Beverly Barton

In the ten years since her Hollywood career imploded, Lorie Hammonds has built a good life in her Alabama hometown. When the first death threat arrives, she assumes it's a joke. Then she gets a second note. Sheriff Mike Birkett, her high-school sweetheart, has avoided Lorie since she returned to Dunmore, but when investigators uncover her connection to a string of recent murders, he's drawn into a case that's terrifyingly personal.

"Close enough to touch... He's their secret admirer, wooing them with phone calls, love letters, and special gifts. From a distance, he admires them. Desires them. Despises them. And when he gets close enough, he kills them all. Close enough to kiss... Adams County, Alabama, is a small, friendly place where everyone knows each other - but not well enough, it seems, because Sheriff Bernie Granger has a serial killer on his hands, a total psycho who...

"Cherokee Pointe, Tennessee. Deep in the Smoky Mountains, the victim lies, sacrificed on a makeshift altar--the gruesome work of a killer who has evaded the authorities in state after state. FBI agent Dallas Sloan knows the scene all too well--just as he knows the killings won't stop until there are four more bodies... Genny Madoc's 'sixth sense' has brought many of Cherokee Pointe's residents to her isolated log cabin, looking for help. But now it's...

"To most people, men like Mark Cantrell are fine, upstanding pillars of the community, completely beyond reproach. But their killer knows better. They are sinners of the worst kind, and they must burn on earth before they burn in hell ... Eighteen months after her husband's unsolved murder, Cathy Cantrell has returned to her Alabama home, eager to build a new life for herself and her son. But pieces of her past are everywhere--including Jackson Perdue,...

Lucie Evans wants a fresh start, and the chance to show ex-boss Sawyer McNamara that she no longer craves absolution for a crime she didn't commit. So when she's offered a trip to South America as the personal bodyguard to a billionaire heiress, Lucie jumps at the prospect. But then she's kidnapped in a case of mistaken identity, and her only hope of survival rests with the one man she never wanted to see again.

As a serial killer with a penchant for redheads terrorizes the town of Cherokee Pointe, Tennessee, socialite Reve Sorrell searches for the truth surrounding her family history with the help of Sheriff Jacob Butler, but sometimes the past is better left alone.

TRUSTING HER...
They all loved her. That was their mistake. Two husbands, her college fiancé, an influential boss—every man who gets close to Jordan Price is made to pay in blood. And the list is growing...

COULD BE...
Hired by the Powell Agency to investigate Senator Dan Price's death, Rick Carson can see at once why people would believe Jordan Price incapable of cold-blooded murder. Slender,...

"Mary Beth Caine has always been the good girl in her small Mississippi town. But when a big, protective, shamelessly sexy stranger offers to console her on the night of her disastrous engagement party. Mary Beth lets him--only to discover that Parr Weston also happens to be the older brother of her fiancé, Bobby Joe. Parr left Mississippi after years spent holding his family together. Now that he's back, he can't steal Bobby Joe's woman, and he...

In the courtroom, defense lawyer Quinn Cortez has a reputation as a ruthless predator who always gets what he wants. In the bedroom, it's no different. Quinn is an accomplished seducer with a long list of conquests. But now, someone has brutally slaughtered one of them, and Quinn has no memory of the night he was found in her home. Annabelle Vanderley wants justice for her murdered cousin, and if Quinn Cortez swears he can find the true killer, she's...

Jolie would never forget that day ... but could never recall the killer's face. Now she is coming home with mixed feelings about her father's funeral. Soon those feelings turn into dread when the investigation into the triple murder is reopened ... and it becomes clear that a killer is still on the loose ...