Radio producer Brooke Jacobs masks her vulnerability with bravado, but when an F4 tornado traps her and the dismissive meteorologist Houston Evers at their station, her façade begins to crumble. Brooke faces not only the fury of the storm but a more personal danger right there in the station. Now, Houston must protect Brooke from the storm outside and the growing threat within, seeing her in a...
July 29th was a day that changed Finley Creek, Texas forever. No one could escape the storm unscathed. Day of the Storm is a collection of three novelettes by Calle J. Brookes, set during the events of the Finley Creek: Disaster mini-series. In Storm Warning, Sean Callum has a secret love for his best friend's sister, Autumn Evers, a forensic scientist who sees Sean as nothing more than a...
HIS LITTLE SISTER'S BEST FRIEND? For Ben Tyler, his kid sister's closest friend Dusty—don't ever call her by her real name Destiny—Talley is always just around, giving him fits. That hasn't changed much over the years. Even though Dusty is a full-grown woman now. A full-grown, beautiful, tempting, maddening, desirable woman, fully capable of capturing unsuspecting thriller novelists like Ben...
THE FUTURE IS A DARK, DARK PLACE NOW. Gavin Strong isn't sure of who he is anymore. Or what he wants from his future now. Medically discharged from the army after he was the sole survivor of a plane crash on the way to a training mission, he faces a future full of uncertainty. But he knows one thing—he isn't going to lose touch with the only family he has left. He just has to find them first...
SHE'S THE BIGGEST TARGET. She knows everyone's secrets—and that knowledge makes her dangerous to someone's plans... Agent Jasmine Len is more than just the assistant to the deputy director of the newly forming PAVAD division of the FBI. No one knows more about the new division of the FBI she and the director were creating. Or knows more than Jasmine does about the agents who will be picked for...
ONE NIGHT CHANGES EVERYTHING. —But will it change enough? She had survived. She could survive. She would survive again. After a brutal assault as a teenager, Dr. Nikkie Jean Netorre has found her way out of the darkness. She does good for the world now—pediatric trauma surgeon by day, counselor at a women's trauma center by night. She's moved on, has a purpose for her life, and everything is in...
NO ONE IS EVER TRULY SAFE. —That was a lesson she'd learned a long time ago. Dr. Finley Coulter does her best to hide from the world behind a bubbly exterior. It's hard to keep that up knowing someone is out there watching every move she makes—and has been for weeks. Watching her, threatening her…wanting her. She's already gone to the police, but they weren't taking the threats seriously. Fin...
STOLEN DRUGS. HOSTAGE SITUATIONS. SHOOTINGS. MURDER. —Does it ever end? What's happening recently at Finley Creek General Hospital is a bit more than ER Nurse Cherise McAlister wants to think about, especially while she's alone in the dark, empty parking garage. She should have waited for the security guard to walk her to her car, even if she'd already been told it wasn't in his job description...
SHE'D ALMOST DIED AT AN EVIL MAN'S HANDS. —SHE STILL HAS THE SCARS. SHE ALWAYS WILL. Trauma just brings out the wounds over and over again. Ever since ER Nurse Jillian Beck had been nearly killed, she's lived with her own fury. Her own fears. Her new boss at the hospital reminds her each and every day of just what hurt the world can bring with his caustic attitude and devil-dark eyes that burn...
SHE DOESN'T WANT A LOVER...BUT THEN SHE MEETS THE COWBOY NEXT DOOR. She doesn't need a lover...but she just can't seem to resist him. The last thing Dr. Lacy McGareth needs right now is the governor's far too charming younger brother distracting her. But that cowboy neighbor of hers is exceptionally good at getting through her defenses. At making her see the world outside Finley Creek General...
A DOCTOR. A NURSE. —DANGER ON HER FOOTSTEPS. When an F4 tornado strikes Finley Creek General Hospital, nothing will ever be the same again. Despite Dr. Allen Jacobson rescuing her, ER nurse Izzie MacNamara doesn't trust him one bit. He is too arrogant, too charming—and too many nurses have fallen for him before. She has other things to focus on—like getting her life back to normal after nearly...
TAMING THE BEAST? NOT GOING TO HAPPEN. Not when the beast is Major Crimes Detective Jake MacNamara. Sparks fly between them whenever they meet. Shelby Jacobson just doesn't have time to deal with him. Especially now. He is just getting in Shelby's way as she finally fights to keep a promise made long ago. HE LIVES FOR THE JOB. The TSP and being a cop is so deeply entrenched in his soul Jake...
SHE'S ALWAYS BEEN THE PROTECTOR. —THAT WILL NEVER CHANGE. Former homicide detective Melody Beck has always taken care of her younger sisters. But lately…that was the one area in which she'd failed. Her younger sister has just barely escaped a band of vicious killers. And the threat wasn't over yet. Melody is still searching for answers. All signs now point to the richest man in Texas being the...
As Sheriff Zoey Daviess collaborates with her ex-partner, Murdoch Lake, to unearth her birth family's secrets, they navigate a tense relationship and imminent danger. With evil closing in, they must race against time to uncover the truth and protect those Zoey cherishes most.
Wounded by her father's crime, Officer Bailey Moore returns to Value, Texas, to heal and reclaim her badge, navigating complex feelings with Sheriff Clay Addy. As they work to solve a string of homicides, a dangerous figure from their past emerges, intent on driving a wedge between them at any cost...
MURDER. SECRETS. A KILLER STILL WATCHING HER... —WHO CAN SHE TRUST TO PROTECT HER NOW? Brynna Beck has plans for her future. The Finley Creek Texas State Police is just a stepping stone for her. Nothing is going to sway her from her path—and she's stubborn enough to go after what she wants. When Brynna discovers new information on a ten-year-old murder case she gains the wrong sort of attention...
INSTANT LOVE DOESN'T EXIST. —But instant lust does. In that moment, he was sure of it! Losing her home to the city's next mall project is just something ER nurse Annie Gaines has to face before the adoption of her three foster sons is final. All she wants to do is make it through the adoption process, keep her boys safe, and give them a home to grow up in. Not so easy now that the mayor's...
FRIENDS SHOULDN'T BECOME LOVERS. He knows he's not good for her. Governor of Texas Marcus Deane has been drawn to Ariella Avery since the moment they'd almost been killed by the same man. He just can't stop thinking about her. Marc lives in the limelight. Sweetly shy Ariella is still healing from the trauma of nearly dying. The last thing she needs is the world watching every move she makes. He...
SHE HAS THE ANSWERS LOCKED INSIDE. Autistic. Foster child. Runaway. Witness to a crime she doesn't remember… FBI computer analyst and agent Carrie Sparks has had the cards stacked against her almost from the beginning. She's earned her place with the best FBI team in the nation. No one could take that knowledge away from her. No matter how often people underestimate her. When Agent Sebastian...
HE SAVED HER THAT NIGHT... The old proverb says that if you save a life, it is yours. Well, Gil Tyler had never believed that before. Until he found the gorgeous sheriff's deputy lying alongside the highway, about to become a victim of the storm. Now, he can't get her out of his head. Or his heart. But convincing the reluctant-for-romance Sage that he's not the hot-headed Tyler he used to be is...
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ SHE DOESN'T FEEL SAFE ANYMORE. ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Safety is more than just elusive… It doesn't exist. Pip Tyler is safe at her family's ranch, tending her horses, helping raise her younger brothers—and healing from an attack from when she'd been a teenager. Her self-imposed isolation ends when her older sister marries the sheriff of Masterson County. Now she has to make room in her life for...
HER BROTHER WAS JUST GONE. She has waited fifteen years for answers. This Is her best chance to find them. Someone has sent PAVAD agent Leina Howell photos of a man she believes to be her missing twin brother, drawing her back to the small town she's always hated. She's in town less than a day before someone makes it clear she isn't welcome. When she wakes up in the hospital, Leina isn't alone...
SHE ISN'T SUPPOSED TO BE THERE. Dr. Mia Ripley isn't even supposed to be a part of the FBI, let alone working for the best division in the nation. Since her transfer to PAVAD, she's been nearly burned alive by a madman and then shot by a cult leader's lackey. She's lucky she survived--either attack. EVEN PAVAD ISN'T SAFE FOR HER. FBI Agent Evan Stephenson has found his place with PAVAD, and it...
A dead grandmother was a good reason to run… Fourteen years ago, the Beise family just disappeared. Rumors filled the small town of Masterson—everything from mass slaughter to alien abductions. PAVAD: FBI Agent Miranda Talley had always wondered what happened to her best friend's family. When human remains are found buried in the Beise family barn, Miranda returns to her Wyoming hometown to...
★ FIVE MONTHS JUST WASN'T LONG ENOUGH. ★ After practically kidnapping her boss's baby to protect Violet from a drunken gunman seeking revenge, Maggie is finally back in Masterson County. It's time to give Violet back to the sexy-as-sin single father who still burns Maggie with just one look. The same man who broke her heart after that one beautiful night they spent together. The night that...