Bøger af Karen McCullough

For fifty-one weeks of the year, Heather McNeil loves her job as assistant to the director of the Washington DC Market Show Center. But the Gift and Home trade show, the biggest show of the year at the center, is a week-long nightmare. This year's version is worse than usual. Misplaced shipments, feuding exhibitors, and malfunctioning popcorn machines are all in a day's work. Finding the body of a murdered executive dumped in a trash bin during the show isn't. The policesuspect the victim's wife killed him, but Heather doesn't believe it. She's gotten glimmers of an entirely different scenario and possible motive, but questioning exhibitors about the crime doesn't make her popular with them or with her employers. Still, other lives might be at risk, and if she doesn't identify the murderer before the show ends, the culprit could well remain free to kill again. Her only help comes from a company executive with ulterior motives and the Market Center's attractive new security officer, Scott Brandon. Despite opposition from some of the exhibitors, her employers, and the police, Heather seeks to expose the killer before the show ends. To solve the mystery she will have to risk what's most important to her and be prepared to fight for answers, her job, and possibly her life.

Can their book boyfriends lead a book club of hopeless romantics to a real happily ever after? After losing at love twice, Barbara Wilton needs a change, some place far from her home in Boston, so she takes a position as manager of a small branch bank in Willow Ridge, Georgia. She's done with relationships and ready to concentrate on her career. The experience in Willow Ridge will help her move forward in the banking industry, but she doesn't plan to stay there permanently. Nevertheless, an invitation to join the Hopeless Romantics book club, a position on a planning committee, helping a little league team that needs coaching, and being adopted by a stray dog begin to wind her into the community. Chris Harper was a police officer in Charlotte until his marriage fell apart. With his mother and elderly aunt in deteriorating health, Chris returns home to Willow Ridge to help them and takes a job as chief deputy to the local sheriff. The wound left by his failed marriage is still raw and, despite his mother's nagging, he's not interested in pursuing any relationship, even with the attractive new bank manager. Fate, helped by a few local residents, conspires to push Barbara and Chris together. They meet during a false alarm at the bank and then he assists her with a car problem. But when his aunt receives a foreclosure notice on her house, Chris is angry with Barbara for not warning him that his aunt was behind on her payments. She agrees to help him work out the problem with the bank, but the deeper issues between them keep flaring. Can two wary, wounded people learn to trust again and find happiness together? Find out in this sweet, second chance, enemies to lovers romance. The Hopeless Romantics of Willow Ridge series are sweet, small-town contemporary romances. Each book is a standalone and can be read individually or as part of the series. Hopeless Romantics of Willow Ridge seriesBook 1: Falling for the BossBook 2: Falling for the FiremanBook 3: Falling for the DoctorBook 4: Falling for the DeputyBook 5: Falling for the Hockey PlayerBook 6: Falling for the Single DadBook 7: Falling for the FarmerBook 8: Falling for the Scotsman

When six friends make a pact not to let love get in the way of their careers, the No Brides Club is born. But could meeting the right man at the wrong time cause them to break their vows to each other?Julie Harrison had the perfect job and a stellar reputation as one of the city's top, new programmers...until suddenly she didn't. Despite her innocence, her company blamed her for leaking secret project details to a competitor. Worse yet, her fiance took their side.Dan Foster would once do anything to get closer to his goal of becoming company CEO. Unfortunately, that meant siding with the higher ups instead of his spurned fiancee. Now he'd give anything to rewind time and get Julie back into his arms.When a surprise acquisition forces them to work side-by-side once more, old feelings of love and longing, but also betrayal resurface, too.Dan wants her back. Julie isn't ready to blindly trust the ex who let her down in such a big way. Can he make up for his past mistakes and convince her to take a second chance at their future together?

Heather McNeil, assistant to the director of the Washington, D.C. Market Show Center, handles many of the day-to-day issues that arise during the shows, exhibits, and conferences being held there. The first day of the Business Technology Exposition provides her with plenty of opportunities to demonstrate her skill at settling disputes, refereeing arguments, and even breaking up fights. When the president of industry-leader MegaComp has a very public argument with a man who accuses the company of stealing an important technical concept, she watches it but doesn't have to intervene. Later, though, the accuser returns a phone call from Heather, and she becomes an unwilling audience to his murder. Heather is more than happy to leave the investigation to the police, but she's the person everyone talks to and she soon learns more than she wanted to know about the victim and all the people who didn't like him very much, including several who might have motives for murder.

Kristie Sandford's vacation is interrupted when a man jumps out in front of her car. She avoids hitting him, but when she stops to see if he's hurt, he demands she help him escape from the people chasing him. Kristie has an odd "gift"-she occasionally gets warning messages from a voice only she can hear. The voice tells her the man needs her help or he'll die. Jason Hunter is an SBI (N.C. State Bureau of Investigation) agent working on his own time searching for a friend. Will, an investigative reporter, disappeared while tracking down rumors of corruption in the bureaucracy of a small, North Carolina mountain town. Jason is grateful to Kristie for rescuing him, but dubious when she insists she has to continue helping him. Kristie is attracted to Jason, but the edge of danger she senses in him reminds her too much of the abusive family she escaped as soon as she could. Still, the voice said he'd die if she didn't help him, and the voice has been right before.

Abandoned as a child, betrayed during adolescence, and tortured when he was just barely an adult, Michael Morgan refuses to be so vulnerable ever again. Using his knowledge of magic and physics, he invents a shield to protect himself. Rumors reach the U.S. Magic Councils that a powerful wizard might have created a weapon with the potential to destabilize the fragile order they've established, so they send his former girlfriend, an adjunct of one of the Councils, to investigate. Ilene McConnell needs to deliver a letter to Michael, anyway, and agrees to check out what his project can do at the same time. Arriving at his home, she's immediately embroiled in a series of unexpected complications, including magical attacks, a brutal murder, and the realization their mutual attraction hasn't faded as much as she thought. Tension between them ratchets up when Ilene discovers the shield's power could be even more perilous than the Councils fear. Then Michael's invention is stolen, and their differences won't matter if they can't retrieve it before a ruthless, powerful wizard learns how to use it for his own ends.

Her fingerprints are on the gun, but Sarah swears she's innocent. Although Sarah Anne Martin admits to pulling the trigger, she swears someone forced her to kill her lover. Homicide detective Jay Christianso is skeptical, but enough ambiguous evidence exists to make her story plausible. If he gives her enough freedom, she'll either incriminate herself or draw out the real killers. But, having been burned before, Jay doesn't trust his own protective instincts...and his growing attraction to Sarah only complicates matters. With desire burning between them, their relationship could ultimately be doomed since Sarah will be arrested for murder if Jay can't find the real killer.