SummaryDirty Secrets by Karen Rose
Psychologist Emma Townsend is at a crossroads in her life.
The author of a nationally bestselling book called
"Bite-Sized," Emma has built her career teaching people to
manage their grief in bite-sized steps, one day at a time.
But her own life was turned upside down a year before when
her husband was killed and now she knows first-hand what her
clients go through. Afraid to face her own grief, she throws
herself into her work, avoiding the home she'd shared with
her husband—until her best friend forces her to deal
with her own grief.
Going through her husband's things, Emma finds her own high
school yearbook. A letter falls out, a letter she's never
read before. It's from her best "guy-friend" from high
school, Christopher Walker. It was a love letter—her
first. She'd never seen it and is now devastated that for
all these years her friend thinks she ignored him. She can't
bring her husband back, but she can make things right with
Christopher and sets out to do so with grim determination.
Little does she know how right they will become, or what
she'll have to endure to get there!
Christopher Walker is a chemistry professor in a Florida
college. He's never forgotten Emma, but has gone on with his
life. The bright spot in his life is his daughter Megan, the
only good thing to come of his failed marriage. But
Christopher's got big problems right now. He's just
discovered the body of his lead graduate student in their
lab, the victim of an apparent accidental poisoning. As the
truth comes out—it's not an accident, it's
murder—Christopher receives a message from a private
detective hired by the girl who broke his heart in high
school. He reaches back in time to his old friend—and
unknowingly pulls her into the danger that swirls around him
in the present.
Read an excerpt from Dirty Secrets
Necessary Betrayals by Annie Solomon
When Francesca Bern's baby sister disappears, the only clue
leads her back to the nightmare of her dead father's mob
connections. There she also finds her ex-lover, the
undercover cop who insinuated himself into her heart while
gathering evidence that put her father in prison. He's her
best hope to find her sister, but can she ever trust him again?
When Francesca shows up at the scene of a mob murder looking
for her sister, Quinn Lewis realizes that the killer and the
kidnapper could be connected. But can his battered soul go
another round with Francesca? And more important, can he
keep them both alive long enough to find out?
Read an excerpt from Necessary Betrayals
Also includes the novella, Endless Night by
Carla Cassidy.
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