Two young women are murdered in the basement of Thomas Marshall's elegant home. The crime goes undetected. Twenty-five years later, Maria Anna Marshall, lives with a sense of terror that consumes her every time she steps inside the front door of her late father's home. The strength of that terror centers on a basement door, locked for years and made inaccessible to her. She knows she isn't crazy, but the house gives her strange chills and causes her to suffer bouts of anxiety heightened by terrible nightmares that spiral when... Someone Wants Her Dead Someone has a stake in silencing Maria Anna's latent memories from childhood, someone with secrets worth killing for. All her chilling fears coalesce, and her fianc e, Private Detective Sam Hesston, who vigorously investigates the case, becomes her only hope of staying alive. Visit the author at www.jeanettecooper.net
Autumn Marsh, violently assaulted the day of her mother's funeral, believes her ordeal is behind her, until she encounters her attacker at the birthday party of Dawson Rutherford, her grandma's employer. Autumn suspects her hated enemy's deceptive charisma has charmed Dawson's wife, Laurette, into an affair. Later, Dawson is discovered mercilessly strangled to death in his bathroom. With sixty or more guests attending, anyone could be the killer. The sheriff is of a different mind. Colby, fianc to Autumn, and eldest son of the Rutherford's, is the last known person to see his father alive. He is singled out as the prime suspect. Could it be that Colby actually killed his father, or is it just possible that another shadowy figure stole into Dawson's bathroom to rid the competition that stood between him and Laurette Rutherford? Colby's fate inevitably rests in Autumn's hands.
