Nora Roberts

The daughter of a world-renowned magician and an escape artist are left no choice but to pull off the most daring heist of their careers.

Pandora McVie and Michael Donahue must find a way to live together without killing each other in order to honor the wishes of their late benefactor; Jillian Baron and Aaron Murdock, heirs of a long-standing family feud, find their enmity replaced by a different emotion.

Dr. Tess Court, called upon to create a psychological profile of a killer who strangles his victims with a priest's white silk amice, is teamed with skeptical Detective Ben Paris who could not care less about the murderer's psyche, but does find the beautiful doctor intriguing.

Fiona Bristow, the only survivor of the Red Scarf serial killer who shot and killed her fiancé and his K-9 partner, is living quietly on Orca Island off the Seattle coast where she runs a thriving dog-training business, when her life is disrupted by artist Simon Doyle who is desperate for help in calming his wild puppy, and by the emergence of a copycat killer who wants the woman that got away.

Kate Powell, orphaned at the age of eight, grows up determined never to disappoint the family who raised her, and finds success in a boutique partnership with two friends, and love with hotelier Byron DeWitt.

Margo Sullivan, the daughter of the stern housekeeper for the wealthy Templeton family, sets out to win fame and fortune on her own terms, but when disaster strikes, she returns home to find Joshua Templeton waiting to see if she will make his childhood dreams of love come true.