Bøger af Vera LaFleur

Claire Whitney's tranquil life as a stay at home mom is upended when a friend and her young daughter inexplicably disappear. Invited with her own daughter, Jeanie, to attend a party to celebrate the fourth birthday of her friend's little girl, they arrive to find the front door ajar, the table set with cake and candles and the house eerily empty. Mystified, they return home as Claire considers whether to report them missing to the police. Dana, the missing child, is found asleep on Jeanie's bed, a note pinned to her chest. "Please keep my little girl safe," begs Felicia, the mother, "and do not call the police. They cannot help and will only make things worse."Conflicted over what to do, Claire enlists the help of a private detective friend. The information he uncovers is both shocking and unnerving. Nothing about her friend is as it seemed. With two innocent little girls to protect, Claire's life spirals into a vortex of evil as she becomes entangled in Felicia's life of gambling casinos, drug cartels, money laundering and kidnapping, each encounter more harrowing than the one before.

Claire Whitney is facing every mother's worst nightmare. Her six month old baby girl has been kidnapped! Both the local police and the FBI are on the case but Claire and her husband are frustrated and terrified by their lack of results. As the hours tick by, Claire is haunted by what could be happening to their baby. Frantic with worry, she takes matters into her own hands, following a trail of misdirected clues until she is herself caught in the kidnapper's snare. With her baby's life at stake as well as her own, she struggles through a series of harrowing ordeals only to learn the shocking truth--she has been battling the wrong enemy.

Claire Whitney awakes from a hallucinogenic fog to learn she has been accused of murder. The victim is her new boss, a man she liked and respected. Determined to clear her name and learn what really happened, she questions her coworkers, the people who knew him best. None claim to know anything about the man's death, but to Claire's surprise, most make it clear they are not sorry he is gone. Continuing her quest for the truth, she discovers a multitude of disturbing secrets regarding the dead man and his family. With the murderer facing discovery, Claire is thrown into the middle of a large lake under cover of darkness and left to drown.

Someone is trying to kill Claire O'Connell. Walking into the wrong apartment on a journalistic assignment, she becomes an inadvertent witness to murder. But when the life of her fiancé, Brad, is also threatened, she has to ask herself who would want them both dead. Her suspicions are too appalling to consider and she forces such thoughts from her mind. But the truth is worse than she imagined and as the diabolical plot unfolds, she and Brad come to face to face with their own deaths as they stare into the eyes of true evil.

At 14, Ivy June has become the responsible adult of the family. With her father in prison, her mother gone to who knows where, two younger brothers more trouble than help, a baby brother just learning to walk and a social worker snooping around, she has developed coping into an art form. The girl also cooks, cleans, attempts to keep up with her school work and favorite soap and worries about the ugly stranger lurking across the street. Life seems to improve when her father returns until unexpected events change everything.

All Claire was looking for was a friend to jump-start her social live after moving from Los Angeles to Atlanta. Natalie Lockwood seems ideal--rich, beautiful, married to handsome and successful Dr. Richard Lockwood and the mother of an adorable little boy. Claire also meets the doctor's younger brother and becomes instantly infatuated. The two women become firm friends, but Claire's admiration for Natalie's husband sours as she observes his controlling and sometimes baffling behavior. Natalie and Richard's son is bright, handsome and polite. Any parent would be proud to show off such a child. So why is his father determined to keep him hidden from everyone, even the child's grandmother? Richard professes to want more children but when Natalie becomes unexpectedly pregnant, her husband insists she have an abortion and becomes enraged when she refuses. As his anger intensifies, the doctor's shocking secret is revealed. With her own life in jeopardy, Claire is soon entangled in a desperate attempt to keep her friend safe as she faces Richard's vengeful wrath to a shattering conclusion.

PAGE Christine Lyman almost had it all. From a life of poverty and the disappearance of her high school sweetheart, she met, fell in love, and married Stewart Lyman, bank owner and the richest man in a small town across the state line. He was driving through her area and stopped for lunch, becoming intrigued by the young and pretty waitress with the soft smile and the ash-blond hair.Her challenge now is the well-being of their six-year-old deaf son. After struggling with sign language, she and her husband reluctantly enroll him in a school for the deaf in the neighboring town of Oakton. The child is unhappy with being away from home, unsuccessfully attempts to run away.Christine drives to her husband's bank to discuss this with him, but he is tied up in a board meeting. When the secretary is called into his office, she asks Christine to sit at her desk to answer the phone. Looking around the lobby, Christine spots a familiar face. He is her long-lost boyfriend who disappeared only days before their planned wedding.The young man glances across the room, and their gazes lock. He turns to flee the bank. Her recognition has ruined their chance of robbery. But when he reports this to his partners, the older man thinks otherwise. "How many old girlfriends with authority do you have working in banks? We can force her to get us into the main vault for a much larger haul than the penny-ante money in the teller's cages."Thus begins a deadly spiral of intimidation, threats, kidnapping, and murder as the young woman fights to protect herself and her deaf son from her ex-boyfriend, his current and very vindictive girlfriend, and their older mentor in crime.161