Denise Grover Swank

PREVIOUSLY TITLED HALF BAKEDSometimes the truth hides where you least expect it. Maddie Baker is about to uncover secrets that could shatter her world-or finally bring her peace.Two decades of unanswered questions. One woman determined to find the truth.Maddie Baker has spent nearly twenty years haunted by her mother's murder-a case shrouded in mystery and buried in a grave of police negligence. When Noah Langley, the new detective on the force, claimed to have solved the crime, Maddie believed she could finally close this agonizing chapter in her life.But Noah got it wrong.A chance meeting with the original detective reignites Maddie's quest for justice. She learns the investigation was deliberately stalled, evidence was hidden, and the case file was destroyed. Fueled with new determination, Maddie vows to uncover the truth herself, no matter the cost. Noah vows to help her.The deeper she delves, the darker the secrets become. Will Maddie find the closure she seeks, or will the shocking revelations force her to reconsider everything she thought she knew?

Rose Gardner Investigations #7.5A Rose Gardner Christmas novella taking place the December after It All Falls DownRose Gardner and her best friend Neely Kate have one wish this Christmas: to celebrate their first holiday season with their babies, surrounded by love and joy. But life, as always, has other plans.For Rose, sharing custody of her niece and nephew with her brother-in-law Mike's parents proves to be more challenging than she ever imagined. The tension escalates, threatening to overshadow the festive season. Meanwhile, her husband Joe faces a surprise visitor who brings unexpected complications to their already chaotic lives.Neely Kate, determined to make this Christmas her best yet after years of heartache, is blindsided when Carter Hale, attorney to the former Fenton County crime lord, delivers devastating news. It's a revelation that could unravel not just her perfect Christmas but the life she's built with her husband, Jed.Told from the perspectives of Rose, Neely Kate, Joe, and James "Skeeter" Malcolm, All I Want for Christmas weaves a story of love, resilience, and the unbreakable bonds of friendship. Will these beloved characters find their holiday miracles, or will this Christmas become yet another battle to overcome?

A new book in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today Bestselling Rose Gardner Investigations series Rose is BACK It's been nearly three years since the fall of the Hardshaw Group, and Rose is living a low-key life in Fenton County. She's happily married to Joe Simmons, raising her own two children along with her niece and nephew, and running her landscape business. Everything is coming up...well...roses And still, when she and her best friend Neely Kate unearth a peculiar wooden box in a client's yard, she finds herself yearning for the good old days of solving mysteries.Be careful what you wish for. Before she can even fight that particular urge, though, a teenage boy shows up asking for protection from "The Lady in Black". There's no denying it. Trouble seems to be landing right on Rose's doorstep just like it used to. And no one knows better than her; trouble always comes in threes...The past is better left behind, but is it ever really gone?

With a friend's child missing, and the police failing, disgraced ex-detective Harper enlists the aid of a former crime boss to untangle a mystery that strikes too close to home.Disgraced, ex-detective Harper Adams is perfectly content wallowing at rock bottom. She's lost her job, house, and reputation, and it only gets worse when she's forced to move back home to Jackson Creek, Arkansas, the one place she swore she'd never return.But everything changes when she gets chilling news. A childhood friend's daughter is missing...and it's eerily reminiscent of Harper's sister's kidnapping and murder two decades ago.Not her business.Except with the police fumbling the case at every turn, Harper realizes she might be the only one who can save the girl.And she might need the help of James Malcolm, a former crime boss, to do it.

Fashion design major Caroline Hunter has always been poor but never struggled with romance...until her senior year. She's gone from a serious long term boyfriend to a string of crappy dates. Then she meets mathematics grad student Reed Pendergraft. Reed is everything she's not looking for. Serious. Headed for a low paying university job. Boring. Caroline spent the first eighteen years of her life wondering where her next meal was coming from. She's not getting trapped in that life again. An encounter with Reed at a club proves she might have pegged him wrong. He brings out a lusty side she never knew she had. But just when she's about to give in to her hormones, Reed makes a fool out of her. When Caroline discovers Reed is the chairman of Southern University's Fall fashion show committee-a fundraiser for underprivileged children-she's horrified. Struggling to endure his strict leadership without losing her heart or her pride, Caroline soon realizes her entire life has been redesigned by the enigmatic Reed Pendergraft.

USA TODAY Bestseller Scarlett Goodwin's world is divided into Before and After. Before she agreed to tutor Tucker Price, college junior Scarlett was an introvert, struggling with her social anxiety disorder and determined to not end up living in a trailer park like her mother and her younger sister. A mathematics major, she goes to her classes, to her job in the tutoring lab, and then hides in the apartment she shares with her friend, Caroline. After junior Tucker Price, Southern University's star soccer player enters the equation, her carefully plotted life is thrown off its axis. Tucker's failing his required College Algebra class. With his eligibility at risk, the university chancellor dangles an expensive piece of computer software for the math department if Scarlett agrees to privately tutor him. Tucker's bad boy, womanizer reputation makes Scarlett wary of any contact, let alone spending several hours a week in close proximity. But from her first encounter, she realizes Tucker isn't the person everyone else sees. He carries a mountain of secrets which she suspects hold the reason for his self-destructive behavior. But the deeper she delves into the cause of his pain, the deeper she gets sucked into his chaos. Will Scarlett find the happiness she's looking for, or will she be caught in Tucker's aftermath? Off the Subject series (stand-alone books)Aftermath (Scarlett's story)Redesigned (Caroline's story)Business as Usual (Lexi's story)

It's time for Carly to go home...The final book in the Carly Moore series. Carly had every intention of heading to Dallas to bring down her father, but not as Wyatt Drummond's hostage. After Wyatt kidnaps her at gunpoint and threatens to turn her over to her father-the man she's spent the past nine months hiding from-she explains that his plan will get them both killed. But then he has a surprising revelation she's not sure she should believe.Marco Roland is devastated when he realizes his girlfriend has been kidnapped, and he'll do anything to save her. Even if it means crossing lines he never thought he'd breach. And back in Drum, Tennessee, Max Drummond is forced to confront ugly truths about his family's past and present.With the help of old friends, Carly must decide who can best help her confront her father with proof of his lies and deceptions. If she doesn't end up murdered first...