The author of five bestselling novels, including Under Cover of Darkness and The Pardon, James Grippando writes compulsively readable thrillers that could be drawn from today's headlines, only better. Now his trademark gifts are wonderfully demonstrated in a taut new tale of intrigue that will keep you guessing to the final, breathtaking scene.

Just two years out of law school, Nick Rey is on the career fast track at a hot Miami law firm

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First lady Jane Cox insists on hiring private detectives Sean King and Michelle Maxwell to help when her twelve-year-old niece is abducted and the child's mother killed following a birthday party at Camp David, and while the investigators have no trouble identifying the assailant, they cannot figure out the motive for his obsession with the first family.

Following the stranger home for a one-night stand could cost inner-city art teacher Mia Dennett her life when her occasional boyfriend fails to arrive at a bar and a stranger named Colin hides her away in a remote Minnesota cabin, disregarding his employers' demands to kidnap Mia as part of an extortion scheme. Mia's mother and detective Gabe Hoffman will do whatever it takes to bring Mia home safe...but they're running out of time.

For months, Summer is trapped in a cellar with the man who took her and three other girls: Rose, Poppy, and Violet.

The second installment in the Yellow Rose trilogy finds Texas Ranger Dakota Rawlings trying to escort the feisty Miss Darvi Wingate safely to the town of Stillwater and on to Aurora, in spite of her knack for attracting trouble.

For the readers of Olivia Goldsmith and Susan Isaacs comes a dramatic, and fun, thriller with an over-the-top ending that will leave readers gasping. For twenty-five years, Emily Childs has been the perfect wife. She has devoted herself completely to her successful husband, Walter, on his climb to the top of the banking world, kept his home, raised his children, and entertained his clients. Now he is about to dump her for the younger, more beautiful...

Edgar Award finalist: When the strange new bus driver passes the last stop, the five teens on board know something’s wrong: “[A] gripping thriller.” —Publishers Weekly
Valley Gardens is the last stop on the bus route after school. The neighborhood is known for its wealthy families, perhaps the richest in town. Marianne, Bruce, Glenn, Dexter, and Jesse live in Valley Gardens, and have no trouble guiding the...

Bestselling author Sandra Brown is the master of the knife-edge thriller. Her latest and most powerful novel to date, Hello, Darkness, is the gripping story of a woman haunted by her past and caught in a nightmare that threatens to destroy her future. It's a brilliant, fast-paced tale, electric with sexual tension, by one of America's most popular authors of sophisticated suspense. For Paris Gibson, her popular late-night radio show is both an escape...

The new guy at Tracy's school is handsome, intense, and desperately needs her help, but there's something about him that isn't quite right. High school junior Tracy Lloyd is unsure about the new guy in school. Brad Johnson is attractive, smart, and polite, but Tracy can't help but feel he watches her too closely. Then one day Brad confides in Tracy a horrible secret: His little sister Mindy has been kidnapped by his stepfather, and he needs Tracy's...

An unscrupulous husband fights his wife when she tries to divorce him and keep their child Noelle realizes it is time to move on when, rubbing lotion on her leg, she cuts herself with her wedding ring. The cut is slight, but it makes her realize that her marriage to Robert Van Doren is causing her nothing but pain. Although successful, wealthy, and boyishly handsome, her husband is a heartless man, who cheats on his wife and makes a living at the...