Elizabeth Lowell

Former CIA agent Emma Cross and former special ops team leader MacKenzie Durand fight their growing attraction to each other as they race to locate the missing yacht "Blackbird" and its cache of lethal cargo. They've got seven days to uncover the truth . . . or a major American city will be lost.

Mandy Blythe is only scared of three things: water, boats, and planes. So she's not best pleased when her interfering boss tricks her into taking an Australian vacation in the company of the womanizing Damon Sutter, who's left a string of broken hearts across several continents. Damon just wants to explore the Great Barrier Reef and keep his association with Mandy strictly business. But the tropics are a different world, and paradise is only a heartbeat...

In 12th Century England, Lord Simon and Lady Ariane are joined in marriage to end the wars between their two peoples, but Ariane is frigid because of an earlier rape. As the two find out, marriage without love does not bring peace.

When Jay Vermillion hires art dealer Sara Medina to look at his late father's paintings, a mutually inconvenient attraction is complicated by a double murder and Sara being targeted by the killer.

Kayla Shaw, a private banker in Arizona, and Rand McCree, a haunted man who paints landscapes in the Pacific Northwest, must depend on each other as Rand stalks the killer of his twin brother while Kayla is targeted as the killer's next victim.

Protecting a river guide with ties to the art world, private information collector and reluctant bodyguard Zach Balfour realizes his charge is in more danger than previously known, a situation that pits them against the ruthless multi-million-dollar Western art circuit.

Environmental conservancy advocate Shayne and big city cop Tanner join forces to uncover the truth behind Tanner's uncle's death. When Shaye becomes a killer's target, Tanner realizes he'd give up anything to protect her -- including his life.