Böcker av Carolyn Laroche

A lost love. A second chance. A detective determined to protect the woman he loves.After adoption worker Ava Taft stumbles upon an abandoned baby that may have ties to her past, she finds herself with a target on her back-and only one person she can trust, despite his long-time anger at her. For ten years, Detective Hudson Pierce let guilt push away the only woman he'd ever loved after the loss of his sister. When Ava shows up with a baby, a cryptic note hinting his sister may be alive, and two men trying to kill her, he has no choice but to put aside all the blame. Can Hudson take them into his protection and put their past aside long enough to find out the truth about his sister, the baby, and the killers after Ava.. . before those killers silence them all for good?

She trusts him with her life, but can she trust him with her heart?Emma Thomas hasn't been home in years. Only back in Staunton for a few months, she plans to put her investigative reporter skills to use in exposing the trafficking group using her peaceful, idyllic hometown to move drugs. But when she stumbles onto more than drugs, bullets start flying and she has to ask the one person she left Virginia to avoid for help. Detective Adam Marshall has been working this cartel case for months. On the precipice of breaking the organization wide open, he can't believe the one woman he'd never been able to get over now holds the key to closing his case. His head warns him to steer clear, but his heart won't let him walk away when Emma's life is on the line. Thrown together by chance after so many years, Adam and Emma work together to break the biggest case of both of their careers and heal some old wounds in the process. Falling in love wasn't on the docket for either of them, but things don't always go as planned.

Every woman has secrets, and Cyndi Mills is no exception...Cyndi has a beautiful daughter, and her husband Jason is totally hot for her, but something is missing. As a cop, Jason is extremely vigilant about safety and security, and Cyndi longs for some time to herself, so she takes a Friday night job. Jason thinks she''s cleaning offices, when she''s actually dancing in a red bustier and six-inch stilettos at a club called Sugar Shakers, something only her three best friends, also police wives, know.When club employees start disappearing, the truth comes out...A young runaway, Jade, and a military widow, Lola, vanish, and Lola''s body is later found in the ocean. Cyndi begins investigating-with some help from her friends-but when anonymous threats put her daughter in jeopardy, she has no choice but to confess her lie to Jason, rocking their previously solid marriage.Jason is furious, but Cyndi has to ask for even more if she hopes to solve the mystery...Cyndi convinces Jason to sign her up as a confidential informant, and she officially goes undercover at the club, while Jason struggles to control his jealousy. As the evidence mounts and the danger becomes all too real, Jason fights to keep Cyndi safe. But no amount of security can protect someone when lies are more common than the truth and no one is who they appear to be.