Paris Armstrong has everything, a lovely home, great kids, a comfortable life, and a loving husband. So when her husband dumps her for a younger woman, only her friends are left to help her pick up the pieces, and they are none too delicate about fixing her up. Paris flees from them to the West Coast, still clinging to her lost love, into a world of men who are too young, too old, too married, or too good to be true. Paris determines that romance...

Lindsay Boxer has a beautiful baby daughter and a husband she loves unconditionally. Always focused on her career as a San Francisco police detective, she wondered what domestic bliss might feel like, and she's never been happier. She can't imagine that a brutal murder at a downtown luxury hotel, and the disappearance of a gorgeous blond woman from the scene would have anything to do with her own life and marriage--yet Lindsay can't ignore disturbing...

Kevin Shea is an innocent man caught in a sticky situation that makes him look as though he is a racist murderer. The only person that knows of his innocence is Lieutenant Abe Glitsky who is the head of the city's homicide detail. Unfortunately, Lieutenant Glitsky is distracted when ex-lover and United States senator shows up, only to put her own spin on the story tearing the city apart. Now Shea is must take matters into his own hands to prove his...

Night Work
Kate and her partner, Al Hawkin, are called to a scene of carefully executed murder: the victim is a muscular man, handcuffed and strangled, a stun gun's faint burn on his chest and candy in his pocket. The likeliest person to want him dead, his often-abused wife, is meek and frail—and has an airtight alibi. Kate and Al are stumped, until a second body turns up—also zapped, cuffed, and strangled...and carrying a candy bar....

"Dismas Hardy agrees to take an appeal to overturn the murder conviction of National Guard reservist Evan Scholler. Scholler had plenty of reasons for revenge--but as Dismas delves into the case, he begins to uncover a terrible truth that drops him right into the complicated world of government conspiracy, assassination, and betrayal." --From publisher description.

A fierce storm brings together three very different people--Quinn Thompson, a widower seeking an escape from his feelings of guilt; his neighbor, Maggie Dartman, grieving over a loss; and Jack Adams, the carpenter brought in to repair both of their homes--in an extraordinary friendship that will transform all of their lives.

Dismas Hardy, a managing partner in his thriving law firm, sits second chair to his young associate, Amy Wu, who brings the firm a challenging case: the seventeen-year-old son of a prominent San Francisco family who has been arrested for the double slaying of his girlfriend and his English teacher.

In the wake of the murders of a politically connected socialite and his glamorous fiance, Dismas Hardy's partner is placed at the head of the controversial investigation.