Lieutenant
Alexander Colton and February Owens were high school sweethearts. Everyone in
their small town knew from the moment they met they were meant for each other.
But something happened and Feb broke Colt’s heart then she turned wild and
tragedy struck. Colt meted out revenge against the man who brought Feb low but
even though Colt risked it all for her, Feb turned her back on him and left
town.
Fifteen years later, Feb comes back to help run the family bar. But there’s so
much water under the bridge separating her and Colt everyone knows they’ll
never get back together.
Until someone starts hacking up people in Feb’s life. Colt is still Colt and
Feb is still Feb so the town watches as Colt goes all out to find the murderer
while trying to keep Feb safe.
As the bodies pile up, The Feds move in and a twisting, turning story unravels
exposing a very sick man who has claimed numerous victims along the way, Feb
and Colt battle their enduring attraction and the beautiful but lost history
that weaves them together.
Violet
Winters once had it all but lost it when her husband was murdered by a criminal
madman. During a cold winter night Violet has to leave her warm bed to tell her
neighbor to turn the music down. And that’s when she meets sinister, scarred,
scarily attractive security specialist, Joe Callahan.
She wants to deny it, but Violet can’t beat back the hunger she feels for Joe
so she gives in again and again. Feeling it himself, Joe feeds Vi’s hunger,
breaking his own rules to keep her in his bed.
Even though Violet had only one man in her life, she’s sure Joe is giving her
the signals and Vi decides she’s ready to take a second chance at life and,
maybe, love. But Violet doesn’t know the dark secrets in Joe’s past, secrets so
soul-wrenching, they’ve drained him dry. With nothing left to give, Joe’s
determined to live his life alone and he breaks Violet’s heart.
Crushed by Joe’s betrayal, Violet comes to terms with the fact that, no matter
what signals he gave, Joe was not theirs to win. But Violet’s husband’s
murderer is obsessed with her and heartbreak again haunts the door of the
Winters home. When it does Joe is forced to face the knowledge that he can’t
fight Violet’s pull, she’s under his skin and filled him full to bursting.
Joe needs to win her back and put his life on the line to keep Violet safe.
But, having had it all once, can Violet endure losing Joe?
Tanner
Layne and Raquel Merrick fell in love young, hard and fast and both of them
knew a beautiful life they thought would be forever.
Until Rocky left Layne, no explanation, no going back.
Layne escapes The ‘Burg only to come back years later because his ex-wife has
hooked herself to the town jerk and Layne needs to make sure his sons get
raised right. Layne manages to avoid Rocky but when Layne gets three bullets
drilled into him while investigating a dirty cop, he can’t do that because
Rocky stops avoiding Layne. They make a deal to work together to expose the
dirty cop but they have no idea the strength of their enduring attraction or
the sheer evil at work in The ‘Burg.
As Tanner Layne and Raquel Merrick play their game and dance around the pull
that draws them together, Layne has to discover the dark secrets buried so deep
in Rocky’s heart she doesn’t even know they’re there at the same time untangle
a sinister web of crime so abhorrent it has to be stopped... at all costs.
And to do it, Layne has to enlist everyone, including his ex-CIA mentor,
Rocky’s detective brother, the town’s unpredictable informant and Layne’s two teenage
sons all the while stopping Rocky from doing something crazy and keeping their
game secret so Layne won't get himself dead.
From the
balcony of his house, Mike Haines can see the quiet, commonplace beauty of the
Holliday farm. But what he remembers is the little sister of his high school
girlfriend, Dusty who grew up there. As a teen, Dusty had gone off the rails
but when she was a kid, she was sweet, she was funny and she had a special bond
with Mike. But after high school, she took off and Mike never saw her again.
Then tragedy strikes Dusty's family, she comes back into town and Mike thinks
she hasn't changed back to the sweet, funny girl he knew but instead continued
to be selfish and thoughtless, leaving her family alone to deal with their
mourning. So he seeks her out and confronts her in an effort to understand what
went wrong and to force her to sort herself out.
He finds out quickly he's wrong about Dusty Holliday. Very wrong. And right
after Mike discovers that, the bond they had years before snaps back into place
in ways he would never suspect.
But Mike Haines had a bad marriage then he played games of the heart for a good
woman. And lost. In order to protect himself and his kids, he's cautious, he's
careful to read the signs and he's not interested in finding a woman he has to
fix.
Then he learns what happened to Dusty and he thinks she needs to be fixed. He
swings, he misses and in this new game of hearts, for Dusty, Mike just got
strike three.
Since
his brother’s death, Benny Bianchi has been nursing his grudge against the
woman he thinks led to his brother’s downfall. He does this to bury the
feelings he has for Francesca Concetti, his brother’s girl. But when Frankie
takes a bullet while on the run with Benny’s cousin’s woman, Benny has to face
those feelings.
The problem is Frankie has decided she’s paid her penance. Penance she didn’t
deserve to pay. She’s done with Benny and the Bianchi family. She’s starting a
new life away from Chicago and her heartbreaking history.
Benny has decided differently.
But Frankie has more demons she’s battling. Demons Benny wants to help her
face. But life has landed so many hard knocks on Frankie she’s terrified of
believing in the promise of Benny Bianchi and the good life he’s offering.
Frankie’s new life leads her to The ‘Burg, where Benny has ties, and she finds
she not only hasn’t succeeded in getting away, she’s doesn’t want to.
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