Nancy Bush

The guilty will atone in blood. She senses their twisted desires before she meets them. It's as if fate is helping her stop these monsters from preying on others the way she was preyed upon. And after she has delivered brutal justice, she'll let the whole world see their guilt . . . The first victim, found naked, bound, and frozen to death, wore a note strung around his neck -- "I must pray for what I've done." Now there's another note -- this one...

It's taken time for the plan to unfold, years spent waiting, watching, hating. And after the first victim, the killing gets easier and easier. The Crissmans, owners of Crissman & Wolfe department store, were once one of Portland's most powerful families. There's still enough fortune left to sow mistrust between Lucy, her bohemian sister Layla, their brother Lyle, and his grasping wife Kate. When a charity event at the Crissman Lodge ends in a fatal...

Twelve years after a tragic accident, Coby Rendell and her friends are targeted by a killer who will do anything to keep the past buried forever.

A tense, intricately plotted novel of suspense, as one woman becomes the focus of a killer's warped game of revenge and murder.

Tormented by her memories, Callie Cantrell must help former L.A. cop West Laughlin find his young nephew whose disappearance is shockingly linked to the tragic death of her husband and son - and to a killer who is not done with her yet.

"Some mistakes you have to live with ... One victim succumbs to an overdose. Another is brutally bludgeoned to death. Each, in turn, will pay. Because you never forget the friends you make in high school--or the enemies ... And others ... In the wake of her stepbrother Nick's death, Kerry Monaghan is visiting Edwards Bay. Kerry has just returned to the small town overlooking an arm of Puget Sound that she left before high school, though not before...

A tight-knit high school 'It' clique takes a dark turn when one member is lost to a tragedy. But it's only the first in a series of misfortunes as the friends become frenemies, and the girls become women who wonder who will be the last one standing.

Some refer to it as the Colony. To others, it's a cult. But few locals in the Oregon coastal hamlet of Deception Bay have ever been invited to the inner sanctum of Siren Song. Now there are disturbing rumors about the Colony, its matriarch, and a long history of bitter secrets-but you can never stop it. Death has come to Siren Song before. But this time there will be no refuge and no remorse. For everything born in wickedness must die that way, and...

After leaving her husband Liam Bastian following a wedding-party bloodbath, Rory Abernathy and her daughter escape to a remote sanctuary of Point Roberts, Washington where they are tracked down by Liam and the killer.

A private investigator considers joining her client on a Colorado ski trip in 'Candy Canes and Cupid,' by Fern Michaels. An aspiring investigator dreams of getting her boss back under the mistletoe in Nancy Bush's 'White Hot Christmas.' In Rosanna Chiofalo's 'Seven Days of Christmas,' Bianca Simone receives a special Christmas gift from her boyfriend. In Lin Stepp's 'A Smoky Mountain Christmas,' Veda Trent heads home to manage a craft store. (Original),...