Winner! Best Mystery/Suspense from the eFestival of Words Independent Book Awards! 5-Star Review "Dangerous Embrace is the perfect kind of romantic thriller. There was plenty of suspense, but the evolving relationship between Sarah and Mark is what really made me love the story." ~New York Times Best Selling Author, A.L. Jackson Sometimes Love is Worth the Risk Sarah Jennings knows fear. After escaping an abusive relationship eight years ago, Sarah finally has the quiet life she’s always wanted, and she’s less fearful than she’s ever been. Until a random act of brutal violence reminds her that safe is only an illusion. Mark Summers’ plan was always to marry his high school sweetheart and have a large family with her. He never doubted this plan until he finds his wife in the arms of another man. Left heartbroken, he devotes himself to running his security business and following his passion for protecting the vulnerable. And Sarah Jennings is as vulnerable as they come. Scared and wanting to run again, Sarah can’t deny there’s something extraordinary about this handsome stranger dead set on protecting her. Mark will stop at nothing to keep her safe from the madman out to get her, but as love becomes a distraction, he realizes he might be in over his head. Just as things start to settle down and Sarah feels safe again, her past comes back and threatens her happily ever after. Mark will have to rewrite the rules if he wants to save the woman he loves and secure their future together.

A story taking place on either side of Lethal Seduction finds celebrity magazine writer Madison Castelli digging into her mob hitman father's past in order to discover the truth about her mother's death and encountering a vortex of greed, lust, and deception that threatens her life. Reprint.

Works originally published separately: New York: Silhouette Books, c1986.

Winner! Best Romance! 2015 Best Indie Books Awards 5-Star Review "As always, the writing is smooth, elegant, and engaging. The characters are wonderfully complex, the "good guys" both flawed and lovable, and the "bad guys" so subtly chilling they will make your skin crawl." ~Lisa Regan, USA Today & Wall Street Journal bestselling author of the Detective Josie Quinn series. Sometimes second chances are deadly. The Past... As childhood sweethearts, Brian and Melissa's plans were simple: finish school, get married and live happily ever after. But. unfortunately, life didn't go as planned. Melissa went away to college, and Brian married her best friend. The Present... Seventeen years have passed, and Brian's stable family life has come crashing down around him. His wife's a cheater, his teenage daughter is hiding things from him, and Melissa is back in town to remind him of what he lost all those years ago. Melissa's returned home, ready to forgive and focus on her future, but that all changes the day she gets a desperate phone call from Brian's daughter, Erin. Thrown back into Brian's tumultuous life, Melissa struggles to move beyond the pain of his broken promise. The Future... While working together to save Erin from the evil web she's caught in, Melissa and Brian fight to fix the past or face losing each other all over again.

Pakistan and America have been gripped together in a deadly embrace for decades. For half a century American presidents from both parties pursued narrow short-term interests in Pakistan. This myopia actually backfired in the long term, helping to destabilize the political landscape and radicalizing the population, setting the stage for the global jihad we face today. Bruce Riedel, one of America's foremost authorities on U.S. security and South Asia, sketches the history of U.S.-Pakistani relations from partitioning of the subcontinent in 1947 up through the present day. It is muddled story, meandering through periods of friendship and enmity. Riedel deftly interprets the tortuous path of relations between two very different nations that remain, in many ways, stuck with each other. The Preface to the paperback provides an inside account of the discovery of Osama bin Laden's Abbottabad hideout that led to the al Qaeda leader's demise. Accusations of Pakistani complicity in harboring bin Laden once again dramatized the ambivalence and distrust existing between two nations that purport to be allies. Riedel discusses what it all means for the war on terror and the future of U.S.- Pakistani relations. Praise for the hardcover edition of Deadly Embrace "Mr. Riedel, who has advised no fewer than four American presidents, knows power from the inside—something he is keen to share with the reader.... His book provides a useful account of the dysfunctional relationship between Pakistan and America." — The Economist "Bruce Riedel has produced an excellent volume that is both analytically sharp and cogently written. It will engage both specialists and the interested public. Essential reading."—Peter Bergen, author of Holy War, Inc. and The Osama bin Laden I Know "Riedel lucidly provides an overview of the last thirty years of Pakistan's internal politics, its relationship with the United States, as well as the various i