J L Wilson

It's reunion time for Snow White (Natalie DeWitt) and her friends, the Seven Jocks (college classmates). They meet every year and this year Snow's friends decide that she needs a date. Enter Brendan Royal, a law enforcement consultant and an amateur musical actor on the side. Royal introduces Snow to a whole new world of musical theater. It's while they're backstage hobnobbing with the cast that one of the crew lets drop that Royal is actually an FBI agent still on assignment. And his assignment is Snow and her friends. When she confronts him about it, she finds that her past is closer than she knew. Hunter Mann has made it his life's mission to track down all the women who testified against him years ago and pay them back. Every year since his release from prison, one female scholarship athlete has died. Now it's Snow's turn...

Rebeka Evelyn Danforth (Reddy) survived a car crash and now, five years later, she's settling into partial retirement. Then Gideon Jager appears in town and convinces Reddy to help him talk to the people involved in that accident. In the next week, she gets phone threats, is tailgated, and her store is vandalized. The local police think that Gideon is involved because it all started when he appeared. But the timing is consistent with the death of a woman who died in that car crash. Someone is targeting people who were involved. Is it Gideon she needs to worry about? Or does someone else have a grisly checklist of death that they're following...and is Reddy's name next?

Ashley Schone is a widow with a charity wildlife rescue business to run while a developer wants to gobble up her farm. Aden Kingsley is the developer who claims he'll listen to her concerns, but she's suspicious. Then two people associated with the development project are murdered and her beloved father-in-law is injured. Aden jumps in to help her and she has to decide if she'll trust him. She almost loses her chance, though, when the killer comes after her family. Can she save her future and her land? Or will a long-standing hatred stop her from finding a new life with a new love?

Jessa was held prisoner for her first sixteen years until she was freed by Nick Kingson, a young police officer. Now Nick is back to protect her when Jessa's father searches for the daughter he abandoned. There's a lot of money involved and a lot of prestige, and those two elements mean that Jessa may not live to see an inheritance. Jessa and Nick go back to the town where she was once held captive. But she's no longer The Girl in the Tower. Will she get the chance to be the person she was meant to be? Or will an old enemy stop her before she can gain her inheritance?

Charlotte Rochester knows about guarding the vulnerable but this job is more than she bargained for. John Aire, the wealthiest man in town, hired Charlotte to act as a companion to his granddaughter, Adele. Part of her 'companion role' is as a guard to keep Adele safe. Charlie befriends the tweenager. What she didn't count on was a friendship with Aire, an attractive and powerful man. When Adele is kidnapped to be a sacrifice in a twisted religious rite, John and Charlotte must save her. They'll do anything to protect this child from the deadly past that ruined her parents and has haunted John for years. Somehow, along the way, Charlotte needs to decide if there's a place for her among the rich and famous. Is she just the governess that can be disposed of? Or is there another life for her?

Hello, dear reader: My name is Florence Pruitt. I'm a guardian angel. I was tasked with assisting a newly chosen angel learn the ropes (so to speak). He and I were given a mission - to save a young man who was in danger of his life. Tommy Boyd here: what Flo is trying to say is we were sent out to make sure nobody messed with Calvin Booker, an up-and-coming Army officer. His life was in danger and it was our job to make sure nothing happened to him during an upcoming field exercise. Flo again: yes, we are an unlikely pair to be sent on a rescue mission, but it was not our place to question The Powers Who Be. Somehow we managed to adopt a kitten along the way, we learned to trust each other, and we (ahem) discovered our own attraction for each other. Tommy: oh, yeah. We did. Heh. Flo: And we learned that there are many kinds of rescues, both for angels and humans. As long as I was willing to give my life to make it happen.

Theresa "Tug" Gallant was once an obese culinary student, the poor kid in class. Now she owns Tug's Treats, a bakery in a Minnesota resort town. She often finds herself the center of conflict, as some of the townspeople aren't thrilled that Tug creates cakes for gay weddings. Dallas Prinze is a hometown boy who made it big in Hollywood--and he's Tug's former classmate whom she once saved from drowning. But he thinks his rescuer was his now-business partner, Lily Monroe. But Dallas wants to pursue more than a business arrangement with Tug, which puts her in the crosshairs of a vengeful woman. If Tug isn't careful, she may lose the guy, her business, and her life.

Lilith Griffen survived an attack that left her scarred and disfigured. She's now a successful landscape designer with a shot at winning a competition that could give her a financial boost . She just needs a landscape crew. Her father hires Dillan Lyall--a man with a past that's as complicated as hers. She reluctantly accepts Dillan's help. When...

Alice Little and Asa Hatterly, both child geniuses, were barely teens when they met in college and fell in love. War tore them apart when Asa went into the Army as a sharpshooter. They reconnect years later after Asa spent time in prison for a crime he's not even sure he committed. Did he really shoot a man or was he duped into believing he did?...

Jane Austin-college professor and romance novelist-has her first book reviewed by D. Fitzgerald Williams, a professor at nearby Derby College. His condescending tone and dismissive critique irk her, but it's Fitz's support of a nearby construction project that really annoys her. That project will destroy a fragile ecosystem and she's determined to stop it. Then Jane's neighbor, Mr. Collins, is murdered and documents he leaves for her might stop the construction. Fitz gets involved in the legal evaluation of those documents, showing Jane a new side to this complex and interesting man. But just as their romance starts to blossom, Jane uncovers the truth about Mr. Collins and the land used for the construction. She realizes that Fitz might not be all that he appears to be. The big question, though is this: is he the hero or the villain of her romance? It might cost her life to find out.

Hey, y'all-I'm Tucker Frye, pub mistress and transplanted Southerner, minding my bar and my business here in Iowa. Then my nephew, an undercover animal rights activist, was murdered right in my back yard. I've got the evidence that might prove who killed him and it might put that god-forsaken operation out of business. First I need to figure out who I can trust, and that might be tough because as my daddy always said, good men are harder to find than deviled eggs after a church picnic. But I think John Smalley might be a keeper, and Alan Dale, too. With their help, maybe I can make Fitz Agribusiness pay for my nephew's death. Or maybe I'll die trying ...

When Wendy Davis was young, her home was the center of activity for the lost boys, friends of her brothers. One special boy captured Wendy's heart--T. K. Bell, who grew up to become a famous and wealthy computer entrepreneur. One lost boy, Peter Barry, was truly adrift. He had a crush on Wendy and when she rejected him, he ran away, his body later found in the river. The funeral for Wendy's mother brings the lost boys together and brings Bell back into Wendy's life. That's when she finds there are secrets surrounding Peter's death, her mother's final illness, and Bell, who believes her mother was murdered. The fabric of lies comes unraveled when Wendy discovers the truth about the past and the truth about why Bell is back in her life. Is it for love--or for something sinister?

Vivian DuLac, shop owner of Curiosity's Curios and Collectibles, has come into possession of an old sword that Arthur ("Able") Leroy wants. But that's not all that Able wants. He wants Vivian and her connections to her ex-husband, CEO of a large software company.Able follows Vivian to northern Minnesota where her ex-husband is meeting to discuss a merger with another company. It's the one that Able used to own and the one taken from him by his scheming stepsister, Faye Morgan.When Faye dies under unusual circumstances, everyone associated with her comes under suspicion, including Vivian and Able. On a storm-shrouded night, Vivian finds out if she can trust Able. And they both find out if an ancient sword is worth Vivian's life.

Former fashion model, and now tenured professor at a small college, Annabelle C. Doyle ("Acie") is part of a group trying to establish a wildlife sanctuary on a donated parcel of land. When the donor dies under unusual circumstances, the land endowment is put in jeopardy. Unwillingly, Acie and fellow professor Ike Adler are pulled into the investigation. But when the donor's heir is found dead-after arguing with Acie and Ike-they're suddenly in the spotlight and under suspicion. Amidst the investigation, Acie is coerced into coming out of retirement to work on a fashion shoot on campus-a shoot that turns into a real "shoot," with Ike in the crosshairs. Acie may lose not only a chance for the love of her lifetime-she may lose her life.

Cassie Whittington's inheritance of fifteen million dollars has been put on hold while vengeful family members contest the will. But the potential loss of wealth is the least of her worries -- her ex-husband has re-entered her life and is wrecking havoc on her relationship with Sam Barlow, her boss at the landscape company. Cassie has to make a choice: return to her old life with Charlie or start a new life with Sam. An added complication is a police investigation involving Livvie, Cassie's dearest friend, and Livvie's fiance, who is accused of murdering the head chef at a prestigious local restaurant. Truffles and treachery may combine, preventing Cassie from making any choices ever again....