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It's 2004. El Federación, the most powerful drug organization in the world, has been exploded, and the Mexican drug trade has settled out into several cartels that exist in a state of tenuous accord. The patron of El Federación, Adán Barrera, is in solitary in a San Diego prison. Art Keller, the DEA agent who put him there, is living at a New Mexican monastery--the solitude and simple truths of the place a powerful antidote to his former life.

Former army ranger Marcus O'Bannion's investigation into the murder of a young girl lures him and homicide detective Scarlett Bishop down a dark, dark road--and straight into the crosshairs of a dangerous underground ring that deals in human trade.

Baltimore prosecutor Daphne Montgomery believes her son's kidnapping is related to a recent high-profile trial in which she helped put a man away for murder. At first FBI special agent Joseph Carter agrees, but together they find the reality even more troubling.

Belfast, 1982. Detective Inspector Sean Duffy finds a torso in a suitcase, but no fingerprints--and no head. As he investigates, he discovers that he's not the only one trying to figure out what happened to this American "tourist."

"Daniels is a perennial favorite on the romantic suspense front, and I might go as far as to label her the cowboy whisperer."--BookPageThey're running for their lives, desperate for a second chance... Once, Alexis Brand and Culhane Travis were partners, both on and off the job. Now the former deputy turned bounty hunter is on her former lover's trail after he's charged with killing the ex-wife Alexis didn't know he had. Burying the feelings that still tie her to him, Alexis tracks down Culhane easily enough.

Eleven years after a string of missing persons cases, one of the victims returns and everyone wants to know what happened to her. But no one is prepared for what she has to say.

Eve Duncan and Joe Quinn must protect the life of a brilliant scientist so that she can live long enough to bring her discovery to the world. Now Eve is trapped in a web of murder and deceit as powerful enemies rush to cover up the truth, determined that Diane's discovery goes with her to the grave, even if Eve and Joe get buried with her.

Three years ago, Madison Culver disappeared. She would be eight years old by now, if she has survived. Desperate, the Culvers turn to Naomi, a PI with an uncanny talent for locating the lost and missing.

Charlie and Margaret Marder, political stars in 1960s Washington, DC, long for a rest, but Attorney General Robert Kennedy asks them to look into a threat to the presidency, and the security of the nation.

When tech millionaire Miles Cookson learns the kids born of his sperm bank donations could inherit the terminal disease he was just diagnosed with, he searches for them. But when he finds one, he learns that the other potential heirs to his fortune are vanishing. Is another heir erasing rivals? Or is it something more sinister?