heart-pounding fiction
Dive into heart-pounding fiction with our gripping list of thrillers, mysteries, and suspense novels. Discover page-turners that will keep you on the edge of your seat!
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Byte Me
by Pauline Baird Jones
Deputy Marshal Jake Kirby is tracking fugitives across land and cyberspace. The master strategist in this unusual gang of cyber-thieves is the sexy and mysterious Phoebe Mentel, who would like to have a peaceful, law-abiding life with a nice guy. But there will be no peace for Phoebe until she brings her sister's killer to justice. Instant attraction and shifting loyalties complicate this high-tech chess game between Jake and Phoebe, two people who are afraid to lose but more afraid to fall in love.
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Secret Star
by Nora Roberts
Lieutenant Seth Buchanan is investigating a murder scene when the supposed victim walks through the front door. Grace Fontaine is even more beautiful in person than she is in the portrait over her mantel, and Seth knows that she means trouble. But he's a cautious man, long accustomed to guarding his heart, and he's determined to continue the practice. Grace, however, has other ideas; Seth is the man she's been waiting for through all the long, lonely years she has spent as an unbelievably rich, impossibly beautiful child and woman. Thrown together by Seth's determination to solve the murder, the theft of three incredible diamonds, and the imminent threat to Grace's safety, the two struggle with the passion and the bond that pulls them together. Nora Roberts is a master at spinning a tale, and she doesn't miss a beat in this novel of love, murder, mystery, and obsession.
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Midnight Bayou
by Nora Roberts
Declan Fitzgerald uncovers a secret in the manor house he purchased.
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Le Fin
by Victoria Taylor Murray
The Lambert Series (Thief Of Hearts, Forbidden and Friendly Enemies), is centered around one earth-shattering week in the life of Nouri St. Charles Sommers, a beautiful young woman that rushed into marriage with a mysterious billionaire...a man she knew nothing about. Two short years later, Nourias fairytale marriage suddenly turns into a nightmare changing her life forever a].Falling in love a] out of love a] in love againa]a fairytale marriage turned nightmarea]implicated and then cleared in two gruesome murdersa]surviving a death threat after being forced into hiding from a stalkera]Nourias one week from hell continues. Now six weeks later, Nourias life continues to spin out of control, drawing the reader deeper and deeper into the turmoil of The Lambert Series with the final book to the series, Le Fin. Nourias billionaire husband, Ethan Sommers, has been shot and killed. Her former lover, high-powered attorney Clint Chamberlain, is feared dead after his car plummets off a bridge in Paris during a rain storm, and if those things arenat bad enough for her to deal with, Nouri suddenly discovers that the man she has finally chosen over both Clint Chamberlain and Charles Mason, homicide detective Gabe Baldwin, has returned to Boston to wed his former fiancA(c)e after an argument Nouri and Gabe had while they were still in France.
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Answered Prayers
by Danielle Steel
Her seemingly idyllic life shadowed by a dark secret, sophisticated New York wife and mother Faith Madison experiences painful memories at her stepfather's funeral and finds support and a new career through old friend Brad Patterson.
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Kiss and Tell
by Cherry Adair
Marnie Wright was trespassing when she visited her grandmother's old cabin, but did the handsome, longhaired mountain man named Jake Dolan have to lock her up in his secret underground lair, complete with security monitors?
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The Passion
by Donna Boyd
In finely crafted prose and lush detail, Donna Boyd weaves a spell-binding tapestry of romance and suspense set against richly imagined landscapes of sensuousness. An intense saga of love and betrayal, The Passion is a story of those who walk the fine line between man beast. On the eve of a brutal murder in contemporary Manhattan, Alexander Devoncroix finally reveals to his son and heir a tightly guarded chapter in the family history, which is know to no outsiders. In a world in which a superior race of werewolved holds the positions of power, human and werewolf segregation had become the norm. But for the first time, the leaders of the pack have accepted a human. In dazzling nineteenth century Paris, we meet three pivotal players: the young human Tessa LeGuerre, who falls under the spell of a very powerful, very sensual werewolf; Alexander Devoncroix, the charismatic werewolf who adores humans too well, but whose ultimate loyalty is to the pack; and Elise, the imperial pack leader who lays claim to Alexander. Beloved "pet" of select members of the pack, Tessa naively embraces all things werewolf--an ambition that results in unspeakable tragedy.
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Firefly Beach
by Luanne Rice
Under the summer sky, anything is possible.... Author of the acclaimed novels Cloud Nine and Follow the Stars Home, Luanne Rice returns with another moving portrait of a family in crisis—as three sisters come face-to-face with the past and find in each other the courage to go on. Coolly sophisticated and steadfastly single, Caroline Renwick has always been the sister everyone could count on. As she and Clea and Skye gathered at Firefly Hill, their childhood home, Caroline thought that they had all put the past behind them. But as summer gets under way, a mysterious man arrives—a man who has the power to bring it all back.... Joe Connor was only six when his father died at Firefly Hill. Though he and Caroline had never met, the five-year-old girl reached out to him. They became pen pals and friends, until a teenaged Joe finally learned the truth about what had happened to his father that night. Now, after years of silence, Joe is suddenly here ... and Caroline still feels a connection. But she can't help but wonder if this handsome man holds the key to her family's healing—or its destruction. And in his presence, how long will she be able to guard her heart?
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The Last Enemy
by Pauline Baird Jones
Dani Gwynne, a romance writer, is being pursued by a hit man hired to keep her from testifying at a murder trial. U.S. Marshal Matthew Kirby is determined to keep her alive.
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House of Dreams
by Brenda Joyce
Cassandra de Warenne feels an overwhelming attraction for Antonio de la Barca, her jet-setting sister's boyfriend, unaware of a lingering connection between their families based on an ancient tragedy.
