Apryl Baker

I Am Death.I Am Darkness.I Am Creation.These are the simple truths Emma Rose Crane, AKA Mattie Hathaway, has run from for the last two years, but the situation she finds herself in will not let her flee her past anymore. It's barreling toward her at the speed of a bullet.Mattie finds herself back in Charlotte, North Carolina, for the trial of Dan's mother. She's determined to see this ordeal through for Dan, even though his vindictive mother uses the situation to try to tear them apart.If that weren't enough, she lands on a supernatural hit list and has to rescue a woman who's close to death-and survive the psycho who took her to begin with.But just when things start to go right, the unthinkable happens.Three gunshots.Three truths.But in the end, will her past save her future...or will it take everything she cherishes from her?

Deep in the swamps of the Louisiana bayou, a horrifying secret lies waiting to be discovered.A legend haunts the bayou, a chilling tale of a beast that is born from a curse...the Rougarou.When Emma Rose Crane lets hunter Cass Willow convince her to help him on a ghost hunt, she never imagined she'd be trudging through the swamps, let alone stumbling upon a mess of mangled bodies-or running into the creature responsible for the rotting remains.With no backup available to them, she's forced to show Cass her demonic side to help them escape, but that's not the only problem. When the creature attacked them, it infected them with the same curse that drove it mad. There's only one hope-kill the beast to cure the infection.Time is not on their side as they race to save themselves and discover the truth behind the legend. But first they have to survive the effects of the curse long enough to find the creature and put it down... Before they succumb to the hunger eating them alive.

Viktor Kincaid is a man on a mission. He served his country in the Marines, and now he protects the threatened and vulnerable from harm as part of Kincaid Security and Investigations.When his brother asks for his help protecting a friend from her violent soon to be ex-husband, he jumps into action.No man has the right to lay his hands on a woman or child.Sara Riley is not what he expected. She