10th ANNIVERSARY The Way To A Woman's Heart… Isabella McCree wanted to be loved. So she traded her lonely Eastern existence for life in a mountain cabin with her rugged mail-order husband and his brood. But could she ever put her haunting secrets behind her and become a "real" wife? Between raising four children and training wild stallions, Matt Prescott had no idea how to court a woman again. Especially not a shy beauty like Isabella. Yet when he looked into her blue-green eyes he saw strength—as well as a pain that mirrored his own—and knew he'd somehow find the way to her heart.
*****INCLUDES: TWO SHORT STORIES, A MCCREE'S STAR SPANGLED 4TH AND A MCCREE CHRISTMAS***** Briar Thompson had it all. The right clothes, the right friends, the right car. Being popular was all that mattered. Her parents were rich and treated like royalty throughout the community. She thought her senior year of high school was going perfectly, until the night her drink was spiked at a party by one of her so called friends. That was the night she met Chase McCree. Chase wanted to go back to Montana. To the ranch and the wild, wide blue sky that went on forever. He wanted nothing to do with flashy cars or spoiled rich kids. But he found himself head over boots for the quirky cheerleader who turned her back on her social status. She befriended him when no one else would. Shunned and hurt by the people who were once her friends, Briar flees with Chase to his family ranch in Montana. There she discovers another world, and apart of herself she never knew. The cowboy wasn't like anyone she'd ever met. The cheerleader wasn't like anyone he'd ever met. Apart their lives didn't seem to make sense, but together, they were chasing forever.
Set in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, this compendium includes unabridged versions of two of the best-loved Seamus McCree novels, and two short stories, one also featuring Seamus. CABIN FEVER (Seamus McCree #3): He wanted rest and relaxation. What he got was a mystery woman suffering from hypothermia, frostbite, high fevers, amnesia—and rope burns on her wrists and ankles. With his house in Cincinnati in ruins, financial crimes investigator Seamus McCree retreats to the family cabin for some well-earned rest and relaxation. His plans for a quiet, contemplative winter in the wilds of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula are destroyed when he discovers a naked, unconscious woman on his porch during a blizzard. Snowbound at the cabin, without transportation or phone coverage, Seamus struggles to keep the woman alive and find a way to get an SOS message out. What he doesn’t know is that a domestic paramilitary organization dedicated to overthrowing the government is hunting for an escaped female prisoner—and closing in on his isolated refuge. A thriller that captures nature as a character will appeal to fans of William Kent Krueger, Steve Hamilton, and Nevada Barr. EMPTY PROMISES (Seamus McCree #5): If you love the suspense and plot twists of domestic thrillers, this page-turner will be for you. Seamus McCree’s first assignment hiding a witness goes from bad to worse. His client disappears. His granddog finds a buried human bone. Police find a fresh human body. Paranoia and Promises His client is to testify in a Chicago money laundering trial. He’s paranoid that with a price on his head, if the police know where he’s staying, the information will leak. Seamus promised his business partner and lover, Abigail Hancock, that he’d keep the witness safe at the McCree family camp located deep in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan’s woods. Deserted by friends and family Abigail is furious at his incompetence and their relationship flounders. Even his often-helpful son, Paddy, must put family safety ahead of helping his father. Seamus risks his own safety and freedom to turn amateur sleuth in hopes he can solve the crimes, fulfill his promise of protection, and win back Abigail. Wit and grit are on his side in this fifth book in the Seamus McCree series, but the clock is ticking . . . and the hit man is on his way. PLUS Two Bonus Short Stories: In “Accidents Happen” Seamus investigates a series of accidental deaths at an open-pit iron ore mine. “Homework” is a coming-of-age story with a delightful twist. The Seamus McCree Series Reading Order Ant Farm Bad Policy Cabin Fever Doubtful Relations Empty Promises False Bottom Furthermore (a novella) Low Tide at Tybee (a novella) Download your copy now and join Seamus in his fight to preserve what he loves best in this country.
Contains Books 2 - 4 of the Seamus McCree Series BAD POLICY (#2) - Seamus McCree is in hot water. Again. It’s the first “IRA six pack” since the 1970s and The Troubles in Northern Ireland. Seamus McCree returns home to discover his house has become a crime scene. The murder victim posed in his basement is an acquaintance who endured the six pack: bullets to his ankles, knees, and elbows. Forced to prove his innocence, Seamus uncovers a twisted trail that leads back to his Boston roots. He’s stunned to learn the truth about his father’s death. CABIN FEVER (#3) - He wanted rest and relaxation. What he got was a mystery woman suffering from hypothermia, frostbite, high fevers, amnesia—and rope burns on her wrists and ankles. DOUBTFUL RELATIONS (#4) - Seamus has wife problems, and Lizzie’s not even his wife anymore. Her current husband disappeared on a business trip to Savannah. Was he kidnapped? Dispatched by his hedge fund partners? Or did he run off with another woman? Police assume he’s AWOL, and Lizzie turns to Seamus for help.
Set in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, this compendium includes unabridged versions of two more of the best-loved Seamus McCree novels. GRANITE OATH (Seamus McCree #7): On a Thursday afternoon, Kat Serrano leaves work early, briefly returns to her remote trailer deep in Michigan's Upper Peninsula woods, and drives off with no explanation to her family. Two days later someone ransacks the trailer. Kat is a Dreamer, and her mother won't talk to the police for fear she'll be deported and lose her 8-year-old granddaughter, Valeria. Valeria is devastated by the events. She and her best friend from summer camp, Megan McCree, employ a "Pinky-swear" to get Megan's grandfather Seamus McCree to learn what happened. Seamus uncovers a tangled web of drugs, prostitution, and dummy corporations, and soon finds himself the target of killers. Anyone sane would wash his hands of the mess or turn it over to the police. But Seamus has given his word, his granite oath, to learn the truth . . . even if it kills him. HIJACKED LEGACY (Seamus McCree #8): What you don't know can kill you. The Happy Reaper, notorious for his chilling efficiency and "Results Guaranteed" calling card, escapes prison. Instead of killing Seamus McCree on sight, he offers a diabolical bargain with a heart-stopping proviso. To live, Seamus must help the Happy Reaper find and eliminate the upstart impostor who's trashing the assassin's reputation. And Seamus must act quickly. Should the Happy Reaper's bad heart give out or any harm come to him, the criminal underworld will wreak carnage on Seamus . . . and his loved ones. Can Seamus outsmart the impostor and appease the Happy Reaper without staining his soul with blood? The only thing Seamus knows for sure is that time is running out for him and his family.
Contains books 5, 6, and 7 in the Seamus McCree Series EMPTY PROMISES (#5) - Seamus McCree’s first assignment hiding a witness goes from bad to worse. His client disappears. His granddog finds a buried human bone. Police find a fresh human body. Seamus risks his own safety and freedom to turn amateur sleuth in hopes he can solve the crimes, fulfill his promise of protection and win back Abigail. Wit and grit are on his side but the clock is ticking . . . and the hit man is on his way. FALSE BOTTOM (#6) - Seamus returns to his native Boston to bury his Uncle Mike, a retired Boston police captain, who was murdered. Seamus has been named executor of the estate. That's easy for him to settle. But he soon learns Uncle Mike left a second, secret legacy - and that triggers an earthquake's worth of problems. GRANITE OATH (#7) - Seamus uncovers a tangled web of drug-dealing, prostitution, and dummy corporations He soon finds himself the target of killers. But he's given his word, his granite oath, to learn the truth . . . even if it kills him.
While Turner (author of Here, Bullet) grieves the loss of his wife to cancer, The Goodbye World Poem is a series of poetic meditations that sit quietly in the silent “afterward” of someone’s death. Losing his wife, his father, and his best friend in quick succession, Turner explores those relationships through the complicated lenses of moments in time, weaving in and out of memory to explore the disparate history that fuses together to form ones psyche. Throughout the collection, a prevailing motion recurs: that of submersion, sinking, plunging into the deep—whether it be the ocean or the subconscious. In other words, this book is a kind of poetic biography, a journey of the self that ultimately pours everything that’s happened in a life—all of the love and all of the loss—into the moment of death itself. The poems are meant to be celebratory and sublime in their comprehension of what happens to our memories when we die. And, if the reader is inclined—the reader becomes the vessel who holds all of this in their own imagination, carrying Turner and his memories forward into their own lives in a small way.
A tale inspired by the true unsolved disappearance of actress Jean Spangler in 1949 finds former stenographer and OSS spy Lily Kessler secretly investigating the murder of a Hollywood starlet, a case that is further complicated when other aspiring actresses meet a similar demise. By the author of Sugar Skull. Simultaneous. 25,000 first printing.
Go-getter businesswoman Jenny Hunter was used to living life on her own terms, and there was little the beautiful, brainy blonde couldn't conquer. But with her career skyrocketing, she'd decided to put love on the back bruner—except for a little innocent flirtation with a hunky loner at her neighborhood Laundromat. Although Liam McCree had nursed a crush on Jenny for months, the wannabe Web entrepreneur was convinced he was no match for the woman of his dreams. But when she faced an unexpected health crisis, Liam was there to boost Jenny's spirits and to send her heart rate soaring in the process. Would these two opposites find that love was truly the best medicine?
