Showing results by narrator "Craig Hart" in Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mark Norman can’t catch a break—until he’s hired as a live-in home health aide for two elderly siblings who live at Alden Manor, a run-down mansion mired in the past. His charges, former stage magicians Roy and Alma Walgrave, give off an eerie vibe, but they are also wealthy and careless with their money. Seizing the opportunity, Mark soon makes himself indispensable to the old folks, losing himself in fantasies of inheriting the Walgrave fortune upon their deaths.

Freelance contractor for security and intelligence, Decker Ashford's a rugged and tough ranch manager with a brain to match. But when a woman dies in his arms on a dark road, Deck's hellbent on uncovering the mystery behind her death.

Reggie Christian asked something of me that I’ve never done before: to lie to his brothers. In the grand scheme of things, he asked much more than that. The first was to deceive both Jordan and Logan, but the next was something I never expected. He wanted me to protect his little sister. Madigan is the hidden love child who’s been their father’s best-kept secret for all these years, even from his own sons.

A secret they intended to take to the grave, but the dead will tell...In 1945, Liv commits an unspeakable act. She flees from her life, but all actions have consequences. Twenty years later, she's drawn back to Northern Michigan where it all began. Dead Stream Curse weaves together the past and present in a chilling ghost story filled with mystery.

The man sitting by my hospital bed is my husband: the kind of man a woman doesn’t forget. And yet, I don’t recognize him. I can’t remember anything of our life together, or the love we shared. Even as his touch sets my body on fire and I learn to crave his discipline, my memories remain hidden from me. I need answers. But the more I search for them, the clearer it becomes that remembering may cost me everything.

Charlotte Wilde's life is a flop. She gives her heart to the wrong men and her first published book is a failure. Desperate to pay the bills, she takes a job caring for an elderly woman. Yet as Charlotte gets to work, dutifully helping Mrs. Lanigan sort through a box of old letters, distractions abound. For one thing, both women immediately become consumed with a mystery unfolding in the correspondence. And to complicate matters further, Charlotte finds herself drawn to her charge's son, Ardan, like they've known each other forever.

As the nation’s youngest virologist and hematologist, Captain Sophia Perry has always been one step ahead of her peers. But there’s one thing she can’t beat - cancer. She wants to make a difference in the time she has left, so when she’s sent to investigate a breakout at a Syrian refugee camp, she goes, saying nothing of her diagnosis. But saving the masses isn’t easy when the man tasked to protect her is so irresistible.

Tre Sullivan has never met a woman like Caroline Clifton. In so many ways, she’s everything he’s not. She’s bubbly, effusive, affectionate, filled with wonder, and - oh, yeah - she’s not a bear shifter, like him. Tre, along with seven others, has found himself catapulted into a new adventure where their souls are at stake and a demon is haunting their every footstep. Their newest quasi-ally, the demon’s former right-hand-man, Arturo, is creepy, ornery, and not making things any easier for the group.

Zane Shaw needs a fresh start. After his fiancé called off their wedding, he left his failed relationship to run the family restaurant back home. And just when he thinks he’s sworn off emotions for good, a former fling residing in Cliffside Bay reignites his broken heart. Honor Sullivan thought she had escaped her abusive background. But the terror returns when she learns the man who hurt her is out of prison. And when a dead bunny appears on her porch, she turns to her old crush Zane for the protection she so desperately desires.

Kane: Unhappily married. Yeah, that sums up my life. I messed up with that shit decision. I still have my sister though. When I attend her wedding, I run into an old friend. Ivy. When she admits that she had feelings for me, I take her home like any good man would do. I didn't expect all the complications that came with it though. She was used before me, and I want to show her that I'm not the same as him. The problem is, I am.

Wren is the one woman I shouldn’t have feelings for, but I’ve been in love with her since I met her. Months have past, but when I see her in New Orleans I can sense she's running from something. I know it isn't my responsibility but it feels like I need to help her. Even more than that, it's the perfect opportunity to right my wrongs. Only, I get more than I could've bargained for. What I never imagined was for her to run again. This time straight into the clutches of her sadistic ex, putting her life in more danger than before.

One-night stands are kind of my thing. Hit it and run because I have no desire to get tied down to a woman. Honestly, I have no desire to see the women I get in bed more than once. We can pass on the cuddling, coffee dates, and telling each other all our hopes and dreams. I'm just not that guy. At least, I wasn't, until a beauty - unlike anything I've ever seen - ambushed my life by walking into the bar, one night.

A cruise-ship romance with Navy SEAL Tristan Halliday was one thing, but now he's back, wanting more. His can-do attitude and mouth-watering sex appeal make him hard to resist, and she could use his special skills to hunt down her parents' murderer. But private investigator Juliet Rhodes prefers being single and working alone. Unfazed by Juliet's bristling independence, Tristan helps her scour San Francisco's art district, finding and confronting top suspects.

When adventurer Maxwell Barnes and his team uncover clues about a lost gold mine in Mexico's Sonoran desert, they think they've struck fortune's motherlode. But after a treacherous tumble down a rocky hillside, they discover something far more valuable buried beneath: something with unimaginable power.

Worthington Investigations is on another grisly case in the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains. When P.I. Shauna Pratley heads up the investigation for Christopher Newen, a rural firefighter, she wants only to solve his father's murder, not fall in love. How will they work together to find a killer without letting love get in the way? Will they have to admit maybe God has used the horrors of evil to bring them together for good?

Graduate student Maddie Clare is never talking to her ex-boyfriend Joze Evans or God again. Still broken from Joze's betrayal, Mattie has to go home for her Aunt Lonna's funeral. But after a run-in with a stalker - who insists Maddie knows the secret that had Aunt Lonna investigating him - Mattie is afraid for her life and must accept Joze's protection.

Steve wants to leave his old life behind, the life of killing and waiting to be killed. But when it's the family business, it can be a hard habit to break.

Navy SEAL Lt. Mitch Thoreau’s vacation to Spain coincides with Catalonia’s bid for independence. On the streets of Barcelona, the tension between the separatists and the national police suggests imminent unrest - not the best time for a vacation. Meeting the proprietress of Hotel Leonardo makes it all worthwhile.

Private investigator Ava Worthington and her partners head to the mountains to solve the death of a farmer’s son. Without local cowboy Cory Mortel's protection, Ava won’t get the chance to follow leads as the killer tries to stop her investigation. But Cory seems reluctant to get involved. Cory Mortel has retreated to the seclusion of the mountains after a personal disaster. The last thing he needs is to babysit a beautiful amateur detective and her friends. But Ava seems to attract danger, so Cory has choice but to step in and protect her.

The notorious Rattlers motorcycle club didn't have an official exit policy. So, Austin Conrad wrote his own when he decided to get the hell out. Now, he's the target of the MC's ruthless president, who's hellbent to silence Austin to keep his own dark secrets buried. Set along the back roads of Southern California's Mojave Desert, the story comes to its thrilling climax among the abandoned ghost town of Amboy. When Austin is waylaid by a crew of murderous thugs from a rogue faction of the club, the hunters become the hunted.