Louise Furley Bücher

Teenaged sleuths investigate a dark murder mystery “Oh, there’s those gorgeous girls,” Regina crowed. “Pepi Nok and Cheyne Somerset. They make me think of glazed marble bookends, you know, like perfect statuettes only polar colors, dark and light.Cheyne and Pepi are 16-year-old beauty pageant princesses sitting on a flowery float waving their white gloved hands at the public as they pass by in the annual May Day Parade. It’s a beautiful day that ends in ghastly tragedy.The teens join the horrified throng circling the grisly site on a float that didn’t go out in the parade. Lying dead in the center of the float is Lareina Castilla.Lareina was a well-known vain, very mean girl so, although she’d been ruthlessly murdered, no one is too upset over her gruesome demise, and the police are only halfheartedly pursuing a suspect.When Megan Milan, Cheyne’s beloved teacher is framed for a deadly bombing, the teens believe that travesty and Lareina’s murder are connected. The amateur sleuths vow to bring Megan’s framer to justice, and expose Lareina’s killer.As the girls follow the evidence to the despicable suspects, their own lives hurl into dire danger when they uncover an insidious plot to put the entire state in deadly peril.In the midst of all this, Pepi’s nightmarish childhood drags her down into a dark, harrowing spiral that she may be unable to climb out of.Their very lives in terrifying jeopardy, will the teens live to see justice prevail? Will Pepi survive her atrocious past to live happily ever after? Will each girl find her own romantic hero? Read on and find out! This book contains dark themes of child abuse, domestic violence, addiction and endangered children. There are no words that would be offensive to underage readers, and there is a HEA.

A young woman washes ashore on an island that hovers between the archaic and the modern. She has no memory of who she is. Because she is unmarked, belonging to none of the three factions on the isle, brutal Warlord Kultur holds her prisoner until he can discover who she is and what her agenda may be. He wants her and is cruel and ruthless to Sislla when she denies him. Sislla, as they name her, is in dire danger as the deadly Iminims are coming from across the sea. They come to war, and they will kill any who are unmarked. For a stranger to become marked, they must have sexual relations with a marked person on three golden moons. Kultur's mother insists either he tosses Sislla back to the ocean and let her fare on her own, or have one of the village warriors mark her thereby protecting all the people from detection. But, Kultur has an issue with that. He decides he will be the one to mark his captive. The problem is, Sislla refuses to be marked. Once marked she can never leave the island and her instinct is urging her to return to the sea and find her home. The menacing Iminims are coming. What will the fearsome Kultur do, save his people, or save Sislla against her will?

Princess Činnosti has escaped from an evil king. At great risk to herself, she travels alone in dangerous forests to seek aid from the emperor to save her village from annihilation. Kazak Adarken, a vicious warlord of the emperor's elite warriors has just brutally destroyed murderous bandits with his bare hands when he hears word of a beautiful sprite on a horse racing through the woods. Intrigued, he chases after her. Cini fears she has hopped from the frying pan to the fire when the animalistic Kazak captures her and declares he has chosen her to be his wife. The brute's stunted English is guttural and heavily accented, making him appear the savage barbarian that he is. Cini adamantly declines his offer to wed, in vain. Months pass, and although Cini has started to have feelings for the male she calls the Beast that is holding her prisoner, she tricks Kazak and sneaks away to save her village. But, the evil king captures her, and after vile torture he plans to burn her at the stake. Kazak is devastated when he finds her gone and frantically searches for her for months. Will he find his bride before the king has fulfilled his vengeance and Cini breathes no more? This is a stand-alone, HEA novel. Please do not purchase if you are offended by strong language, violence, or sexual situations.

While on an archeological dig in the Amazon, Tani Starleen’s brother Holt is abducted and his two friends are murdered. Tani tries to hire Rogan Damiano, a disgraced ex-soldier and disreputable owner of a sleazy saloon to help her find Holt.Rogan’s soul is angry and bitter from what happened while he was in the military. His heart is stone cold and he refuses to help Tani, whom he has obsessed over since the first time his eyes lit on her blonde ringlets.But then, Rogan realizes she and her fiancé, the professor of the dig will be in dire danger, he rushes to her aid and rescues them from ravaging pirates.While guiding them down the perilous Amazon River in search of Holt, Rogan and his team fight off rampaging animals and rapacious humans along the way.Rogan is smitten with the delicate beauty, however there are the small problems of Tani’s abusive fiancé and Rogan’s own past that continue to barge between them.Tani is young and sweet, Rogan is tough and coarse. He knows he’s no good for her, but that won’t stop him from doing his damnedest to eliminate all of her menaces and winning her heart.

Glorie was placed undercover to spy on a gangster. But, he caught her. And now he’s keeping her. Before Glorie could even begin the police academy she was plucked out and sent to work undercover in a saloon. Her mission was to gather evidence on the illegal enterprises of the notorious gangster, Jozadak Kane. Suppressing the atrocious act that changed her life, the horror that made her fear all men, while she is working late one night, thieves break in to rob the saloon and they grab Glorie with the intent of assaulting her and then killing her. Shocked at who comes to her rescue, before she can breathe a sigh of relief she is bound and tossed into a car that races away into the frightening night. Joze. Something continues to terrorize Glorie’s dreams, and he is going to discover what or who it is and fix it, for good. Destroy what had hurt her so badly that it still clutched her in its ghastly throes. But, for now, the more Glorie avoided him, the angrier he grew. It kicked him in the gut that she was obviously at least a little attracted to him, he knew he could win her over if she’d let him in just a hair. But, because she believed him to be this cutthroat ruthless hood, and she was a goody two-shoes, inexperienced cop, she would have nothing to do with him. Not to mention that little thing about him kidnapping her. And keeping her. Against her will. When the really bad guys come for Glorie, will Joze risk it all, his businesses, his life, his freedom, to save her?

Rebeka’s vile stepsister Queenie has done a very bad thing and now a mobster has put an underground warrant out on her. Once captured, she will be taken to a foreign country in an isolated place in the wilderness and put up for auction.If an abducted woman is homely she’ll be lucky to be put to work as a migrant farmer. If she’s young and beautiful, then she’ll be sold to work in a brothel in a foreign country. To be used, abused, drugged, tortured until the day she dies.The thing is, the abductors accidentally take Rebeka, thinking she is her sister Queenie. And now Rebeka is to suffer Queenie’s sentence.The man running the auction is so feared, so dangerous, so deadly, people cower as he strides by. That is, except for the females who desire his rough ways. Unfortunately, Rebeka catches his eye. Now Jeph will not quit until he takes her for his own. That is, before he sells her to an even nastier fiend.Sell her, save her, or keep her, Jeph has yet to decide Rebeka’s fate.He looked so…unscrupulous, big and brutally menacing, Rebeka struggled to hold in shivers so violent they threatened to split her body in two. She asked, “How does a child go from a slave in chains to being a man holding the chains?”He regarded her silently. Her big blue eyes so innocent, radiating sincerity and naiveté. He wasn’t even born that innocent.At his nonresponse, she said, “How could you turn so vile? You went from an innocent child to a beast that sells, harms, kills innocent people.”Eyes hard and mean, he replied, “Hell will do that to a soul, babygirl. There are no guiltless people here.As she is being prepared for the auction, Rebeka begs, “Please, Chief, please, I will do anything you ask. Anything. I- I promise, anything you want, any time you want, please help me,” the sobs choke out of her trembling body as the tears fall.He gave her one more long look, his hooded dark gaze taking her in from head to toe and back. “There is nothing I can do.” His voice flat, devoid of any sentiment, he suddenly turned on his heel and abruptly left her.As he strides off he can hear her soft, tortured voice crying, “Please, Chief, please help me. Please…” He didn’t even glance at the other prisoners as he made his way back around to the front of the stage.

Controlled and desired by Krystian Ritrova, her deviant half-brother, Svetiessa is forced to trick felon-hunting warlord, Devilos Dravidian into a false trade-off. When Devilos realizes she had deceived him, he swears he will find her, and make her regret her complicity. By the time Devilos does locate the beautiful Prințesă, Sveti is near death after being captured and brutalized by torturous aliens.Unable to mete out his punishment to Sveti as her brother has issued a warrant for her return, Dev is forced to bring her back to her home planet, knowing Krystian will horribly assault her.Along the way, they crash land on an uninhabitable planet. As they make their way back to a search airship, Dev has saved Sveti's life, and lost his heart. He tricks her into marrying him and she is livid.Sveti sneaks off Dev's airship and surrenders herself to her vicious brother to save a loved one. The infuriated warlord races to reach her in time, before Krystian can destroy Dev's reluctant bride. This HEA has no cliffhangers, it contains adult themes that may not be suitable for all readers.

Wynna Pila is abducted by a horror of a villain who plans to torture her to learn the whereabouts of her diplomat uncle. She had been warned that the land outside of the city was lawless, wild and raw, and hellishly dangerous. It was true. Tied to a chair, awaiting the abuse, suddenly, the most frightening man she's ever seen in her life stood in the threshold, almost completely blocking the entire doorway. The hulking huge man with the glacially fierce face looks even more the psychopathic killer than the vicious bastard that is holding her prisoner. Fearsome blue eyes glint from under a hard ridge of raven brows, they flick around the room at the occupants, landing lastly on Wyn. The horror show male who abducted her asks, "What the hell do you want?" The monster growls from the doorway, "I want her." Moments later, men lay slaughtered scattered on the floor, and the beast of a male has Wyn over his shoulder and is out the door. Oh hell. Frying pan meet fire.