She doesn't need a lover... The last thing Dr. Lacy McGareth needs right now is the governor's far too charming younger brother distracting her. She needs to focus on her career and her friends and fixing the small ranch house that has been in her family for generations. But that cowboy neighbor of hers is exceptionally good at getting through her defenses. He wants to be more than a friend... Travis Worthington-Deane had worked his butt off to build his ranch into one of the finest in Texas, but that doesn't mean he's all work and no play. He's more than willing to play with Lacy. To make her forget the nightmares that haunted her after she and her best friends had almost been killed. To make her take a chance on him. Possibly forever. Someone else needs her to smile just for him... Someone with an axe to grind against those damned perfect Deane brothers. Someone far too close to Lacy. Someone who has far-reaching secrets he can't afford to get out. Someone whose grip on reality continues to deteriorate—rapidly. Someone who demands more than Lacy will ever be able to give... \\\FIRST in the Finley Creek General Hospital Trilogy.\\\

Everyone jumped when Chief of Medicine Rafael Holden-Deane ordered them to. Everyone. He was back in Finley Creek to make the hospital the best it possibly could be. No matter what the cost. ER Nurse Jillian Beck remembered Rafe from when they’d been children—his attitude now wasn’t any better than it had been then. Especially where she was concerned. Rafe was always angry at her for something... Jillian understood anger, though. Ever since she had almost died, she had lived with her own fury. Her own questions. Her own fears. Until she wasn’t sure she would ever be able to heal. Rafe had his own history of hurt to overcome, and the last thing he needed in his life was the one woman who snuck into his dreams at night. When she and the hospital they both love are threatened, there isn’t anything he won’t do to keep her safe...

Stolen Drugs. Hostage Situations. Shootings. Murder. What happened 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. That decision might just be her last. It was going to get worse before it got better... Chief of Security at Finley Creek General, Vince took his job guarding the hospital seriously. Lives depended on him and he knew it. When pretty nurse Cherise barrels into him, he promises to keep her safe until her attacker is caught. The only way to do that is to keep the woman as close to him as he possibly can... \\\A SHORT novella taking place within the FINLEY CREEK: GENERAL trilogy.\\\

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 knows that. It’s best if he just keeps his distance. No matter how much it hurts. But someone knows how he feels and knows of her connections to some highly influential men. Someone knows… and will use that against Marc however they can. Unless he can find a way to stop them. SHE DOESN’T KNOW WHAT TO THINK ABOUT HIM . Strong, sure, handsome, and far too intense for her, Marc terrifies her on a thoroughly feminine level. Ariella doesn’t quite know what to do about him—or how he makes her feel. Even though she tries to resist the kind and caring man behind the political mask, Ariella falls for him and his two wonderful children more and more every time they are together. But being in the political arena can bring more than just unwanted attention. It can bring out enemies with a grudge. Enemies who will do anything to take what they want. No matter who they hurt. Now, there’s someone out there who wants two Marc dead. —And Ariella for himself... AS THE NIGHT ENDS is the conclusion to the FINLEY CREEK GENERAL trilogy and is a full-length romantic suspense novel. The Finley Creek series contains large casts of characters, multiple scenes of violence, adventure, dark criminal behavior, cursing by heroes, heroines and villains, a few mild-to-moderate love scenes, and references to subject matter that may distress some readers, including assaults, abductions, mass shootings, child abuse and other dark themes.