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How strong is a mother’s love?

When Pat Tierney’s daughter, Tracy, asks her to help find Tracy’s partner, Jamie Collins, their mother-daughter relationship is stretched to the limits. Pat heads out to cottage country where an elderly man, who killed Jamie’s sister in an impaired driving accident ten years ago, has perished in a suspicious fire. Unfortunately, Jamie is the prime suspect.

Pat takes charge at the new branch her investment firm has opened in the seemingly idyllic community where Jamie grew up, and her search for Tracy’s missing sweetheart takes her through a maze of fraud, drugs, bikers and murder.

Once again, Pat proves that family can always count on her.

Editorial Reviews:

“Here’s McCracken back with her second Pat Tierney novel, writing again with wonderful pace and invention.” —Toronto Star

“Rosemary McCracken is a master when it comes to showing ordinary people embroiled in extraordinary circumstances. From page one, Black Water draws the reader deeper and deeper into what at first seems a missing-person case but–step by step–eventually becomes a gripping tale of kidnapping, fraud and the violent settling of old scores. Pat Tierney, financial advisor, widow and mother faces off against bikers, drug doyennes and a crazed killer in this fast-paced engrossing mystery. It’s a fast read with a beautifully complicated plot and great action near the twisty ending!” —Rosemary Aubert, author of the Ellis Portal mystery series

His Betrayal. Her Denial. Their Fight for Survival. For Owen and Rayanne Meeks, what was meant to be a weekend trip to repair their marriage turns into a deadly race for their lives. He took something that didn’t belong to them. Now, the owner wants it back… by any means necessary. Rayanne takes her wounded husband deep within the Florida marshes to hide. With time running out, it’s up to her to protect the man she only thought she knew. But what happens when she finds what he stole, and can’t bring herself to return it either?

Here is the story of David as you have never heard it before: from the king himself, telling the unofficial version, the one he never allowed his court scribes to recount. In his mind, history is written to praise the victorious—but at the last stretch of his illustrious life, he feels an irresistible urge to tell the truth. Rooted in ancient lore, his is a surprisingly modern memoir. In an era of cruelty, when destroying the enemy is deemed a sacred directive, the slayer of Goliath finds a way to become larger than life. His search for a path to power leads him in ways that are, at times, scandalous. Notorious for his contradictions, David is seen by others as a gifted court entertainer, a successful captain in Saul’s army, a cunning fugitive, a traitor leading a gang of felons, and a ruthless raider of neighboring towns who leaves no witnesses behind. But how does he see himself, during this first phase of his life?

Mars Cannon just wanted to get her job done, her boss off her back, and her feisty, trouble-making eighty-year-old neighbor to stop shooting at people with her paintball gun. Unfortunately, life is never that cooperative. Adding to the madness is her best friend’s wedding, making Mars feel like she has crawled her way through a marathon. Mars has had her eye on Evan West for several years. She knows he’s only out for one thing, and Mars doesn’t want to ruin their friendship for one night of heaven. Evan, a known flirt, has tried many times to get close to Mars, but she always slips through his fingers. When he finally decides to get serious, a mysterious man shows up and sweeps Mars from his grasp.

With a new wife and a new career as the co-owner of the private security firm Phantom Force Tactical, veteran U.S. Navy SEAL Blake Madison thinks he had it all. But when his wife disappears from their bed while he’s taking a morning jog, Blake has to figure out if it’s someone from her past as an investigative journalist—or his as a combat veteran and detective. Blake and his partner Nick “Colt” Colten assemble a team of the nation’s top warriors to take on the job of solving the crime. Will Phantom Force prove their worth and save her life? Or will Blake lose both his private security company and the woman he loves to an unscrupulous rival bent on revenge?

One simple mistake… For a girl who is about to lose her family home, Releases the ghost of a long-dead gangster, And opens Verity Long’s eyes to a whole new world. When out of work graphic designer Verity Long accidentally traps a ghost on her property, she’s saddled with more than a supernatural sidekick—she gains the ability see spirits. It leads to an offer she can’t refuse from the town’s bad boy, the brother of her ex and the last man she should ever partner with.

In this action-packed novel you will meet the brilliant, highly educated American version of Sweeney Todd, who became the most horrific serial killer ever known. The demons rising within him threaten to undermine decades of exhausting work that liberated him from desperate poverty and positioned him to be an excellent surgeon before he turned killer.

Eliot Ness kept the identity of his most horrifying suspect secret for almost four decades until Marilyn J. Bardsley discovered the name. These are her fictional portrayal of the killer’s thoughts and actions, based on interviews with his friends and relatives, the detectives who investigated him, and people close to Eliot Ness.