Sandra Brown

In 1934, Ella Barron runs her Texas boardinghouse with efficiency while she cares for her ten-year-old son, Solly, a challenging child; when David Rainwater moves in, it impacts Ella's life in ways she could never have foreseen.

Five women are missing from the sleepy mountain town of Cleary, North Carolina, and a blue ribbon has been left near where each woman was last seen. Lilly Martin has returned to Cleary to close the sale of her cabin. But when her car skids and strikes a stranger, Ben Tierney, as he emerges from the woods, they've no choice but to wait out a brutal blizzard in the cabin. And as the hours of their confinement mount, Lilly wonders if the greater threat...

Already coping with battle fatigue following his return from Afghanistan, journalist Dawson Scott receives a tip he cannot ignore about a potentially huge story involving the son of terrorists at-large for forty years.

1920. Thatcher Hutton, a war-weary soldier on the way back to his cowboy life, jumps from a moving freight train to avoid trouble...and lands in more than he bargained for. On the day he arrives in Foley, Texas, a local woman goes missing. Thatcher, the only stranger in town, is suspected of her abduction, and worse. Standing between him and exoneration are a corrupt mayor, a crooked sheriff, a notorious cathouse madam, a sly bootlegger, feuding moonshiners...

A marriage of convenience between architect Ria Lavender and mayoral candidate Taylor Mackensie, breaks out into a passionate fire at Christmas.

When newswoman Britt Shelley finds herself in bed with Jay Burgess, a rising star detective in the Charleston Police Department, she remembers nothing about how she got there or how Jay wound up dead.

A reknowned artist's model, Shay Morrison has posed nude to inspire great works of art. But hidden inside her, where no one can see, is the pain of a failed marriage. Then she accidentally walks in on Ian Douglas -- as he steps from the shower. His embarrassment and disapproval of Shay are immediately apparent. What isn't so obvious is his profession: Ian is a minister in a very staid community. Challenged and hurt, Shay decides to try to make him...