Susan Andersen

When photographer Nick Coltrane saunters into Daisy Parker's office, all she sees is the man who broke her heart nine years ago. Never mind that he wants to hire her as his bodyguard - ah, security specialist - or that her fledgling company desperately needs the cash flow.

Nothing beats those New Orleans boys – well, except maybe a New Orleans police detective! Prim and proper Juliet Rose Astor Lowell doesn't want her body guarded by anyone while she's in New Orleans for the grand opening of Daddy's new hotel, especially not by consummate macho cop Beau Dupree. He's just too big, too pushy, too virile, too everything!

A tragic childhood and a doomed marriage have forced Emma Sands to do what she does best: run. Now, she and her young daughter have arrived in Washington State's Port Flannery, a remote fishing village where no one knows who she is, or where she is going.

For him, the thrill lies in the hunt. In striking only when the moon is full. In his victims' agony as he leaves them with the perfect calling card: a broken heart carved into their chests.

Aunie Franklin could still remember the murderous gleam in her ex-husband Wesley's dark eyes when he promised her: “You'll pay for leaving me, Aunie.” Fleeing Atlanta for the Pacific Northwest, Aunie prayed that he'd never find her.

Most men who see Amanda Charles dance worship her from afar, but one admirer is getting to close to the glamourous showgirl – perilously close. The looks, the style, and the grace that make Amanda shine on stage have now made her that target of a serial killer, a man who will stop at nothing in order to add Amanda to his trophy collection.