Welcome to Down and Dead, Inc., where, to Live, Sometimes Ya Gotta Die.MAKING THE BREAK IS EASIER THAN KEEPING THE BREAK Christine Branch is elated. Finally her sister, Caroline Branch Easton, has made the break from her abusive ex, Martin Easton, and returned to Dallas to Christine's ranchette to heal. Only Martin refuses to let her go. Within twenty-four hours, his thugs are doing everything they can to intimidate Caroline into returning home. Christine knows she must do something to get her sister the time and space she needs to heal and stay safe—and she concocts a plan:OPERATION SWITCH AND BAITThe sisters trade lives and Christine baits the thugs into following her. It works! Caroline undergoes counseling, eventually divorces Martin, though he refuses to accept it, and the operation continues…until Martin shows up at the ranchette and issues a return-home ultimatum....

The Shadow Watchers were introduced in the Crossroads Crisis Center novels, now they return with their own stories…PEOPLE ARE NOT WHAT THEY SEEMSuperstar Elle Bostwick is kidnapped in London. But who has kidnapped her?  NINA, a ruthless, powerful organization of opportunists who will do anything to anyone anywhere to gain access to something Elle has that they want?  The CIA, who is equally determined to prevent NINA from gaining that desired access? Why kidnap a superstar singer? Why Elle?  And why does she not know what they're after?Elle mysteriously appears at a Shadow Watcher's wedding reception, and Nick Sloan is ordered to keep her safe indefinitely.  Yet the Top Secret entity issuing the orders doesn't say safe from what or who is pursuing Elle. Not even why, which is atypical.  Why is this happening now?OLD WOUNDS RUN...

They've lost each other time and again.Now is their last chance. A lonely eternity awaits New Orleans computer analyst Kevan Buchanan and businesswoman Alyssa Cameron unless they can overcome the problems that kept them apart in their past lives. Surrounded by darkness, he stood alone. A slight wind ruffled his hair and breezed lazily across his skin. On the horizon, light flickered and gnarled fingers of mist swirled together, thickening to fog and descending on him. The fog parted, revealing the bumpy stone path. He walked down to its end. When the fog merged into a solid wall in front of him, he stopped and waited, feeling hollow, empty, and alone-emotions he wouldn't have recognized before Alyssa came into his life. He'd loved her. He still loved her. He always would. An uneasy shiver crept up his spine. A funeral had just been held here. He'd never before envisioned a funeral . . . Concentrating, his vision of it grew more focused, more clear. It was Alyssa's.

"A wonderful combination of romance, family drama, and out-and-out thriller." —Anne Stuart, New York Times"Complications here go beyond the usual hurdles and make the romance more touching for being hard won. And if the main action—Laura and Jake must combat terrorists amassing anthrax in the Florida Everglades—seems far-fetched, just read The New York Times." —Publishers WeeklyA deadly terrorist attack is taking shape deep in the Florida swamps. It's Jake Taylor's job to stop it-and to rescue his wife from the perpetrators.Laura and Jake Taylor have good reason to doubt they'll live a long, happy life together. He's a Special Ops soldier; she's a former Special Ops intelligence officer. She has an insider's knowledge of the risks he takes. Their marriage began as a practical arrangement: he needed to keep his young son out of the clutches of an unstable ex-wife. Laura knows better than to fall in love with her husband. Jake...

In a secret military hospital, five mentally shattered officers hold the key to dangerous secrets. A specialist in post-traumatic stress syndrome, Dr. Sara West becomes a pawn in an undercover mission. Told that she will uncover answers to the mystery of her brother-in-law's disappearance, Sara attempts to find out what happened to these soldiers, aware that she's entering a world where knowing too much can be fatal.Why do these men fear the color white? Why do they repeat the phrase "I wept"? As Sara is drawn to one remarkable patient she calls Joe, the shocking truth is exposed as his memory begins to return. And not even this man whom she is starting to love, can stop her -- or save her -- from committing an act that will either save millions of live...or condemn her to the darkest hell imaginable.From Publishers WeeklyA lengthy stint as an Air Force wife has provided Hinze (Shades of Gray; Duplicity) with plenty of fuel for her edgy military-themed romances. Her latest romantic thriller centers around a civilian psychologist, Dr. Sara West, who has been coerced into military duty. Acting undercover as an Air Force major, Sara enters a maximum security facility in Mississippi to direct a short-term research project on five patients suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. All the patients are men, and all have been reduced to a catatonic state, each one repeatedly uttering the phrase "I wept." It's Sara's job to find out what has happened to them. She's drawn to one patient she calls Joe, a man who worked as a Shadow Watcher (a spy who spies on spies). As Sara helps Joe heal, she finds herself falling in love; through him she learns that "I wept" is an acronym for a place more horrible than the human mind can endure. Gripping and adrenaline-charged, Hinze's plot will appeal to fans who like their suspense razor sharp. (Dec.) Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.