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Midnight in Ruby Bayou

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Mercy

Julie Garwood · 454 pages

Attorney Theo Buchanan-brother of seasoned FBI agent Nick Buchanan, the hero of HEARTBREAKER-is in New Orleans to receive an award for his work with the Department of Justice. When he becomes unexpectedly ill at the gala ceremony, a beautiful stranger rushes him to the hospital and ultimately saves his life. The woman-a brilliant surgeon named Michelle Renard-intrigues Theo, but before he can lear

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Relentless Pursuit

Kathleen Brooks · 222 pages

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Viper Game

Christine Feehan · 433 pages

GhostWalker Wyatt Fontenot, the subject of a secret military experiment that gave him special catlike abilities, returns home to the bayou and helps the mysterious Le Poivre de Cayenne protect three girls from a deadly enemy.

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Nauti Temptress

Lora Leigh · 336 pages

They were resourceful, beautiful, and intuitive -- three female FBI recruits enlisted to expose a treacherous anti-government conspiracy in a sting gone bad. They may have escaped the perils of the mission, but darkness still follows them… Abigail Foxe was the communications expert. The nightmare of her captivity still fills her with fear and shame. But now in tranquil Somerset, on the calm wat

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Cry Wolf

Tami Hoag · 531 pages

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Heart of Evil

Heather Graham · 389 pages

When a corpse is found swinging from the marble angel in her family's cemetery, heiress Ashley Donegal turns to an elite team of paranormal investigators to find the truth and must risk everything unravel family secrets with the help of Jack Mallory, a gifted New Orleans musician with a special ability.

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Die For Me

Cynthia Eden · 358 pages

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Sting

Sandra Brown · 416 pages

Shaw Kinnard's dangerous vibe makes men wary and women sit up and take notice - Jordie Bennit included. It's an unlikely meeting. She doesn't belong in a seedy dive on the banks of a bayou, but here she is ... and Shaw is there to kill her. Jordie's certain her time is up, but instead Shaw abducts her, hoping to get his hands on the thirty million dollars her brother has stolen. However, he's not

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Freefall

JoAnn Ross · 400 pages

Emotionally and physically wounded ex-SEAL Zachariah Tremayne has returned to his South Carolina home determined to shut out the world. Then he meets Sabrina Swann, who has also made a private journey home to put the tattered pieces of her own life back together. But as the two of them learn to love and trust again, a killer is lurking in the shadows, threatening to destroy everything they have fo

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Hot Blooded

Lisa Jackson · 463 pages

First One Dead Body... A prostitute lies strangled in a seedy French Quarter hotel room. Miles away, in a rambling plantation house on the sultry shores of Lake Ponchartrain, popular late-night radio host Dr. Samantha Leeds receives a threatening crank call. All in a day's work for a celebrity. Who would think to link the two? Then Another... A second hooker's corpse turns up. Samantha's ominous c

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Scream for Me

Karen Rose · 448 pages

For her exciting debut in hardcover, New York Times bestselling author Karen Rose delivers a heart-stopping suspense novel that picks up where DIE FOR ME left off, with a detective determined to track down a brutal murderer.Special Agent Daniel Vartanian has sworn to find the perpetrator of multiple killings that mimic a 13-year-old murder linked to a collection of photographs that belonged to his

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Midnight Secrets

Ella Grace · 440 pages

"On a hot southern night, with a storm on the horizon, a family is shattered. Three beautiful daughters--Savannah, Samantha, and Sabrina Wilde--go on with their lives, each significantly changed, as they bear the memory of the murder-suicide that killed their parents. For years, they have stayed away from Midnight, Alabama. Until Midnight calls them home. Savannah is the first one back, when a gru

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Next of Kin

Sharon Sala · 330 pages

Hiding out in the Appalachian Mountains of Kentucky, Beth Venable, a witness to a major mob hit who even the FBI can't protect, dreams of a new life with Ryal Walker, the man she's always wanted, but must survive her old one first.

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Touch & Geaux

Abigail Roux · 288 pages

After having their faces plastered across the news during a high-profile case, FBI Special Agents Ty Grady and Zane Garrett have become more useful to the Bureau posing for photo ops than working undercover. Just as Zane is beginning to consider retirement a viable option, Ty receives a distress call from a friend, leading them to a city rife with echoes from the past. New Orleans wears its his

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Phantom in the Night

Sherrilyn Kenyon, Dianna Love · 404 pages

As she consults with the New Orleans Police Department to bust an organized crime ring suspected of funding terrorism, a gutsy female agent from the Bureau of American Defense encounters an elusive killer who isn't at all what he seems.

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Shadows of the Past

Patricia Bradley · 352 pages

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Divorced, Desperate and Delicious

Christie Craig · 325 pages

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Forever Blue

Suzanne Brockmann · 316 pages

SHOULD SHE BELIEVE HER HEART... "For Lucy Tait, no one personified the word hero as much as Blue McCoy. As a child, he was her self-appointed rescuer, and as a teenager, he was the boy who hot away. Now he was back. But he was also a suspect in an unthinkable crime. . . and Lucy was the investigating officer." ...OR HER HEAD? "All evidence pointed to Blue McCoy as the prime suspect, and

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Dead By Midnight

Beverly Barton · 444 pages

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

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Watch Me

Brenda Novak · 440 pages

Someone tried to kill her twelve years agoTeenagers Sheridan Kohl and Jason Wyatt were parked at the lake in Whiterock, Tennessee, when a stranger wearing a ski mask shot them both. Sheridan lived but Jason died--and the stranger was never caught. Even though Sheridan's family moved away right afterward, she's never been able to put the crime behind her.And now that someone doesn't want her to com

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Carnal Innocence

Nora Roberts · 512 pages

In the small town of Innocence, Mississippi, days are long, nights are fragrant, and secrets are hard to keep. But when a brutal killer starts claiming the lives of the town's most attractive women, lifelong neighbors are forced to wonder if the culprit is a stranger lurking in the bayou. Or someone right next door. Burned out by a whirlwind career, world famous concert violinist Caroline Waver

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Counter To My Intelligence

Lani Lynn Vale · 344 pages

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Dead and Gone

Charlaine Harris · 320 pages

Now an HBO original series, True Bloodthe New York Times bestselling Sookie Stackhouse series continues.Except for Sookie Stackhouse, folks in Bon Temps, Louisiana, know little about vampsand nothing about weres.Until now. The weres and shifters have finally decided to reveal their existence to the ordinary world. At first all goes well. Then the mutilated body of a were-panther is found near the

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Kade's Dark Embrace

Kym Grosso · 286 pages

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