Elizabeth Lowell - Böcker

From multi "New York Times" bestselling author, Elizabeth Lowell comes another exhilarating novel of nail-biting suspense, reminding us that some family secrets are better left buried. Carolina May - Carly to her friends - never knew her biological family. Yet ironically, she makes her living as a family historian and has just been hired by the eccentric aunt of the multi-millionaire governor of New Mexico. The future looks bright, until things start going wrong. Then, she learns the true meaning of fear. Daniel Duran made a career out fighting for other people's beliefs, beliefs people died for. Then, he came back to his childhood home in Taos to see if there was anything worth living for. The stir about Carly May and her family history of the Quintrells amuses him, we're all survivors descended from survivors, so what's the fuss? But Dan knows what Carly doesn't: in New Mexico, genealogy is a blood sport.

When an exquisitely crafted, authentic imperial Faberge egg mysteriously shows up at Larel Swann's home studio, she knows it can only be from one person - her father, who has drifted in and out of her life for as long as she can remember. But this time Jamie Swann leaves her something too many people will kill for. Out of her league and desperate, Laurel is forced to accept help from the very man who is trying to ensnare her father in his own web of double crosses. Cruz Rowan can help her stay alive, but will he do the same for her father?

Orphaned at thirteen, Grace Silva clawed her way out of poverty and violence to become one of the most respected judges on the federal bench. Grace believes in the rule of law, lives it, and breathes it. She has always been buttoned up and buttoned down, except once. Joe Faroe has learned that laws are made by politicians and politicians are all too human. He believes in the innocents, the ones getting ground up by governments that are too polarized or too corrupt to protect their own citizens. He's been through the political meat grinder himself. It cost him his career, his freedom, and a woman who still haunts him. Since then, Faroe has worked outside the rules and politics of government. He is a kidnap specialist for St. Kilda Consulting, a Manhattan-based global business that concentrates on the shadow world where governments can't go. He is good at his work, intelligent, confident, and ruthless, until a friend dies trying to kill him. Now Faroe is out of the business, retired. He's through trying to save a world that doesn't want to be saved.Then Grace comes to him, past and present collide, and Faroe finds himself sucked back into the shadows, tracking a violent killer who holds the life of Grace's son in his bloody hands.

Rand McCee just wants to be able to lose himself in his painting. After his twin brother is shot before his eyes while on a scouting mission for St. Kilda Consulting, a Manhattan-based, global business that concentrates on the shadow world where governments can't go. He has finally come to terms with the fact that he will never be able to find the man who shot his twin, the man known as The Siberian. Kayla Shaw is an Arizona banker. Little does she realize that as she has been helping a rich socialite plan how to finance an art exhibition she has been unwittingly caught up in a web of lies and money laundering. When her employer tries to buy her silence, she realizes that she is in way over her head, with no way out. Equally suspicious of and attracted to each other, Rand and Kayla must work together to stop the Siberian before they both wind up in jail - or the grave.

Losing all memory of the six-day incident that shattered her life, Alana Reeves is unable to recognize the man she once loved, Rafe Winter, a rugged outdoorsman who is sworn to heal Alana's heart by helping her to confront the past.

Returning home triumphant from the Crusades, Dominic le Sabre is determined to claim the bride promised to him by the king, but the high-born Celtic beauty is equally determined to resist him.