Wicked Memories Maggie Casper "To Serve and Protect." Sheriff Ryder Jackson has spent the last ten years of his life missing his sister Sandra and hating the woman he believes killed her. Kelly Montgomery returns to her hometown to care for her fiercely independent cowboy brother Kyle. While Kelly is forced to deal with someone attempting to terrorize her, she is also watching the developing romance between her stubborn brother and her childhood friend Sally, reminding her of her own strong feelings for the man who as a teenager she had fallen in love with. The same man who wrongly holds her responsible for the death of his sister, her best friend. As Ryder and Kelly confront the explosive physical reaction they can't contain, they must also accept and work through their emotional past while dealing with a stalker out for vengeance. For Ryder to see Kelly for the innocent woman she is and learn that not all wicked memories are bad, the present will have to collide with the past.

Book two in the To Serve and Protect series. When your heart has been ripped bleeding from your chest, it leaves behind a dark hole where desire no longer resides. At least that was what Ausha Malone thought right up until the moment Detective Doug Pennington walked into her bar. Informing Ausha about the death of her ex-husband would be Doug’s hardest task of the day, but he was ready for it. What he wasn’t prepared for was meeting Ausha face-to-face. Life had dealt her a bad hand. If someone cared to look close enough, they could see exactly how bad in the gunmetal gray of her gaze. Doug wasn’t so sure he wanted to look, and yet he couldn’t seem to stay away. He was bound and determined to give Ausha her life back, whether he had to drag her kicking and screaming all the way or not.