The man Josie had loved her whole life, her husband, Paul, left her without a word of explanation the day after their 1st anniversary.
Years later, Josie's made a comfortable, uncomplicated life for herself, and a success of her bookstore, INK, in Millerton, her small home town near Toronto. She's well-liked and respected...and more than a little attracted to her best friend's brother, Marsh. The handsome ex-Marine is now a private detective who has loved Josie since they were teenagers, but Paul was always in the way, and she loved him. Now, Marsh feels it's time to renew his friendship with Josie, and maybe even win her heart, and it's going well...until Paul turns up like proverbial bad penny. Only this time, he's brought with him his supermodel wife, Angelique. Although emotionally shattered by the way Paul and Angelique treat her, Josie maintains her calm exterior. She focuses, instead, on Marsh and their growing relationship, which begins to turn into something deeper and lasting...until rumors begin that Josie's stalking them, bent on taking revenge on Paul's new wife. When Josie's accused of murdering Angelique, it's up to Marsh to uncover the truth. Can Marsh and Josie survive being BETRAYED BY LOVE?
Libby McKinmer
Libby McKinmer
...As midnight approached, he pulled his last letter off the laser printer in his den, a small smile on his face. He’d written responses to the women who’d answered his ad. Among this select group, was his next prey.
Tonight his snares would be laid and he would begin to bait his trap.
He could feel the gratifying pounding of his blood and the surging in his groin as he left his den. Through the twilight, he walked a few blocks, opened the mailbox and deposited his letters.
“Soon, my sweetling, soon.”
Blood throbbed brightly as his voice caressed the threat...
Melissa Miller thinks her life is going along just fine. She’s a respected young architect who is in partnership with her fiancé, Jackson Tobin, in the plum real estate development, Fox Hollow. She enjoys her work and is content with her life.
Until Jackson, and all the company’s money, disappears...and Melissa discovers she’s in debt for four million dollars to loan shark, John Axelson. She hires sexy PI Rees McAllister and the two of them come up with a plan to let Jackson pay his own dues.
With Keeshond hero, Augie, the final showdown pits Melissa against her ex-fiancé and his new wife.
When another crime of sexual assault is reported, detective Emily Evans is assigned the case. Find the serial rapist who’s attacking successful, professional women while leaving no clues behind. Emily’s younger sister had been raped and murdered three years earlier, and her murderer had evaded capture. Now Emily has the opportunity to stop a rapist in her own city.
But there’s significant danger in setting a trap for so violent a criminal. The bait must be perfect and Emily has no plan to put anyone but herself at risk.
As she talks to victims, she discovers their common link is dating through the personals. That sends Emily to meet Mac Landon, the GQ-looking bachelor who edits the advertising section of The Yorkton Daily Gazette. Though Emily is attracted to Mac, her first priority, she tries to tell herself, is to solve the case.
Emily begins dating through the personal ads despite Mac’s worry, and soon a darker presence begins to cast its shadow. And as the killer stalks Emily, will Mac find her in time to help her stop the rapist—or will their newfound love be stopped in its tracks?
