Baby Thrillers

On a day when Casey Stone, a New York City private investigator, was worrying about his unpaid bar tab at Pat's Bar and Grill, a long-legged, blonde beauty named Rosemary Kelly walked into his office and handed him $2,000 to find the baby girl she gave up for adoption 16 years ago. Apparently the child's father, who abandoned Rosemary when he found out she was pregnant, felt remorse for his actions and secretly established a trust fund for their child, which now exceeded one million dollars. The trust was activated when he died recently.

It was enough to make her tremble… but whether it was from desire or rage, she wasn’t sure… Ethan Billionaire Ethan White was only in Colorado to support a friend. Without his help, Mia’s fundraiser for the kids could pull in less money. There was no way that he wanted to run into an old flame. Not at all. Well, maybe just a little… Laura Laura Corbett hated a certain billionaire with every fiber of her being. She thought he crushed her heart on purpose. So when he showed up at the same charity fundraiser that she was working, she thought it was the worst thing that could happen ...

Der dritte Fall für Rizzoli & Isles! In einem Kloster nahe Boston ist die Novizin Camille Maginnes brutal erschlagen worden. Bei der Autopsie findet die Pathologin Maura Isles heraus, dass die junge Frau kurze Zeit vor ihrem Tod entbunden haben muss - doch von dem Kind fehlt jede Spur. Dann wird eine zweite Frauenleiche gefunden, bei der Maura Anzeichen für eine frühere Lepra-Erkrankung feststellt. Detective Jane Rizzoli und Maura Isles vermuten eine Verbindung der beiden Fälle. Und die Entdeckung eines grausamen Geheimnisses gibt ihnen auf schreckliche Weise Recht.

Rossalyn Channing's savory new bacon-heavy business in the small town of Chatsworth, Illinois, is booming. She and her teenage son Ryan are settling in quite well to their new home, until a mysterious death turns their world upside down. One of Rossie's favorite television shows comes to town wanting to film nearby. She directs them to a place that she knows, and is dismayed when her location turns out to be tragic.

I’m hell-bent on claiming Brynn… even if it goes against “doctor’s orders”. Being stuck in a hospital bed for seven days is not how I wanted to spend time here in my hometown in Texas. But, that bucking bronco at the rodeo had other plans for me. Bruised tailbone, banged-up ribs, and a cracked tibia. Sadly, my rodeo days might be over. One thing that’s brightening my bedridden days here is Nurse Brynn. Her warm smile, caring touch and killer curves under that uniform are driving me wild. And she’s sneaking me sodas behind her boss’s back. Score! With every massage from her, ...

Melody Hennessy is a very happy woman. She’s married to the town sheriff, about to give birth to her first child, and a successful pastry chef with a penchant for solving murders with her French Bulldog, Smudge. There is only one problem... she’s bored! Melody is on maternity leave from her bakery to rest before the baby comes, but she quickly realizes that she isn’t good at taking it easy. When Melody’s neighbor is murdered, and a good friend is arrested, she and Smudge can’t resist hunting down the real culprit.

Eleanor Gesualdi was a friend, that’s all. At least that’s what Larry Kent kept telling himself. But when he received a long-distance call from Eleanor, and learned that someone was trying to kill her, he realized his feelings went a whole lot deeper than that. Then Eleanor just vanished...and Larry spared no effort in trying to find her...or what had become of her. The trail led to a husband with a secret, a Mob connection, a hard-nosed cop who became a faithful ally...and one violent death after another...

She has no memory... how can a prince be her husband? And why is someone trying to kill her? Amnesia victim Kim wakes from a coma to shocking news: she married a prince from her family’s homeland and, for a million dollars, promised to bear his baby. Now someone is trying to kill her. And that someone might be very, very close by. If only Prince Jacques weren’t such a tempting protector... and if only Kim could identify the assassin. But the previous attack left her unable to remember why she agreed to this deal, where she stashed the money, and, above all, who wants her dead. Don’t ...

When his girlfriend throws him out during the pandemic, Bambi has to go to his uncle's house in lockdown Lagos. He arrives during a blackout, and is surprised to find Aunty Bidemi sitting in a candlelit room with another woman. They both claim to be the mother of the baby boy, fast asleep in his crib. At night Bambi is kept awake by the baby's cries, and during the days, he is disturbed by a cockerel that stalks the garden. There is sand in the rice. A blood stain appears on the wall. Someone scores tribal markings into the baby's cheeks. Who is lying, and who is telling the truth?

A patient’s husband is dead, their surrogate mom is furious, and Dr. Darcy has a murder to solve! Was photographer Wes Choate killed because he was cheating on his wife, or was he blackmailing someone? After stumbling across the dead man’s body, the small-town doctor is determined to discover the killer and protect the widow, her surrogate, and their baby-to-be. Teaming with a quirky private investigator, Dr Darcy butts heads with his close friend, a homicide investigator. Climactic twists will keep you enthralled all the way to the shocking truth. USA Today bestselling novelist ...

The police show up to the Perkin's residents to find everything in disarray. The woman is in the ambulance with oxygen on her face. Capt. hears from Stuart the rest of the police are surrounding the man upstairs. The large dark-haired man is rocking, clutching a pink stuffed unicorn.

This is the story of Catherine Hilton, a mother struggling with substance addiction and domestic violence at the hands of her boyfriend, Victor Sinclair. When Catherine’s home is investigated, Child Protective Services (CPS) intervenes, Victor is sent to prison, and she loses her children to the foster care system.

For almost 50 years, Katie has kept a box of secrets. It dates from her time working as a nurse in a west of Ireland mother and baby home, and contains a notebook with details of the babies and young women she met there. It also holds many of the babies' identity bracelets. Following the death of her husband, Katie makes a decision she has long kept at bay. She posts a message on an internet forum, knowing that the information she possesses could help reunite adopted people with their birth mothers.

FBI profiler Yoko Tanaka is in Florida helping the local PD with their "Sandman" case. Three mothers and their daughters have been found murdered in their homes, the mothers brutally stabbed while the little girls have been smothered, posed to look like they're sleeping.

Defying protocol, Yoko makes a detour to entice Jefferson Winter to join the case. All Yoko knows is that he's the only person who can help her before the Sandman claims another two victims....

寒冬来临，大雪纷飞，又是到了滑雪的季节。聪明吴、香蕉熊、小机灵和水桶妹四人，在聪明吴的爸爸吴功辰的带领下，来到长白山滑雪……寒冬來臨，大雪紛飛，又是到了滑雪的季節。聰明吳、香蕉熊、小機靈和水桶妹四人，在聰明吳的爸爸吳功辰的帶領下，來到長白山滑雪……

Vampire fashion designer Nina LaShay has a lot on her plate - just two days until fashion week and the model who was flirting with her photographer boyfriend is now a corpse in her studio. But when dead turns into undead and dangerous, Nina must find out who's responsible...before the beautiful baby vamp takes too many bites out of the Big Apple.

Whose past has come back to haunt them?Rebekah McCauley is back home after ten long years of living and working in New York City. She left the Big Apple under circumstances she’d rather not share with her family—not yet, anyway—and wants is time to heal and recover from the mess she’d made of her life. Luckily, her grandparents’ Kentucky bluegrass farm, Wind Ridge, provides the safe haven she craves and the solitude she needs to heal. Collin Kramer, the foxhunter next door, seems determined to infiltrate her peace and invade her quiet sanctuary—not only with his noisy hounds ...

Two lucid dreamers meet in recurring dreams, fall in love, and conceive a dream baby; but the unreality of the dream world leads them to distrust each other - with nightmarish results. A paranoid exploration of two minds dreaming the same dream, and fighting to control it.

'Take my baby.' The train is approaching at speed. Why is the stranger handing Morgan her baby? And how does she know Morgan's name? When the mother then jumps in front of the train, Morgan is stunned. Now the police want to know why she is holding someone else's child. No-one else saw what happened. Desperate to clear her name, Morgan must discover who this woman was. What drove her to end her life? And why did she choose Morgan? A trail of dark secrets leads to the truth about that moment on the platform. And to someone who is willing to kill to conceal it.

Will her true love ever return? He loves her more than life itself, but he's forced to say goodbye.... Spencer Hayes has been in love with Ginny Cawley since he first laid eyes on her years ago. Now, he must leave her to make one last trip to the Caribbean before taking over his father's shipping company. However, an unexpected storm at sea leaves him not only reflecting on his time with Ginny but makes him realize he may never see her again. This novelette is inspired by Beneath the Inconstant Moon by ID Johnson and provides further insight into Spencer and Ginny's relationship.