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Down here in the American South, we don't hide our crazy people. We showcase them. I've always thought it was because eccentric people make for the best stories, and we Southerners love our stories. Faulkner, McCullers, O'Connor, Porter—these are our chroniclers, writers steeped in the slow, steady pulse of the South's pride, suffering, honor, madness, venality and redemption. I grew up in Alabama, the heart of the South, and live here still. The need to tell stories has been a driving force in my life from a very young age.
As a child, my favorite books were Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew mysteries and Harlequin Romances. When I realized there were books that featured both romance and mystery, I knew I'd found my calling. Now I write for Harlequin Intrigue, where I get to play both matchmaker and murderer and get paid for it.
In addition, I work a full-time day job at a Birmingham ad agency, where I'm a copywriter and graphic designer, a background that comes in handy when it's time to redesign my website and create promotional materials for my books. I'm also known among certain circles as the Cat Whisperer, but that's a whole other story. I love to hear from readers, so please click the contact button and tell me what you think about my books.
WALKING AWAY WASN'T AN OPTION "Help me!" For Lily Browning, there was no escaping the visions that had haunted her all her life. And now a little girl's desperate cry for help had brought enigmatic, disturbingly masculine Lieutenant McBride to her...
Hot-shot criminal profiler Daniel Hartman was looking for a man called Orion. Leading a manhunt through Birmingham for the killer, Daniel was trying to put old ghosts to rest. But this time Orion's target was Rose Browning, a matchmaking wedding plan...
ONE TOUCH WAS ALL IT TOOK FOR THE GORGEOUS STRANGER TO PENETRATE HIS SOUL. He was a hardened former marine with a guarded past...until one touch from Iris Browning became his undoing. Thanks to the raven-haired beauty, reclusive millionaire Maddox...
TALL, DARK, COWBOY For months, cop Joe Garrison had followed every lead to find the woman he held responsible for his brother's death. Now, as he finally stood face-to-face with her, he knew justice would have to wait. It seemed the woman who ...
HER LIPS WERE SEALED UNTIL THE LONG ARM OF THE LAW CRACKED THEM WIDE OPEN What was supposed to be a quiet vacation in scenic Wyoming turned deadly when Hannah Cooper became the target of a serial killer. Although she survived the attack, the ordeal ...
WHO'S AFTER HIS CHILD? When someone tries to kidnap his daughter, Jefferson County D.A. Sam Cooper sees red. He wants little Maddy protected, at any cost. Even if that cost includes working with a distractingly attractive detective, Kristen Tandy. H...
A MARINE NEVER LETS DOWN HIS GUARD -- OR THE WOMAN AND CHILD HE'D DIE PROTECTING Threatened by masked men making an impossible demand of her, Abby Chandler runs to Luke Cooper for help. She knows it's been three years since he vanished after their b...
HAS A BACHELOR DEDICATED ONLY TO THE LAW FINALLY MET HIS PERFECT MATCH? A man of duty and justice, Sheriff Aaron Cooper can't foresee trading his bachelor ways for love. So when he offers an innocent Melissa Draper protection, he doesn't realize w...
HE KNEW HIS WIFE HAD SECRETS. HE DIDN'T KNOW THEY WERE DEADLY. On the day Jake Cooper said "I do" to his beautiful bride, Mariah, their future happiness seemed certain. But Jake always wondered what she wasn't telling him. And what it would take for...
A COLD CASE SPARKS TOO MUCH HEAT To criminology professor Alicia Solano, serial killers aren't just academic. A very real one is stalking her now, possibly the same madman who brought Gabe Cooper to town. The sexy Southern lawman still blames himsel...
To protect a patient from dirty cops, former First Daughter Maggie Stone seeks out former Secret Service agent Jack Bennett, the best in the business. But Jack remembers her as code name WILLOW, a flighty heiress who made his life a living hell. Thou...
HE WAS A MAN SEEKING JUSTICE -- AND A BEAUTIFUL DEPUTY MIGHT BE JUST THE PERSON TO HELP HIM GET IT J. D. Cooper had left no stone unturned when investigating a cold case that hit much too close to home. Or so he'd thought. Thanks to small-town deput...
Whistleblower Carly Sandano is in scalding hot water. While the FBI wants her to testify against her crooked boss, her boss just wants her dead. So when the bus she hops out of Atlantic City crashes, she fakes her death and heads south to Bangor, G...
If you like Beckett and Castle, Mulder and Scully or Bones and Booth, give Brody and Hannigan a try!Lee Brody is the magician, pulling vital connections in vexing crime cases out of thin air. Stella Hannigan is the logician, honing Brody's flights o...
A SOLDIER NEVER BREAKS HIS PROMISE Agent Harlan McClain has his target in sight. But he's not pulling the trigger. Instead his assignment is providing Stacy Giordano -- the governor's aide -- with security. An easy job for a former marine sniper. An...
SHE HAD AN IDENTITY TO PROTECT. HE HAD TO MAKE SURE IT WASN'T EXPOSED. Since leaving the CIA under questionable circumstances, Amanda Caldwell has been living a quiet, uneventful life in a sleepy mountain town. But when Rick Cooper, her former partn...
SHE'D WATCHED THEM BURY HER PARTNER. They came after former FBI agent Isabel Cooper in her hotel room. Drugged and fighting for her life, she ran right into the arms of a dead man. But Ben Scanlon was very much alive, and now her life was in his hand...
THE TRUTH WAS BOUND TO COME OUT, BUT HE HATED BEING THE ONE TO TELL HER... He'd faced down danger multiple times, but now Pentagon liaison Evan Pike had to deal with the ultimate confrontation. Telling Megan Randall that her late husband had been ...
HIS BUSINESS IS PROTECTION Shannon Cooper came to Nightshade Island to carry out a mission. But she can't do it without the mysterious Gideon Stone. The enigmatic, battle-hardened former soldier is much more than just the island's caretaker. And t...
HER MISSING MEMORIES COULD BLOW THEIR CASE WIDE OPEN Although a missing Annie Harlowe and her entire family were at the forefront of a Cooper Security investigation, Wade Cooper never expected to stumble upon the half-conscious beauty in his own b...
AS A MAN OF ACTION, HE'D NEVER BREAK PROTOCOL. BUT HE'D NEVER BEEN SO TEMPTED... Although he was trying to crack a global conspiracy, former soldier Jesse Cooper had an even more important mission: keep new hire and girl-next-door Evie Marsh safe...
This Christmas, the McCabe brothers are coming home to Texas… Sheriff Wyatt McCabe has faced a lot of criminals, but none as ruthless as the one holding his sister hostage. Now, forced to work with Elena Vargas, Wyatt has to ensure his family's ...
A COLD CASE BROUGHT HIM HOME… When Sutton Calhoun shook the dust of Bitterwood, Tennessee, off his boots, he never thought he'd return. But now he's back to investigate an unsolved murder and has teamed up with police detective Ivy Hawkins -- th...
WHO WANTS RACHEL DAVENPORT DEAD? Seth Hammond won't stop until he gets answers. Tapped by the FBI to find out who's targeting the heiress gives the former Tennessee bad boy the chance to atone for his past sins. But it's his future he's worried ab...
Two former partners find their feelings rekindled when they're forced to uncover the truth in Paula Graves's Bitterwood P.D. trilogy! Assistant FBI director Adam Brand is out of time. His attempt to expose a domestic terrorist hiding in plain si...
When a winning Lotto ticket worth millions disappears at a family get-together, Stella Hannigan's mother turns to her daughter's cop partner, Lee Brody, to help her find the purloined prize. But when the top suspect ends up brutally skewered in a bac...
A raging storm and a ticking clock could mean the difference between life and death in this Bitterwood P.D. book from Paula Graves Bitterwood's new department chief, Doyle Massey, had a lot to prove to investigator Laney Harvey. Her take-no-priso...
A near-fatal accident unearths old family secrets in this Bitterwood P.D. book from award-winning author Paula Graves Detective Walker Nix knew there was more to the Bitterwood police chief's "accident" and that someone wanted his boss dead. But ...
One man will go to any lengths when a vulnerable woman and her little boy are threatened County prosecutor Dalton Hale is convinced widowed Briar Blackwood has information that can help him take down a local crime organization. Getting it is no e...
A spy is forced to come in from the cold in the first book in The Gates miniseries by award-winning author Paula Graves Coming in from the cold is the only choice for Sinclair Solano, once a fiery young radical turned CIA double agent turned fugi...
The past haunts two determined people looking for answers in Paula Graves's next installment of The Gates. For twenty years, Cain Dennison has been haunted by the death of a young, pregnant girl found murdered at Crybaby Falls. Determined to fina...
Completing his latest assignment could impact investigator Hunter Bragg's future. But only if he can keep Susannah Marsh alive. All Hunter Bragg wanted in Purgatory, Tennessee, was a little peace of mind. A private investigator plagued by his own...
"I'm not who you think I am." While his rodeo days have come and gone, cowboy Jack Drummond is in for the ride of a lifetime…with life itself hanging in the balance. An unexpected encounter with his old flame, Mara Jennings, triggers a series o...
Nick Darcy thought he'd left his past behind…until McKenna Rigsby showed up wounded on his doorstep Nick Darcy has always needed rules. So when he's temporarily suspended from a job he's dedicated his life to, the unstructured days ahead make h...
Her best protection came from an unlikely bodyguard When secrets leak from The Gates, the hunt is on for a mole. All evidence points to Anson Daughtry, who knows their security inside and out. Only coworker Ginny Coltrane can help clear his name,...
Coming in from the cold had never been so heated by an old attraction On the run for two years, former FBI agent Cade Landry has only one person he can turn to: Olivia Sharp, his former partner -- and lover. But after all this time, trusting the ...
The mountains are dangerous -- but not as dangerous as what's building between them… Missing and presumed dead, wanted FBI staffer Dallas Cole is running for his life…until undercover agent Nicki Jamison finds him lying crumpled in the road. ...
A mystery man has come to a small Texas town to hide out…until his cover is blown It wasn't an accident -- it was an ambush. And the minute John Blake rescues Deputy Miranda Duncan from a murder attempt, the Gates undercover operative is commit...
The return of the wife he thought was lost and a baby he never knew existed will make this a Christmas to remember… Captain Connor McGinnis has seen a ghost. Staring at a surveillance photo of a Kaziri immigrant, there can be no mistaking that ...
A cold case is reopened, placing a witness in the crosshairs -- and a bodyguard by her side… Charlie Winters has caught security expert Mike Strong's attention. A member of his self-defense class, she seems to need to know more than just how to...
THE BEST MAN…IN EVERY WAY Watching his best friend marry the wrong man is Owen Stiles's worst nightmare…until he and the would-be bride are kidnapped. Someone wants Tara Bentley out of the picture, enough to frame her for the murder of her fi...
WANTED: NANNY MUST BE GOOD WITH WET WIPES AND GUNS. Lacey Miles becomes the unexpected sole guardian of her young niece. Knee-deep into an investigation of a sleeper cell, Lacey finds that motherhood is a lot more perilous than she expected, ...