Meeting a dire end after double-crossing her lover, a ruthless crime lord, the cynical, amoral, and manipulative Drea returns to life a changed woman and joins forces with the FBI to become a guardian of the defenseless and the lover of an enigmatic stranger.

"Years ago the Butcher Boy was betrayed by the Mafia, exacted his revenge, and disappeared. Justice Department official Elizabeth Waring is the only one who believed he ever existed. Now the professional killer finds his peaceful life threatened when a Mafia hit team finally catches up with him. He knows they won't stop coming, and decides to take the fight to their door. Soon Waring, now high up in the Organized Crime Division, receives a late-night...

Humiliated after being outed as a whistleblower at work, Stella Reid returns home to Sutter Creek. She's been gone long enough and is determined to mend fences... and immediately comes face-to-face with the man who broke her heart: Sheriff Ryan Rafferty. Reluctant to trust again, Stella learns that Ryan's no longer a careless bad boy when a blizzard traps them together. But as she opens herself up bit by bit, can Stella find the happily-ever-after...

"Abby Miller is determined to find her missing FBI informant father before the mafia does, but time is ticking away. Someone tried to kill her father before he disappeared--and now gunmen are on her trail. Teaming with Agent Wyatt Kane is her only chance to uncover an FBI mole--and survive the mob. But finding the truth could uncover deadly secrets ... and lead them into a dangerous trap"--Back cover.

"Seventeen years ago, Detective Inspector Ewert Grens was called to the scene of a brutal crime. A family had been murdered, and the only survivor was a five-year-old girl. She was placed in the witness protection program and the case went cold, but years later Grens is haunted by it. When he learns that the apartment where the crime occurred is now the scene of a break-in, he fears that someone is intent on silencing the only witness. He races to...

A police detective suffering from cancer makes a deal with an informant to get killed in the line of duty, so his family can receive the hefty death benefits from the department.

"Michele R. McPhee unravels the complex story behind the public facts of the Boston Marathon bombing. She examines the bombers' roots in Dagestan and Chechnya, their struggle to assimilate in America, and their growing hatred of the United States. The difficulties faced by the Tsarnaev family of Cambridge, Massachusetts, are part of the public record. Circumstances less widely known are the FBI's recruitment of the older brother, Tamerlan Tsarnaev,...

"In the latest novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling series, homicide detective Eve Dallas sifts through the wreckage of the past to find a killer. The body was left in a dumpster like so much trash, the victim a woman of no fixed address, known for offering paper flowers in return for spare change-and for keeping the cops informed of any infractions she witnessed on the street. But the notebook where she scribbled her intel on litterers and...

As the second season begins, the X-files have been shut down and Mulder and Scully are separated. Scully finds herself teaching classes at the FBI Academy, while Mulder is assigned to surveillance duty. With Agent Alex Krycek as his new partner, and the mysterious X as his new source of information, Mulder struggles to keep his search for the truth alive. But ironically it is Scully who experiences with the close encounter Mulder has longed for, taking...