After nine years on the run, Barbara Johnson believed she was finally safe. Safe with her little boy, in a new city, with a new name. Safe from the abusive man they had escaped and from the wealthy family with the power to take her child. Then a savage twist of fate exposes her location. And now those wanting to see her suffer and steal her child are coming, with every trick of the law and every weapon of terror. Determined to stand her ground, Barbara is swept off her feet by a handsome stranger who saves her from a mugger. The timing couldn't be worse for falling in love, but Kyle Trent is simply too perfect to push away, and she desperately needs someone in her life who makes her feel desirable again. As the nightmares of Barbara's past converge with the burning passion in the present, new secrets arise to remind her no one can be trusted.

As Ellery Winters watches her mother’s casket being lowered into the ground, a stranger tells her murder may have been the true cause of death and that the vice presidential hopeful, Abraham Lincoln Jones, could have been involved. In order to uncover the truth, Ellery agrees to go under cover as Jones' assistant.Two decades ago, Luke Madigan witnessed a whore gruesomely mutilating her client and has had nightmares of the event ever since. For several years the psychotic hooker, known as “The Eye Doctor”, left a trail of victims, but not enough clues to find her. When she strikes again, Luke determines to put an end to his nightmares, even if it means walking right into the Doctor’s waiting room.Though they don’t yet realize it, Ellery and Luke have a common goal. Their coming together is fueled by lies and distrust, but seduction and lust ignite a passion that will not be denied despite the deadly danger closing in on them.

While Teri Carmichael is being hailed as one of New York's most-promising new artists, her marriage to a compulsive gambler is wrecking her life. When her low-life of a husband refuses to give her a divorce, she thinks her life can't get any worse. Then the police find his brutally murdered corpse in an empty apartment. Further complicating Teri's life is her new photographer, Drew Marshall. He's starting over from a disastrous downward spiral of his own, and nothing gives him as much hope as meeting Teri, despite the circumstances. Together, their powerful chemistry could drive them to the happy ending they've always wanted, if it wasn't for the web of evil being spun around them. A hardened NYC detective is convinced Teri killed her husband, and Selena, a young woman who loves Teri like a mother, is willing to kill to protect Teri from harm…in fact, she already has.

Five women, who thirteen years earlier had been the unwitting victims of a group of fraternity brothers playing a cruel game of seduction, form a super-secret Little Sisters' Society. 35,000 first printing. $35,000 ad/promo.