To Have and to Hold

She’s sure she’ll never love him. He’s sure he’ll never stop.

All Sir Percy Somerville wanted from his wife was her love. But after watching her meet his devotion with coldness for four years, he makes the devastating choice to withdraw his heart before it shatters completely.

Lady Cecily Somerville thought she loved another when Sir Percy arranged their marriage, and four years hasn’t been sufficient to eliminate her resentment. But just as she discovers her former love was not the honourable man she supposed him to be, Percy retracts his attentions. Left to stew in the consequences of her actions, she begins to question what love is, and if she could ever love her husband.

The trouble is, she might have left it too late to win him back.

Rum Cake Cottage

Christmas comes to Pajaro Bay in this heartwarming second-chance story.

Alec O’Keeffe has made a life for himself as a successful single father and the mayor of Pajaro Bay. His days are full, but his nights are lonely. He swears he wouldn’t change a thing about his life–except maybe the crazy outfit he agreed to wear as the village’s Surfing Santa.

But now that one woman who broke his heart is back in town, and she wants to see the child she abandoned. In a season of forgiveness and renewal, is Roxy his worst nightmare–or the dream he never got over?

Roxy Drew isn’t thinking about Christmas right now. She spent ten years in prison for a crime she didn’t commit, and now she’s got just 72 hours to find the real killer, or she’ll lose her daughter forever. But how can she tell Alec the truth, when he’s convinced she’s nothing but trouble?

Get away to the little California beach town where the cottages are cute, the neighbors are nosy, and it’s always possible to find your personal Happily Ever After.

The Pajaro Bay novels can be read in any order. Collect them all:
Little Fox Cottage
Boardwalk Cottage
Honeymoon Cottage
Lighthouse Cottage
Rum Cake Cottage
Songbird Cottage
Sunshine Cottage
Riverstone Cottage
Harbor View Cottage
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Yeager’s Law

“Fans of Lee Child should definitely relish reading this book.” – Book Reviews by Hildegart

“… a real page turner…” – Library Thing

Abel Yeager is dead broke, down on his luck, and suffering from a serious case of what-the-hell-does-it-matter. His transition from active Marine to stateside long-haul trucker hit a wicked speed bump when his rig was involved in a wreck that claimed the life of a pregnant woman and laid him up for several months.

Back at work but deeply in debt, Yeager meets bookstore owner Charlie Buchanan in St. Louis and jumps at the chance to haul a load of remainder books to Austin for her. On the way south, a crew of truck thieves tracks his every move. But none of them know what Charlie’s ex has smuggled inside the book pallets, who he stole it from, or how far the owner will go to get it back. Charlie’s the first person Yeager has cared about in a long time, but as their bond deepens, so does the danger they’re in.

With enemy forces closing in, Yeager battles greed, corruption, and his own fatalism in a bid to hold true to Yeager’s First Law: come home at the end of the day.
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Portrait of a Spy

“A bona fide thrill ride.”
—Miami Herald

“Silva builds tension with breathtaking double and triple turns of plot.”
—People

Portrait of a Spy is Silva’s eleventh thriller to feature art restorer and master spy Gabriel Allon as he races from Great Britain to Washington to New York to the Middle East on the trail of a deadly and elusive terrorist network responsible for massacres in Paris, Copenhagen, and at London’s Covent Garden.

Six days with the Dead

No-one used the ’Z’ word, they simply called them the Dead and for the last seven years they have held the world in their bloody grasp. The group of survivors at the Lanherne Convent in Cornwall did what they could to make the best of life in this brutal world and compared to many their lives were easy. But when Charlie, an ex-soldier, arrives home with a distraught stranger telling of murderous raiders, they know things are about to change. Leaving the safety of the Convent to warn the other nearby outposts, Charlie, Liz and Imran soon learn it’s not only the Dead they have to worry about and before long the very stones of Lanherne are awash with spilt blood and stolen lives.