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After losing two close friends three years ago in a snowboarding accident, Stacy Carter has become a loner and can't seem to make peace with this loss, not when Death intrudes upon her personal life again and takes two more people she loves. Meeting new people and trying to make a normal life for herself proves to be harder than anything else she's done. Meanwhile, in her career, being a forensic pathologist puts her in close contact with the dead. While fascinating and never dull, it isn't exactly a cozy conversation starter. When her brother tries to coax her out for a mountain vacation to help her heal, she has reservations, even as she tells herself rationally that she needs to face this. Reservations and rationale, however, were in short supply the last time she saw Royce O'Connell at that mountain ...Royce is floored when Stacy finally returns to the spot where she lost her two best friends, intending to deal with the depression that she's battled for some time. Royce and Stacy have been longtime friends, but Royce wants so much more between them. Yet he's well aware that he blew their last time together. Stacy makes it clear she's not looking for reconciliation. However, he can't help seeing her reappearance in their tight-knit group as a second chance, maybe his only chance.Out in their winter wonderland, the vacation atmosphere shifts from merry to mayhem in a hurry, when they come across a dead man. Then, not long afterward, Stacy's brother goes missing. The nightmare is only just beginning, as the realization settles in that they can't trust anyone.Maybe not even each other ...

Welcome to Hathaway House. Rehab Center. Safe Haven. Second chance at life and love.Overjoyed at his transfer to Hathaway House, Heath Jorgenson is anxious to maximize his potential and to get better from the multiple injuries that sidelined him. But rest is necessary for recovery, and Heath's body won't give him any. Even when he buckles under and accepts the need for drugs, his body rejects them. And all the determination in the world won't matter when your own body is working against you. Just when he's about to give up, respite comes from the unlikeliest of sources. The sound of the cleaning lady slowly and methodically washing the hall floor outside his room lulls him to sleep and allows him to see some of the progress he's desperate for.Hailee Cisco is grateful for the part-time job of washing floors at Hathaway House. Sure, it isn't glamorous, but it's honest work, and, along with her other job, it's enough to pay the bills-of which Hailee has many. When Dani, the heart of and the partial owner of Hathaway House, offers Hailee a full-time job, Hailee is delighted at the chance to cut back to just one job. Until she realizes that her change in hours has an unintended impact on Heath's sleep patterns ...

This is the 8th Psychic Visions Novel from USA Today Bestselling author Dale Mayer. Energy is the life-force of inherent good...and the vigor of unnatural evil. Which is stronger?When she was young, Tia was forced into a prison, studied and tortured, because of her special talent. The chance for escape led her to run as far away as she could...but she quickly discovered there is nowhere she can hide that they can't find her. Stefan Kronos, a psychic who's formed a community of those like her, is the only person she believes can help her. When she begs him to help her, she awakens from a coma six weeks later. Her problems have only just begun, chief among them that she's still being hunted.Now you see her...Dean is moonlighting as a guard at the hospital Tia finds herself in upon rousing from unconsciousness. Between a rock and a hard place, Dean has met Tia, a woman he can't forget...and equally can't believe the insane things she's telling him - until there's absolutely no other choice. What's at stake becomes only too clear when Tia's problems become Dean's, entwining them so neither knows where one stops and the other starts. If she runs again, how can he find someone of her unbelievable talents?Now you don't...The Psychic Vision Series 1.Tuesday's Child 2.Hide'n Go Seek 3.Maddy's Floor 4.Garden of Sorrow 5.Knock, Knock... 6.Rare Find 7.Eyes to the Soul 8.Now You See Her... 9.Shattered 10.Into the Abyss... 11.Seeds of Malice 12.Eye of the Falcon 13.Itsy Bitsy Spider 14.Unmasked 15.Deep Beneath 16.From the Ashes

This is the 5th Psychic Visions Novel from USA Today Bestselling author Dale Mayer. Revenge has no best-by date. On the contrary, it's ideally served cold...Wealthy and beautiful Shay Lassiter runs a prestigious foundation that she built with her considerable connections and resources. Both amounted to less than nothing the day her fiancé tried to murder her. Who to trust? Shay guards her heart...while using her knack for reading people's intentions, whether they're good or evil, to guide her through the dark, unfathomable maze that's become her normal life. Inexplicably, foundation clients start dying. Shay turns to the new man she's been seeing - computer specialist and ex-cop Roman Chandler - needing his protection.Roman has been giving her mixed signals in order to keep a secret that involves Shay and could easily ruin the fragile relationship he wants to build with her. Damningly, he can't tell her the truth, so he somehow has to convince her to trust him instead.Whoever's behind the troubles plaguing Shay's world is about to turn his need for revenge on the source of his rage. When vengeance comes knocking, the results are sure to be deadly...The Psychic Vision Series 1.Tuesday's Child 2.Hide'n Go Seek 3.Maddy's Floor 4.Garden of Sorrow 5.Knock, Knock... 6.Rare Find 7.Eyes to the Soul 8.Now You See Her... 9.Shattered 10.Into the Abyss... 11.Seeds of Malice 12.Eye of the Falcon 13.Itsy Bitsy Spider 14.Unmasked 15.Deep Beneath 16.From the Ashes

This collection is the first 3 books in the Glory series. These books are:GenesisGenesis and her sisters are the last of her maternal line, the last of the stargazers - except she is a dropout in the energy worker talent department.Gentle, non-assuming Genesis Chandler is supposed to be protecting the woods, as is her nature - she's an energy worker - but since Granny's death and her sisters leaving town, she's lost sight of much in her life. While she was living with blinders on, someone else took advantage.Connor has been called in to investigate the sacred forest. Something odd is happening to the reserve, and it's affecting the town's energy source. That also means it's connected to the sacred pools. He's got energy problems himself and needs Genesis to get to the bottom of this problem.Genesis has no love for Connor. His fault. He loved her and left her, not realizing he'd left the best part of himself behind - his heart.Can they work together to find out who is destroying their energy reserve - a resource that's key to the life of all who live on Glory?Their survival depends on it.ToriHurt and betrayed, Tori has gone into hiding. Anything to give her time to heal from losing the love of her life.Devon came looking for her... for all the wrong reasons. He needs her help to save a large band of locals caught behind a weird energy pattern. As an energy worker, she can't turn her back on those in need. She will help him but only if he disappears from her life forever.He agrees but has no intention of honoring his promise. She's finally let him back into her life - he has no intention of screwing up a second time.Tori isn't big on forgiveness but she is big on Devon. Only the weird energy pattern was a problem - a big problem -and the start of something sinister.Before she can work out what's going on, the stakes go up, and she realizes there might not be a future for either of them. CelesteThis is Matt and Celeste's story.Being last sucked. And so did going home less than triumphant.Celeste is injured only this time it's her leg and not her pride. There's no room for the latter when she's being stalked. And now someone is out to destroy her and her sisters...Matt has been waiting for Celeste to return - to him. She was a strong energy worker and trying to track her down would be futile. And pointless. She'd be found only if she wanted to be.Considering she'd stayed away as long as she had, he worried that maybe she wasn't planning on coming back - ever.But Glory is heating up and life for Celeste and her sisters is coming up to crunch time. They need her back. And she's come back - on her terms.The three sisters must unite to fight the secret enemy in their midst and to preserve their way of life. That means Celeste must make peace with herself and Matt - before it's too late.

Riches to rags ... Chaos is down ... Everyone loves sparkly rings ... Some more than others!Who knew a simple trip to the consignment store would find Wendy being strong-armed by two strangers? So not allowed-especially as it could affect Doreen getting her month-end check! Trying to get to the bottom of this is one convoluted story to sort out. It involves Bernard-an eccentric and handsome older man, who had a very young fiancée in his life-the breakup, and the resulting theft.Corporal Mack Moreau is not at all happy with Doreen's new male friend, Bernard, who has the money to keep her in the style she was accustomed to. However, Mack is happy Doreen is staying out of his cases, if only she could stay out of trouble! Then again, Doreen can find trouble like this without any effort on her part. At least this time she also befriends another Kelowna icon, who lives behind Wendy's store and who is well-known for her quince jams and jellies.Yet a big shiny reward from Bernard awaits someone who solves the theft and how it involves Wendy and the jam icon. Maybe-just maybe-that someone could be Doreen.

Riches to rags ... Chaos has calmed ... At least while out on the lake ... Until poison is found, blowing up the peace again ...Enjoying a beautiful day on the lake, while Doreen tries her hand at paddleboarding, ends up on an odd note after finding poison in a bed of pansies. She garners a tidbit of information out of her BFF, Corporal Mack Moreau, about a man who'd recently walked into the emergency room, complaining he'd been poisoned.Only on a threat of good behavior (surely it doesn't count if given under duress), Doreen agrees to stay out of his case. But, as it happens, the mention of poison to her beloved Nan brings up another recent death and an old woman who'd been saying someone was poisoning her for months. Only no one listened. Now she is dead.When Doreen's case and Mack's collide, she's delighted, and so is he. Not. But, when Nan decides to join in the sleuthing, with her pal, Richie, it's Doreen's turn to worry-and with good reason!

Uncle Sam's Navy wasn't kind to Owen Powell. After he walked too close to a landmine, he was left with leg and back injuries and a rough road to regaining his health. His career is down the drain; his future is uncertain, and every day is a struggle toward better mental and physical health.The last thing he expects to find is love in the midst of therapy at Hathaway House.Penny Abigail has spent all her adult life trying to prove to her family that she's strong enough after a lifetime of illnesses to live her life on her own terms. Although frail, she's worked hard to get to where she's at today. She has created several charities and hands out large sums of money to deserving organizations, including Hathaway House.Meeting Owen wasn't part of her plan, but she's willing to run with it. The problem is convincing her overprotective family that the broken SEAL is good enough for her and is not just after her money ...

Simon Says... Ride, book 3 in a brand new thriller series by USA Today bestseller author Dale Mayer. Detective Kate Morgan is hot on a new confusing case. A cyclist is killed at the main intersection to the University of British Columbia. At first glance it looks like a hit-and-run, but, as details emerge, it gets much more complicated.From one day to the next, Simon is blinded by an overload of senses and noises. It's impacting his regular business day, and he seems unable to control when and how these moments occur. Angry and frustrated, he tells Kate but knows she's unable to help. How can she, when he can't help himself?As Kate struggles to work her way through a gang of arrogant university students, reluctant parents, a defensive dean, and way too many unobservant witnesses, she finds a disturbing pattern of more "accidents" and more victims ...Then finally Simon understands why his senses are on overload ... and flips the investigation around.

Returning to the town he was raised in was hard, except that Harley can once more see the only golden light of those days. He'd walked away from her because she'd been too young, and he would never be good enough. Harley was back to check on the War Dog Bowser, but Harley can't help but feel like he never really left. But when Harley snags the War Dog from one of Bowser's handlers, Harley knows he has to put a stop to this guy forever.Over all these years Jasmine awaits Harley's return, but he won't be happy with the changes she's gone through. When he shows up out of the blue, she knows only complete honesty will be good enough. But it was rough and meant opening up memories of a horrible time in her life.Harley's arrival prompts a hidden truth that someone will do anything to stop from coming out. And Harley will do everything he can to get justice for her ...

This is the 7th Psychic Visions Novel from USA Today Bestselling author Dale Mayer. Even when a person can see something, it doesn't necessarily mean he should look...Celina Wilton is technically blind, but, given the alternative of being dead instead, she's learned how to adapt to a condition she finds far from ideal.Leader of a community of psychics, Stefan Kronos is often asked by the police to help out on special cases where his unique abilities assist with investigations. When he's called upon to consult on a case, Celina falls squarely on his radar. For a long time, he's wanted to get to know Celina better, and the only reason he's gotten as far as he has around her walls is by proceeding in unusual ways. He's had to cautiously watch his every step...and now, in order to protect her, he has to watch hers as well.But, to unravel the threads tangling their lives with a vicious killer, Celina will need to trust Stefan enough to let him inside her barriers.This stalker is like none other Stefan has encountered. Before long, he realizes he's not the only one with eyes into Celina's soul...The Psychic Vision Series 1.Tuesday's Child 2.Hide'n Go Seek 3.Maddy's Floor 4.Garden of Sorrow 5.Knock, Knock... 6.Rare Find 7.Eyes to the Soul 8.Now You See Her... 9.Shattered 10.Into the Abyss... 11.Seeds of Malice 12.Eye of the Falcon 13.Itsy Bitsy Spider 14.Unmasked 15.Deep Beneath 16.From the Ashes

Killian is called up to retrieve a woman who's been kidnapped, then escaped, only to be captured again. With a sketchy SOS coming in, Killian's tracking her from Vancouver to the far reaches of the Yukon Territory in Canada, right next door to Alaska, where the intel finally stops.The apple of her father's eye, Stacey was a late gift in his life. But, when it counted, he wasn't there for her, leaving her alone and unprotected. On the run from her abusive husband, she's kidnapped a second time by a seasoned negotiator, who can see she's in trouble. Only he plans to auction her off to the highest bidder.With several threads running together on this mission, Killian must find the predator in the middle and take him out, or Stacey will never be safe again.

Du luxe à la misère... Du contrôle total au chaos absolu... Mais un meurtre, sérieusement ?Alors que son ex-mari l'a laissée sans le sou, l'ancienne mondaine Doreen Montgomery va prendre un nouveau départ dans le vieux manoir délabré de sa grand-mère, Nan, dans la ville pittoresque de Kelowna... à la condition qu'elle s'occupe des animaux que Nan n'a pas pu emmener avec elle en maison de retraite : Thaddeus, le perroquet africain gris volubile au langage fleuri et son copain, Goliath, un chat aux proportions monstrueuses et à l'attitude haute en couleur.C'est la nouvelle vie dont Doreen et Mugs, son basset bien aimé, avaient désespérément besoin. Mais alors que l'existence semble à nouveau sourire à Doreen, Goliath le chat et Mugs le chien déterrent un doigt humain dans les herbes folles du jardin de Nan.Et pas seulement un doigt. Quand la police se met à creuser, elle découvre le reste d'un corps qui rappelle un vieux crime non résolu.Avec sa grand-mère en tant que principale suspecte, Doreen commence bientôt à accumuler les indices, au grand désarroi du caporal Mack Moreau. Elle va tout tenter pour prouver l'innocence de sa Nan chérie.

Kyron swore he wouldn't work with dogs anymore, but, when Badger asks him to go home to Aspen and to track a missing War Dog, who is missing her left leg-as he is-Kyron can't refuse. Even if it means seeing his brother and his wife again. Not that he had anything against them. Kyron just couldn't deal with his parents. Finding the dog seems like the easiest part of returning to Aspen, until Kyron realizes a rescue run by a fascinating woman is the one that's spotted the missing dog, ... only the dog isn't alone ...Miranda spends every waking moment working to keep her animals safe. Two jobs keeps them in food and shelter but not much more. Considering her miserable neighbor is always making complaints about her, she has considered moving, but it is too expensive to make that happen. She has seen a three-legged canine hanging around the back perimeter of her property and had been feeding it, quietly knowing it resembled the dog the neighbor had brought home, until it ran away.She had no intention of letting her neighbor or anyone else know about the dog, hoping to coax it onto her property, where she could look after it properly. However, then Kyron showed up, searching for the animal, and things got really ugly ...

Hatch is more than happy to step up and to rescue the missing father-and-daughter archeological duo. Now if only it were that easy. They'd been questioned by the Egyptian government and released, with a warning to not leave Cairo. But, when their hotel room is found empty, most believe they took off ahead of punishment-but not Hatch's team.When the father's foreman turns up dead, Hatch investigates the body-dump location and finds the daughter, weaving through the sand, ready to collapse.Milly is shaken and grieving. During her captivity, her father dies, and she escapes, only to find herself lost in the sand dunes. She may be safe, but her father will never come home. Millie is determined to find the man responsible for her father's death and for the information that's changed her entire life.

This collection is the first 3 books in the By Death series. Those books are:Touched By DeathDeath had touched anthropologist Jade Hansen in Haiti once before, costing her an unborn child and perhaps her very sanity. A year later, determined to face her own issues, she returns to Haiti with a mortuary team to recover the bodies of an American family from a mass grave.Visiting his brother after the quake, independent contractor Dane Carter puts his life on hold to help the sleepy town of Jacmel rebuild. But he finds it hard to like his brother''s pregnant wife or her family. He wants to go home, until he meets Jade - and realizes what''s missing in his own life.When the mortuary team begins work, it''s as if malevolence has been released from the earth. Instead of laying her ghosts to rest, Jade finds herself confronting death and terror again.And the man who unexpectedly awakens her heart - is right in the middle of it all.Haunted By DeathDeath haunts anthropologist Meg Pearce...In her last summer before college, an innocent camping trip ended in a friend''s disappearance...and destroyed her life. She lost everything. Her innocence. Her plans for her future. Her best friend and lover. Seventeen years later, she returns reluctantly to the same area, hoping to move on. But a gruesome discovery sends her reeling back to that dark time. Detective Chad Ingram has spent the last seventeen years trying to solve the mystery of that camping trip so he too can regain his life...and the lost love of his life.Only death isn''t done shaking up their lives...and this time they are in the crossfire.Chilled By DeathAfter losing several friends in an accident, Stacey became a loner. She knows she needs to grow past it, but a career working with the dead is not a warm and cozy conversation starter. When her brother coaxes her back to the same mountain for a holiday to help her heal, she realizes it''s time.Royce can''t believe Stacey is back and fighting her depression. He blew their last time together and this might be his one and only second chance with her. Now if only he could figure out how to not blow it...But once out in the winter wonderland, the holiday atmosphere quickly shifts when they find a dead man. Then one of their own goes missing...It will take everything Stacy and Royce have to make it through this nightmare.... They can''t trust anyone - maybe not even each other...

Welcome to a brand-new connected series of intrigue, betrayal, and ... murder, from the USA Today best-selling author Dale Mayer. A series with all the elements you've come to love, plus so much more... including psychics! A betrayal from within has Terkel frantic to protect those he can, as his team falls one by one, from a murderous killer he helped create.With the bulk of his team down, Terk tries to establish a new base, while struggling to heal the team through the special connection each has. Damon is concerned about finding Tasha, one of their admins, and keeping her safe. But, without any secure place to take her, Damon's making do with the little they have-whether she's happy about his plan or not.Tasha, barely surviving an assassination attempt, is not sure who to trust. When Damon comes to check on her, she can only hope her instincts and her heart are right about him. This man meant everything to her for the years they'd worked together, but he'd always kept her at arm's reach. Now to learn that he and Terk are the only fully cognizant members of her old team, she wants to help but doesn't want to risk her life ... again.Still struggling with their new reality, both Tasha and Damon need to find out who did this to them. It's the only way to get their lives back-and to have a future together ...

After finding the killer who'd tried to take out the entire team, and now with Bullard safe, the crew heads back to the island where he recovered. Leia wants to get married there, so Dave has gone ahead with Katie, Bullard's caterer, to set things up.Dave has a new lease on life, now that Bullard is safely back home, and fixes his sights on an old friend he's always kept slightly distant. Katie has been in Dave's orbit for a long time; she's not sure what's changed in their relationship, but something certainly has, and she couldn't be happier.Except for one loose thread from that same island. After all, someone let the outside world know Bullard was alive. Someone they had yet to find. So a week in paradise might start with some time in hell first.

Riches to rags ... Finally it's calm ... At least for the moment ... If she's lucky ...Needing a break from all the murder and mayhem, Doreen and Mack plan an outing to see the local orchid show. Some of the displays are in the community center, but the more prized specimens of this genus require a visit to some of the gardeners' homes, a rare opportunity not afforded to everyone.This trip, not quite a date, affords Doreen a chance to enjoy not only the company of Mack but to get to know a few more of the colorful locals. But, when one of these locals ends up dead just after their visit, the dark underbelly of orchid growing is exposed and, with it, an old murder, ... not to mention another new one. Doreen and Mack just can't catch a break.But can they catch a killer before he kills again?

This is the 4th Psychic Visions Novel from USA Today Bestselling author Dale Mayer. After spending a brutal year trying to cope after the loss of her sister, Alexis Gordon knows she needs to get on with her life. Only, instead of the normal work day she'd anticipated as the means to begin her journey back to the land of the living, reality as she knows it disappears...Kevin Sutherland is a detective and a psychic. Recognizing Alexis's gift and aware she has no idea what's happening to her, he calls his friend and frequent case consultant, Stefan Kronos, an artist with psychic gifts. Stefan leads a community of psychics able to help Alexis understand and develop her unique skills.Alexis has unwittingly become involved in a case unlike anything Kevin has ever seen before. The killer seems to have a personal vendetta against Alexis herself. He intends to eliminate her before she uses her psychic gift to discover not only his identity but the garden of sorrow he's buried his long-dead victims.Only Alexis can stop this madman who fully intends to survive...even after death.

This is the 3rd Psychic Visions Novel from USA Today Bestselling author Dale Mayer. Are some souls not meant to be saved?Psychic medical intuitive and licensed physician Madeleine Wagner thought she'd seen every way possible to heal a diseased body. But, when her patients begin dying from mysterious causes, Maddy realizes she might be dealing with an evil force that may be outside her ability to cure.Maddy's medical facility, Maddy's Floor, has helped countless terminally-ill patients to miraculously live. Now something malevolent has taken up residence on the ward. Not sure how to deal with this on her own, she calls on her psychic friend and mentor, Stefan. Together, they delve beyond the physical plane into the metaphysical...and find utter terror.With two family members in Maddy's care, Detective Drew McNeil finds himself wondering frequently during his visits about the woman and not just the miracle worker. Who takes care of this selfless soul who gives everything she has to save every single patient? When does she ever allow herself to rest, relax, and live? The more time he spends with her, the more he wants to get to know her privately.Bizarre events in Maddy's facility draw Drew's professional curiosity. Several intersect with one of his cold cases, causing him to wonder if an old killer has been resurrected...literally. If so, Maddy's directly in the path of danger. Drew wonders, How can anyone stop a force of nature - whether good or evil - that no one else can see, feel, or, frankly, believe...unless Maddy has the ability to do all those things and more?