Bøger af Aaron Paul Lazar

Marcella Hollister's first love, Sky, has been missing for eighteen years. When he sends her a box with precious essential oils, a memory stick loaded with medical and scientific data, and a velvet bag of emeralds, she's bowled over. What does it mean? After all these years, is Sky still alive? Her husband Quinn-a beautiful Native American man who adores her and hates the idea of Sky coming back into her life-is wary about the whole thing. But there's no time to waste, because drug company goons break into their home to demand the memory stick. Links to a newly discovered essential oil with a promising leukemia cure are revealed, and if there's a cure, the greedy company can't sell their lucrative cancer meds. Their goal: to silence everyone involved, including every doctor and patient who took part in the studies.Chased by ruthless thugs through the woods and lakes of the six million acre Adirondack wilderness, Marcella and Quinn must summon courage they never knew they had to fight to save the proof that could change the world.

They say it's better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. Finn McGraw disagrees.He was just seventeen when he had a torrid summer affair with the girl who stole his heart-and then inexplicably turned on him. Finn may have moved on with his life, but he's never forgotten her.Now, ten years later, he's got more than his lost love to worry about. A horrific accident turns his life upside down, resurrecting the ghosts of his long-dead family and taking the lives of the few people he has left.Finn always believed his estranged brother was responsible for the fire that killed their family-but an unexpected inheritance with a mystery attached throws everything he knows into doubt.And on top of that, the beguiling daughter of his wealthy employer has secrets of her own. But the closer he gets, the harder she pushes him away.The Seacrest is a story of intrigue and betrayal, of secrets and second chances-and above all, of a love that never dies."The Seacrest is a poignant love story that will have you reaching for the tissues. Every woman needs a Finn McGraw!" - Victoria Howard, bestselling romantic suspense author of RING OF LIES."At a time when many authors seem to crank out fiction by the numbers, Aaron Paul Lazar invests his whole heart in every book he writes. His stories shine with sensitivity, compassion, and the richness of deeply personal experience." - Michael Prescott, bestselling author of GRAVE OF ANGELS."This book is about love - first love, young love, unrequited love, lost love, and rediscovered love. Simply put, it's a good old-fashioned love story with an ending that will make your heart swell with joy." - Cindy Guest Taylor, notable book reviewer."I just finished reading Seacrest by Aaron Lazar. Let me tell you, ladies... you will LOVE this book! A love story of all love stories, and characters so easy to fall in love with! Aaron has a way of painting a world so descriptive you feel like you're really there. If I had a five star rating system to use, I would give him six!" Heather McLaren, author.

No one could accuse Marcella Hollister's family of being normal. Her gorgeous Native American husband, Quinn, has a compulsive cleaning problem-which works for her, since she gets a pass on housework. Her mother, who insists on being called Thelma, lives to irritate her husband. And then, there's Ruby. Sometimes Marcella's not sure who Quinn loves more...his wife, or his prize parakeet.After Marcella's beloved stepfather passes away, leaving a sizable inheritance, the family heads to the scenic Adirondacks for a much-needed vacation at the prestigious Adirondack National Bird Show. But things soon take a strange turn-a bizarre accident involving Thelma, Ruby, and an electrified hotel pool has Thelma asking for crackers and Ruby suddenly spouting Thelma's favorite phrases.Then Thelma is kidnapped-and Marcella learns that the inheritance her stepfather left may be connected to the largest unsolved bank heist in U.S. history.Now Marcella and Quinn must contend with an eccentric bird psychic, mysterious white vans, aggressive FBI agents, and a dangerous chase through the mountains as they rush to find her mother, with only Ruby's newly acquired "Thelma-vision" to guide them. Can they uncover the secrets buried with her stepfather before it's too late?

A mysterious man with no past, a troubled young woman running from hers...and a powerful love that may heal them both.Scout Vanderhorn has lost her mother, her home, and all hope of security. In a desperate bid to escape her abusive stepfather, she travels to a seaside mansion on Cape Cod in search of the real father she never knew-and finds a secret sister who welcomes her into the family, troubles and all. But it's not long before trouble comes looking for Scout.Unaware of his past, or even his own name, Jack Remington is lost. He spends his days scavenging for survival and compulsively searching the seas in his battered old kayak. At night, alone in his beach cave, he's haunted by nightmares. But from the moment he glimpses Scout, a powerful connection is forged that begins to bring him back from the brink.Neither expects to fall for the other, but Scout and Jack can't deny their explosive mutual attraction. Can this love remake a broken man and save a woman with nothing to lose...before the past drowns them in the oncoming storm?Set on beautiful Cape Cod, The Seadog is a story of trauma and redemption, of mysteries and revelations -- and above all, the incredible power of love.

Some family secrets shouldn't stay buried... Music professor Gus LeGarde and his wife Camille are looking forward to a relaxing vacation at Paines Creek Beach on beautiful Cape Cod. But Gus barely has a chance to feel the sand between his toes before a near-miss car accident drags him right into the middle of a local family feud - and a centuries-old mystery that's begging to be solved.As Gus is drawn further into the conflict between the Cooks and the McNabbs - two families with a grudge going all the way back to Colonial times - he and Camille keep uncovering more questions than answers. Where is the long-lost Cook family treasure? What's really wrong with Beckett, the McNabb-side member who's the father of young Jane Cook's son? And who's telling the truth about Beckett and Jane's clandestine relationship: Jane's grandfather, surly patriarch Albert Cook; or Beckett's slightly odd parents?Before long, mounting tension gives way to true danger as people start vanishing. And in the middle of a fast-brewing hurricane, Gus discovers the real secret at the heart of the feud: someone who will stop at nothing to make sure their side wins. Including murder.Packed with shocking twists, exciting action, and fascinating tales of family lore and pirate treasure, Murder on the Brewster Flats is the first LeGarde Mysteries crossover novel with award-winning author Aaron Paul Lazar's popular Paines Creek Beach series. Don't miss this installment!

How far would you go for your family?Financial struggles have forced Grace Rockwell, along with her husband and their baby daughter, back to the family homestead. Luckily, the move to the Bittersweet Hollow Morgan Horse Farm isn't all bad. Her sister Portia is there with her toddler son, and Grace soon finds a way to improve their finances-by entering riding competitions with her family's gorgeous horses.But the homecoming takes a horrific turn when the babies are abducted, sending both new mothers on a frantic search with few leads.Lollie Belvedere didn't plan to kill her husband. Nor did she know her adopted children would turn out to be kidnapping victims. But something in her snaps the day she's forced to return the babies to their mothers-and now she'll do whatever it takes to get them back.

Grace can't control herself, and the itch is back. She needs someone new, someone different than her loving but boring husband. She wants excitement. Danger.But when she meets Chandler-a man who pursued her through Facebook-she gets more than she bargained for. Their night of sensual sex takes a strange turn, and horror sets in as the picture clears. This man isn't who he says he is, and in spite of the fact that she used a fake name, he knows who she really is.Anderson starts to panic when Grace disappears for yet another steamy escapade. Where is she? And why hasn't she called? Will she ever be cured of her addiction? And why does this time feel so different?Get ready for a roller coaster ride of thrills as a monster from Anderson's past lures Grace into his hold, seeking hot revenge for old wounds.

Falling for the wrong guy can be hazardous to your heart.Vivian Wood is desperate. After her beloved brother dies of a sudden aneurysm and her mother develops Alzheimer's, she needs a good job and a place to stay. She finds it at The Seacroft, a Cape Cod seaside mansion ruled by a mysterious and demanding woman looking for a personal assistant.Vivian soon discovers that being broke and having to deal with her cranky new boss are not her only problems. The gardener at The Seacroft, Cody McGraw, is young, gorgeous, and the bane of her existence-until she starts falling for him.But Vivian isn't the only one captivated by Cody's charms. Their sultry employer quickly takes an interest in him-and the developing relationship between Cody and Vivian is threatened by the loss of their jobs and more, should they upset The Seacroft's exotic mistress.Set against the breathtaking backdrop of the Cape, The Seacroft is a steamy story of difficult choices, heart-wrenching sacrifice, and the ultimate salvation of love.

After two years of brutal captivity, Portia Lamont has escaped and returned to her family's Vermont horse farm-only to find her parents gone to New York to try an experimental treatment for her mother's cancer, and her childhood friend Boone Hawke running the farm. The man Boone has become frightens her to near paralysis, but she's too traumatized and physically devastated to put up a fight. Like the rest of her family, Boone has never given up hope that Portia would return. But when she turns up battered, skinny as a twelve-year-old boy, afraid of everything and unable to talk about what happened, he does the only thing he can-try to help her heal. He summons the town doctor and Portia's parents, and sets out to put this beautiful, broken woman back together again.Through her family's love and Boone's gentle affection, Portia gradually comes back to herself, and starts to fall for her old friend in a whole new way. But one thing threatens her fragile hopes for recovery: The man who took her promised that if she ever escaped, he'd kill her. Slowly. And someone is definitely watching her...waiting to make a deadly move.

Boston, Massachusetts: It's the summer of '69-the parks are flooded with flower children and a hot new band called Led Zeppelin is set to appear at the Boston Tea Party. But for one newlywed couple just beginning their lives together, there will be no peace.In the cradle of sex, drugs, and rock 'n roll, Gus and Elsbeth LeGarde are music students attending the New England Conservatory of Music, after a wedding kept secret from their families. When they discover a bruised and sobbing teenage girl on the Boston Commons who can't remember who she is, or how she got there, the couple decides to "adopt" her to help find her identity.But Gus and Elsbeth aren't prepared to be plunged into a violent world of rape, abuse, and a ring of white slave traders who'll stop at nothing to take back their property-or to acquire new flesh in the form of Gus's beautiful young bride.At times nostalgic, heart-stopping, and breathlessly dramatic, Spirit Me Away is a thrilling romantic mystery set against the colorful backdrop of the sixties-with an unforgettable conclusion at the greatest rock festival of all time.

Summer, 1964: Beatlemania hits the States, and the world mourns the loss of JFK. For eleven-year-old Gus LeGarde, the powerful events that rocked the nation serve as a backdrop for the most challenging summer of his life. After Gus and his best friends capsize their boat at his grandparents' lakeside camp, they witness a drunk chasing a girl through the foggy Maine woods. She's scared. She's hurt. And she disappears. The camp is thrown into turmoil as the frantic search for Sharon begins. Reports of stolen relics arise, including a church bell cast by Paul Revere. When Gus stumbles on a scepter that may be part of the spoils, he becomes a target for the evil lurking around the lake. Will he find Sharon before the villain does? And how can Gus--armed only with a big heart, a motorboat, and a nosy beagle--survive the menacing attacks on his life?

The Genesee Valley is in chaos. Strangers drive panel vans through the countryside at weird hours of the night. A new batch of drugs is on the street, endangering students. The local salt mine collapses due to illegal mining practices. Gas fires burn in water wells. Watering holes turn to brine. Crops are dying. Tempers are short. Forest fires threaten. To top it off, the new mine lies directly over ancient Indian burial grounds, bringing anguish to local tribes and inciting riots at the mine site. As if that weren't enough, Gus LeGarde's country church is hit by a rogue tornado, revealing the bones of a missing parishioner and devastating the dead man's wife. Days later, heroin is found in Gus's elderly minister's bloodstream after his car crashes into a tree in the dead of night. When Gus is thrown into the middle of the madness, he knows life has finally gone berserk in East Goodland, New York. Join Gus as he's lured into a bizarre network of underground tunnels to expose the most shocking discovery ever to rock the Genesee Valley.

The safest place they know is about to become the most dangerous... Marcella's husband, Quinn "Black Eagle" Hollister, severed ties to his family and friends on the Seneca reservation years ago. He rarely mentions his past-until his young cousin Kitty collapses on the couple's doorstep in the dead of a rainswept night.After two Seneca men break into their home with intent to kill, the Hollisters flee with the mute and injured girl to Tall Pines, their cabin in the Adirondacks. Marcella, unable to bear a child of her own, unleashes her motherly instincts caring for Kitty. As the girl slowly recovers, they start to piece together who wants them dead, and why. But their pursuers are canny and relentless. The next attack drives the trio from the sanctuary of Tall Pines, deep into the mountain wilderness.In spite of their best efforts, the unthinkable happens and Kitty is kidnapped. Marcella and Quinn track her back to Tall Pines--where they find themselves facing an army of murderous Seneca who'll stop at nothing to protect their dark secret.

After four lonely years, music professor Gus LeGarde is still reeling from the death of his wife Elsbeth. To deal with the loss, he plays endless Chopin etudes on his piano and lavishes love on his grandson and dog, but nothing lessens the pain. Life spirals out of control when Gus heads for the snow-covered hills on an early morning skiing excursion to find a mute child shackled to a bedpost in a cabin. Gus rescues the child but the kidnapper, Baxter, escapes into the woods to stew in hot revenge. Unexpectedly thrown together with Camille, a social worker who takes the child into her own home, Gus falls hard. The first woman who's stirred his soul since his Elsbeth, Camille is polite enough toward him -- but her own dark secrets have her pulling away despite the mutual attraction. When Gus's little grandson goes missing, he fears the worse. Does Baxter have the little boy? Does he want to trade for the mute child? Gus braces for the fight of his life, struggling to protect Camille and his family before time runs out.

Sam's daughter Beth has been unreachable for days. No ransom note arrives, no kidnapper calls. When Beth's exotic roommate Zafina Azziz arrives on their doorstep worried about Beth's whereabouts, Sam turns to his talisman, a small green marble that links him to the spirit of his brother Billy. Whisked between past and present, he discovers a bizarre link between his daughter and a villain who plots deadly revenge against the President of the United States.

When young Gus LeGarde befriends Tully, a cranky old hermit in the woods who speaks to an Indian spirit, he wonders if the man is nuts. But when the spirit rattles tin cups, draws on dusty mirrors, and flips book pages, pestering him to find evidence to avenge her past, things change fast. What Gus doesn't understand is why his mother hates Tully and forbids him to see the old man. What could Tully have possibly done to earn this distrust?Faced with long-buried family secrets and danger, Gus summons courage beyond his years in this poignant and powerful telling of the sultry summer of 1965.

Music professor Gus LeGarde is about to embark on a European honeymoon with his new wife, Camille, when his socially challenged brother-in-law receives a mysterious invitation to visit an ailing relative in Germany. Siegfried can't travel alone, but the newlyweds have no qualms over bringing him along.Unfortunately, their idyllic vacation takes a dark turn at the first stop in Paris, when Gus and Siegfried are caught in a bloody street brawl with a group of neo-Nazis -- and a flawed news report frames Siegfried for the murder of one of their leaders, thrusting him into the deadly group's crosshairs.After a narrow escape, Gus manages to bring his brother-in-law safely to Germany, where he hopes to both salvage the rest of the honeymoon and explore the shocking family secret that awaits there. But the events they've set in motion have far-reaching consequences, and the ruthless leader of the terrorist faction has lethal plans in store for Gus, Camille, and Siegfried -- and ultimately, the world.

Fifty years ago, Sam Moore's little brother Billy vanished without a trace-leaving Sam with guilt that haunts him to this day.Fifty years with no body, no leads, and no answers. Until now.When Sam unearths a mysterious green marble buried in his garden, he's shocked to find himself transported back in time-to Billy. Whisked between past and present with no warning, and receiving only glimpses of their childhood, he struggles to unlock the secret of his brother's fate.But the marble isn't the only secret the ground holds. Further digging uncovers human remains-the legacy of a serial killer who's been targeting one boy every five years since Billy vanished. The next five-year mark is coming up fast. And now, Sam's grandson may be in the killer's sights.Can Sam tie the past with the present and unravel the mystery of his brother's disappearance-before the killer strikes again?

Past and present collide when an Alzheimer's patient's fragile memory holds the key to solving mysteries dating back to World War II-including a long lost secret love affair.Music professor Gus LeGarde is just doing a favor for a friend when he agrees to play piano for church services at a local nursing home. He doesn't expect to be drawn into a new friendship with an elderly Alzheimer's patient dubbed "the music man" or to stumble across a decades-old mystery locked inside the man's mind.Octogenarian Kip Sterling doesn't know his own name-but he speaks Gus's language, spouting jazz terms like "cadence" and "interlude" and "riff." He's also obsessed with "his Bella," but nobody knows who she is.When Kip is given a new drug called Memorphyl, he starts to remember bits and pieces of his life. Gus learns Bella was Kip's first and only love, but their relationship was shrouded in scandal. Intrigued, Gus agrees to help search for her. Could she still be alive?Horrified when the miracle drug suddenly stops working and patients begin to backslide, Gus panics. Can he help Kip find his beloved Bella before his newfound memories disappear?

Marcella Hollister realized a lifetime of hopes and dreams when she was given custody of a child. A cousin of her half-Seneca husband, Quinn, the baby's mother was murdered in a political plot-and Marcella, who's never been able to have children of her own, formed an instant bond with little Kimi.Then a distant relative comes forward to claim Kimi-and Quinn, who Marcella thought understood her pain better than anyone, allows them to take the baby without a fight.Confused and deeply wounded, Marcella takes off for Tall Pines, their secluded Adirondack cabin. She hopes the peace and natural beauty of the mountains will help clear her head and decide whether to forgive Quinn...or leave him.But the situation at Tall Pines is anything but peaceful. Her high school lover, Sky, arrives to help out-and Marcella discovers her old feelings may not be as distant as she thought. Worse, a serial killer is stalking young women in the area. And when a teen girl whose mother works with Sky goes missing, Marcella and everyone she cares for wind up dead center in the killer's sights.

The Genesee Valley is in chaos. Strangers drive panel vans through the countryside at weird hours of the night. A new batch of drugs is on the street, endangering students. The local salt mine collapses due to illegal mining practices. Gas fires burn in water wells. Watering holes turn to brine. Crops are dying. Tempers are short. Forest fires threaten. To top it off, the new mine lies directly over ancient Indian burial grounds, bringing anguish to local tribes and inciting riots at the mine site. As if that weren't enough, Gus LeGarde's country church is hit by a rogue tornado, revealing the bones of a missing parishioner and devastating the dead man's wife. Days later, heroin is found in Gus's elderly minister's bloodstream after his car crashes into a tree in the dead of night. When Gus is thrown into the middle of the madness, he knows life has finally gone berserk in East Goodland, New York. Join Gus as he's lured into a bizarre network of underground tunnels to expose the most shocking discovery ever to rock the Genesee Valley.