Barbara Freethy

• Oct-2026
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• Jul-2026
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"Barbara Freethy's suspense novels are explosively good!" -- New York Times Bestselling Author Toni Anderson After the success of their true crime podcast, Mysteries Uncorked, Tessa, Cassidy and Morgan are finally starting to enjoy what the podcas...

• Jun-2026
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• Jun-2026
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I cannot wait for more of this series, I want everybody's backstory and everybody's happy ever after. And if there's an empty apartment at Ocean Shores, it's mine!! Robin - GoodreadsDon't miss LOVE ME LIKE YOU DO, the next book in the Ocean Shores S...

• Mar-2026
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"Barbara Freethy's Romantic Suspense books are explosively good!" -- New York Times bestselling author Toni Anderson A series of explosions. A city on edge. And two people with more to lose than they'll ever admit... FBI Agent Kara Reid is new to...

• Dec-2025
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When no one wants to hear the truth -- how far would you go to make them listen? Cassidy Clarke never planned to chase killers. Her true-crime podcast, Mysteries Uncorked, started as a side project -- just three friends, a few glasses of wine, and un...

• Sep-2025
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"I cannot wait for more of this series, I want everybody's backstory and everybody's happy ever after. And if there's an empty apartment at Ocean Shores, it's mine!! " Robin - Goodreads She'd traded courtrooms for camera clicks. He'd traded affectio...

• Aug-2025
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Barbara Freethy's Romantic Suspense books are explosively good! –New York Times bestselling author Toni Anderson.He's sworn to uphold the law. She's willing to break every rule to expose the truth. But what they uncover could destroy everythin...

• Apr-2025
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"Barbara Freethy is a master storyteller!" Romance Reviews Today Emmalyn McGuire has finally found her rhythm as a kindergarten teacher, but she's still searching for that special someone and the kind of love she has only read about in books. Ente...

• Feb-2025
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The strongest lies aren't the ones we tell others—they're the ones we tell ourselves.I thought I'd found my fairy tale ending when Andrew Chadwick saved my life during a hotel fire and gave me a whirlwind love story I didn't think existed. But...

• Jan-2025
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LETHAL GAME, the next book in the OFF THE GRID: FBI SERIES, is coming soon! Don't miss this gripping thriller by #1 NYT Bestselling Author Barbara Freethy, perfect for fans of Sandra Brown, Nora Roberts, Toni Anderson, and Lisa Gardner. If you...

• Jul-2024
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In a vibrant southern California coastal town, sparks fly when Gabe Herrera, the charismatic owner of a beloved food truck, finds himself at odds with Madison Baldwin, the meticulous chef of a prestigious fine dining restaurant. Their rivalry escalat...

• Mar-2024
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Welcome to OCEAN SHORES in the sun-soaked paradise of Oceanside, California where the ocean pounds the shore, surfers ride the early morning waves, and the local military base sends roaring jets into the sky. Just steps from the sand sits a large apa...

• Feb-2024
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FBI agent Nick Caruso races to Rome to rescue his grandmother from imminent danger, only to collide head-on with Isabella Rossi -- a woman with whom he once shared a disastrous date. Isabella, a secretive journalist, adds friction to their uneasy par...

• Sep-2023
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In this heart-stopping psychological thriller, Emily Hollister's seemingly perfect life unravels when she becomes the target of someone intent on taking over her life. "I know what you did." The anonymous note starts an ominous game...

• Apr-2023
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Haunted by a youthful tragedy, FBI Agent Andi Hart specializes in finding missing children, but her latest case throws her off her game when she discovers her former childhood friend turned bitter enemy has been called in to consult. Seventeen yea...

• Jan-2023
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What happens when Mr. Wrong turns into Mr. Right? After three years of being a single mom, café owner Chloe Morgan is finally ready to take another chance on love. She's found the perfect man in Joel Bradshaw. He checks all her boxes when it ...

• Nov-2022
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Barbara Freethy delivers riveting, plot-twisting suspense and a deeply emotional story. Every book is a thrilling ride." USA Today Bestselling Author Rachel Grant I was working at my sister's clothing boutique in Carmel when I got the cal...

• Jul-2022
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When a yacht blows up in the Newport Beach Harbor killing a California congressman, FBI Agent Beck Murray is reminded of another night ten years earlier when a mega-yacht caught fire. Then a rookie cop, he pulled popular teenage TV star Piper Nolan o...

• Mar-2022
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Molly Trent is an adventurous, free spirit whose turbulent childhood has driven her to a new mission in life -- to make people feel better. Unfortunately, a series of burglaries at her new wellness shop puts her in the path of a cynical and suspiciou...

• Feb-2022
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Ten years ago, I was seventeen, spending summers with my wealthy family and friends on Hawk Island. One terrible night, I blacked out. The next morning, my best friend, Melanie, was gone -- vanished without a trace. Today, I go back. To the island...

• Sep-2021
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FBI Agent Lucas Raines is a man on a mission, desperate to find a kidnap victim, the billionaire CEO of a video game company, who disappears during a horrific home invasion that leaves two people dead and others terrorized. Kat Parrish never thoug...

• Jul-2021
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One moment can change two lives... Keira Blake agrees to the blind date simply because she has a wedding coming up and no plus one. Tired of being the last single girl standing in her group of friends, she shows up at the bar with low expectations...

• Feb-2021
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He didn't just break her heart, he broke her soul... When a bomb exploded at her college, Caitlyn Carlson's life changed in an instant. Ten years later, she's no longer a vulnerable, trusting girl, but a tough, ruthless, FBI agent. But...

• Oct-2020
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Hannah Stark takes care of everyone else, from the patients she nurses back to health, to her family, who can never seem to get it together. She'd love to find someone she can trust, someone she can lean on, someone she can love, but that someone...

• Jul-2020
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Secrets and lies...strangers and spies... After the death of an asset, Special Agent Jax Kenin goes undercover bartending at an exclusive Hollywood club in hot pursuit of a spy ring. His mission gets complicated when a beautiful brunette begins as...

• May-2020
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Justin Blackwood can't remember a time when he believed in the magic of anything, least of all love. A cynical businessman, who grew up in a broken home, he guards his heart with every breath he takes. His job has taken him all over the world and...

• Feb-2020
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"Critical Doubt is as intense as it is haunting. Freethy proves she has staying power with a mind bending, heart-stopping, captivating tale." Isha - Bookbub They met in a war-torn city on the other side of the world and shared an anonymous night of p...

• Nov-2019
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Everyone has a secret. Some are worth killing for...some are worth dying for...

The son of an art thief, FBI agent Flynn MacKenzie is no stranger to deception, but when the brutal murder of a federal judge unravels an intricate and shocking ...

• Sep-2019
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Brodie McGuire was a bold, fearless skier whose dreams of Olympic gold vanished in one career-ending fall. Now, he's following in the footsteps of his grandfather as a cop in his hometown of Whisper Lake. Surrounded by the mountains he once conqu...

• Aug-2019
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Meet the Blackthorne men, each one as hot, fast, and smooth as the whisky that built the family fortune, and the yachts and race cars that bear their name. From proud Scottish stock, Blackthornes never lose. But, one by one, the seven sexy men in thi...

• Jun-2019
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After her third broken engagement, Gianna Campbell comes home to help with the family business and to heal her heart, only to realize that she has become the town joke -- dubbed the runaway fiancée. If that wasn't bad enough, who should show up ...

• Mar-2019
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"Dangerous Choice is a clever blend of mind games and breathtaking emotion. I felt the story come alive and twist my stomach into knots, but never did I even think about walking away." Isha - Goodreads

FBI Special Agent Diego Rivera is searc...

• Jan-2019
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Whoever said opposites attract must have been talking about Kate Marlow and Barrett Fox. Her life's work was bringing people together, and his was tearing them apart. The pretty wedding consultant and the sexy divorce lawyer should have hated each...

• Dec-2018
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"The twists are endless, the danger is far reaching, and the thrills are nonstop."�Isha C. Goodreads on Perilous Trust, OFF THE GRID: FBI SERIES

When tragedy strikes an engagement party, Special Agent Parisa Maxwell becomes the sole surv...

• Sep-2018
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When firefighter Hunter Callaway makes a grisly discovery during a scorching fire at the house of his former high school sweetheart, everything he thought he knew about his past is now in question. The girl he'd loved, the one who'd broken hi...

• Jun-2018
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"Words cannot explain how phenomenal this book was. The characters are so believable and relatable. The twists and turns keep you on the edge of your seat and flying through the pages. This is one book you should be desperate to read." Caroline ...

• Mar-2018
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FBI Special Agent Bree Adams has a personal secret, something she has managed to keep hidden for the past ten years-at least she always thought so... But a chance encounter on a train, and whispered words of chilling consequence change everything. Is...

• Jan-2018
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Talented graphic artist and animator Annie Callaway has been commissioned by a Hollywood studio to create the next superhero blockbuster movie, but a bout of creative block has Annie searching the Southern California beach scene for inspiration. A lo...

• Oct-2017
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Fall in love with seven sexy and irresistible soldiers who find their courage and heart tested like never before in the battle for love! This multi-author collaborative series of contemporary romance novels is brought to you by bestselling authors Ba...

• Aug-2017
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In PERILOUS TRUST, #1 New York Times Bestselling Author Barbara Freethy brings you the first book in a new romantic suspense series! OFF THE GRID: An FBI Trilogy offers three breath-stealing books filled with action-packed plot, heart-stopping romanc...

• Apr-2017
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"ONCE YOU'RE MINE is a perfect blend of intrigue, suspense, action and smoldering romance and author Barbara Freethy has outdone herself once again!" RJ  Firefighter Dylan Callaway is no coward when it comes to running into burning buildings bu...

• Feb-2017
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Jessica Blake hadn't come all the way to Northern California with her young son to end up in the doghouse--literally! Still, being rescued by sinfully sexy firefighter Reed McAllister had its moments. She may have owed the handsome hero her gratit...

• Jan-2017
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From #1 New York Times Bestselling Author Barbara Freethy comes a poignant, and charming romance about going home, falling in love and finding yourself.

Roman Prescott has always lived his life in the shadows. Being invisible meant staying ali...

• Nov-2016
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"CLOSER TO YOU has my favorite combination, an enchanting romance and a tantalizing mystery. And my most important requirement, characters that I care about." Valerie Renowned scientist Ian Callaway believes in numbers, logic and reason. His life is ...

• Oct-2016
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Meet the Brannigan brothers -- seven sexy brothers who bring the heart and the heat! From bestselling authors Barbara Freethy, Ruth Cardello, Melody Anne, Christie Ridgway, Lynn Raye Harris, Roxanne St. Claire and JoAnn Ross comes a brand new contemp...

• Oct-2016
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Meet Ian Callaway and catch up with two popular Callaway siblings, Emma and Burke, in this charming and fun Callaway novella that will sweep you away to Ireland in a tale of romance and adventure! When Eleanor Callaway asks three of her grandchildren...

• Aug-2016
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From #1 NYT Bestselling Author Barbara Freethy comes the third and final book in the Lightning Strikes Romantic Suspense Trilogy. Action, suspense, romance and family secrets lead to an explosive conclusion! Danielle Monroe is determined to use he...

• Apr-2016
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"Fabulously written characters with wit and humor. Action packed and dramatic. Sexy and angst filled. Intense twists and turns. I love this family." Terri - Goodreads FBI agent Kate Callaway is on her way to San Francisco for a family wedding when he...

• Feb-2016
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From #1 NY Times Bestselling Author Barbara Freethy comes the second book in a new romantic suspense trilogy: Lightning Strikes. In these connected novels, lightning leads to love, danger, and the unraveling of long-buried secrets that will change no...

• Jan-2016
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"Loved this book. Great start to the Callaway Cousins spinoff. A little suspense, a lot of romance and a great story make this a winner." Bette - Goodreads Mia Callaway thought she had the perfect guy and the perfect job...until she didn't. After a r...

• Nov-2015
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The romance continues with FALLING INTO YOU, the 5th book in Barbara Freethy's bestselling Bachelors and Bridesmaids Series. Seven female friends start out as bridesmaids and end up as brides! Maggie Gordon grew up as an Army brat, moving every other...

• Oct-2015
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From #1 NY Times Bestselling Author Barbara Freethy comes the first book in a new romantic suspense trilogy: Lightning Strikes. In these connected novels, lightning leads to love, danger, and the unraveling of long-buried secrets that will change not...

• Mar-2015
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From #1 NY Times Bestselling Author Barbara Freethy comes BEFORE I DO, the 4th book in her bestselling Bachelors & Bridesmaids Series. Seven friends start out as bridesmaids and end up as brides!

Nicholas Hunter is a sexy, rich entrepreneu...

• Feb-2015
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"Loved the characters, the suspense, and the emotions coming through the pages. Five stars for Burke and Maddy." Jennifer - Goodreads Firefighter Burke Callaway has been living in the shadows since the tragic death of his fiancée. He had no interes...

• Dec-2014
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From #1 NYT Bestselling Author Barbara Freethy comes Bachelors & Bridesmaids, a fun, romantic series about a group of female friends who start out as bridesmaids and end up as brides! Falling in love has never been so fun!ALL YOUR LOVINGWith the purc...

• Dec-2014
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Was there no escaping her high school nemesis, Michael Stafford? Liz Palmer had had her first run-in with the football hero when he'd tried to kiss her in high school, and she'd broken his nose. Now ten years later Michael is back in her l...

• Nov-2014
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From #1 NYT Bestselling Author Barbara Freethy comes Bachelors & Bridesmaids, a fun, romantic series about a group of female friends who start out as bridesmaids and end up as brides!

In Kiss Me Forever, news reporter Andrea Blain is suppose...

• Sep-2014
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"Barbara Freethy is always at the top of her game writing a suspenseful, heartwarming story from start to finish. WHEN SHADOWS FALL is truly a page turner you don't want to put down and it will warm your heart." Faye Olivia Bennett is a biographer, a...

• Jun-2014
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From #1 NY Times Bestselling Author Barbara Freethy comes the sixth book in the Callaway family series featuring love, mystery, and adventure!

Once Reid Becker was the best of the best, an elite soldier whose career ended abruptly in a missi...

• Feb-2014
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Sean Callaway is the black sheep of the Callaway clan, the sibling who refused to follow in the family tradition of firefighting. Instead, he lives his life in music. On the outside, he's a free-spirited rock star, but on the inside, Sean is ha...

• Dec-2013
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The Callaways are having a wedding! In this romantic and suspenseful novella by #1 NY Times Bestselling Author Barbara Freethy, fire investigator Emma Callaway is getting ready to say I Do to her fiancé, homicide detective Max Harrison. Whil...

• Oct-2013
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"Heartbreaking, tender and romantic. This one tugs on the heartstrings." Karen  Nicole met Ryan when he was a handsome, cocky teenager with a desire to fly high above the clouds. Ryan encouraged Nicole to dream big and promised her a lifeti...

• Jul-2013
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"I love the Callaways and FALLING FOR A STRANGER just makes me love their family even more." -- All Night Books  Ria is as sexy and sultry as a warm tropical night and as beautifully dangerous as the island drinks she serves at the beachside b...

• Apr-2013
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Emma Callaway, a hot fire investigator clashes with Max Harrison, a cool homicide detective in SO THIS IS LOVE, the second book in the Callaway Series, by #1 NY Times Bestselling Author Barbara Freethy For Max Harrison, love seduces and then destroys...

• Dec-2012
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From #1 NY Times Bestselling Author, Barbara Freethy, comes a romantic new contemporary series about the Callaways, a big, blended Irish family born to serve and protect. 
 The second oldest of the Callaway clan, Aiden Callaway veered from the f...

• Sep-2012
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In a moment of desperation two strangers make a wish, only to discover that sometimes a wish can take you down an unexpected path. WHEN WISHES COLLIDE, Book #3 in the WISH Series, is an emotionally compelling and suspenseful contemporary romance by #...

• Jul-2012
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In the small California town of River Rock, the river is always there -- sometimes unpredictable and wild, sometimes a source of comfort, always a part of life. Bestselling author Barbara Freethy will capture your heart with an emotional story about ...

• Apr-2012
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#1 New York Times Bestselling Author, Barbara Freethy, takes us back to the beach in an emotional love story between two best friends who have been separated for a very long time. Alexa Parker and Braden Elliott fell in love when they were twelve ...

• Dec-2011
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Three women, three birthdays and one unforgettable night that will change their lives forever. One night in San Francisco, three women make a birthday wish believing it can't possibly come true. Liz is turning thirty. A successful nurse, she has a...

• Sep-2011
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"Heart, community, and characters who will remain with you," raved Debbie Macomber about the first Angel's Bay novel. Now, in this eagerly awaited,and emotion-packed story of Charlotte's choice, bestselling author Barbara Freethy takes us back to Ang...

• Jan-2011
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Mysterious dreams draw costume designer Isabella Silviera to Angel's Bay, the California coastal town where angels occasionally dance above the waves. Bestselling author Barbara Freethy enchants again in this emotional and compelling tale of family s...

• May-2010
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A long-ago shipwreck off the California coast led the survivors to the haven they named Angel's Bay. Their shared adversity brought fellowship and joy . . . but also unsuspected secrets. Acclaimed author Barbara Freethy returns to the town where ange...

• Apr-2010
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The California town of Angel's Bay has had its share of troubles: from the long-unsolved murder of a teenage girl to the young police officer recently left in a coma after being shot. But miracles also have a way of happening . . . as if angels reall...

• Jul-2009
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In the California coastal town of Angel's Bay, an old legend says that sometimes, when they're needed, angels from an old shipwreck appear and good triumphs over evil. Award-winning, bestselling author Barbara Freethy enchants with the first book in ...

• Apr-2008
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FALLING HARD... Dylan Sanders is attending a wedding in the mountains when his trip takes a terrible turn. A former lover appears out of nowhere, demands a private conversation, and lures him into the woods, leaving him drugged and disoriented. ...

• Mar-2008
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"Freethy hits the ground running as she kicks off another winning romantic suspense series...Freethy is at her prime with a superb combo of engaging characters and gripping plot."  -- Publishers' Weekly A car crash, a missing baby, and the only...

• Jan-2007
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For Patrick it was summer -- no school, no Sister Joseph, a time to have fun with his friends. Patrick and his friends, "The Dynamiters," had all of their plans made. This was going to be their summer, a summer for fun and pranks. The plan was set un...

• Oct-2006
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PLAYING IT SAFE... Christina Alberti, an expert art historian, has run from the shadows of her past, hiding the truth and building her name as a reputable jewelry specialist at the Barclay Auction House. Everything is perfect--until a legendary and ...

• Jun-2006
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TAKEN BY A PROMISE... Kayla Sheridan has longed for love, marriage, and a family. Now, after a miraculous whirlwind courtship with the man of her dreams, she is his wife. But on their wedding night, he vanishes, leaving Kayla with the bitter realiza...

• Oct-2005
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EVERYTHING SHE'S BEEN TOLD ABOUT HER PAST IS A LIE... Julie De Marco is planning a perfect San Francisco wedding when she comes face-to-face with a famous photograph, the startling image of a little girl behind the iron gate of a foreign orphanage...

• Dec-2004
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Sometimes our darkest memories hold the key to our dearest hopes... She was their closest friend, or so they thought--until years later, when her secrets send them on a perilous search for the truth about who she really was... and why she died... ...

• Aug-2004
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Evan lived a rather uneventful life, until the day a monster flew into his village and stole his sister. On that day, Evan's life changed forever. With his father near death, he is faced with the fact that he must go and rescue Mya. The last thing hi...

• Feb-2004
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EVERY FAMILY HAS SECRETS--SOME TOO INTRIGUING TO RESIST...SOME TOO DANGEROUS TO IGNORE.... From bestselling author Barbara Freethy comes a novel about three remarkable families--the fifty-year-old promise that once bound them together, the fiery b...

• May-2003
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THERE ARE SECRETS MEANT TO BE SHARED -- AND THOSE THAT MUST BE KEPT FOREVER.... Eight years ago, the three McKenna sisters -- Kate, Ashley, and Caroline -- had their fifteen minutes of fame. Driven by their ambitious father, they won an around-th...

• Mar-2002
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Sometimes forbidden fruit is the sweetest of all... She was untouchable...his business partner's wife. Beautiful Rachel Tanner was everything that Dylan Prescott longed for in a woman -- all lush curves and unconscious sensuality. But he had too m...

• Sep-2001
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"ABANDONED BABY FOUND!" It's the kind of story investigative reporter Matt Winters writes about -- not the kind he wants to be living. When he discovers a newborn baby girl on his doorstep, he panics ... then he desperately turns to his temptingly...

• Nov-2000
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Take a romantic journey to Tucker's Landing, Oregon, where Sam and Alli Tucker have made a life together...a life about to be tested by the return of the only woman who can break them up...Alli's sister, Tessa. A baby brought them together -- and ...

• Feb-2000
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TROUBLE IN PARADISE Katherine Whitfield hadn't left her seamless life in California to get mixed-up with a rough around the edges man like Zach Tyler. With his well-worn jeans and slow, seductive smile, he was nothing but a cowboy on the wrong sid...

• Apr-1999
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SHE LONGED FOR A CHILD Alone in the world, Faith Christopher had always yearned for love...and a man who'd make her heart pound. But her dreams of a place to call home were getting harder to hold on to... HE WAS STUBBORNLY SINGLE Alex Carrigan li...

• Aug-1998
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SHE WALKED BACK INTO HIS LIFE... The last place Lisa Alvarez expected to find herself was babysitting for her ex-sister-in-law's three rambunctious kids. But when Maggie called her up and begged for time alone, something in Lisa made her say yes--fo...

• May-1997
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AN UNFULFILLED HEART Joanna Wingate knows something is missing from her life, something she never dreamed she'd find in an handsome stranger's children--mischievous six-year-old twin sisters who look up at her adoringly. . .and call her Mama.. AN...

• Oct-1996
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Famous photojournalist Ryan Hunter has come back to a family torn apart by mistrust and resentment - to the father who disowned him, to the brother who betrayed him, to the little boy who shares his features. Ryan, the charismatic "bad boy" son, has ...

• Mar-1996
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RECKLESS YOUTH . In her impetuous summer of love, Jenny St. Claire found Luke Sheridan--her dashing knight in intern's scrubs. But a fast-track future and rigid, ambitious parents drove passion out of Luke's life. And the summer ended, leaving Jenny...