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Late one night a man walks into the luxurious home of disgraced banker Harry McNamara and his wife, Julie. The man launches an unspeakably brutal attack on Harry as a horror-struck Julie watches, frozen by fear. Just an hour later the attacker, JP Carney, has handed himself in to the police. He confesses to beating Harry to death, but JP claims that the assault was not premeditated and that he didn't know the identity of his victim.

I should never have gone to her house. But I was desperate to ask her some questions about that night. About what she saw when Joe fell from the bridge. All I wanted was some honesty, for someone else to have seen what I saw. I never meant to hurt her. To push her. As she lay at the bottom of the stairs, blood pooling around her head, I knew it was the end for me too. I kept expecting the knock on the door, the police, the handcuffs. But it never came. On the news, they are reporting someone has come forward and confessed to her murder. But that can't be true. Because her killer is me.

FBI Agent Rachel Gift's struggle with her mortality becomes all too literal when she investigates murders disguised with high-tech "suicide booths." She must decrypt the mind of a killer who has transformed mercy into mayhem–before they strike again with their homemade harbinger of death.

Lady Grace’s bargain with the devil guaranteed the life of the man she will always love, but the price was giving him up forever. Now Matthew has returned to England, and she finds it impossible to let him go. Freed from a hellish prison on the Continent, Matthew Stanford, Marquess of Harrington, retreats to his country manor. His days obsessed with thoughts of exacting revenge upon the man responsible for his captivity.

The case from last month is still far from over for private investigator Serena “Rena” Manchester. Not just because she found herself in yet another life threatening situation, but because the fall-out still has not been dealt with by the authorities. Determined to see justice to the end, Rena steps up her investigation along with her young attractive associate.

Allie Quick has high aspirations - much higher than reporting on the latest celebrity gossip for the L.A. Informer, Hollywood's most notorious tabloid. But if she's going to join the ranks of the real reporters, she's going to need a headline-worthy story under her belt. Which is just what she gets when the producer of the trashiest reality shows on TV winds up murdered and Allie convinces her editor, Felix Dunn, that this story has her name written all over it.

After facing murder charges, Detective Andre Brown is now a fugitive on the run. He does everything it takes to survive and go unnoticed. With one goal in mind, he comes face to face with several life-or-death decisions.

Bailey inherited her grandfather’s business, Maid For You, but cleaning up crime scenes wasn’t part of the job description. After nearly getting killed by the Westmeister brothers, she made a promise to herself that she’d get ‘back’ into church. Thankfully, her company has a new account… cleaning a church. It wasn’t exactly how she planned to get back into church, nor did she plan on getting involved in a murder investigation.