Showing results for "A Deadly Secret" in Contemporary

New York State Trooper Reese McGinn has been haunted by his late mother's confession and the secret she took to her grave. For the last seven years, he’s done nothing but move from job to job and town to town, vowing to never put down roots. But when his summer fling with Patty Harmon ends with a child on the way, he decides it's time to forget the past. Only, the past doesn’t want to forget him, and a deadly secret rises from the grave, threatening to take away everything he thought he never wanted.

Er ist ein Mörder und sein Opfer war mein Vater. Das ist eine Tatsache. Ich weiß, dass es stimmt. Aber er ist auch der Einzige, dem ich je vertrauen konnte. Ich kann nicht glauben, was sie mir über ihn einreden wollen. Ich muss ihn sehen, wenn er aus dem Gefängnis kommt. Ich muss die Wahrheit erfahren. Dann kann ich mein unerträgliches Leben endlich beenden. Sie ist die Einzige, auf die es jemals ankam. Für das, was ich getan habe, steckten sie ein Kind in den Knast. Nun bin ich ein Mann, aber ich weiß nicht einmal, was das bedeutet.

Bitter and resigned to a life alone, Quinlan Kinncaid swore he'd never marry-until the eccentric Ella Ferguson barged headlong into his life. But before he can trust his own feelings and build a new life with Ella, she's gone, and he's left with a secret so big he can't even bear to tell his own family.

As a lawyer and aspiring congresswoman, Bea likes to keep things professional. But she's hired to investigate past dark secrets embedded in the Benedict business empire - and as secret wife to Knox Benedict, the job is about to become even more personal.... Knox is the moral backbone of the Benedict family, but even a modern-day saint can have a mysterious side. He's out to win back his estranged secret wife - but getting close to her again could destroy them both....

Mackenzie Arden knows she'll never be free of her brother's violent obsession with her, and now she's his prisoner and an unwitting pawn in his plot. When she's rescued by a man who is as intriguing as he is intimidating, she finally starts to feel safe for the first time in her life—only he wants nothing to do with her.

Die Nachricht vom Tod ihres Großvaters trifft die Foodbloggerin Brianna Lewis wie ein Schlag. Sofort reist sie in die abgelegene Kleinstadt Lyons Creek am Fuße der Appalachen, wo Grandpa Charles ihr seine geliebte Ranch vererbt hat. Diese ist jedoch in desolatem Zustand, und Brianna steht vor der Frage, ob sie die Ranch halten kann oder sie verkauft und zu ihrem Großstadtleben zurückkehrt.

Blake Walker left behind the ATF when the drug cartel he was hunting cost him the life of his fellow agent, and fiancée. Now, two years later, he's working with his brothers at Walker Security, but he's living fast, hard, and wild, until he reaches the ultimate high...revenge. He's one meeting, one woman, away from being inside one of the money laundering shells the cartel operates. Two people who will do anything, including sleeping with the enemy, to avenge or save someone they love. But what if everything isn't as it seems and the enemy isn't the enemy at all?

Being a divorce attorney for the rich and famous isn't all it's cracked up to be. Julie Harrison has learned that love doesn't last, and she's sworn never to make the same mistakes as her mother - or her clients. She uses the games men play to keep them at a distance. The only man who managed to break down her walls was Luke Walker, a Navy SEAL who loved her and left her...and changed her forever. When Luke arrives back in New York, running Walker Security with his brothers, he sets his sights on Julie.

Royce Walker, a former FBI Agent, who's opened a private security firm with his brothers, has always had the hots for the prim, proper Assistant District Attorney, but considered her hands-off because of a family connection. However, when danger threatens Lauren, he isn't willing to stand by and watch her get hurt. Now the passion for survival is only rivaled by the passion burning between them. And that passion might just be the death of them both.