Книги автора: Amanda Stevens

UNAUTHORIZED PASSIONJack Fury has been watching Celeste Fortune, waiting for the right moment to coincidentally meet her…and save her. But he doesn't know the sexy Celeste is an impostor! Cassie Boudreaux has been impersonating her cousin and doesn't bargain on a protector like Jack or a killer in pursuit. Now she'll need Celeste's entire feminine arsenal to outsmart one man and seduce another.INTIMATE KNOWLEDGEPenelope Moon can't believe her eyes when she sees her coma-stricken fiancé, Simon Decker, on board a passing yacht. But this Simon isn't the accountant she fell in love with. This man is tougher, stronger-sexier. Soon she's drawn into a deadly conspiracy. But will her heart end up as collateral damage…?

A second chance at first love…SHE WAS HIS TRUE LOVEJake McClain had always loved Hope…even after she married Andrew Kingsley. And he knew she loved him–but after her policeman father had been killed, she couldn't bear to love a man in danger. So Hope became a Kingsley, entering a world of wealth and privilege far removed from Jake's honest eyes.COULD HE BE HER HERO?Now Andrew is dead…and an identical stranger has arrived at the Kingsley mansion. He says he's Adam Kingsley, home after thirty years. But his eyes follow Hope, and he knows secrets only Andrew would know. Has the husband Hope never loved returned to claim her? And how can Jake, the man she never stopped loving, save her?

In Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana, a terrible secret is about to be uncovered by a woman whose daughter vanished seven years ago without a trace…And now a new clue has surfaced…a doll that is the spitting image of Claire Doucett's missing child, right down to the tiny birthmark on the girl's left arm. A chance sighting of the eerily lifelike doll in a French Quarter collectibles shop leaves Claire shaken to her core…and more determined than ever to find out what happened to her beloved Ruby.When the doll is snatched and the store's owner turns up dead, Claire knows the only person she can turn to is ex-husband Dave Creasy, a former cop who has spent the past seven years imprisoned by his own guilt and despair. He let Claire down once when she needed him the most. Can she make him believe the doll really exists? She'll have to if they're to survive an encounter with a brutal psychopath–the dollmaker–who stole their future to feed an obsession that will never die.

My father’s rules. I’ve never broken them…until now. My name is Amelia Gray. I’m a cemetery restorer who sees ghosts. In order to protect myself from the parasitic nature of the dead, I've always held fast to the rules passed down from my father. But now a haunted police detective has entered my world and everything is changing, including the rules that have always kept me safe.It started with the discovery of a young woman’s brutalized body in an old Charleston graveyard I've been hired to restore. The clues to the killer—and to his other victims—lie in the headstone symbolism that only I can interpret. Devlin needs my help, but his ghosts shadow his every move, feeding off his warmth, sustaining their presence with his energy.To warn him would be to invite them into my life. I've vowed to keep my distance, but the pull of his magnetism grows ever stronger even as the symbols lead me closer to the killer and to the gossamer veil that separates this world from the next.

What would you do to get your baby back?Separated from her newborn son after a hospital fire, single mother Nina Fairchild will do anything to get her baby back–even request help from wealthy, sensual Grant Chambers. For Grant's nephew is the spitting image of Nina's missing son…Grant will do whatever it takes to protect his family, including helping the woman who claims his sister stole her baby, if only to prove her wrong. Working so closely with Nina, Grant can't help but be drawn to the beautiful widow. But with the records of her pregnancy having mysteriously disappeared, either Nina is truly crazy, or someone is trying to make her seem to be…

MAKING UP FOR LOST TIME…Pierce Kincaid couldn't understand why his wife nearly fainted when he came home from the store–or why she is no longer pregnant…until a five-year-old boy asks Mommy who the stranger is. Terror-filled nightmares slowly reveal that the ex-secret agent had been kidnapped, his memory wiped clean.Pierce knows that Jessica still loves him. But if he wants a second chance at the life he lost, he'll need to discover the truth behind his abduction and take down the kidnappers targeting his family–before death truly does part them.

The footprints were etched in the snow for miles, passing through walls and crossing rivers…appearing on the other side as though no barrier could stop them. In 1922 a farmer in Adamant, Arkansas, awakes to a noise on his roof and finds his snow-blanketed yard marked with thousands of cloven footprints. The prints vanish with the melting snow…only to reappear seventy years later near the gruesome killing of Rachel DeLaune. Years after her sister's unsolved murder, New Orleans tattoo artist Sarah DeLaune is haunted by the mysteries of her past.Sarah has always believed that her sister was killed by a man named Ashe Cain. But no one else had ever seen Ashe. He had «appeared» to Sarah when she needed a friend the most, only to vanish on the night of her sister's murder. The past bleeds into the present when two mutilated bodies are found near Sarah's home, the crime scene desecrated by cloven footprints.

In a place that had been named for paradise, evil had come to call…A PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP WAS STRICTLY FORBIDDENBut that didn't stop Sergeant Abby Cross from wanting Sam Burke. She'd thought the FBI profiler cold and arrogant–until she worked with him, side by side, late into the nights on her town's desperate search for two missing little girls. Sam hid his emotions well, but beneath the surface Abby sensed his fierce determination to bring the innocent children home.Falling for Sam could cost her her reputation and career. She had to keep things cool between them. But emotional fires were blazing in Eden, Mississippi–and love was the ultimate temptation.

He was a man with connections Wealth, power and the perfect life. That’s what Graham Hollister thought he had with his wife, Kendall. He’d almost lost her in a deadly car crash, but since then he’d revelled in their renewed marriage. Until one Texas night changed everything. She was a woman with a past A crime cartel came to abduct Kendall. Only the kidnappers didn’t just want a ransom – they were out for revenge.Now strong, determined Graham must race against time and all odds to rescue the love of his life and everything that he holds dear.

The first secret is personal. The second one is a killer…This school reunion was a shot at redemption and maybe a second chance for army man Dylan Burkhart and his old flame, Ava North. But a secret-telling game turns up a murder confession, with the killer hiding among them…

Get ready for a new brand of justice… Born to a legacy of lawman, three brothers sworn to serve and protect will safeguard the women they love.GALLAGHER JUSTICEWith a wickedly sexy smile and reputation to match, detective Tony Gallagher was the Chicago P.D.'s bad boy. Tony had one rule: he always worked alone. Until a murder case pushed him to the edge–and he got a new partner…Working with Tony was Eve Barrett's dream come true–and her worst nightmare. As a girl she'd loved him, but he'd never noticed her. Now she had to find her growing desire, and her real assignment: investigating Tony.With women he knew dying, Tony trusted no one. Eve had to win his confidence–before a clever killer discovered the secrets of his heart…

Over her dead body…Angel Lowell's twin sister, Aiden, always got what she wanted–including Angel's boyfriend, Drew Maitland, lock, stock–and marriage… Now Aiden is dead, and Drew and Angel have returned to Crossfield, Texas, to save the small town they had all once called home. It might be time for Angel to forgive the past…and live for the future…The ten years apart have only deepened Drew's need, and he has vowed that this time Angel will be his. But even if he can convince Angel to take a second chance on him, something–or someone–is determined to keep them apart. How can he protect the woman he loves from an evil they can't even see?Previously published.

If she wants to stay alive.She must remember who wants her dead.Returning to Bishop’s Rock is meant to jolt Lea Westin’s memory. But only more question greet her. Questions, and Cole Matheson, who announces Lea had hired him to investigate threats against her life. With no recollection of her own past can Lea believe the man claiming to be her loving husband? Or does she trust the sexy stranger who feels oddly familiar and dangerous in an entirely different way?

Work is a welcome refuge for New Orleans homicide detective Evangeline Theroux.Feeling suffocated by her new baby, in whose eyes she sees only her dead husband, she throws herself into a high-profile murder case. Reclusive writer Lena Saunders offers Evangeline a provocative theory about the crime: it is the work of a lunatic vigilante.Lena spins the sordid story of Ruth and Rebecca Lemay, whose mother brutally murdered her male children in an insane effort to root out an «evil» gene. The girls survived and grew to adulthood–but one is carrying on her mother's grisly work. When the case takes a terrifyingly personal turn, Evangeline's whole life will depend on a crucial, impossible choice: the lesser of two evils.

FORBIDDEN LOVERThe frightened woman standing before millionaire Jared Spencer hardly looked like the housekeeper's spirited daughter who'd once captured his heart then betrayed him. But the moment their gazes met, he felt the same fiery, forbidden desire.Tess Campbell had come with a plea to help find her missing child.A child that should have been theirs…Tess tempted fate by going to Jared. But for her little girl, she'd face the devil himself. Jared's millions would fuel the search–but it was the man Tess needed to keep her safe. For when Jared learned her precious secret, he and Tess would be in more danger than their daughter…

Nothing distracted true blue police detective John Gallagher from his work–certainly not a woman. Until a mysterious death led him to Thea Lockhart's door. One look in Thea's beautiful, haunted eyes and John wanted to run–from visions of love, marriage and forever! But Thea's little girl might be the only witness to murder…Betrayed by the law that should have protected her, Thea had given up her identity to save her daughter. The last person she should trust was a policeman–but something in John's steady gaze made her hope. If she told him the truth about her past, did she dare believe this man could be her future?

Justice is in her blood…Fiona Gallagher hails from a long line of Chicago lawmen, and has fulfilled her heritage as a prosecutor, driven to put away the slime of the streets. But now she's going head-to-head with the police force, on the trail of a cop gone bad…Detective Ray Doggett is hell-bent on preventing Fiona from getting in too deep. The determined prosecutor has gotten too close to exposing the truth about the crime ring…and about him. Forcibly attracted to Fiona, he'd been sent undercover to investigate corruption–not fall in love. That is far too dangerous…for both of them.

He'd believed in her once…Years ago, Nathan Dallas had stood by young Shelby Westmoreland when she'd claimed a creature had risen from the river one foggy midnight.Townsfolk had accused Shelby of crying wolf, but she knew she'd seen something. And she never forgot Nathan. and she needed him more than ever Shelby was all woman now–and Nathan was back in town, under a cloud of scandal. His dark stare sent shivers of awareness and apprehension down her spine. But when wet footprints appeared and Shelby's belongings mysteriously moved or disappeared, Nathan answered her cry for help. With her elusive tormentor near, Nathan became Shelby's nighttime guardian…and keeper of her heart.