While crime reporter Tess McClintock finishes writing her articles about serial killer Eugene Kincaid for the Seattle Sentinel, the girlfriend of Tess’s colleague and the girlfriend’s daughter go missing. When their car turns up abandoned on a remote logging road in the mountains, Tess’s friend becomes the prime suspect. Tess enlists FBI Special Agent Michael Carter to help her discover whether her friend is responsible for their disappearance. In the process, Tess and Michael uncover the tragic history of the girl who ran away.

Celia

I’m excited to move back to my hometown and open the B&B that my sisters and I inherited. All that’s left before the grand opening is the kitchen remodel. Since I’m the chef of the family, it’s my job to oversee it. Too bad no one told me Malcom Maxwell was the man hired for the job. I used to have an embarrassing crush on him in high school. But he never noticed me. He’s the last person in Daisy Hills I want to be stuck alone with, but no one else can get the job done in time.

Malcom

I don’t remember Celia from high school. But for the life of me, I can’t understand why. She’s a curvaceous beauty with a fiery, take-charge personality. I’m drawn to her the instant she walks through the door. Too bad she wants nothing to do with me. But the harder she tries to push me away, the more determined I am to break down her barriers. I may not have noticed her in high school, but she’s all I see now. I’m not giving up on her without a fight.

Aisling has every reason in the world to like her life as it is: away from the shifter community. Tucked in her little corner of the world, she sees no reason to gets involved in the drama of the ever warring packs, until trouble knocks at her door.
Trouble wrapped in a delicious package her cat wants to claw.

Raygan didn’t know what he expected when he moved his pride to the loner’s territory; maybe having to deal with a criminal, or someone in hiding. Instead, he found a fiercely protective, insanely attractive lunatic with secrets he wants to unravel.
A lunatic who might very well be his fated mate.

On her fortieth birthday, Celia Guest has reason to celebrate. She has a loving marriage, a beautiful Connecticut home, and treasured friends. Celia has everything she’s ever wanted. But among the cards and well-wishes, she discovers a disturbing note: You don’t deserve any of this.

Who could be so cruel, so resentful, so…knowing? Then, in the early morning hours, Celia vanishes without a trace.

As suspicions and concerns rise among Celia’s friends, her sister Genevieve, with whom she shares a fractured and troubling bond, starts to piece together a shattered life that Celia fled from once before. As a foundation of lies begins to crumble, a terrifying childhood secret Celia thought was dead and buried comes to light.

And this time, there’s no getting away from the truth.

Abducted. Terrorized. Imprisoned. At nineteen-years-old, college student Josie Stratton was kidnapped by a madman and held shackled for ten months in an abandoned warehouse before she finally escaped her hellish prison. Eight years later, when the body of a young woman is found chained in the basement of a vacant house, Cincinnati Police Detective Zach Copeland is instantly reminded of the crime committed against Josie Stratton. Zach was just a rookie on the perimeter of that case, but he’s never forgotten the traumatized woman with the haunted eyes.

As more information emerges, the crimes take on an even more sinister similarity. But Josie’s attacker died by suicide. Does the city have a copycat on its hands? A killer who picked up where the original perpetrator left off? Or are they facing something far more insidious?Josie has spent the last eight years attempting to get her life back on track, but now there’s a very real chance she could be the unknown suspect’s next target. As Zach vows to keep her safe, and Josie finds herself responding to him in a way she hasn’t responded to any man in almost a decade, the investigation takes on an even more complex edge of danger.

With Chinese hypersonic cruise missiles thundering toward the aircraft carrier USS Reagan, the captain has only minutes to decide how to save his crew of 5,000 before they all end up at the bottom of the South China Sea.

As the battle rages, under the sea, U.S. fast attack submarines silently maneuver against the PLA Navy while jet fighters battle for air superiority. On the ground, Marines fight for control of Chinese-held Woody Island. A Taiwanese tank squadron confronts a superior attacking force on Kinmen Island in a courageous attempt to halt Chinese forces.

In the White House, the president strategizes with his National Security Council on overcoming China’s advantage in ballistic missiles and ships. His counterpart, the president of China, develops a daring plan to destroy America’s fleet of aircraft carriers.