Pursuing a career as an arson investigator after a fire destroys her family's pizzeria, Reena Hale embarks on a relationship with Bo Goodnight and finds herself targeted by an arsonist who taunts her with threatening phone calls.

Returning to the Maryland hometown where her father died under mysterious circumstances, Clare Kimball finds herself falling in love with town sheriff and former bad boy Cameron Rafferty before a dangerous evil from the past returns to haunt her.

Seeking to rebuild his life, ex-Baltimore cop Nate Burke takes a job as Chief of Police in the tiny, remote Alaskan town of Lunacy, where he comes face to face with the independent Meg Galloway and an unsolved fifteen-year-old-crime.

Celebrity photographer Bryan Mitchell specializes in seeing the best in people, but the cynical, brooding photojournalist Shade Colby is making her life a living hell. Being forced to spend the summer on a cross-country photo shoot is less than ideal. Bryan and Shade disagree about everything -- everything, that is, except the fierce attraction they have for each other. But they will have to set their differences aside if they want to give their love...

"A ... novel of a mother and a daughter, of ambition and romance, and of a traumatic past reawakened by a terrifying threat ... Adrian Rizzo was seven when she met her father for the first time. That was the day he nearly killed her--before her mother, Lina, stepped in. Soon after, Adrian was dropped off at her grandparents' house in Maryland, where she spent a long summer drinking lemonade, playing with dogs, making a new best friend--and developing...