Bøger af Debra Webb

USA TODAY Bestselling Author Two special agents take on an impossible mission... To save Christmas and each other. Special agent Jamie Colby is on a can't-fail mission. Kidnappers need her unique skills and have leveraged her family to get them. Her partner, Kendrick Poe, is a bonus for the abductors. But with ransom and reunion complicating the assignment, Jamie and Kendrick will have to break every professional rule to rescue loved ones caught in the cross fire. An unexpected dangerous attraction is the least of their troubles but could prove to be deadly if they're not careful. Join USA TODAY bestselling author Debra Webb as the Colby Agency series returns with the next generation! From Harlequin Intrigue: Seek thrills. Solve crimes. Justice served. Discover more action-packed stories in the Colby Agency: The Next Generation series. All books are stand-alone with uplifting endings but were published in the following order: Book 1: A Colby Christmas Rescue

Everyone has the option to live a more meaningful life by shifting how we approach each day. Using daily practice in becoming aware of how we are tackling our thoughts and actions can lead to a more joyful way of living. Practicing Mindful Living encourages each of us to examine our thinking with reflection and practical next steps to engage us in living a more balanced and centered life Monthly themes such as life cycles, healthy aging, forgiveness, courage, compassion, and balance help extend our perspective. With the growing number of people interested in slowing down enough to read and respond to short easy reading reflections Practicing Mindful Living provides one more answer. We gain one more way to think about the times we struggle and the times we find joy. The month long study on a particular theme helps us focus on emotional health and happiness while opening the mind, body and spirit to the possibility all around them. For anyone wanting to be intentional in developing their awareness and response will benefit from using this book in their practice.

Depraved is the tenth book in the bestselling, critically acclaimed Faces of Evil series. The finale is coming! Are you ready? Have you ordered Heinous, book 9? Don't miss a single book in this terrifyingly fast paced series! The serial killer obsessed with Deputy Chief Jess Harris has finally been cornered but the body count is still rising. With only the two-book finale left, the Faces of Evil series has reached critical mass. Chief of Police Dan Burnett is on administrative leave, his life is falling apart and the remains of the detective he is suspected of murdering have been found. Worse, his missing ex-wife is back to finish something she started years ago--putting a bullet in his head. Deputy Chief Harold Black has assumed the post of Birmingham's top cop, a dream of his for more than a decade--but why is he suddenly second guessing the events that put him there? Private Detective Buddy Corlew is poised face to face with serial killer Eric Spears and Jess Harris has just learned that everything she thought she knew about where she came from is a lie. There's only one way to end this--someone has to die... Don't miss the next book in the decade's best series! See why readers and reviewers alike are saying you can't put these books down once you start reading!

The Faces of Evil continues with book 8! Deputy Chief Jess Harris knows her time is running out. Somehow she must protect the people she loves and any more innocent victims from the serial killer obsessed with her. Is sacrificing herself the only way to stop this evil? A child is abandoned on a downtown Birmingham street.The little blond-haired, brown-eyed girl could be Jess's child. A note is attached to the little girl's pink dress: Take me to Deputy Chief Jess Harris. Can Jess and her major crimes team find the little child's mother before it's too late? The search for the truth leads Jess to a farm outside a small Alabama town where someone has been planting bodies for decades. Has Jess discovered a serial killer more prolific than Eric Spears? Even more terrifying, is this killer somehow connected to Jess?

"Crime analyst and newly disgraced deputy police chief Vera Boyett doesn't visit home often, and she certainly doesn't venture back into the cave on her family land. But when the remains of her long-missing stepmother are discovered, Vera will have to face a past that threatens all she is. She and her sister Eve had a fairy-tale childhood: good until it was tragic, with a stepmother they never found a bond with. At least they had each other, a baby half-sister, and a mutual devotion that would have them do the unthinkable. It's a summer in small-town Tennessee, so thick with humidity it could drown you and so rife with secrets it could smother you. And deep beneath the surface, there are more bodies than you'd think..."--

The body count is rising. The serial killer obsessed with Birmingham's Deputy Chief Jess Harris is getting closer, and he knows Jess's secret. Can she protect the child she carries and the people she loves from Eric Spears and his followers? The body farm discovered outside a small Alabama town has many buried secrets. Is the truth about Jess's past buried there too? Will learning what really happened to her mother and father help Jess stop the killer determined to have her? Only three more levels in the Faces of Evil series! Don't miss this one!

Sometimes what you don't see can get you killed... Alex Jackson built Never Happened--a cleanup service that specializes in erasing all evidence of a homicide or suicide or any other serious mess--from the ground up. The small company keeps her financially secure and independent. But being independent can be lonely sometimes, and all the money in the world can't hold her tight when she climbs into bed at night. When a high-tech gadget she discovered at her latest suicide cleanup gets a detective--and former lover--killed, Alex is propelled into the kind of dangerous plot spy novels are made of. Wyatt Murphy, the brooding deep cover agent shadowing her every move, makes Alex yearn for things she's never wanted before. But can Alex trust the sexy stranger to keep her safe without stealing her heart?

"Smart, savvy, sexy and a slammin' great read. I LOVE Jackie Mercer!" Cindy Gerard, NYT bestselling author DECEPTION Jackie Mercer can't abide deception. Hey, a woman who single-handedly built the Mercer Detective Agency from the ground up has a right to expect honesty in a relationship. Tell that to the creep who, only this morning, she thought might be Mr. Right. Wrong! DANGER Her day only gets worse from there. An ominous message arrives accompanied by the photo of a man she hasn't seen in ten years: You were the last one to see him alive. DESIRE Jackie's own first rule is simple: never mix business with pleasure. Unfortunately the only applicant for the investigator position she badly needs filled is a hunky younger man. Derrick Dawson has pleasure written all over his rock-hard body and soon both her business and her world quickly spin way out of control. Time for chocolate and a shot of Old No. 7-not necessarily in that order. DISASTER She's in real trouble when a second message, this one including a dead body, drops into the mix. Jackie does what any smart Texas woman would do: she kicks butt and takes names, while the mystery spiraling around her long lost lover and her attraction to Derrick Dawson plunge her into a tangled web of shocking secrets and deadly deceptions. Jackie has her hands full and her heart on the line-time to play DIRTY.

Julie Barton is in serious trouble. She recently discovered that her husband is a cheater. If that isn't bad enough, she also learned that the man she thought she knew and loved is deeply involved in illegal activities. When she walked out, determined to start over, she had no idea just how far the man who had vowed to love and to cherish her would go to make her sorry until she found him murdered--in her bed. Now, the only person who believes her story is, unfortunately for Julie, the one man with the most to gain from the murder.

Finally, the much anticipated Christmas prequel novella to the blockbuster thriller OBSESSION is here! Ten years ago... Special Agent Jess Harris has closed another tough case and now she's determined to make it home to spend Christmas with her only family, her sister. Jess needs a break and taking it far away from work is the only way to keep her mind off the many faces of evil waiting in the stack of case files on her desk. Running into the past wasn't part of the plan... Daniel Burnett was Jess's first love. She'd fallen hard for him in high school. Together they'd gone off to college with big dreams. But not all dreams come true. Jess hasn't seen Dan in ten years when they run into each other on Christmas Eve night...yet no force on earth can keep them apart.

Sometimes trust can be dangerous... Elizabeth Young is FBI agent Collin MacBride's prime suspect in the murder of a prominent Manhattan psychiatrist-the one and only lead in an ongoing investigation. Elizabeth had motive-her affair with the doctor hadn't ended well. She had means-the exquisite antique dagger she'd given him as a gift was buried to the hilt in his chest. She had opportunity-dinner with Elizabeth had been penciled in on the doctor's calendar for the night he was murdered. Yet, Mac can't bring himself to believe she did it. But is he thinking like an investigator or like the man who wants Elizabeth all to himself. Elizabeth is terrified that Collin MacBride will learn her secret. Somehow she must convince him that she's innocent without allowing the determined agent to discover the truth. If she can just find the very intimate and very erotic video her former psychiatrist had blackmailed her with, just maybe she can escape a murder charge. But when female patients of the late doctor start being murdered one by one, Elizabeth understands that she is on that same murder list and MacBride is the only man who can save her...

Serial killer Eric Spears is far from done. He has chosen his next victim and Deputy Chief Jess Harris knows it's only a matter of time until he comes for her. The murders are vicious, the killer relentless. Has Birmingham's major crimes team run into its most baffling and deadly case yet?

As Birmingham's Medical Examiner, Dr. Sylvia Baron spends her time unraveling the secrets the dead keep. But Sylvia has a secret of her own that has haunted her for twenty years. Recent events have forced her to see how very precious life really is and she is determined to stop taking a single moment of hers for granted. She goes to private investigator Buddy Corlew for help. Trouble is, Corlew has a reputation for unraveling the ladies as well as the cases he accepts. Before Sylvia gets charmed out of more than her deepest secret by the enigmatic PI, she's summoned to a bizarre murder scene that will shake the city, as well as the Birmingham PD, to its very core. Working with Deputy Chief Jess Harris and her major crimes team, Sylvia is drawn into the most challenging case of her career.

A Place to HideBy Debra WebbKeeping her son safe is all that matters¿

"Legal investigator Finley O'Sullivan has dealt with her share of shady characters, but the firm's latest client has an even darker past than most. In fact, Nashville Metro Police seems to think he's a murderer. Finley isn't so sure. Her investigation into Ray Johnson's history focuses on the unsolved murder of a teenager who died thirteen years earlier. The case went cold, but questions remain. After the girl's death, people close to her started disappearing Ray's brother first, then the girl's mother. But why? As Finley races to solve a decade-old murder, she uncovers new clues and long-buried secrets that could blow the case wide open. But whoever killed the girl all those years ago may still be a threat and now the chase is on"--

"Legal investigator Finley O'Sullivan has had a difficult year in the wake of her husband's murder. But in her line of work, there's no time to grieve. Her job is to protect the firm's clients and defend their innocence through grueling investigative work. Ellen Winthrop is a force to be reckoned with in the financial world. In a male-dominated industry, she shattered the glass ceiling by empowering and promoting women. But now her husband is dead, killed in the Winthrop family home-and she stands accused of his murder. Finley, as the investigator at the firm Ellen Winthrop hired to defend her, has a clear objective: prove that Ellen didn't do it. But the deeper Finley digs into the Winthrops' marriage, the more she starts to doubt Ellen's story. The uncomfortable truth is that Ellen Winthrop may in fact have killed her husband. And he might not have been the first"--

"Legal investigator Finley O'Sullivan searches for evidence the police overlooked, wading through secrets, lies, and betrayal to find answers. With the unsolved murder of her husband still very much on her mind, Finley must confront her own personal trauma on a daily basis. Lies are part of her livelihood, but they're also the reason she can't get justice for the man she loved. When a man imprisoned for murder recants his confession, claiming he cleaned up the mess for his girlfriend--the victim's own daughter--Finley takes on the case. She discovers the victim had identical twin daughters...and the sisters have very different accounts of the crime. As she dives headlong into the twins' traumatic past, Finley will have to contend with her own demons to get to the truth--before it's too late."--Provided by publisher.

Birmingham detectives Kerri Devlin and Luke Falco arrive at the scene of a double homicide to discover that nothing makes sense. A woman and her child are dead, and though the husband says he killed them, the evidence says otherwise. Why would a man confess to unspeakable murders he didn't commit? What starts as an open-and-shut case explodes into a web of new leads. Devlin and Falco get to work tracking down every single one--including a disturbing connection between the murders and Falco's dark past. Falco knows the incident from eight years ago will jeopardize the partnership he's built with Devlin, both on and off the job. If he could go back, he would--but what happened happened, and there's a murderer on the loose. Devlin and Falco must slog through the pain to get to the truth; and so far the only truth they know is that everyone is lying.

An Amazon Charts bestseller.A double homicide and a missing woman lead a detective to unearth disturbing secrets in this gripping thriller from USA Today bestselling author Debra Webb.It's the worst possible time for Detective Kerri Devlin to be involved in an all-consuming double-homicide case. She's locked in a bitter struggle with her ex-husband and teenage daughter, and her reckless new partner is anything but trustworthy.Still, she has a job to do: there's a killer at large, and a pregnant woman has gone missing. Once Devlin and her partner get to work, they quickly unearth secrets involving Birmingham's most esteemed citizens. Each new layer of the investigation brings Devlin closer to the killer and the missing woman, who starts looking more like a suspect than a victim.But just as answers come into view, the case twists, expands, and slithers into Devlin's personal life. There's a much more sinister game at work, one she doesn't even know she's playing--and she must unravel the truth once and for all to stop the killer before she loses everything.

A deep dark secret and red-hot desireWhen Devon Pierce is framed for murdering his wife, Isabella Lytle knows she needs to do everything she can to clear his name. Bella must coax out Devon's deepest secret - while resisting the undeniable allure she feels for him...

For fans of Karen Rose, Katia Lief and Mary Burton comes an unmissable romantic thriller from bestselling author Debra Webb.