Bøger af Denise Grover Swank

The explosive conclusion to the bestselling series-- The Chosen. Four shall fight. Two shall remain. The game of immortal elements has advanced to an unexpected level since Will and Emma have joined. But was their union a part of Water's careful orchestration? Has the game swung to his advantage? With Emma's life -- and the lives of those she loves -- at risk, every move could be deadly. A mother's quest to protect her son has turned into a fight with eternal ramifications. Realizing she's the weakest participant in the final version of the game, Emma will do anything within her power to save Jake and Will. Even if it means dying. A man who will do anything to save the woman he loves. As Will struggles with the implications of his destiny, he's left to question the true intentions of the father he's never known and what it means to Emma's survival. The woman he is now bound to for eternity. A boy who is the key. In loneliness and desperation, Jake friends the lurking shadows, and now his heart battles between love and hate. The shadows offer to help him save his mother but does it come at a price? The final confrontation is on the horizon and Emma is forced to confront her nightmare-is she the destruction of the world or the savior?

The final book in the USA Today bestselling Neely Kate Mystery series.Violet Gardner Beauregard is barely cold in her grave, but she's still stirring up trouble. When Neely Kate Coulson accompanies her best friend Rose to Violet's attorney for the reading of the will, they get the shock of their lives, one that leaves them both reeling.If that weren't enough, Special Prosecutor Mason Devereaux is still calling witnesses for his grand jury, digging into the corruption in Fenton County. Neely Kate is approached by an unexpected source who reveals shocking news from the grand jury testimony-information about her wayward husband, Ronnie Coulson. And just as all the dust starts flying, Kate Simmons sashays back into town. Kate presents an opportunity Neely Kate finds hard to resist-the chance to find out why a Dallas crime syndicate wants the bag of money Neely Kate took from a man she'd killed in self-defense years ago.With Kate involved, there's a catch. Kate will only tell her what she wants to know if Neely Kate leaves town with her. Immediately.Can Neely Kate afford to take the risk? Can she afford not to?

With a friend's child missing, and the police failing, disgraced ex-detective Harper enlists the aid of a former crime boss to untangle a mystery that strikes too close to home.Disgraced, ex-detective Harper Adams is perfectly content wallowing at rock bottom. She's lost her job, house, and reputation, and it only gets worse when she's forced to move back home to Jackson Creek, Arkansas, the one place she swore she'd never return.But everything changes when she gets chilling news. A childhood friend's daughter is missing...and it's eerily reminiscent of Harper's sister's kidnapping and murder two decades ago.Not her business.Except with the police fumbling the case at every turn, Harper realizes she might be the only one who can save the girl.And she might need the help of James Malcolm, a former crime boss, to do it.

USA TODAY Bestseller Scarlett Goodwin's world is divided into Before and After. Before she agreed to tutor Tucker Price, college junior Scarlett was an introvert, struggling with her social anxiety disorder and determined to not end up living in a trailer park like her mother and her younger sister. A mathematics major, she goes to her classes, to her job in the tutoring lab, and then hides in the apartment she shares with her friend, Caroline. After junior Tucker Price, Southern University's star soccer player enters the equation, her carefully plotted life is thrown off its axis. Tucker's failing his required College Algebra class. With his eligibility at risk, the university chancellor dangles an expensive piece of computer software for the math department if Scarlett agrees to privately tutor him. Tucker's bad boy, womanizer reputation makes Scarlett wary of any contact, let alone spending several hours a week in close proximity. But from her first encounter, she realizes Tucker isn't the person everyone else sees. He carries a mountain of secrets which she suspects hold the reason for his self-destructive behavior. But the deeper she delves into the cause of his pain, the deeper she gets sucked into his chaos. Will Scarlett find the happiness she's looking for, or will she be caught in Tucker's aftermath? Off the Subject series (stand-alone books)Aftermath (Scarlett's story)Redesigned (Caroline's story)Business as Usual (Lexi's story)

INCLUDES the short story "Once in a Lifetime."Sixteen year old Julia Phillips buries herself in guilt after killing her best friend Monica in a car accident. Julia awoke in the hospital with a broken leg, a new talent for drawing and false memories of the accident, in which she dies and Monica lives. The doctors attribute this to her head injury, but no one can explain how a bracelet engraved with her name ended up at the scene of the accident. A bracelet no one has ever seen before.Classmate Evan Whittaker paid Julia no attention before the accident, let alone after. Now suddenly he's volunteering to tutor her and offering to drive her home. She can't ignore that his new obsession started after his two-day disappearance last week and that he wears a pendant she's been drawing for months. When the police show up one night looking for Evan, he begs Julia to run with him, convincing her that Monica is still alive. Julia agrees to go, never guessing where he's really from.

Ten years ago, Magnolia Steele fled Franklin, Tennessee after an incident that left her with hazy memories and a horror of the place where she had been born and bred. Though her abrupt departure destroyed most of her treasured relationships, she vowed never to return . . . until she has no choice. When Magnolia's breakout acting role in a Broadway musical ends in disgrace, there's only one place she can go. She finds herself on her momma's porch, suitcase in hand. Drama follows Magnolia around like a long lost friend. She reluctantly agrees to help her momma's catering company at a party for a country music star, only to find herself face-to-face with a sleazy music agent from her past. After a very public spat, Magnolia not only finds him dead but herself center stage in the police's investigation. Now she must scramble to prove her innocence, relying on the help of acquaintances old and new. But the longer Magnolia stays in Franklin, the more she remembers about the big bad incident that chased her away. The past might not be finished with her yet, and what she doesn't remember could be her biggest danger.

Life in Drum, Tennessee, has been quiet since corruption was uncovered in the sheriff's department, so Carly is shocked to learn that one of her lunch customers has committed murder. Carly is certain the woman was doing a favor for Bart Drummond, but she has to prove it. In Drum, all things seedy lead back to Bart Drummond and the local drug king, Todd Bingham. And Carly's father is still searching for her, ready to drag her back to her own death.

Julia Phillips' world is an alternate universe away. Trapped in a land where government leaders want her dead, Julia is forced to run for her life with Evan and Reece, the two boys who brought her here. They're on their own in a hostile landscape ruled by scavengers and thieves. But Evan is battling a deadly infection, and Julia finds herself racing against time as she tries to find the medicine that will save his life. She and Reece find an unlikely ally-Jo, a girl they free after finding her captured by bandits. As the four travel across the country, Julia has something else to worry about-her memories are slowly being replaced by the Julia of Evan and Reece's world. Will they find a way to send Julia home before it's too late? Or will Julia's body and mind be trapped there?

Book four in the New York Times bestselling Rose Gardner Investigations series.Rose Gardner feels like she's up a creek without a paddle. Her sister is dying, her secret boyfriend, James Malcolm, is struggling to protect the county underworld from an upstart drug dealer, and her ex has moved back to town with a bee in his bonnet and a mission to root out corruption in the county. To make matters worse, Neely Kate is in dire straits too-the past she's spent years trying to forget has finally caught up to her, with horrific fallout. They're in the thick of danger, and everyone's quick to tell them they'd do best to hunker down and keep to themselves. But mysteries have a way of finding Rose and Neely Kate. A mother contacts them about finding her missing teenage daughter the same day they find a different young woman stranded by the side of the road. They know they should turn down the case, just as they should ignore the signs that the woman with the broken down car is running from something, but for Rose and Neely Kate, curiosity will always have a stronger call than danger. Reading order: Family Jewels (Rose Gardner Investigations #1) Trailer Trash (Neely Kate Mystery #1)For the Birds (Rose #2)Hell in a Handbasket (Rose #3)In High Cotton (Neely Kate #2) Up Shute Creek (Rose #4)Dirty Money (Neely Kate #3) --Late Spring

The third book in the USA Today bestselling Bachelor Brotherhood series from Denise Grover Swank is perfect for fans of Jill Shalvis, Susan Mallery, and Kristan Higgins.

Sophie Peterson knows that she should be excited to spend a summer in Paris, but feels anger at her father for divorcing her mother and moving to France. When a friendship with a boy named Mathieu turns into more, Sophie must decide if she can stay in France, forgive her father enough to live with him, and trust her heart with her first love.