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• Every Breath You Take
  by Judith McNaught
  A single night of passion with enigmatic billionaire Mitchell Wyatt on the tropical island of Anguilla draws Kate Donovan into the middle of a perilous criminal case when police suspect that Mitchell may have been responsible of the disappearance and possible murder of his own brother.
• Family Ties
  by Danielle Steel
  Years after gaining unexpected custody of her sister's three small children, a woman experiences emotional division when the grown children choose very different paths in life, in a tale set in Manhattan, Paris and Tehran.
• The Deep Blue Sea for Beginners
  by Luanne Rice
  A desperate heiress flees across the ocean to the isle of Capri in search of her mother, an effort that is shaped by colorful expatriates and an unlikely love affair.
• Midnight Crystal
  by Jayne Castle
  Adam White, the new head of the local Ghost Hunter Guild, enlists the aid of psychic private investigator and dreamlight reader Marlowe Jones to help him break a legendary curse and save the underworld.
• Fired Up
  by Jayne Ann Krentz
  After nightmares and blackouts signal the presence of a family curse, Jack Winters seeks the Burning Lamp in hopes of preventing his transformation into a monster, enlisting the help of Chloe Harper, an alluring private investigator with special powers.
• Stay a Little Longer
  by Dorothy Garlock
  A source of strength for her neighbors and friends, midwife Louise Watkins finds herself intensely drawn to a disfigured veteran who does odd jobs around the house, an enigmatic stranger who seems so mysterious yet so familiar.
• Tough Customer
  by Sandra Brown
  Entreated by his former lover, Caroline, to help protect her daughter from a depraved man who has been stalking her, staff investigator Dodge Hanley teams up with a small-town sheriff and enlists methods from his own shady past to find answers.
• Deeper Than the Dead
  by Tami Hoag
  A California town is rocked to its core when four children stumble upon a murder victim, drawing Special Agent Tony Mendez into a search for a psychopathic serial killer called the "See-No-Evil" killer.
• Cold as Ice
  by Anne Stuart
  Peter Jensen, an undercover operative posing as Harry Van Dorn's personal assistant, must choose between endangering his mission or saving the life of a beautiful lawyer who has become trapped in Van Dorn's sick game.

Compiled by Ruth Spurlock | Summaries from ContentCafe | November 2010