The Wrong Hostage

Janna Wayland, the wild stallion Lucifer, and Ty MacKenzie, the stranger who had come for the stallion but stays to capture Janna's heart, join forces to escape from the steep mountains and canyons of the Utah Territory, where El Cascabel and his renegade warriors roam.

   Owner of the wildest, loneliest ranch this side of the Rockies, Luck MacKenzie hadn’t laid eyes on Carla McQueen for three years. Not since they day he’d sent his best friend’s kid sister storming from the Rocking M Ranch and out of his life - for what he thought was forever…

    Now Carla was back, lovelier and even more desirable than in his burning memories. But Luke knew he could never give in to the raging need to make her his woman. For he’d made a vow long ago - one that he was determined to keep - that he would never fall in love with Carla McQueen. No matter how badly his body and soul ached for her…

Returning to her sprawling Colorado ranch with nothing but her battered car and a treasure map, Mariah MacKenzie encounters prospecting partner Cash McQueen, an argumentative, burly type who becomes all too aware of Mariah's innocence.

New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Lowell cuts a new edge in suspense with this thrilling tale of passion, danger, and international intrigue in which a pair of former operatives must stop a deadly plot that threatens a major American city – and ultimately the world

When she joined St. Kilda's, the elite security consulting firm, Emma Cross thought she'd left behind the blood, the guilt, and the tribal wars that defined her life at the CIA. Yet, trading spying for investigating yacht thefts didn't alleviate the danger – or melt away her professional paranoia. Now, the same good instincts that got her into trouble at the agency might be what will help her survive her latest case.

With some arm-twisting, St. Kilda and Emma are tracking a yacht named Blackbird, a dead ringer for another ship that went missing somewhere between Vladivostok and Portland a year earlier. Emma knows the boat's intended cargo is lethal. What she needs to find out is whether it's biological, chemical, or fissionable. And she's only got seven days to uncover the truth… or a major American city will be lost.

Fortunately, she's working with a new partner as menacing and distrustful as the worst enemy she's ever faced – and as deadly. A honed killer, MacKenzie Durand led a special ops team that was deployed to some of the world's nastiest places. But five years ago everything went to hell in Afghanistan, when bad intel hung his team out to dry. The only survivor, Mac walked away and never looked back, preferring to make money sailing high-end boats like Blackbird.

But Emma and Mac aren't the only eyes watching Blackbird. Taras Demidov, an expert in extortion and execution in the pay of the oligarchs running the former Soviet Union, is also waiting in the shadows, determined to intercept a fearsomely powerful arms dealer with the money, weaponry, and connections to alter the geopolitical balance.

Thrown together by an organization of enemies with global ties more dangerous than either of them realize, Mac and Emma must put aside their growing attraction for each other to save more than just their own lives. In a deadly game where the rules change without warning and the line between friend and foe is blurred, the pair must find answers fast – or watch as innocent civilians are sacrificed in a cold-blooded grab for power and supremacy. And even Mac and Emma aren't sure just who will get to the finish line alive…

A breathtaking tale of passion and danger, Death Echo is superb entertainment from the queen of suspense, New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Lowell.

    Could she let go of the past long enough to imagine the future?

    Diana Saxton is planning to spend the summer alone, uncovering the native artifacts that are her passion-the only thing that has helped her survive a past that she would rather forget. But experience has taught Diana that the security of her academic world can shatter as easily as the delicate relics she collects.

    Now, her love for history has brought her to the magical Colorado landscape. As an anthropologist, Diana's thrilled by the chance to discover the secrets of September Canyon. Then the solitude of her trip is jeopardized by a stranger as tough and commanding as the land itself. Tennessee Blackthorn knows that the shy professor doesn't welcome his company, but he's promised to watch over her safety.

    Diana's never trusted anyone to share her world before. Now she's alone with a stranger, in a place where nature holds the history of the land. And suddenly, Diana is discovering more than the past. She's finding her future…

Молодая вдова Шеннон Коннер уже отчаялась обрести счастье, смирилась с одиночеством. Но однажды судьба послала ей встречу с отважным путешественником Бичем Мораном. Шеннон понимает, что перед нею тот, о ком она мечтала так долго. Бич, однако, привык к одиночеству и считает любовь ненужной обузой. Сумеет ли неискушенная Шеннон найти верный путь к его суровому сердцу?…

When wildlife biologist Eden Summers arrives in the Colorado Rockies, she has only one thing on her mind: to continue her research on the local cougar population. A capable woman, used to living and working alone in the wild, she is self-possessed and confident, able to handle any threat from nature's fiercest predators -- until she gazes into the eyes of Nevada Blackthorn.

She pulled him, injured and bleeding, to safety in the middle of a storm, unleashing a man who would invade her deepest dreams. But Nevada -- a rancher by trade, a warrior by nature -- is a man who has learned that walking away from caring is the only key to survival and that only the strongest survive. Any woman fool enough to try and change him will be hurt -- badly -- for their efforts.

Perhaps Eden is that kind of fool. Or perhaps she has no choice but to follow a calling as fierce, as wild and as natural as the beating of her own heart . . .

Немного найдется книг, где о любви писалось бы столь откровенно и в тоже время столь чисто и возвышенно, как в романах Элизабет Лоуэлл. Благородство характеров не избавляет героев от острых коллизий в их отношениях, которые держат читателя в напряжении до последней строки. Действие в романах происходит на Диком Западе в эпоху его освоения. Живо написанные авантюрные сцены, утонченная эротика, мягкий юмор и солнечный хеппи-энд делают книгу захватывающим и увлекательным чтением. Впервые увидев человека, которому предстояло охранять ее на пути к старшему брату, изысканная южная леди Виллоу Моран ощутила холодок, пробежавший по спине, ибо от Калеба Блэка просто исходила опасность. Девушка решилась пойти на невинный обман - выдать себя не за сестру, а за жену Мэта Морана. И вскоре горько раскаялась в содеянном, поскольку, проведя с отважным, мужественным Калебом лишь несколько коротких дней, остро осознала, что встретила того единственного, о ком мечтала всю жизнь...

Немного найдется книг, где о любви писалось бы столь откровенно и в тоже время столь чисто и возвышенно, как в романах Элизабет Лоуэлл. Благородство характеров не избавляет героев от острых коллизий в их отношениях, которые держат читателя в напряжении до последней строки. Действие в романах происходит на Диком Западе в эпоху его освоения. Живо написанные авантюрные сцены, утонченная эротика мягкий юмор и солнечный хеппи-энд делают книгу захватывающим и увлекательным чтением. Что общего между индейцем-полукровкой, зарабатывающим на жизнь охотой за мустангами в диких прериях Дальнего Запада, и прелестной, хрупкой шотландской аристократкой? То, что и Вулфу Лоунтри и Джессике Чартерис необходимо срочно вступить в фиктивный брак. Вулф поклялся себе, что никогда не воспользуется отчаянным положением Джессики и не принудит ее к исполнению супружеского долга. Но о каких клятвах и каком принуждении может идти речь, если страсть, точно магнит, притягивает двоих друг к другу?