Clean Romantic Mystery

Brad Jennings needs a temporary wife. Lacey Strange is more than willing to hire on as that wife. Brad needs Lacey to help prove his ex-wife hid his daughter away from him in an attempt to prove negligence when the child disappeared from the park during a visitation with him. Both are determined to keep things strictly business, but when Brad finds out something terrifying about the mother of his children and the danger escalates, he and Lacey realize that hearts can't be told to remain professional. Can these two get over past pains and learn the lesson of love while the threat of death ...

Happy ever after is just a fantasy ... isn't it? After no luck in the true love department by age 32, sweet, unassuming school teacher, Emory Dockins, has pretty much given up on ever finding the right guy. Someone to love her and cherish her loyalty and traditional values, not mock her for them and then break her heart. Never in a million years does she expect to catch the eye of the intimidating, but swoon-worthy Secret Service agent, Vince Murano, who comes to question her about death threats against an aunt she never knew existed. Yep, life's funny like that. And maybe Emory shouldn't ...

When Beth Sherman interrupts a break-in at her house, her life changes drastically. When K9 police officer Colby Parker returns to his hometown after years of staying away, he finally must face his feelings concerning the murder of his fiancée. Circumstances throw Beth and Colby together when a person leaves bombs in different public places around Cimarron City. They both have given up on love, but caught up in the dangerous situation, the pair find themselves falling in love. But can it last, especially when Beth is kidnapped?

Were it not for Tessa Carlson, Special Agent Henry Miller’s daughter would have been abducted. But rescuing the little girl has thrust Tessa - a woman in hiding - into the media’s spotlight...and into a criminal’s crosshairs. Now her survival depends upon putting her faith in widowed single father Henry if she wants to live to see another day.

A too handsome for his own good private investigator. A stalker who claims she is his. A new job turns deadly. Stalked by a mysterious man, Lana Bailey is hoping her new job at Brothers Steele Private Investigators will convince the man to go away. Instead, his obsession with her increases. Her new boss takes her on pro bono as a client in order to keep her safe. Lance Steele is determined to keep Lana safe and capture her stalker. He has no plans on falling in love. Romance has no part in his business. Yet, matters of the heart are not as easily shoved aside as he thinks. Danger escalates....

They’d prepared for this moment all their lives without believing anything would ever come of it...they were wrong. Danae knew before she ever heard her brother’s voice that it was bad...and it didn’t take long to find out just how bad it was. She’d always understood the high cost of secrets...and quickly learned that sometimes the price of truths was far more costly. It took her even less time to realize that she’d never really known true fear. She did now and knew that the heart-pounding terror she’d experienced in those handful of moments when a gun was pointed at her brother...

Loving her was easy. Letting her go might be the only way to save her life. In the 1870s town of Willow, Sheriff Daniel has vowed never to marry—his dangerous profession leaves no room for love. But when Sarah and her spirited friends arrive on a mission to solve a decades-old mystery, Daniel finds himself drawn into both the investigation and a deepening affection he never expected. As secrets from the past emerge, Daniel is torn between his growing love for Sarah and his fear that being with him could put her life at risk. Set against a backdrop of faith, danger, and enduring mystery, ...

Ivory has the perfect man… …from his microchip processor to his flesh-like exterior. Ivory hated that she loved her Christmas gift this year. Her sister gave her the perfect humanoid companion, but there’s a huge problem: he’ll never be able to say he loves her, no matter how much she loves him. Was her dream man a present or a curse? But when Ethan (Ivory’s Dream Droid) looks at her with those sweet blue eyes and secretly earns enough money to enter her in the city-wide bake-off offering a prize she drools over, she realizes she doesn’t care. He’s hers, and that’s the best ...

What happened to Nash? Is their past coming back to haunt them? On the perfect summer evening, Vanessa plans to walk onto a sandy beach to marry the man she loves. When the groom never appears, she refuses to believe he left her at the altar. Vanessa turns to her friends for help. But they’re not just friends. They are the Initiative, a secret covert operation. Created to help those in need. And right now, Vanessa is in desperate need of help. **This clean romantic suspense book is a standalone read.**

How long can a toddler lost in the wilderness survive once the temperature drops below freezing? How can a normally sedentary woman convince searchers that she—and she alone—can find the child before it’s too late? Anna Reilly grew up in the wilderness and knows it like the back of her hand. Just because she’s not a macho tomboy doesn’t mean she can’t make her way in the forest but she’s away when three-year-old Bobby Deal goes missing and search parties are formed. When she returns, she’s relegated to pouring coffee and handing out donuts. But she knows how to find the ...

Hiding is no longer acceptable…she needed answers…but answers alone might not be enough… What did Jackson see…and how does he tell Simon… Mick Johnson might be dead but his killer is unknown and the clues leading to them are non-existent. Completely non-existent…which according to Jackson never ever happens…then he finds one but how does he tell Simon…But Elijah Sullivan, the father she adored all her life left clues…she just has to unravel them even as she comes to terms with her feelings about Harper…and his for her. It’s the middle of the twenty-third century and ...

Elizabeth Saintclair escaped an obsessed kidnapper only to land in the clutches of pure evil. Now trapped like a caged animal Elizabeth beats at the door of her one room prison, which should lead to freedom. But for Elizabeth, when the door opens, a frightening unthinkable fate awaits her. Dakota Russell is head over heels in love with a little red haired spitfire named Elizabeth Saintclair. Before he has a chance to proclaim his love to her, she is kidnapped. Dakota relentlessly searches for her. He tracks her to the small mining town of Bannack Montana. Suddenly the trail grows cold, ...

Kellyn had always loved Elias Stratton with all her heart and probably always would. She'd trusted him...but never again. Elizabeth had always believed there was nothing more magical than the precious gift of love...even now in the heart of danger, she still believed it...she always would. After telling the story of Simon's magical cowboy ranch for more years than she cared to count, Elizabeth Fountaine wondered if there might be more to the fanciful fairy-tale than being an elaborate bedtime story to tell children. More than ever before, she very much needed for even just a small piece of ...

Veterinarian Lyris Jennings accepts a position at Whispering Winds Ranch, hoping for a fresh start—a quiet place to heal animals and leave her painful past behind. What she doesn’t expect is her new boss, billionaire horse breeder Ray Kincaid, to be as ruggedly protective as he is devoted to his teenage daughter, Maddy. Ray has spent years keeping his emotions locked away, determined to shield Maddy from further heartbreak. But from the moment Lyris arrives, she awakens something in him he thought was lost forever. Just as Lyris begins to believe she’s found safety at Whispering Winds...

He never should have let her go. Joy Pearson is a failure. Humiliated by her lack of artistic success in the city and with the scathing words of her old boyfriend burning in her mind, Joy hobbles back to her hometown of Falworth, determined never to draw again. When her friend Samantha involves her in getting a run-down coffee shop back on its feet, Joy begins to find a bit of happiness again, only to run into the one man she’s been trying to avoid. Mark has always regretted what he said to Joy. Having her back in town means a chance to make amends but he quickly realizes that some things...

She doesn’t want to carry a gun. Why would someone want her dead? Amy Oaks is content to sit behind a desk at Wife for Hire and do her investigating on a computer. When a man pursues her for nefarious means, the cozy little world she's created for herself is turned into something unrecognizable, a world she never sought or wanted. Rookie police officer Mark Fields rescues a pretty woman from being hit by a bus. When she says she didn't fall, but was pushed, he doesn't believe her until he finds out she's also been receiving threatening notes. Assigned as Amy's protection until the culprit...

Framed for her foster brother’s murder, FBI special agent Wren Santino must clear her name - but someone’s dead set on stopping her from finding the truth. Her estranged childhood friend, Titus Anderson, comes to her aid…but standing by her puts him in the killer’s crosshairs, too. Now unraveling a conspiracy may be the only way for either of them to survive.

Long estranged from her genetic scientist mother, artist Anna Knight is stunned at the contents of her mother’s will. Determined to ascertain the source of her wealth, Anna hires tech guru Cullen Kincaid to investigate. Details the guitar-playing Bible-teaching computer expert discovers could drastically alter Anna’s future. When mutual attraction blossoms, can she overcome her feelings of worthlessness? Will Cullen follow his heart without knowing the truth of Anna’s birth?

Lieutenant Ethan Hendricks’ greatest nightmare just also happened to be his grandfather’s newest business venture. Logan Hendricks is thrilled about his brand new detective agency’s first case, but things weren’t turning out the way they were supposed to, including the attempted murder of one of his brand new employees. But he figures their next case, which involves finding a missing sister, should go a lot smoother. How dangerous could it be? Ethan Hendricks wasn’t quite as confident about his grandfather’s new hobby, or that the supposedly straight-forward case of a missing ...

Layla Belanger enjoys her moderately successful career writing whimsical books for children, but she's eager to expand to more meaty, adult fare. Still, when approached by a strange, older man about writing his dark story of family turmoil, her intuition whispers "no." She seeks advice from her exciting new man, the charming father of a precocious little girl, as well as from her prosperous but emotionally distant parents. In so doing, she starts in motion the crumbling of a wall of secrets she never knew existed. When the truth is unearthed, Layla must decide: how much is she willing to ...