HER PAST WAS SHADOWED BY SHAME, HER FUTURE BRIGHT WITH PROMISE! There was nothing left for her in Sanger, California, but an empty house, painful memories, closed doors. Calla Oaks was alone now, free to go to Los Angeles and follow her dream. ...
IN THE LUSH ENCLAVES OF LOS ANGELES, BLIND AMBITION FUELS CAREERS--AND PASSION CAN BE THE ULTLMATE TEST Rachel Williams was on her way up. The sensuous, elegant beauty had been named presiding judge of the Superior Court, and had been invited to j...
Deeply affected by her mother's abandonment of her for a wealthy husband, Ricky Blair vows revenge on the rich, becoming the top female executive of an insurance company by day, and commanding two larcenous sisters in a jewel thievery ring by night. ...
Life seemed perfect for Bridget Devlin. Her first nursing job had transported her from a provincial Irish Village to the sophisticated world of San Francisco's moneyed elite. She hadn't anticipated that the family matriarch who had been placed in her...
Hugely talented and fiercely ambitious, Char Brody was consumed by one desire: making it big as a clothing designer in the high-powered world of international haute couture. Even that magical chance meeting with the handsome, dark-eyed photojournalis...
As executor of her father's estate, Nicole decides to take the thieves who stole one of his inventions to court, with the help of a handsome attorney who has desired her from afar for years. Original....
When 16-year-old Hannah Sheraton is arrested for the murder of her step-grandfather, a prominent California Supreme Court justice, her distraught mother contacts her old college roommate, Josie Baylor-Bates, to take the case. Once a hotshot criminal ...
USA Today bestselling author Rebecca Forster's inimitable California defense attorney Josie Baylor-Bates returns to defend the man in her life from a murder charge, walking the fine line between lover and lawyer, trust and truth. Already under the...
Grace McCreary says she tried to stop her wealthy, disturbed sister-in-law from jumping to her death off a penthouse balcony, but the police accuse her of murder. Though Josie swore off rich clients years ago, she succumbs to Grace's plea for help. T...
A mountain grocer is executed and a fading model is missing. Sheriff Dove Connelly, a native American and a man of unique sensibilities, embarks on an investigation that drags him into a twilight world where nothing is at it seems, life and death han...
It’s two in the morning when Josie Bates’ ward, sixteen-year-old Hannah Sheraton, slips into Archer’s Hermosa Beach apartment to see if Josie sleeps in his bed. But Josie isn’t there. In fact, Josie isn’t anywhere. When her Jeep is found ab...
In the dead of night, Josie Bates is ripped from sleep by the sounds of an epic storm raging over Hermosa Beach and a man beating on her door begging her to help Billy Zuni who is drowning in the raging sea. She arrives at the shore just in time to s...
Appearing before the Senate Select Committee on Eastern European crime, Josie Bates testifies passionately about the brutal Albanian blood feud that has sent Hannah into hiding with Billy Zuni and Archer on a quest to find them. While Senator Patriot...
As the edge of winter slices through fall, Josie Bates testifies in Washington D.C. about the Albanian blood feud that sent Hannah Sheraton and Billy Zuni fleeing for their lives, and Archer reluctantly abandons a trail that has gone cold in his sear...
Oh, Boy! Oh, Bailey!Find a penny, pick it up; just don't bank on Lady LuckBailey Devlin is on the fast track to happiness. The bar exam is behind her (for the second time), Jeffery adores her, and her hobbled together family of misfits becomes dearer...
Oh, Boy! Oh, Bailey!What are you going to do when Fate decides to have a little fun?Bailey Devlin is convinced the stork was drunk the day he dropped her in her mother's lap. Mom is blond and beautiful; Bailey redheaded and gawky. Mom's heart longs f...
Oh, Boy! Oh, Bailey!Just when you think it's going to be smooth sailing, Venus messes with your rudder.Everyone thinks that Bailey Devlin has taken leave of her senses, but she knows exactly what she's doing when she packs her bags and books passage ...
Murder behind the gates of Fremont Place was unusual; two children and a nanny slaughtered in the home of a rich young lawyer and his beautiful wife was unheard of. When Detective Finn O'Brien, recently cleared of murder charges in the death of a fel...
A foreign woman is dead and two countries want the truth buried along with the body. But when her autopsy reveals a horrific secret, Detective Finn O'Brien vows to find out who she is and why she died. Together with his partner, Cori Anderson, Finn f...
They're illegal. They're undocumented. They're disappearing. The last thing Finn O'Brien wants is to come between his partner and her daughter, but Amber Anderson is desperate for his help. Her new boyfriend, an undocumented immigrant, is missing. Ca...
It's two in the morning and an aging cargo ship lies off the Port of Los Angeles. Deep in the bowels of the vessel, an important man is dead and the woman who killed him is mortally wounded. On shore another man staggers out of the sea determined to ...
When the local grocer is found murdered, Sheriff Dove Connelly feels that a part of him has died too. Vowing never to rest until he finds his friend's killer Dove's investigation is relentless, but what he finds is almost as horrible as the crime its...
A woman in a window. A cop out of his element. A crime of unimaginable passion.It's two in the morning when a domestic disturbance brings Finn O'Brien to an artists' colony on the frayed edges of the City of Angels. Housed in an abandoned brewery, th...
A private plane explodes killing Finn's estranged uncle and his childhood love.Coming to grips with the tragedy, Finn O'Brien puts the accident behind him until a misdirected insurance settlement, a federal investigation, and an arrogant ATF agent pi...
NO GOOD DEED GOES UNPUNISHED, AND THIS TIME IT'S BRUTALIT’S CHRISTMAS and the world is joyful for everyone but Josie Bates. A devastating miscarriage, her employer’s pending retirement, and her husband’s overseas job have left her a...