Bøger af Emily Mims

After losing his wife and unborn son to violence, Alex Navarro knew he could never love again, yet, when an old acquaintance comes begging for his help, what starts out as a ruse to save her brother turns into a love he swore he'd never find again. FIRST IN HIS HEART The survivor of a brutal attack, Misty Martinez has just come home to San Antonio to put her life back together when her little brother is framed for selling drugs. Her father insists she help, but to clear her brother's name and find the real culprits she must go undercover, joining a band and posing as the girlfriend of the wealthy widower and owner of the nightclub where her brother worked. Alex Navarro is sensual, compelling...and arrogant and embittered, unable to return Misty's love, as his heart still belongs to his dead wife. Yet their attraction is there, undeniable, mutual, all-consuming. A choice might be made to find pleasure in a moment, but something sweeter begs to be tasted. This love is like the redemption Misty is seeking for her family-difficult, dangerous, and the only thing that can destroy the demons of the past.

The widow of a lying drug dealer, dulcimer-player Kylie Barstow Richards finds herself struggling to see through the mists of the Smokey Mountains to the truth-about her life, about the nightclub where she works, and about the bluegrass-playing musician who has arrived to steal her heart. SEEING CLEAR Someone is distributing drugs out of the nightclub Acoustics, and undercover DEA operative Reynolds Navarro has come to Bristol, Tennessee, to find out who. His prime suspect? The beautiful and deceitful dulcimer player Kylie Barstow Richards, whose drug-dealing husband was gunned down and who now has illicit funds feeding into an offshore account in her name. To complete his investigation, Ren must gain her trust and access to her home. What better way than with a kiss? Kylie hates liars. She has been lied to all her life, and Ren Campbell seems too good to be true. Handsome, sexy and talented, the bluegrass guitar player is everything she'd wished of her first husband. And suddenly he's her protector, too. But as danger encroaches like the morning mists of the Smokey Mountains, Kylie must soon learn whom she can trust-and whom she can love.

Two teams sent on dangerous missions that'll probably ruin their holiday plans.Countdown (Fire Lake #6.5) - M. TasiaA last minute mission sends the team away from their loved ones, and there's no guarantee they'll make it out alive, never mind making it home for the holidays.Mission: Undercover (Bear's Brigade #2.5) - Emily Mims A motorcycle rally from Texas to Mexico is not what it seems, and things get even more complicated for Josh, who's undercover on a holiday-ruining babysitting mission that's turned dangerous.

Tennessee bluegrass player Bradley Barstow holds not just the key to the cure for ukulele-player Leilani Mahuiki's sick daughter, but to Leilani's heart. TWO NOTES, DISCORDANT Thirty-year-old musician Leilani Mahuiki is in Tennessee to find Joe Barstow, the birth father whose bone marrow might save her daughter's life. She finds Bradley, too, Joe's adopted son. Against all odds, she and Bradley make wonderful music together, she on the ukulele, he on the banjo. And Bradley is everything else she's ever wanted in a man. Bradley wants her, too. But is that enough? He needs a family of his own. Having grown up an outsider, he's always dreamt of something simple and old-fashioned. No entanglements. No complications. Just mom, dad, and the kids. Not something Leilani can ever offer. She already has the very complications and entanglements that he so desperately wants to avoid, and that are not going away any time soon. And yet, as he and Leilani pull out all the stops to save her daughter's life, he knows Leilani is the only woman for him. The most beautiful music in the world can sometimes happen when disharmony resolves-and a lonely Tennessee winter can become a tropical paradise.

Karen Gregory's dream of the ideal man changed when she met Gary Jeffries, but Deke, her ex, the original ideal guy, isn't ready to let her go. HE'S EVERYTHING Karen Gregory has always been into big, take-charge, brooding alpha males. Not small, cute, second grade schoolteachers. Even though her marriage to Deke Gregory failed, she still thinks his type of man is what she wants. Or does she? When she returns to her hometown with the son her ex all but abandoned, she meets fellow teacher and singer Gary Jeffries, and finds herself falling for a man who is the antithesis of everything she thought she ever wanted. When Deke dramatically re-enters her life, Karen is faced with an impossible choice. Go back to her romantic ideal, and the father of her son, or stay with Gary? BUT NOT HER IDEAL Gary Jefferies knows he's not what smokin' hot, talented teacher and singer Karen Gregory wants. But he also knows that he is, by far, the better man for her and her son. Especially after meeting her arrogant, obnoxious ex. But shared history and a ten-year old child are strong ties to sever. Gary fears he'll he lose Karen to her romantic ideal, even though Gary is the man she hasn't yet realized she needs.

With Emily Riley's love, Iraqi War veteran Jason Donahue learns that it's what inside a man's heart that shines through and makes him worthy of a blissful forever. WOUNDED BUT VICTORIOUS After three agonizing years of surgeries and rehab, U.S. Army veteran Jason Donahue is ready to leave the Iraq War in the past and rejoin society. Yet, no matter the success he achieves at work, people wince every time they see him. Everyone but Emily Riley. From the first, the beautiful redhead looks past his disfigurement and sees him. In return, Jason wants to buy her everything she deserves, starting with her dream home and going from there. Yet Emily has scars of her own, a past she's not ready to reveal. Only when they both come clean, when they view each other through eyes of trust and love, will they know that, when a good man and a good woman give each other their heart, the two will always have more than enough.

In 1985, forensic chemist Amanda Blakeman is about to show SWAT team officer Jack Vance that sometimes the bravest thing a man can do is not defy death alone but live and love together. CHASING THE HIGH From the first time she lays eyes on him, forensic chemist Amanda Blakeman is drawn to fellow cop Jack Vance, a fearless SWAT team officer who thrills her with his cocky good looks and peerless bravery, and himself, by seeking out danger. Stock car racing, sky diving, rodeo riding-there's nothing the 1980s have that Jack won't do. And he's just as impressive behind closed doors. But as the pair joins forces against a serial killer hunting in the bars of San Antonio, Amanda realizes Jack's sweet and crazy nature isn't enough. She needs him to realize that life's best thrills can be found not just in defying death alone, but in living and loving together.

Witness to a murder, concert violinist Francesca Giordano flees to Bristol, TN, and finds bluegrass singer Cooper Barstow is an even greater danger-to her heart. IN PLAIN SIGHT A concert violinist and musical prodigy, Francesca Giordano is internationally acclaimed and always in the spotlight-right where she doesn't want to be. Not after she's witnessed a murder. Suddenly on the run, she finds her way to Bristol, Tennessee, and to the music club Acoustics. There, as " Chessie Hope," she can hide out in the open. But with this newest gig comes a different kind of danger. Older and impossibly sexy, bluegrass singer Cooper Barstow is everything she's ever wanted in a man, and his daughters are just as easy to love. Yet Francesca cannot enjoy the luxury of such a relationship, not even if he could protect her from the men on her trail or if she could be honest with him about who she is. Cooper is as wounded as he is strong, and he needs someone who will stay by his side for the rest of his life. Just as Francesca does. And the smoke on the mountains and the haze of desire almost make her believe that could happen.

Ex-con-turned minister Asher Ellison has found the one thing to challenge and perhaps increase his newfound happiness-loving and protecting the brash, beautiful, brilliant Trish McClellan. FINDING FOREVER Asher Ellison and Trish McClellan are united in the fight against drug abuse, and Asher, an ex-con turned minister, thinks he's found the successful businesswoman of his dreams. But Trish's businesses are intimate shops and a strip club-and she herself occasionally takes to the pole. Fury is his first reaction upon finding out who she really is. Then desire, always desire. Asher's surprise is no match for his attraction to this brash beauty, and then his devotion. And hers to him. Not the consternation of his congregation or the church's board of deacons, not the threat to take away his ministry, not even the unknown and murderous enemy who's about to zero in on Trish. His scarred, powerful arms will draw her close and keep her safe. As those who seek shall find, true love is eternal and divine.

A VOW...When Ike Jeffries married Cassandra Siler he believed in their future, and he couldn't wait to meet their daughter, born on Christmas Eve. What should have been a blessed event turned into a nightmare when Cassie disappeared with their baby girl. With a hardened heart, Ike finds them five long years later and learns that everything he thought he knew about his wife and child was a lie.AND A PROMISECassie Jeffries loved her husband with all her heart. But after the birth of their daughter she discovered a horrible truth about the child that forced her to run for their lives. Crisscrossing the country until she found a new home, Cassie knew she'd done the right thing until Ike found them and demanded answers she wasn't prepared to share. But life has a way of giving you what you need, and Cassie and her daughter needed the family they had left behind, even if it meant fighting for what was right, and for what she'd forsaken all those years ago.

GETTING THE GIFT Aspiring songwriter Caitlyn Murphy is tired of sister's hand-me-downs. From toys and bicycles to men, it seemed like everything in Caitlyn's life first belonged to her late sister. Roped into doing Christmas for motherless nieces, and entering into a pretend romance with their dangerously attractive father, Caitlyn soon finds herself falling in love with the girls, and the enigmatic Tanner Dyson. She resists the temptation and Tanner's insistence that they make their pretend relationship real. She wants her own family, not the one her sister had first. SHE ALWAYS WANTED Tanner Dyson doesn't get why he is so attracted to his overweight, opinionated sister-in-law. She wants love and the whole romance thing, emotions that died with his late wife. He wants a woman who is nice to have around, and he can't understand why that isn't that enough for Caitlyn. Worried their pretend relationship will wither and die come the new year, Tanner is surprised to find the magic of the holiday season gives them the gift of a new love neither expected, but both need.

When wounded war hero Holly Riley comes home from Iraq to the Texas Hill Country to build a new life for herself, she has no idea she'll find danger-and true love. DANGER AT HOME Wounded war hero Holly Riley has come back to Texas, to the lakeshore community of Heaven's Point. Here, intending to recover from her injuries and build a new life with a band of injured veterans just like herself, she finds temporary work as a nanny with the charismatic Jimmy Adamcik. The handsome congressional candidate almost makes her forget her distrust of politics, and in his arms nothing else seems to matter. But Holly is right to fear. Jimmy will soon find himself sucked deeper into the seamy side of the political process, and an old enemy will reappear and target Holly's soldiers one by one. Only strength and valor will win this fight. And true love.

A disgraced DEA agent pursues justice-and the mother of his unborn child-in rural Tennessee. AFTER THE FALL Widow Timberlynn Barstow is pregnant-not by her beloved husband, but by the man she holds responsible for his death. Big, blond, infuriating Sawyer Ellison has returned, demanding to be part of the baby's life and hers. But he is still consumed by his war on drugs, ruthlessly disregarding anything that gets in the path of his quest, including those around him. Timberlynn's uncharacteristic surrender to that beautiful stone-carved face and rock-hard body means much less than her child's safety. Sawyer Ellison harbors a deep hatred of drugs...and an even deeper secret. He wants to make Timberlynn his, yet his personal crusade is everything. It drove him to decisions he regrets, mistakes that haunt him unto this day. Yet he cannot grieve over being with Timberlynn. The banjo-playing beauty-and now their child-is everything he never dreamed he could have. Now it's just a matter of paying the piper.

Nothing about them fits, and they shouldn't be trying to make it work, but Deke and Taylor know that after all life has thrown at them, they were meant to be. CAN'T GET HER... Deke Gregory has a type - petite, feminine, pliable. His ex-wife was his ideal, but she wasn't his, obviously. Faced with the realities of joint custody and a family "village" raising his son, Deke sets out to find a woman who ticks all his boxes and thinks he walks on water. Enter Doctor Taylor De Witt: tall, strong, willful, opinionated, and too busy to be bothered with soothing his rough edges. Imagine his surprise when he falls for her - hard. OUT OF HIS HEART Taylor De Witt knew she would be a heart surgeon since college. Now a single mother with a schedule that requires roller blades, she has little time for her family, never mind a social life. When she meets Deke Gregory she thinks he's a Neanderthal - yummy, but from a different era. Little does she know what their mutual attraction will bring, including examining her life to include an everlasting love.

IGNORANCE IS NOT BLISS Preston Ramos knows most families are dysfunctional, but his has so many layers of messed up even he can't believe what his father's asking him to do. Yet, guilt and brotherly love have Preston going to South America with a woman he can't stand who he wants to bed with a desire he's never felt before. Sergeant Sabina Kaslov is proud to be a part of Bear's Brigade. The Special Ops team members are shadows who accomplish the impossible in the face of absolute danger. But she fears this mission will surely see civilian casualties, especially since they have an idiot cop attached to their team. She's never met a more infuriating, ignorant, biased man who has the face of a vengeful angel and the body of a warrior. Neither can afford to be distracted, but combustible chemistry cannot be denied, and what awaits them at home cannot be ignored.