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Romance Writers of America Vivian Award Recipient; Finalist and Winner of the Daphne du Maurier Award for Excellence in Mystery/Suspense

Return to a world of high-stakes danger and heart-stopping suspense in this second volume of award-winning romantic thrillers, where family isn't just found—it's fought for.

PIECES OF EIGHT

Darkness can light the way.

When psychic Thea Marlie's young protégé goes missing, she knows there's only one man to call: FBI Special Agent Max Prescott. But Thea and Max have history, and asking him for help means confronting the darkest time of her life.

Max has been waiting years for the only woman he ever loved to need him. He's ready to face the past and accept its consequences, to do whatever it takes to win Thea back…even if he fears some things are too terrible to forgive.

Thea wants only to move forward, while Max is determined to look back. But when they learn the boy has been taken by people hunting the lost treasure el Tesoro del Corazon, they will have to get beyond their stalemate. Because the race to unearth the hidden chest of cursed Spanish silver is on, and to save him they will have to work together to find it…before the curse of el Tesoro finds them.

DUST TO DUST

The phoenix must burn before it can rise.

Paramedic Kamina Kim is at the gleaming new Silverhawk Tower chasing a different kind of rescue: her own. Attending a writer's symposium far from the sirens and trauma, she hopes to silence the guilt of a boy she couldn't save—and find a way to believe in herself again.

Grey Dar has no such illusions. The former Army Ranger lives in the shadow of loss, returning to the world only to protect his twin brother, a tech billionaire now marked by an invisible threat. Grey isn't worried about surviving the encounter—just ending it on his own terms.

But when a brutal attack turns the tower into a war zone, Mina and Grey are thrust together, fighting to rescue a trapped child and escape before the building comes down. To survive, they will have to rely on their skills, their histories–and each other. Because the assault on Silverhawk is only the beginning…

FOUL PLAY

Redemption means letting go.

Once a celebrated climate scientist, Dr. Peri O'Brien has become a ghost, shunning the world and the scandal that destroyed her career. She craves only anonymity–a life small enough to survive.

Then a man is murdered beside her in a darkened movie theater, and in an instant, Peri is no longer invisible. She's a witness. A suspect. And the unexpected key to a plot far deadlier than a single assassination.

FBI Agent Soren Blackbird hunts monsters for a living. Being reassigned to investigate the murder of a foreign envoy feels like punishment, and he expects politics—not complications. Until the evidence leads straight to Peri and a shadow network preparing to unleash catastrophic eco-terror on a global scale.

Forced into a fragile partnership, Soren and Peri are thrust into a deadly race to unravel secrets, unearth betrayal, and outmaneuver a conspiracy rooted in retribution. To stop a catastrophe that could destabilize the world, they'll have to confront everything they've been running from and decide whether love is a liability…or the one thing powerful enough to save them both.

"Isn't it wonderful, as a reader, to pick up a book you are skeptical of and find yourself in the hands of an expert lover of words?"

–Book Reviewer

*This series was written the old-fashioned way: by a human being.