Bøger af Morgan James

Atlanta psychologist, Promise McNeal, is second-guessing her decision to leave her beloved city for a new life as a country store owner in the North Carolina Mountains. Not only does she find herself awash in unpaid bills, she's also shocked to discover that the store's previous owners' profits came from selling homegrown pot with the cornflakes. As Promise considers her options, a restless soul reaches out to her in a dream of a hanged woman. And an offer of a temporary, yet lucrative, consulting job sends her back to Atlanta into the middle of a mystery.At each turn, Promise is pulled further and further into the unsolved murder of Atlanta socialite, Stella Tournay, and into the Tournay family's tangled legacy of violence, secrecy, and unexplained wealth. With assistance from her slightly-Goth, twenty-something friend, Susan, Promise soon finds answers in an out of print book on Carolingian art treasures, and in the memories of a retired jazz musician who knew the Tournays in Nazi-occupied Paris. She stands within a hand's grasp of unraveling the past when another murder in the Tournay house pushes her out into the darkness with only her intuition as armor, and clues from the dead as weapons."With one foot in the Appalachians and the other in Atlanta, Morgan James' Promise McNeal combines simple values of mountain living with the adrenaline rush of urban crime. Wrapping everything in a ghost story, Quiet The Dead will keep you guessing to the final, surprising revelation." Mark de Castrique, Author of Sam Blackman Mysteries & Barry Clayton Mysteries

Tarot cards, a trapeze artist who doesn't age, and a magician who really can disappear... In the fifth Promise McNeal mystery, set in the Western North Carolina Mountains, Promise's psychic abilities prickle when Little People of America's past president, Dick Jest, stocks up on Cuban cigars and drives his Winnebago from Florida to build an academy for circus performers on the site of an abandoned amusement park. When the magician's assistant is murdered in a dilapidated tram car, the dramatic, Czech trapeze artist, Ruta, draws Promise into the mystery with a strange Tarot Card deck---which she insists she's held for Promise since 1939---and a bizarre story of the magician Reznik and the Old Towne Clock in Prague. Promise's husband, Perry County Sheriff Daniel Allen, is determined to go with the facts of the case, but when they meet the other members of Jest's circus family, Daniel realizes no one is who they seem, and the facts are masked in past violence and lies. Though, as the murder goes unsolved, Promise is haunted by nightmares and struggles with an elusive illness, she and Daniel are determined to bring the murderer to justice. Fact by fact, they narrow the field of suspects until another death at the academy forces them to reconsider Ruta's wild stories and think like the killer, if they are to catch him before he disappears for good.

Don't miss Vince and Jana's story, a steamy marriage of convenience romantic suspense from USA Today bestselling author Morgan James.Budding country music star Jana Malone has won the hearts of millions with her sweet voice and pretty, All-American good looks. But amidst her adoring fans lurks someone whose admiration has turned to obsession. The love letters she's received over the past few months become darker, more threatening and possessive. And this time he's made it clear-if he can't have Jana, no one will...As the newest agent to join Quentin Security Group, I've been tasked with keeping the young star safe, which is no easy feat considering we lock horns at every turn. When Jana's safety is threatened and her home compromised, she proposes a fake marriage to throw the stalker off her trail.As police search for the person responsible, we escape to a small island off the coast of Florida. Hidden away in paradise, lust and mutual attraction simmer to the surface, and our make-believe honeymoon becomes all too real. But trouble has a habit of reappearing when you least expect it, and Jana's dream getaway quickly becomes a nightmare she may not escape...*Heart of a Devil is the fourth standalone in the Quentin Security Series. There are no cliffhangers, no cheating, and each book ends with a HEA! Each book contains scorching alphas and feisty heroines... Read at your own risk!#0.5 Twisted Devil - Jason and Chloe#1 The Devil You Know - Blake and Victoria#2 Devil in the Details - Xander and Lydia#3 Devil in Disguise - Gavin and Kate#4 Heart of a Devil - Vince and Jana#5 Tempting the Devil - Clay and Abby#6 Devilish Intent - Con and Grace

In the second Promise McNeal mystery, Quiet Killing, Atlanta transplant to the Western North Carolina Mountains, fifty-something Promise, her fiddle-playing lover Daniel, and his slightly-Goth daughter, Susan, are back for more mayhem. After her great grandfather, January McNeal, haunts her dreams, Promise delves into family history from the early 1900s. When she learns January was accused of grave robbery, she wonders if perhaps the past is best left alone. Then evil comes knocking. Someone burns her barn, and the contractor she hires to rebuild is murdered, almost at her backdoor. A second and third fire leads Promise to a mysterious, abandoned little girl. But why would the child start fires? Who killed the contractor? And what does a book about the legendary moonshine outlaw, Lewis Redmond, have to do with the contractor's murder, and her great grandfather? Before Promise connects the clues, the child disappears into a late March snow and Promise, Daniel, and Susan, race against freezing temperatures to rescue her, and uncover a secret worthy of murder.Readers praised the first Promise McNeal mystery, Quiet The Dead, as "a real gem," and "everything a Southern mystery should be."

Welcome to Beyond, where the gravestones have no birth dates, and the residents are dying... A new series from the author of the popular Promise McNeal Mysteries...Looking For Ona introduces Paula Vega, whose plan for surviving Atlanta's brutal summer is to complete her latest steamy romance novel, send it to her editor, and camp out by the pool. Then her best friend, comic strip illustrator Ben Faraday, shows her a cryptic video staring his mother, who happens to be Paula's editor, and pool lounging is off the table.Instead, Paula and Ben drive to the North Carolina Mountains to find a town not listed on the map, located on a lake where-after seventy years of being underwater-a mysterious island is rising, and the truth about a two-hundred-year-old curse, and a relative who died from not-so-natural causes.

Hack just wants to be left alone to enjoy his retirement but someone wants to kill him. Fed up with insults he discovers that the world is not as safe as he thought it was. Global Data Transfers lines are at risk, hidden secret societies appear to be everywhere, the police is corrupt and if that's not enough, he gets caught up in a Cupid love triangle with Medusa and someone equally capable of being an Asian Miss World. Surely, dying is better than surviving! Meanwhile, everything that he holds dear, is at risk as three nuclear subs hunt each other down in the icy, freezing cold waters of the northern Atlantic Ocean just as a team of innocent bystanders fight for survival aboard a hijacked ship in the middle of the ferocious North Sea.

An ill wind, cold and unpredictable, blows author and B&B manager, Paula Vega, into dangerous waters after her lover, John, is attacked by an intruder seeking to reclaim an unknown treasure. When no one in the small town of Beyond admits to knowing the intruder or what he's after, and a shadowy hiker appears with a strange tale that may connect the intruder to a mystery from the past, Paula is left to separate the truth from the lies.

This is the tale of a Southern ghost, Mavis Banks Book, who returns to her beloved Atlanta home on a fine spring day in 1996, ten years after her funeral. It is also the story of Niki Banks and Jack Rainwater, unlikely and unwilling roommates in Mavis' house. And finally, it is the story of a city-sized stray dog of unrecognizable heritage that appears in a terrifying thunderstorm. All four are offered a chance, a last chance, and it will take a friend with a fondness for Vodka martinis, the ability to see the past through new eyes, and the courage to take a risk for each to accept that chance, and to hold on to it.

How far will the town of Beyond go to survive?Halloween approaches, and a cold wind is blowing when Paula Vega leaves her hometown of Atlanta and moves to Beyond, a picturesque small town nestled in the North Carolina Mountains. She hopes her new job as a B&B manager will bring a little peace and quiet to her life and rejuvenate her sagging writing career. But those hopes evaporate like the early morning haze when Paula learns how desperate her new neighbors are to keep their quaint little town alive. Faced with a preacher who's Halloween-creepy, dogs that have mysteriously gone missing, and two suspicious deaths, Paula knows she could ignore what's happening and let the local sheriff do his job; but she can't leave a tale untold, and soon realizes there will be no peace or quiet until she uncovers the not-so-sleepy town's secrets to expose a killer.

Quiet Hearts... In the third Promise McNeal mystery, a vacation/honeymoon following a romantic wedding is planned for Jekyll and St. Simons Islands. But you know what they say about the best-laid plans of mice and men... Promise, Daniel, Susan, and Susan's friend Sam Quinn travel from the mountains of Western North Carolina to Georgia's Golden Isles searching for a few days of sunshine and surf. What they find is murder, a cursed Chinese chair that washed ashore on Jekyll in 1942, a TV talk show host---Aileen Wang--- whose determination to restore a decayed mansion could get her killed, and a sixty-year old mystery rising out of the coastal fog. Then on the day of the wedding, violence strikes the family and Daniel is called back to North Carolina. With Daniel on the trail of one killer threatening Perry County, Promise, Susan and Sam must combine wits and Southern grit to catch another killer on Jekyll Island--- before he catches them.

In the 4th Promise McNeal Mystery, set in Western North Carolina, It's been seven months since Daniel's cousin Sheriff Mac Allen was murdered. Daniel accepted the job as interim sheriff with hopes of finding Mac's killer. But he has few clues until Promise's irascible neighbor Fletcher Enloe stumbles upon a puzzling mining operation near Swayback Mountain and he realizes an old Vietnam buddy may not be dead after all. While Daniel and Fletcher spend a long, cold night watching the mining site from a rotted deer stand, high in an oak tree, Promise worries about Daniel and wonders how her new marriage became so different from what she'd imagined. She hadn't signed on to be a sheriff's wife, or to solve a murder. Though, she doesn't want Mac's killer to skate free either, and the wedding vows did say for better or for worse. And worse it gets when MaMa Allen tells Promise a spirit haunting Fire Mountain is leaving the mountain to prowl among the living. Promise's stepdaughter Susan, MaMa Allen warns, is in danger and it's up to Promise to do something. But, as Promise sets a trap for the spirit, a frightening thunder snow moves across Perry County and the hunted becomes the hunter, exposing just how vulnerable Susan is, and how wicked a lost soul can be. Meanwhile, another murder and a red motorcycle finally give Daniel clues to solving Mac's murder. That is, if he survives the killer's deadly game of catch-me-if- you-can.

Don't miss Gray and Claire's story, a small-town, friends-to-lovers romantic suspense from USA Today bestselling author Morgan James. ClaireEver since I lost my boyfriend to a car accident five years ago, I haven't let myself get close to anyone. But that's okay, because my best friend Gray more than makes up for it.Then the dreams start. Each night my head hits the pillow, it's his face I see, his arms I feel wrapped around me. Though I try to hide my feelings, it gets harder every day. The one man I desire most is the one I can't have.I'm in love with Grayson Thorne... And he can never know.GraysonI knew I wanted Claire the moment we met. She wasn't ready for a relationship then, so I waited patiently. Bided my time. For two years we've been best friends; we do everything together-except the one thing I really want from her. But I've seen the way she's been watching me recently. I know she feels the shift between us, and I'm ready to make her mine.Unfortunately, someone else has Claire in their sights, too. The incidents start small-a misplaced memento here. A hang-up call there. But when things go from bad to worse, I'll do everything in my power to protect her... Because Claire is my best friend. The love of my life. My everything.Friendly Fire is a small-town, friends-to-lovers, romantic suspense full of thrills, a dash of humor, and all the feels. Watch for the other books in the Rescue and Redemption Series, coming soon!

Evil Magician, Reznik the Magnificent, returns... In Quiet Fury, the 6th Promise McNeal mystery, retired psychologist and Atlanta transplant to the North Carolina Mountains, Dr. Promise McNeal, frequently looks over her shoulder since the suspected killer and circus magician, Reznik, whispered he'd be waiting for her and then disappeared. Promise isn't sure what Reznik meant, but her sixth-sense screams danger if Reznik still thinks she holds a secret he desperately wants. Now, months after Reznik's disappearance, security cameras in the shadowy, underground corridors of Asheville's two-hundred-and-fifty-room Biltmore Mansion catch Reznik on video. He's back! t

Amelia Hamilton has made a great life for herself over the past decade, and she doesn't need any reminders of her past-especially not her ex-husband, Jack. But her father's sudden death turns her world upside down. A clause in his will stipulates she spend four weeks at Briarleigh Lodge & Resort, and she finds herself in the snowy hills of Montana to fulfill his last request. But revenge runs deep in the shadows of Briarleigh, and someone wants Amelia gone-for good.A knock on his door in the middle of the night brings Jack Prescott face-to-face with his beautiful ex-wife, Amelia. Battered and bruised from an apparent car accident, her reaction isn't at all what he expects-it's worse. Mia has no memory of him or their tumultuous past. Still desperately in love with her, Jack is determined to keep her safe and figure out exactly what drove Mia from her cabin during the raging blizzard.Despite his vow to steer clear of her, Jack finds that time hasn't diminished the desire simmering between them. Their love burns brighter than ever, igniting into a passion that neither can resist. But each passing day brings them closer to learning the truth of what really happened-and revealing the secret that could tear them apart.

EvaRevenge.It's been the only thing driving me for the past six months since my sister was murdered-and he's the one responsible. I want to break him the way he broke my family. But to get what I want, I'll need to get close to him and win his trust. Although he stirs a dark need inside me that I never knew existed, my attraction to him is a distraction I can't afford. I'll give him my body... but he can never have my heart.FoxThe first time I set eyes on Eva, I'm entranced. When the brazen young woman breaks into my home, I take it as a sign-she's meant to be mine. She's hell-bent on revenge, but the more I'm with her, the more I want to keep her.I'm the devil... and she's my fallen angel.

EvaI knew he would find me; it was only a matter of time. But I won't give in without a fight. Fox owes me the truth, and I'm determined to get answers no matter what it takes. I'm not at all prepared for what I discover, and I'm forced to acknowledge that no one is as innocent as they appear. Each day brings us closer to finding Araña, the man Fox has been hunting for decades-until the unthinkable happens, and a shocking betrayal shatters our hopes for the future.FoxOne minute everything was perfect. The next, Eva is ripped from my life, kidnapped in broad daylight, gone without a trace. But they don't know me. I'll dismantle Araña's empire piece by piece, kill a thousand men to bring her back to me. The closer I get to revealing the truth, the more tangled the web of deceit becomes. They say the devil comes in many forms-but this was one we never expected...