Linda Howard

Lizette Henry, possessing unusual detection skills but struggling with a memory disorder, accepts help from the mysterious and seductive Xavier--a stranger who triggers disturbing images of an unspeakable crime of which Lizette may or may not be the perpetrator.

"Jaclyn Wilde is a wedding planner who loves her job -- usually. But helping Carrie Edwards with her Big Day has been an unrelenting nightmare. Carrie is a bridezilla of mythic nastiness, a diva whose tantrums are just about as crazy as her demands. But the unpleasant task at hand turns serously criminal when Carrie is brutally murdered and everyone involved with the ceremony is accusing one another of doing the deed." -- Dust jacket.

"Sela Gordon, the shy owner of a Tennessee general store, finds safety in solitude. But if anyone can pierce her protective shell it's the handsome, mysterious ex-military man living alone in the wilds of Cove Mountain. For two years, he's kept his distance--until the day he appears to warn her that a catastrophic solar storm capable of taking down the power grid is coming. Now, Sela must find the courage to become the leader Wears Valley needs. Bitter...

In a remote rural town, young widow Cate Nightingale runs a charming bed-and-breakfast. Business is quiet, but she makes ends meet with the help of the local jack-of- all-trades, Calvin Harris. Then one morning, the B and B's only guest vanishes. When armed men storm the house a few days later, Calvin saves the day, forcing the intruders to scatter into the surrounding woods. The nightmare, however, is just beginning. With the entire town held hostage...

Blair Mallory has already survived one murder attempt. Now, while planning her wedding and dealing with holiday-season madness, Blair once again dodges a bullet. Or, more precisely, a Buick. And though the driver's identity remains a mystery, his or her murderous intentions seemed all too clear to Blair. But Wyatt Bloodsworth, Blair's police detective groom-to-be, believes it was only an accident. When she cheats death a second time in another seemingly...

Daisy Minor is bored. Worse than that, she's boring. A plain, small-town librarian, she's got a wardrobe as sexy as a dictionary and hasn't been on a date in years. She's never even had a lukewarm love affair, let alone a hot one. So when she wakes up on her thirty-fourth birthday and wonders how it is that she still lives with her widowed mom and spinster aunt while her friends have all gotten married and started families, she decides it's time to...

"After a hiking accident, Blake Remington is paralysed by a back injury and begins to lose faith in himself. Slowly, but surely, Dione Kelley's therapy helps him rebuild all that the accident took from him, giving him back the strength he needs to be a man. But is she robbing him of the chance to see her as a woman in the process? She might have fallen for Blake, but how can Dione be sure his words of love are genuine, and aren't just spoken out of...

Gabriel McQueen reluctantly agrees to a request from his father, the local sheriff, to check up on Lolly Helton, a distant neighbor, as a dangerous ice storm moves into the area, and discovers Lolly being held captive in her home by armed men.