Melanie Atkins

• Jul-2017
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Addie Hawk, a recovering alcoholic, has spent five years atoning for a bad choice that cost her custody of her son. The boy is now seven and lives with his father and stepmother, a woman Addie despises. Now, however, Addie believes her former husband...

• Nov-2016
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Cherry Anne Starr, a female bail bondsman, upset after her fiancé dumps her, soon learns that he wasn't the man he had claimed to be and that he had disappeared with much more than just her dignity. Suddenly penniless and about to be homeless, she t...

• Jan-2016
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Laura Leigh Bennett, a former debutante used to the finer things in life, is accused of a crime she swears she didn't commit. In an effort to clear her name, she jumps bail and goes on the run like a common criminal. Her goal is to stay clear of the ...

• Apr-2015
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Miranda Wyatt will do anything to find her children after her abusive ex-husband kidnaps them whisks them off to parts unknown. The cops won't help, because Harper comes off as a nice guy. A family man. He impressed the youth court judge with his fas...

• Jul-2014
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Gemma Wade has always followed the letter of the law, so when her boss accuses her of embezzlement, she's floored. Then her boss turns up dead, and Gemma is accused of murdering the woman. She goes on the run to clear her name and is forced to turn t...

• Feb-2014
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Sienna Wright has it all: an exciting career as an investigative reporter, a handsome husband who is also an assistant district attorney, and two beautiful children -- until a vicious murderer takes it all away and sends her tumbling into a terrifyin...

• Jan-2014
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Keegan Riley, a court artist for Keller County, comes up with a murderous plan to avenge her sister's death, only to be thwarted at the last minute when someone else stabs her intended victim -- making her a witness to the heinous crime. Her attempt ...

• Dec-2013
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Melanie Atkins is a multi-published author of romantic suspense, a fan of crime dramas, and an avid reader. Writing is more than an escape for her -- it's a way of life. She grew up in the Deep South listening to tall tales and penning stories about ...

• May-2013
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Keller County precision marksman Cadence Holly, a member of the Sheriff's Emergency Response Team, believes she doesn't have anything to prove to her new unit because her she's good at what she does. Detective Brody Remington, a former military snipe...

• Apr-2013
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Fueled by grief after his fiancée is brutally murdered, Detective Sam Walker focuses on finding her killer, a calculating predator who binds books with human skin. Falling in love again is not on his radar. Dani Barrington, the newest member of the...

• Feb-2013
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Nikki Brooks never thought she'd ever see her childhood nemesis again after he played a heartless trick on her in high school that got her kicked off the school paper staff and made her a laughing stock.  Until now, twelve years later, when she ...

• Dec-2012
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Detective Tripp Broussard longs to show his bad cop, ex-con father that he's a good cop, but time is running out. His father is dying. So Tripp risks his own life to go after a gruesome serial murderer -- anything to prove he's a better man than his ...

• Oct-2012
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New Orleans Assistant District Attorney Marisa Cooper prosecutes murderers for a living, but the tables are turned when her ex-husband Peter Assimov is found dead in her garage. She didn't kill him... or did she? All of the evidence points to her. An...

• Sep-2012
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Savannah Love is emotionally and physically battered but is determined to survive after escaping the hellish imprisonment imposed on her by her psychotic cop-husband. After seven months in hiding, she resurfaces at Mossy Oak, her ramshackle family ho...

• Aug-2012
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Detective Emily Rawson doesn't want children; she's too focused on her career to give a family the time required. That is, until she falls in love with fellow detective John Cutter, forgets to take precautions, and winds up pregnant. She fights the i...

• Jun-2012
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Tessa Doucet is studying mortuary science because the dead can't hurt her. Then a monster from her past turns up on her embalming table, forcing her to confront the demon she'd thought she'd put to rest. Flummoxed by the cold case Tessa brings to li...

• Feb-2012
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Kelly Watson, aka Teresa Pastral, threw the Fifth Amendment out the window when she testified against her mob boss husband at his murder trial. Now divorced, she has begun a new life in the Witness Security Program. Only...the mob finds her, thanks t...

• Jan-2012
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Abby Ryals goes behind the sheriff's back to accept an undercover assignment with another agency to avenge fellow detective C.J. Bowman's death -- and is stunned to learn he is very much alive after he leaves witness protection and follows her  ...

• Oct-2011
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Noel Galliano has always wanted her own business, so despite critics -- mainly her own family members -- who believe she won't succeed, she opens a tiny voodoo shops in New Orleans' famous French Quarter. What she doesn't count on is finding a dismem...

• Sep-2011
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Stoic NOPD Detective Mitch Ransom has his life under control until he agrees to testify before the grand jury against a brutal serial murderer. Then he is kidnapped to keep him from appearing in court and finds himself trapped in a trunk with a woman...

• Jun-2011
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Alarm bells go off in Detective Lexi Granger's head when a gun linked to a cold case disappears and a veteran officer sweeps it under the rug. After she receives a death threat, she must turn to the one man she knows she can trust -- her ex-husband&#...

• Apr-2011
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Detective Jonah McKee must juggle caring for his rowdy two-year-old son with a heavy workload while protecting a beautiful amnesia victim who has been targeted by a vicious murderer... or has she? Brooke Wilson finally remembers her own name, plus th...

• Mar-2011
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When Allie Robbins broke his heart, Noah Sterling couldn't leave Magnolia Springs fast enough. He joined the military, then the FBI. Ten years later, a domestic terrorism case forces him to return, only to discover that Allie is now a widowed mother ...

• Feb-2011
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Marcy Moretti believes anyone can be redeemed until she witnesses a murder at the hands of her cruel ex-husband and is forced to go on the run in the Big Easy with her young son in tow in order to survive. Her ex has turned so many people against he...

• May-2010
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Straight-laced Jadan Calloway decided to let her hair down when she goes out on the town, and the night ends in the death of the handsome man who charms her off her feet. Now the people who killed Kent are after her, and the only man who can save her...

• Feb-2010
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New Orleans Assistant District Attorney Marisa Cooper prosecutes murderers for a living, but the tables are turned when her ex-husband Peter Assimov is found dead in her garage. She didn't kill him... or did she? All of the evidence points to her. An...

• Sep-2009
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Emma McGraw is on the run from the law when a tornado threatens her life. The only man who can save her is a handsome sheriff's department investigator named Jed, who takes her to a storm shelter and seduces her with kind words, the promise of safety...

• Aug-2009
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• May-2007
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Women who have dated New Orleans Police Department detective Nick Marconi are dying. Haunted by the deaths of his sisters and partner, Nick is consumed with solving these brutal crimes. He's walking a tightrope of control. The only person who can he...

• Jan-2007
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• Dec-2006
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Dr. Rebecca Daniels is a well known child psychologist who has overcome her own troubled childhood to help children who cannot help themselves. After meeting with a judge about one of her young patients, she witnesses the judge's murder and is knock...

• Apr-2006
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Olivia Bartlett is stunned to find her old friend, Deputy Tucker Hawkins, living in the house she has inherited, but she's even more shocked to glimpse her cruel stepfather lurking in the shadows. Has Walter come back to haunt her, or is he really al...

• Apr-2002
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