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The SAFe Network Series
Who can you turn to when your life is in danger? When you’re married to a wealthy, powerful man who is a cruel abuser? When there is nowhere to run and no way to hide?
If you’re lucky, there is The SAFe Network.
An ultra-secret arm of the women’s charity SAFe (Securing Abused Females), The SAFe Network is an underground railroad specifically developed to help women escape high profile, high risk marriages and situations. With the most advanced technology and the ultimate security measures, along with learnings from the successful underground railroads of the past, The SAFe Network will rescue you and take you down the line to a new life and a new identity.
In Safe Hands
(Book 1 of The SAFe Network series)
Awards
- Fab Five 2010 – Finalist – Romantic Suspense
- Duel on the Delta 2010 – Finalist – Romantic Suspense
New York billionaire’s wife Virginia Latimer is trapped. Everyone believes Burton Latimer is charming and benevolent; Virginia knows he’s a brutal abuser. Terrified of running due to Burton’s wealth and power, she’s desperate. Fearing for her life after a vicious beating, she escapes.
Ex-cop Scott Kirkham’s wealthy parents were pillars of the community. In truth, his father was abusive. A teenage Scott escaped to New York and was rescued by a priest. Now, he helps run SAFe and its ultra-secret arm, The SAFe Network.
Bitter experience has taught Scott that many women return to their abusers, often with tragic consequences. He won’t stop trying to help them, but he no longer gets personally involved.
Until, he meets Virginia. Scott’s visiting the priest, when a battered woman seeking refuge collapses in his arms. He recognises the vulnerable beauty and knows only The SAFe Network can protect her. Dare he trust her? If she doesn’t stick it out, she’ll endanger their whole operation. Aware of the consequences if he doesn’t help, he takes a chance on her.
When Virginia’s told The SAFe Network can help her escape Burton’s clutches permanently, she’s too scared to try. Until, she learns she’s pregnant. Determined to protect her baby, she accepts their assistance. Though, she doesn’t trust the handsome, but cynical Scott.
But, for Virginia and Scott, escape is only the beginning of a deadly cat and mouse game; against the most ruthless of opponents. Burton spins his wife’s disappearance as a kidnapping, and uses his contacts to close off every official avenue of support. Now on the run from the authorities as well as a vengeful ex-husband, Virginia and Scott will have to test the very fabric of the SAFe Network to survive.
With the stakes rising, the couple use their wits and initiative to remain one step ahead of Burton. But, time is running out, and he is closing in. As they face the inevitable showdown, the simmering attraction between them threatens to boil over.
Will Virginia be strong enough to resist Burton’s demands? Can Scott trust Virginia to do what she must to bring this situation to a close?
Can two wounded souls take the ultimate risk and trust each other … and trust love?
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The Ice Squad
Cold Case Meets Back to the Future!
Welcome to M.U.C.S (The Major Unsolved Crimes Squad), better known as The Ice Squad - an elite team of cold case investigators who tackle the most high profile, heinous and complex unsolved cases. The best of the best, their reputation is second-to-none; their uncannily high success rate is legendary. They’re able to crack even the iciest of cold cases -- almost as if they have a crystal ball.
What is their secret?
Hidden in the depths of a New York marble cemetery is a special crypt. It appears ordinary from the outside, but within is a device that people think only exists in the world of science fiction - a time portal.
But even with the ultimate investigative tool at their disposal, solving these tough cold cases is not straightforward. With strict rules governing each time trip, not to mention danger in the present from people who want these cases kept in the deep freeze, agents will have to be at the top of their game to ensure justice is done.
Past, Imperfect
(Book 1 of The Ice Squad series)
Awards
- Touch of Magic 2010 – Finalist – Romantic Suspense
Cold case detective Amy Roberts yearns to solve the mystery of her own past. Abandoned as a baby, Amy has no clues as to who she is, not even her real name. From her childhood in the foster care system, through her adult life, this lack of a past has made her feel like she wasn’t good enough and didn’t belong. It also cost her the man she loved.
When the chance arises to work with The Ice Squad, she seizes it. This is her chance to learn the truth about her past. If only her new partner wasn’t the man who walked away from her.
Businessman turned Ice Squad agent Daniel Mowbray is working his last case before returning to his Boston blue-blood family and taking up the reins of Mowbray Industries. The last thing he wants is to go home; his family once cost him the woman he loved, Amy. But he made a deal he can’t renege on. Five years of freedom, following his dream -- to be a detective -- and the money to care for his institutionalised half-sister for the rest of her life, in return for his servitude.
Daniel is determined to make things right with Amy and arranges for her to be assigned to The Ice Squad. He hopes to help her achieve her dream, because he knows the secret behind the Ice Squad’s amazing success - time travel.
Daniel and Amy must work together to solve the Breakfast Club Murders -- a cold case from the late eighties, where a group of high school friends were murdered, one by one. The ‘outsider’, the ‘rebel’, the ‘geek’ and the ‘jock’ were poisoned, then stabbed. Only the ‘prom queen’ managed to escape the killer.
Twenty-five years later, The Ice Squad are called in when the prom queen, who’d returned to give information about the old murders to the police, is killed before she can talk.
As Amy and Daniel investigate the case, they discover that nothing is as it seems. Their time trips reveal dark secrets and uncover dangerous pacts, while in the present they’re pitched in a battle of wits against a ruthless, cold-blooded killer who will stop at nothing to keep the pair from the truth.
With the danger increasing, Amy and Daniel find it hard to deny their feelings for each other, even though the barriers that once kept them apart have not changed. Will they let their imperfect pasts stand between them or will they take a chance on love and the possibility of a perfect future?
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