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To the Grave

Carlene ThompsonTo the Grave In To the Grave, Carlene Thompson's next thrilling page-turner, no secret can stay buried for long...

As a psychologist, Catherine Gray understands the power of first love. As a woman, she still has feelings for her first crush, James—a handsome lawyer who was trapped in a bad marriage for years. Now that Catherine has returned to Aurora Falls, and James is divorced, they can finally build a life together. But then she stumbles onto his first love—his ex-wife Renée, missing for the past three years—murdered…

Catherine is stunned. How well does she really know James? What secret destroyed his marriage—and who killed his wife? When a mysterious fire destroys the crime scene, Catherine starts looking for answers. In a portrait for a masked woman, she sees Renée’s eyes looking back at her hauntingly. And when the next victim is revealed, it becomes terrifyingly clear that an obsessed killer is on the loose—and Catherine is next in line…


You Can Run...

She was widowed at a very young age—and her life was just getting back on track.
Until her past came back to haunt her…

Penny Conley is still recovering from the untimely death of her husband. But she and her five-year-old daughter, Willow, seem to be thriving in their West Virginia suburb. Penny works for esteemed archeologist Simon Van Etton, who is like family to her—even Simon’s great niece, Diana, has become one of Penny’s closest friends. So when a distraught Penny calls Diana late one night, Diana is the one who comes running. But just as Diana arrives, the house explodes…leaving Penny in a coma, though sparing Willow any harm.

YOU CAN RUN…

As Diana and Simon try to figure out what happened—and why—two shocking discoveries are made: First, investigators find a bomb in Penny’s basement. Then, new facts about  Penny’s dark past come to light. Determined to find the truth about her friend and protect Willow, Diana keeps digging for clues. But someone is following her every move—and is willing to kill to make sure that Penny’s secrets stay dead and buried…

Mass Market Paperback: 352 pages

Reviewer: Edie
Review: May 2, 2009
Genre(s): Romantic Suspense
As Diana Sheridan heads over to Penny Conley’s house after receiving a frantic call from her best friend, a traffic accident on the highway slows her down. Finally reaching her destination, Diana is stunned to see her friend's house explode, severely burning Penny, and leaving onlookers to wonder at the whereabouts of Penny's daughter. Diana is well aware that if she had arrived on time, she too wou

If You Ever Tell

Her parents were murdered. The killer confessed. The case is closed.

But the nightmare is beginning again...

It took everything in Teresa Farr's power to return to her hometown of Point Pleasant, West Virginia. Eight years earlier, she had walked in on the savage murders of her father and stepmother-both of whom she hated. She barely managed to save herself and her eight-year-old stepsister, Celeste. But even after notorious serial killer Roscoe Lee Byrnes confessed, people still wondered if Teri was the guilty one. And with Celeste unable to remember that night, or to speak at all, those suspicions never went away.

IF YOU EVER TELL

Now Celeste is beginning to remember. Now Byrnes has recanted his confession. And someone is using a series of bizarre, taunting events to exact terrifying "justice." As Teri desperately races to uncover the truth, she's finding that everyone she loves has secrets they would kill to keep buried. And in the bright mountain sunlight, an evil concealed all too well is reaching out to silence her and Celeste forever.

Reviewer: Chris
Review: Mar 20, 2008
Genre(s): Romantic Suspense
Teri Farr has lived a life of privilege, wealth, secrets, deceit and suspicion of murder. It's 8 years after the gruesome murder of her father, stepmother, and almost murder of her stepsister Celeste. Teri escaped with a minor cut on her arm; the reason everyone suspects her of murdering her father and stepmother, whom she didn't get along with. Celeste knows Teri didn't kill anyone, but after the shock an

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