“A small taste of the peculiar crime-fighting duo, Jake Normanton & Leah Reynolds!” A frightened mother. An unconscious little boy. A father accused of the crime. When Jake & Leah first arrive at the scene of a domestic violence case, it soon becomes clear that all is not what it seems. A young boy was found at the bottom of the stairs; his injuries suggest it was no mere accident. With the mother in tears and the father losing his temper and sporting some bruised knuckles, all signs point to him as the abuser. But the clues don’t add up, and Leah & Jake are left to wonder if they can trust the evidence laid out before them. With Jake's past trying to influence his every instinct and Leah's nightmares invading her life, Jake & Leah need to lean on each other more than ever to investigate the incident and make sure that the real culprit is caught. Sins in the Silence is a prequel novella to the outstanding new Leah Reynolds Series!

“My name is Leah Reynolds, and I am the daughter of a serial killer…” After being forced to learn at the side of her serial-killer father, Leah has developed a sixth sense about the truly evil people in the world. Fifteen years after her father’s incarceration, Leah’s best friend, Detective Jake Normanton, has asked for her help on a case. Five teenage girls have been kidnapped – two of them found murdered and mutilated. What Leah doesn’t know is that Jake has another reason for wanting to keep her close this time around – To finally make her see that he is the perfect man for her. With no evidence to prove the guilt of their only suspect, Leah finds herself at a crossroads. Play it safe and endanger the lives of the remaining kidnapped girls? Or risk becoming the monster her father tried to turn her into and possibly save innocent lives. In a desperate race to catch the killer, the two will face an evil they may not survive…

THE STORY CONTINUES WITH JAKE & LEAH IN SINS OF THE PAST! Want more Jake & Leah? “… they were putting me back in the same room with that man. The man who had stolen any semblance of innocence and a childhood away from me… and tried to turn me into the same kind of monster that he was.” Leah’s past is fast unveiling itself from the shadows of her mind, leaving her wondering if she has a future with Jake in it if he ever found out the extent of her horrendous childhood. When the heat between Leah & Jake turns up, the copycat makes his dislike of the men in Leah’s life more obvious with gruesome messages left at crime scenes. To protect Sam & Jake from the copycat, Leah is forced to do the one thing she had hoped never to have to do again… She has to see her father. Leah must delve into the darkest parts of her mind in order to think like her father so that she may save Sam & Jake before it’s too late… Will Jake be able to keep Leah by his side when the shadow of her father and her horrific past looms so close? Or will he lose her to the darkness she has always known? Will Leah succeed in saving Jake when his own desperate need to protect Leah puts him in a danger he has never experienced before? Or will her father take from her the one person she had ever thought to call hers?

How will they defeat the enemies of their present, when torments of the past threaten their future? When Leah comes back after weeks away from their devastating encounter with her stalker, Jake is relieved and excited to have her home. But a celebration of their much-anticipated reunion must wait when a case lands in their lap. A new, insidious drug has made its way into their hometown, and it is causing havoc and devastation in its wake; heavily impacting youth centres and leaving teens dead or fighting for their lives. A new drug taskforce has been set up to eliminate the problem, and heading the investigation is an old friend from Jake’s past. Meanwhile, Jake & Leah’s personal lives are thrown into chaos when an unexpected death brings with it, heartache and regret, testing the strength of Leah’s and Jake’s relationship. When Leah finds herself in the clutches of the enemy, she must draw on every resource to survive and save not only her life, but the life of another…

“… I just couldn’t shake the feeling that, despite how hectic this had all been, this was just the calm before the storm.” Leah hoped when they saved Tammy Burton from her kidnapper six months ago, there would end her traumatic experiences. But now her brother has been kidnapped, and it appears that this is just the tip of the iceberg. An injustice has been committed, and a young woman is at the center of it all. A Pandora’s Box has been opened, and with it came a man named Greyson Gray. Only time would tell if he was one of the things that slithered out of the box, of if he was there to help them close the lid. While his silver-blue eyes captivated Leah and made her feel things she’d never thought she’d feel for anyone but Jake, she recognized one of her own and was immediately on guard. Jake and Leah have come so far in their relationship, but the appearance of a man with abilities so similar to Leah, may put an end to things before they really begin. Or will the case they’re wading through take Jake away forever?