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Nine years ago, police found Shaye Archer wandering in the French Quarter, beaten and abused and with no memory of the previous fifteen years, not even her name. But her last case uncovered more than she ever anticipated. She’s starting to remember.

The traveling carnival has made its stop in Sinful and everyone is ready for thrilling rides, challenging games, and most importantly, funnel cake. But when a man is murdered in the funhouse and Emmaline LeBlanc is knocked unconscious so the killer can escape, the good times are over. Carter is beside himself wanting to hunt down the man responsible for putting his mother in the hospital, but he can’t investigate when he’s related to one of the victims.

When Jill Morgan left Tempest Island after high school, she didn’t know what she wanted to do the rest of her life. The only thing she’d ever loved was writing fiction, but that was a pursuit with no financial guarantees. So she did the responsible thing and got her college degree, then a job that provided a good living, and she wrote in her free time. She never expected to become a bestseller, but her books—written under a pseudonym—brought her millions of happy readers. And a stalker.

Jadyn St. James is excited to start her job as game warden in Mudbug, Louisiana, and hopes it is the beginning of a new and improved life. She expected to run across any number of odd occurrences in the small bayou town, but she never thought her life would be in danger within a matter of days. And that’s not even the worst thing. Helena Henry was hell on wheels - both alive and dead - when she resided in Mudbug, and a year in heaven hasn’t improved her one bit. Now, she’s back and has brought trouble with her.

Rose Gardner and Neely Kate Colson are thrilled with Mason's early present to Rose - a trip for the two of them to New Orleans for shopping, great food, and awesome seats to Wicked. Neely Kate plans to use the opportunity to visit a psychic and find out once and for all what her paranormal ability is. But when the psychic is murdered, and Neely Kate and Rose were the last people to see her alive, they find themselves the main suspects in a Christmas killing.

Mallory Devereaux is known throughout the town of Royal Flush, Louisiana, as a walking disaster, and her luck just got worse. She needs to raise $10,000 in one week to keep the IRS from seizing her adoptive father’s business, where she works as the demolition foreman. When the opportunity to cool cards at her uncle’s casino comes up, Mallory hopes her luck is changing. But when she realizes her uncle has assembled a tournament of criminals, she wonders what she’s stepped in the middle of.

Nicolas’s pulse shoots up, and he sucks in a breath. “Are you saying you willingly took the life of another person?” “Yes. God is the reason I killed her. Will you absolve me, Father?” As Nicolas fumbles for his phone to send an urgent text for help, he hears the chair in the other booth squeak, and a shadow passes in front of the screen. His pulse pounds in his temples and he starts to sway, dizziness washing over him. Help isn’t going to make it in time.

After an eventful first week on the job, Game Warden Jadyn St. James is happy the small bayou town of Mudbug, Louisiana, seems to have fallen back into its normal routine. But when FBI agent Raissa Bordeaux is kidnapped, Jadyn is certain the short-lived peace has come to an abrupt end. Statistics don’t lie, and Jadyn knows that the longer Raissa remains missing, the less likely she’ll be found alive. Sheriff Colt Bertrand knows the FBI won’t let him participate in their investigation, but is certain the federal agents aren’t as qualified as he is to locate someone missing in the swamps surrounding Mudbug.

Meteorologist Zoe Parker put Everlasting in her rearview mirror as soon as she had her college degree in hand. But when Sapphire, her eccentric great-aunt, takes a tumble down the stairs in her lighthouse home, Zoe returns to the tiny fishing hamlet to look after her. Zoe has barely crossed the county line when strange things start happening with the weather, and she discovers Sapphire’s fall was no accident. Someone is searching the lighthouse but Sapphire has no idea what they’re looking for.

Emma Turner has spent eight years running, hiding, dodging…limiting her short stays to big cities where she could easily get lost in the crowd. But when she steps onto Tempest Island, something changes. The tiny island speaks to her in ways no other place ever has, and tempts her into breaking the life rules she established long ago to keep herself safe. Instead of taking a couple days off and then moving on, as originally planned, she applies for a job at the Island Surf Shop, despite the risky fact that she’s horribly attracted to the owner.

Tempest Island has weathered the worst of storms and still stands proud, providing its residents with the healing power of the sea and sun. When Alayna Scott’s life falls spectacularly apart, both professionally and personally, the executive chef’s only thought is getting back home to the island and her aunt Bea. Between the two, she hopes to put the past behind her and figure out how to move forward.

Das zehnte Abenteuer um Fortune, Ida Belle und Gertie!

Bodyguard Brian Marcentel knew Justine Chatry had a job to do, but so did he. He’d been hired to keep her safe—from whatever lurked behind the walls of a long-neglected mansion. And yet, the beautiful researcher insisted on helping him investigate every suspicious noise and following him through the murky bayou as he tracked down trespassers. All of that paled in comparison, though, to his greatest challenge: trying to resist her when the fear took over and she looked to him for protection.

The Lost Girls Of Johnson's Bayou has descriptive copy which is not yet available from the Publisher.

Bei ihren Missionen als CIA-Attentäterin hat Fortune Redding bereits jede Menge Hindernisse erfolgreich bewältigt. Aber seit sie in Sinful, Louisiana, untergetaucht ist, muss sie sich ständig neuen Herausforderungen stellen. Als ein Hurrikan durch die winzige Bayou-Stadt stürmt, regnet es plötzlich Falschgeld. Wie sich herausstellt, stehen die Blüten in direkter Verbindung zu Ahmad – ausgerechnet dem Waffenhändler, der ein Kopfgeld auf Fortune ausgesetzt hat!

Nach Celia Arceneaux‘ überraschender Wahl zur Bürgermeisterin von Sinful, Louisiana, ist Fortune Redding klar, dass die Schwierigkeiten nun vorprogrammiert sind. Immerhin hat Celia ein unvergleichliches Talent, aus jeder Situation das Schlimmste zu machen. Besonders, wenn sie damit ihre Rachepläne gegen ihre Erzfeindinnen Ida Belle und Gertie verwirklichen kann. Und die setzt Celia auch gleich in die Tat um: Sie feuert den Sheriff und stellt ihren Cousin Nelson als Polizeichef ein, der Fortune und ihren Freundinnen auf Schritt und Tritt Ärger macht.

Ein Wilderer treibt sein Unwesen in Sinful, Louisiana, und Deputy Carter LeBlanc will ihn unbedingt erwischen, bevor die State Police Wind davon bekommt und ihm die Zuständigkeit entzieht. Leider wird er dabei ständig von Celia Arceneaux behindert, der amtierenden Bürgermeisterin und schrecklichsten Einwohnerin von Sinful, die nach einem Grund sucht, Carter zu suspendieren. Als Beweise auftauchen, die einen Verwandten von Gertie belasten, bleibt Carter keine Wahl: Er muss den Jungen verhaften, obwohl ihn alle für unschuldig halten.

Allmählich hat sich CIA-Agentin Fortune Redding an ihre neue Identität und das beschauliche Kleinstadtleben in Sinful, Louisiana, gewöhnt. Ihre Freundinnen versorgen sie mit Tratsch und Törtchen, und Carter LeBlanc, der heißeste Deputy im Bundesstaat, lässt ihren Puls schneller schlagen. Es könnte alles so schön sein ... Doch dann fällt ein Schatten auf die Idylle am Bayou. Carter entgeht nur knapp einem Mordanschlag. Wer hat es auf ihn abgesehen und warum? Fortune sucht nach Antworten – und will natürlich einen weiteren Anschlag auf ihren Freund verhindern.

Wo Rauch ist, ist auch Feuer... CIA-Agentin Fortune Redding hat es wirklich nicht leicht. Seit sie mit neuer Identität in Sinful, Louisiana, untergetaucht ist, muss sie harmlos wie eine Bibliothekarin wirken, über banale Sachen wie Make-up-Tipps plaudern und sich auf ihr allererstes Date vorbereiten. Ausgerechnet Deputy Carter LeBlanc hat sie zum Essen eingeladen – der Mann, der ihre Tarnung gefährden könnte. Zum Glück stehen ihr die munteren Seniorinnen Ida Belle und Gertie mit Rat und manch unüberlegter Tat zur Seite.

Politik kann mörderisch sein. Obwohl sich die CIA-Agentin Fortune Redding erst seit Kurzem im Hinterland von Louisiana versteckt, war sie bereits in zwei Mordfälle verwickelt. Höchste Zeit für Fortune, es ein wenig ruhiger angehen zu lassen, denn ihre wahre Identität darf keinesfalls bekannt werden. Als jedoch der Bürgermeisterkandidat Ted Williams ermordet wird, gerät ihre Freundin Ida Belle unter Verdacht. Das kann Fortune natürlich nicht zulassen und beginnt zu ermitteln, sehr zum Ärger des attraktiven Deputys Carter LeBlanc.