuala and Dermot's new baby is premature, and dark clouds hover over their sublimely happy marriage. Meanwhile, Dermot is trying to solve the mystery of Chicago's Haymarket riot, which isn't easy since it happened over a hundred years ago. Only bestselling author Andrew M. Greeley, with his knowledge of Ireland and Chicago's unsavory politics, plus his uncanny ability to combine two stories-one in the present and one in the past-and his talent for building mystery and suspense to an almost unbearable degree, could have written this truly tantalizing novel. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.