THE WHISPER
July 2009 | MIRA Books hardcover | ISBN-13: 978-0-7783-2851-3 | ****
It was meant to be an adventure—a night alone on a remote Irish island. Archaeologist Sophie Malone never expected to find Celtic treasure or to end up in a fight for her life in a dark, desolate cave. Now, a year later, she's convinced answers to the mysteries of that night lie in Boston. Is the recent violence there connected to her night of terror? Who has the priceless gold artifacts that disappeared from the cave…and who is responsible for the whispers she heard in the dark? Learn more..
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THE MIST
April 2010 | MIRA Books mass market| ISBN-13: 978-0-7783-2773-8 | ****
July 2009 | MIRA Books hardcover | ISBN-13: 978-0-7783-2624-3 | ****
When Lizzie Rush uncovers evidence that thrill-seeking billionaire Norman Estabrook may be at the center of an international criminal network, she finds herself playing a dangerous game of cat and mouse. Raised in the elite world of her hotelier family, educated in reality by her spy father, Lizzie is the perfect choice to slowly amass information that will take down Estabrook. But no good deed goes unpunished. Learn more..
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ON FIRE
February 2010 re-issue | MIRA Books
Oceanographer Riley St. Joe and FBI Special Agent John Straker are total opposites from different worlds, but they have something in common: a determination to expose a murderer and save the life of Riley's famous grandfather…and a passion she and John Straker are finding harder and harder to ignore.
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COLD RIVER
December 2009 | MIRA Books mass market| ISBN-13: 978-0-7783-2655-7 | ****
Hannah Shay has finally shown the town of Black Falls what she's worth. Her Three Sisters Café is a success, and she's soon to become a prosecutor. When the café becomes an epicenter for investigators trying to pierce a violent crime ring that's leaving bloody trails on nearby Cameron Mountain, Hannah suspects a man from her past is involved. Learn more..
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THE ANGEL
June 2009 | Mass Market Paperback | ISBN-13: 978-0-7783-2608-3 | ****
May 2008 | MIRA Books - hardcover| ISBN-13: 978-0-7783-2483-6 | ****
Her passion for myth and magic leads a woman into the heart of a murderous evil. On a remote stretch of the rugged coast of Ireland, folklorist and illustrator Keira Sullivan pursues the mysterious Irish legend of an ancient Celtic stone angel. As she searches an isolated ruin, she's certain she's discovered the mythic angel, but before she can examine her find, she senses a malevolent presence…. Is someone in there with her? Then the ruin collapses, trapping her. Learn more..
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BETRAYALS
March 2009 re-issue| MIRA Books | ISBN-13:978-0-7783-2623-6
Rebecca Blackburn caught a glimpse of the famed Jupiter Stones as a small child. Unaware of their significance, she forgot about them—until she discovers the priceless, long-missing gems are the key to a deadly chain of events spanning thirty years and three continents sparing no one. Learn more...
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MORE THAN WORDS: Stories Of Strength
March 2009 re-issue| MIRA Books | ISBN-13:978-0-373-83668-0
They're your neighbors, your aunts, your sisters and your best friends. They're women across North America committed to changing and enriching lives, one good deed at a time. Three of these exceptional women have been selected as recipients of Harlequin's More Than Words award. And three New York Times bestselling authors—Carla Neggers, Karen Harper, Susan Mallery—have kindly offered their creativity to write original short stories inspired by these real-life heroines.
We hope these stories inspired by strong, courageous women will touch your heart and motivate the heroine living inside you. Learn more...
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COLD PURSUIT
November 2008 | MIRA Books | ISBN-13:978-0-7783-2553-6 | ***
Back in her hometown of Black Falls, Vermont, Secret Service Agent Jo Harper is drawn into a search for a missing teenager. With his military training and mountain rescue experience, no one knows the unforgiving terrain better than Elijah Cameron. But he and Jo have been at odds forever—and Elijah believes the missing teenager isn’t just lost…she’s on the run. Learn more...
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TEMPTING FATE
Updated and reissued 2008 | MIRA Books
New York Times bestselling author Carla Neggers brings readers to a world of flamboyance, wealth and family feuds, where a mystery of the past is about to resurface. Original mass market paperback published by Berkley Books in 1993. Learn more . . .
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THE ANGEL
May 2008 | MIRA Books - hardcover| ISBN-13: 978-0-7783-2483-6 | ****
Her passion for myth and magic leads a woman into the heart of a murderous evil. On a remote stretch of the rugged coast of Ireland, folklorist and illustrator Keira Sullivan pursues the mysterious Irish legend of an ancient Celtic stone angel. As she searches an isolated ruin, she's certain she's discovered the mythic angel, but before she can examine her find, she senses a malevolent presence…. Is someone in there with her? Then the ruin collapses, trapping her. Learn more..
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ABANDON
June 2007 | MIRA Books | **
On what is supposed to be a quiet long weekend in New Hampshire, Deputy U.S. Marshal Mackenzie Stewart is viciously attacked at the lakefront cottage of her friend, federal judge Bernadette Peacham. Mac fends off her attacker, but he manages to escape. Everything suggests he's a deranged drifter—until FBI special agent Andrew Rook arrives. Learn more . . .
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The WIDOW
Hardcover, 2006; first-time paperback, 2007| MIRA Books | ****
Seven years after Boston homicide detective Abigail Browning's FBI Special Agent husband, Chris, was shot dead on their honeymoon on Mt. Desert, Maine, 32-year-old Abigail returns to the resort island to try to find Chris's killer so she can move on with her life.
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CUT and RUN
reissue 2007; original mass market 1989 | MIRA Books
The largest uncut diamond in the world, the Minstrel's Rough, is little more than legend. Brought into the Pepperkamp family in 1548, it has been handed down to one keeper in each generation. Juliana Fall has inherited its splendor from her uncle—and, unwittingly, its legacy of danger. Learn more...
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BREAKWATER
February 2006 | MIRA Books | **
An expert in international criminal networks, Quinn Harlowe, gets mixed up in an investigation into violent vigilantes after a friend of hers comes to her for help and ends up dead. Quinn is determined to find out what happened...even if it means going up against Huck "Boone" McCabe, an undercover federal agent. Learn more...
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DARK SKY
August 2005 | MIRA Books | **
U. S. Marshal Juliet Longstreet and Special Forces officer Ethan Brooker team up to stop a ruthless killer and the trail takes them into the heart of a dangerous web of international intrigue, greed, deceit—and murder.
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The RAPIDS
December 2004 | MIRA Books | **
Federal agents Maggie Spencer and Rob Dunnemore find there's no time to celebrate after the arrest of a major international fugitive—another killer is on the loose. Maggie follows a questionable lead to upstate New York, but Rob's on her tail. Now she has no choice but to trust him. Because a trap has been set and they have both walked right into it.
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NIGHT'S LANDING
May 2004 | MIRA Books | **
Archaeologist Sarah Dunnemore and Deputy US Marshal Nate Winter will let nothing—not their growing attraction for each other, not the mounting danger they face—stand in the way of the truth. But in a place filled with betrayal, greed and long held secrets, truth is guarded with a deadly vengeance…
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COLD RIDGE
August 2003 | MIRA Books | **
Carine Winters is an awardwinning photographer whose one mistake was to fall for Tyler North, a pararescuer to whom she was briefly engaged. When she lands herself in the middle of a murder investigation, Tyler comes back into her life, and the two are exposed to a danger and evil the likes of which neither has ever known.
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ON THE EDGE
July 2003 | MIRA Books | **
Heather Graham…Carla Neggers…Sharon Sala…These masters of romantic suspense deliver three dangerously addictive new stories that will keep you…On the Edge…
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The HARBOR
January 2003 | MIRA Books | *
Shattered by her father's murder, Zoe West abandoned her plans to become an FBI agent and left her hometown of Goose Harbor, Maine. But a new home and job did nothing to get her life back on track, and now Zoe knows only one thing will returning to Goose Harbor and confronting the past.
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STONEBROOK COTTAGE
August 2002 | MIRA Books | *
The governor of Connecticut is dead. The new governor's children are in danger and hiding something. Their godmother, Austin defense attorney Kara Galway, is determined to keep them safe...even if it means going up against Sam Temple, the Texas Ranger she's fallen head over heels in love with.
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The CABIN
February 2002 | MIRA Books | *
Packing up her twin daughters and her grandmother, Susanna Galway heads to a cabin in the Adirondacks, trying to escape her fears, her secrets…and maybe even the man she loves, her estranged husband, Texas Ranger Jack Galway. Jack just wants his family back, but little does he realize they are being followed by a killer...someone who will do anything to keep a Texas murder from ever being solved.
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The CARRIAGE HOUSE
2001 | MIRA Books | *
When Tess Haviland discovers a human skeleton in the dirt cellar of her nineteenth century carriage house, she begins to ask questions. Questions a desperate killer wants to silence before the truth reveals that someone got away with murder. Andrew Thorne, her architect neighbor, has his own ideas about why Tess has turned up next door…and he intends to get answers of his own.
Learn more . . .
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THE WATERFALL
2000 | MIRA Books
A string of unexplained events threatens the new life widow Lucy Blacker Swift has built for herself and her two children in a Vermont farmhouse. She reluctantly turns to international security expert Sebastian Redwing, a friend of her late husband's, for help. Sebastian knows he has no choice to help this woman he's been half in love with since her wedding day, and he becomes drawn with Lucy into a dangerous tangle of blackmail, vengeance and betrayal.
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KISS THE MOON
1998 | MIRA Books
Restless and grounded from flying, Penelope Chestnut discovers a tantalizing clue to a 50-year-old mystery and gets more than she bargained for. Her discovery brings Wyatt Sinclair to the small town of Cold Spring, New Hampshire but the truth is more complicated and deadly than either Wyatt or Penelope ever imagined.
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CLAIM THE CROWN
Reissue 1997; original mass market 1987 | MIRA Books
A suspenseful story of romance and intrigue focuses on a brother and sister who suddenly inherit a family fortune from an unknown benefactor . . . and uncover a past they didn't know existed.
WHITE HOT
1998 | Pocket Books
A dazzling romantic tale of fiery attraction and searing intrigue set in the exotic location of Florida's Gold Coast.
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NIGHT SCENTS
1997 | Pocket Books
Piper Macintosh has indulged her eccentric great-aunt for as long as she can remember. But now 87-year-old Hannah—who fancies herself a witch—has gone too far. She's sold her historic Cape Cod house to a Tennessean—and claims he's the man for her niece.
JUST BEFORE SUNRISE
1997 | Pocket Books
Annie Payne really took the plunge when she moved to San Francisco and opened her own art gallery. But she has no idea what she's getting into when she accepts a secret commission to bid for a painting going on the auction block. She gets the painting but then finds herself caught up in a crazy swirl of events—and the haunting reminder of a 5-year-old murder and a killer who was never caught.
A RARE CHANCE
1996 | Pocket Books
Something nasty is going on in Boston. And something explosive is hovering on the horizon as well: the wild fireworks of two intense opposites falling in love...
FINDING YOU
1996 | Pocket Books
She's a salty New Englander. He's an oil-rich Texan. The ware between the states is about to start . . .
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