While jogging off duty along the riverfront, rookie cop Valorie Dawes discovers the body of a young girl—and ignites a manhunt for a serial killer.The Shoeless Schoolgirl Slayer has remained a step ahead of the Clayton, CT police for months. All of his victims drowned. All were found barefoot. And all bear the same strange, fresh tattoo.Then rookie cop Val Dawes notices patterns that eluded the department's more traditional senior detectives. Following her ...

The Engineer has a mission: to clean up the human gene pool.His method: killing women who have what he considers “defective” DNA.His primary victims are members of a self-help therapy group focused on body-shaming and body-image issues. The group includes two of Val Dawes’s closest friends–and before long, Val becomes a target as well.Now the youngest-ever detective in the Clayton City Police, Val goes undercover to track down how the killer is iden...

A man serves on the jury of a murder trial -- for the crime that he committed.Peter Robertson, 33, discovers his wife is cheating on him. Following her suspected boyfriend one night, he erupts into a rage, beats him and leaves him to die... or so he thought. Soon he discovers that he has killed the wrong man – a perfect stranger.Six months later, impaneled on a jury, he realizes that the murder being tried is the one he committed. After wrestling w...

While jogging off duty along the riverfront, rookie cop Valorie Dawes discovers the body of a young girl—and ignites a manhunt for a serial killer.The Shoeless Schoolgirl Slayer has remained a step ahead of the Clayton, CT police for months. All of his victims drowned. All were found barefoot. And all bear the same strange, fresh tattoo.Then rookie cop Val Dawes notices patterns that eluded the department’s more traditional senior detectives. Following her ...

When the cops and courts fail, The Redeemer exacts his own form of justice.When the bodies of freed sex offenders turn up with increasing regularity in western Connecticut, the Clayton Police Department responds with a disinterested yawn.Second-year cop Val Dawes doesn't share the department's apparent indifference to the trend of vigilante justice. But her warnings fall on deaf ears, especially after her jealous rivals in the department get her suspended o...

Valorie Dawes fights an international kidnapping syndicate on behalf of a new college friend--and harbors serious doubts about her future as a police officer.At a young age, Valorie Dawes vowed to avenge the death of her uncle, a policeman killed in the line of duty, by following in his footsteps. During her first month at college, the mysterious disappearance of a close friend's child drags her into the role of crimefighter much earlier than planned....

Lehigh Carter fears only two things: dogs and women.His fears are about to become very real.In the small town of Clarkesville, in the heart of the Oregon Cascade Mountains, a humble forester stumbles into the complex world of crooked cops and power-hungry politicians… all because he rescued a stray, injured dog on the highway.Lehigh Carter didn’t really mean to adopt the dog. But his ex-fiancée, Stacy McBride, convinces him to do it...

Lehigh Carter never asked to be sheriff. And he sure never wanted to arrest his new father-in-law for murder.Mountain Man Lehigh Carter, drafted into serving as acting sheriff of Mt. Hood County after exposing his predecessor's corruption, is compelled to arrest his new father-in-law for the murder of Everett Downey, the most despised man in town.Still learning on the job, Lehigh continues to investigate loose ends that don't add up, but ambitious ...

Lehigh Carter fears two things: women and dogs. His fears are about to become very real.Mountain Man Lehigh Carter didn't really mean to adopt the stray dog he found injured on the highway. But his ex-fiancée, Stacy McBride, convinces him to do it, with a promise to help.Their rekindled romance angers her father, the ambitious and powerful state Senator George McBride, and sets off a chain of events that entangle Lehigh in a life-or-death conflict ...

He's just a guy who's tired of all the corruption. The machine is tired of his meddling - and wants to take him down, once and for all.Rustic forester Lehigh Carter must prove that his fiancée, Stacy McBride, is innocent of murdering a popular Acting Sheriff. But evidence that she may have had a secret affair with the victim makes even Lehigh wonder if he should fight for her freedom against the corrupt local machine that accused her.Cooperating with the on...

He's a good man with a dark secret. She knows it, and needs a man killed.In the middle of a hot summer night, Peter Robertson's phone rings. A beautiful woman issues a threat: kill Kyle, the man who stalks and abuses her, or she'll expose Peter's horrible past.Peter pretends to go along as he seeks another, less violent solution. But Kyle turns up dead anyway, and the police arrest Peter's best friend, Frankie, of all people.Peter knows he'...

He's just a guy who's tired of all the corruption. The machine is tired of his meddling - and wants to take him down, once and for all.Rustic forester Lehigh Carter must prove that his fiancée, Stacy McBride, is innocent of murdering a popular Acting Sheriff. But evidence that she may have had a secret affair with the victim makes even Lehigh wonder if he should fight for her freedom against the corrupt local machine that accused her.Cooperating wi...