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SHADOW AND SILK (reissue) Originally published under Ann Maxwell in January 1997. ISBN-10: 142010439X ISBN-13: 978-1420104394 Publisher: Zebra September 2008    A SPLIT SECOND IS ALL IT TAKES... Professor Dani Warren was willing to risk her reputation searching for that priceless piece of sacred Tibetan silk. And if she had to trust mysterious "risk-management specialist" Shane Crowe to help her recover it, she was willing to take the gamble—even if the real danger lay in Shane's fierce desire to protect her at all costs... FOR DESIRE TO TURN DEADLY Shane suspected there was a lot more to this recovery job than his clients were letting on—even if they were Tibetan monks. And with his company's reputation on the line, he had no choice but to rely on Dr. Warren's expertise in his search. But Dani's surprising savvy in handling big-time trouble was shaking up the icy concentration and well-honed instincts Shane relied on most. And now every move, every heated embrace was bringing them closer to the treasure of two lifetimes—and an unthinkable choice...

BLUE SMOKE AND MURDER Hardcover ISBN: 0060829850 Publisher: William Morrow & Co June 2008    Jill Breck was just doing her job as a river guide when she saved the life of Lane Faroe, son of two of St. Kilda's Consulting's premier operators. But when a string of ominous events—including a mysterious fire that kills her great aunt and a furor in the Western art world raised by a dozen Breck family paintings—culminate in a threat to her life, Jill reluctantly calls in a favor. Zach Balfour works part-time as a consultant for St. Kilda. His expertise is gathering and analyzing information from unlikely and often dangerous sources. Though he's got the skills to be a highly effective bodyguard, being a bullet catcher isn't his preferred way to spend time. Protecting Jill will take him into familiar territory—among a strange, savagely competitive bunch of collectors who'll do anything to stay at the top. But Jill is in deeper waters than she's ever known; as she soon discovers, the perils of running wild rivers are tame compared to the hidden dangers in the high-stakes game of art collecting. From the cozy rooms of the Breck homestead cabin to the cold multi-million dollar galleries of the Western art circuit, Zach and Jill must race against time to unmask a ruthless killer hidden in a blue smoke of money, threats, lies, and death . . .

INNOCENT AS SIN Hardcover ISBN: 0060829826 Publisher: William Morrow & Co July 2007 First Time in Paprback Mass Market Paperback ISBN: 0060829842 Publisher: Avon May 2008       One day Kayla Shaw was an underpaid and under-appreciated private banker in Arizona. The next day, someone tried to kidnap her. One day Rand McCree was painting daffodils in the Pacific Northwest rain. The next day, St. Kilda Consulting offered him something he'd wanted for five years: the name of his twin brother's murderer. Kayla had nowhere to turn, nowhere to run, no one to believe that she wasn't a money launderer hiding hundreds of millions of dollars. She was trapped. Until Rand McCree appeared, offering safety. For a price. Kayla didn't want to trust him, but had no real choice. No police would believe that she had been set up, that she was innocent. And no civilian alone could stand against the international criminal who wanted her dead. Even her own government was suspect. Rand trusted Kayla as much as he trusted anybody—not much—but what he really wanted was revenge for his brother's death. Everything else came last. Then the man who had killed Rand's brother sent a killer after Kayla Shaw. The violence of the past exploded into the present, leaving only a future that might be too dangerous to survive....