Thriller

[close] Detective Mitzi Reardon doesn’t know what she did to anger her boss, but he is gunning for her. Literally. Now a prostitute is dead, and she is the prime suspect with the law hot on her heels. With nowhere to run and no one to trust, Mitzi’s only hope lies in the hands of a sexy stranger.

Blue Thomas is a stranger in Denver. The bright lights and big city bustle are 250 miles and a world away from his family’s cattle ranch in Kansas, and he is out of his element. He came to find work and save the ranch from foreclosure, but on a rainy night a desperate woman finds him. Back home, he would never let anyone—especially a woman—face danger alone. Without fully understanding what he is in for, Blue pledges his help, whether she wants it or not.

As a trap closes around them, Mitzi must abandon her usual strategy of careful planning and situation management, instead relying on quick thinking and a bold, head-on approach that may just get her—and Blue—killed. Before the last bullet flies, Blue will find out just how far he is willing to go to live up to his old-school ideals of gallant chivalry. [close]

[close] CHRISTMAS, and it’s the end of the road for Matt and Lauren Silver’s tempestuous marriage. Rock star Silver has been touring abroad just once too often, neglecting Lauren and their twin daughters, Gudrun and Freya. In a desperate attempt to put things right, Silver cancels his tour and comes home for his children - but instead of the reconciliation he seeks he triggers a tragedy which will shatter all their lives forever. Silver’s car smashes though bridge railings into the River Thames. Little Gudrun is killed in the horrific crash and Silver himself vanishes into the shadows of underworld London, injured, traumatized, and unable to face what he has done. Lauren Silver is crushed by guilt, and young Freya is so emotionally scarred that no-one can reach her.

No-one except Inspector Sam Cobb, the detective sent to investigate the tragedy - a man with scars of his own. He only reluctantly enters the Silvers’ bleak world, but when he does he brings hope. Hope of recovery. Hope for the future. Hope of redemption.

But Matt Silver is not yet out of their lives. Disfigured and desolate, he has found comfort of a kind, thanks to the humanity of new and unexpected allies. Despite himself he has begun to heal, to grow stronger. To think of emerging from the shadows.

For Sam Cobb, Lauren and Freya there will come a time when hope alone is not enough.
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West Cork. November 1920. The Irish War of Independence rages. The body of a young woman is found brutally murderered on a windswept hillside, a scrapboard sign covering her body reads 'TRATOR' - traitor. Sergeant Séan O'Keefe is assigned to investigate, aided by sinister detectives sent from Dublin Castle to ensure that he finds the killer. Just so long as that killer isn't one of their own... On the other side of the divide, the IRA assign a young volunteer soldier to investigate the murder.

Unknown to each other the Sergeant and the Volunteer relentlessly pursue the truth behind the savage killing; their investigation taking them from the bullet-pocked lanes and thriving brothels of the city, to the rugged, deadly hills of West Cork. Both men must be careful in a time where 'murder's as common as rain and no one knows a thing about it, even when they do.' [close]