Karen Robards
21) Guilty
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When Kat White was fifteen, she and some friends held up a store, and a security guard was killed. No one was caught. Sixteen years later, Kat - now Kate - is with the Philadelphia DA, and a single mom. She discovers that she is to prosecute Mario Castellanos, a friend from that terrible night. He's counting on Kate to make sure he's not convicted. When Mario is found dead in her apartment, homicide detective Tom Braga investigates the murder, but...
22) Superstition
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Pawley's Island, South Carolina. Sunny, idyllic, and picture-perfect, until a tabloid news program airs a splashy segment about the community's only unsolved murder - the grisly stabbing of teeager Tara Mitchell and the subsequent disappearance of her two best friends, now thought to be long dead. In the years since the murders, several families have moved into the mansion whre the crime occurred, each claiming that the dead girls still haunt the...
23) Beachcomber
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Taking the summer off from a high-stress job, Bonnie travels to a cozy Carolina beach where she falls for a handsome drifter, but when she realizes that the women in a string of killings all resemble her, she fears she may be next.
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Guardian (Karen Robards) volume 1
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[2017]
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Thief. Manipulator. Con artist. Call it what you willB́ianca St. Ives is the best in the business. Growing up, Bianca St. Ives knew she was different from all her friends. Instead of playing hopscotch or combing her dolls' hair, she studied martial arts with sensei masters and dismantled explosives with special-ops retirees. Her father prepped her well to carry on the family business. Now a striking beauty with fierce skills, the prodigy has surpassed...
26) Vanished
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Bestseller Robards (Superstition) opens her latest romantic thriller with a bang by placing her heroine, assistant district attorney Sarah Mason of Beaufort County, S.C., in the midst of a convenience store robbery gone wrong. A cashier is shot to death, Mason is wounded in the head and a young girl, who was hiding in the store during the gunplay, vanishes. Mason, who has thrown herself into her work with a vengeance since the disappearance of her...
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"Judge Grace Hart seems to have it all: a successful career, a bright, beautiful teenage daughter, and a comfortable home in a quiet Ohio suburb. But beneath the placid veneer, darker truths lie waiting: Her daughter is testing the limits of Grace's patience, exploring a world of liquor and drugs, and a stranger has begun lurking about, threatening their safety and peace of mind."--BOOK JACKET. "Unnerved by the prospect of a stalker, Grace calls the...
28) One summer
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[1993]
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He was pure, unadulterated trouble. Johnny Harris is home again, his too-tight jeans and damn-your-eyes belligerence honed to perfection by a ten-year stretch in federal prison for murder. Now he's out on parole and ready for the job Rachel Grant has promised to help him begin a new life. Unlike the rest of the town, Rachel has always believed in her former student's innocence. But one thing has changed...
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29) Heartbreaker
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[1997]
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TV anchorwoman Lynn, on a horse-riding expedition in Utah, meets Jess, a former agent of the ATF. Separated from the main group, they run into a religious cult planning to detonate nuclear bombs.
31) Paradise County
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The rolling fields of Shelby County are home to some of the finest horseflesh and bluest blood in Kentucky. With its rural beauty and tranquil lifestyle, it is easy to see why the locals call it Paradise County. But beneath the serene exterior lies a dark underside, and an evil that threatens everyone who touches it. Alexandra Haywood and her younger sister, Neely, have always loved Whistledown, the family's magnificent Shelby County horse farm. After...
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Campaign manager Tom Quinlan has his work cut out for him when he is hired to make Ronnie, the young and glamorous second wife of the Honorable Lewis Honnecker, more acceptable to the voters of Mississippi, and his job is made much more complicated when he finds himself falling in love with his client.
33) Nobody's angel
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[1992]
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Ian Connelly, Marquis of Derne, is branded a criminal, sent to the Carolina Colony, becomes the indentured servant of Susannah Redmon, and eventually they fall in love.
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[1995]
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As a woman cleans a funeral home, a corpse leaps off the embalming table. So begins a horror romance featuring Summer McAfee, who runs her own janitorial business. The corpse turns out to be Steve Calhoun, a detective on the run from crooked cops and drug dealers, so badly beaten he resembles a monster. Scalpel in hand, he threatens to cut Summer's throat, ties her with her bra and abducts her. It's the start of a wild adventure in the course of which...
35) Shameless
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Banning sisters trilogy volume 3
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[2010]
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Lady Elizabeth, the youngest and most headstrong of the three Banning sisters, has been engaged three times, and has most scandalously broken off all three engagements. Neil Severin is a wicked rogue, black of heart and black of reputation. A man of no morals, devoid of compassion, he is a government-sanctioned assassin. When circumstances most unexpectedly throw the two together, Beth's life is in danger and Neil finds himself in the unexpected role...
36) Hunter's moon
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[1996]
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When Molly Ballard steals money from the stable where she works, she is seen by FBI agent Will Lyman, who uses his knowledge to coerce her into posing as his girlfriend in an undercover investigation into a racehorse-fixing scheme, setting the stage for danger and love.
37) Maggy's child
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Maggy, having endured twelve years in an abusive marriage to the much older Lyle Forrest for the sake of her son David, finds her defenses crumbling when Nick, her first love and the father of her child, returns to claim her.
38) Irresistible
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Banning sisters trilogy volume 2
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2003.
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"Claire Banning fulfilled every debutante's dream when she married a rich nobleman. Soon, however, the celebrated beauty realizes she wed a dissolute wastrel. Bitterly hurt and desperately lonely, Claire vows nonetheless to take her expected place in society. Then on a journey home to her husband's estate on the coast of Sussex, she is abducted, and her life -- and her heart -- are changed forever"--p.4 of cover..
39) Scandalous
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Banning sisters trilogy volume 1
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c2001
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When Lady Gabrielle Banning receives word that her half-brother, the Earl of Wickham, has died on his tea plantation, she faces the reality that she and her younger sisters are suddenly penniless -- unless she thinks fast. Arranging Claire's London season, Gabby pretends that Marcus is still alive, just until Claire can marry a fabulously wealthy nobleman. But when a handsome gentleman arrives claiming to be Marcus, Gabby's plan backfires. If she...