Margaret Watson

• Aug-2025
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FBI Director Diana Redfield has no time for romance. Tech CEO Cormac Doyle is juggling a troubled ex, two teens, and a company reeling from a catastrophic cyber-theft. Neither is looking for love -- until a chance meeting sparks an undeniable conne...

• May-2025
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Betrayed by her FBI boss and nearly killed, Olivia Williams quits and joins Blackhawk Security.  But when she runs into Jake Dunbar -- the agent who was supposed to have her back -- she demands answers.  Jake explains that their boss, Nelso...

• Feb-2025
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Celia Remington thought she left her old life behind when she fled from mob boss Bobby Doyle and went into hiding in Montana. As his personal chef, she was too close to danger -- and to Bobby's son, Nick, a man she cared for but knew she could never...

• Nov-2024
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When Anne Remington's weekly calls to her sister go unanswered, she knows something is terribly wrong. Celia, a chef for a ruthless Las Vegas mob boss, has vanished, and Anne fears the worst. Desperate, she heads to Helena, Montana -- their agreed-...

• May-2024
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When Jo Hatch returns to her hometown in Illinois, she discovers her mom's newly-built house is a disaster. Outraged, she confronts the builder, only to find it's her best friend from high school, Cam Pierce. Cam, now a single father, conf...

• Oct-2023
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Someone wants Mackenzie Stone dead. After four attempts on her life, the Stone Foundation hires her a bodyguard - Diego Lopez, the man who'd thwarted the most recent attack. Mackenzie suspects the threat is coming from inside her organization, ...

• Apr-2023
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Mel and Dev are no longer a couple, but they run Blackhawk Security together. When being around Dev becomes too painful, she buys him out. Dev knows she's going after her old CIA boss Kingsley, so Dev makes her a deal -- if she accepts his help ...

• Dec-2022
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Bree Gordon looks nothing like a bodyguard. But the short, slender woman knows how to keep her principal safe. And one of her most potent weapons is her appearance. People see her and dismiss her. Their mistake. Jameson Ford is a technical whiz wh...

• Aug-2022
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HE KILLED HER FATHER THIRTEEN YEARS AGO. NOW HE'S COMING FOR HER... Zoe was still in high school when she saw her father shot dead by a classmate obsessed with her, and then still a kid, witnessed the killer's sentencing. A horrible tragedy, but ...

• Mar-2022
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TWO AGAINST THE TALIBAN, TWO WILDLY DIFFERENT AGENDAS-- BOTH CRAZY RISKY! Laila's not the type of woman who needs rescuing. Except for a tiny rule-breaking penchant, she's a model CIA agent -- smart, resourceful, brave, and very very determined.....

• Aug-2021
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Sierra Baker has no idea she's in danger -- until a frightening and unsettling traffic stop late one night. When Cody Parker shows up the next day and announces he's her bodyguard, she's even more terrified. Is Parker on the level? Or is this the s...

• May-2021
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When attorney Alexandra comes home early and overhears her husband Jerry hiring a hitman to kill her, she runs. Heads toward Seattle. After being a street kid there, she knows how to disappear. But a man is following her. After she finds a trackin...

• Jan-2021
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After a number of threatening incidents, Chef Julia Stewart seeks help from Blackhawk Security. They recommend bodyguard Nico Elliott. The Seattle chef is reluctant, but finally agrees. To stay close, Nico poses as a busser in her restaurant. As t...

• Jan-2021
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When Lainey becomes trapped in a burning building with her almost-divorced husband's body, Brody rescues her just in time. And when she realizes the killer is now after her, she takes refuge at Brody's Montana ranch. Lainey and Brody have been fig...

• Jan-2020
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Lacey Parker, a psychic fae committed to protecting homeless teens, prides herself on her control. But when she meets Detective Eli Gonzalez during an investigation, everything changes. Eli makes her forget all her rules.People connected to her fam...

• Jul-2019
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Musician Cassidy Drake has no idea who she really is until a brutal attack on her mother reveals truths she never could have imagined. Finn Brody, the mysterious man she meets at the hospital, suspects Cassidy's true nature when magic erupts around ...

• Jun-2019
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Sloan Parker, social worker and justice warrior, has lived her life on the edge of shadows, hiding who she is. What she is. She builds a family in those shadows, fostering kids like her. Then Mason Lynch enters her life.Mase, former SEAL, undercov...

• May-2019
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Firefighter Gianna Fallon struggles to hide her unusual talents -- especially her ability to control fire. But when she and Callan Doyle are tasked with taking down a compound creating warriors with superpowers, both will need every tool they poss...

• Apr-2019
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When evil invades her office building, Dr. Rowan Burke discovers her 'gifts' in the nick of time. After Detective Jack Murphy helps her avert a massacre, it's clear he's another 'gift' -- one that draws her deeper into a new reality of darkness and ...

• Sep-2017
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Jadine thought the book was about horses. She did not expect to find in it an emotional haven. She lives in a depressing brick duplex in Toronto in the 1960's with her mother, her younger sister, and an aged aunt. Her Palestinian father has left t...

• Mar-2017
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When Chicago Bearcats baseball player Sam Marini witnesses a brutal confrontation outside a bar, he can't help the victim. So he does the next best thing -- shoots a video of the attack.He assumes he'll hand it over and be done with the case. But...

• Jul-2016
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When single mother Gabriella Stefano arrives home from work, she's shocked to find her ex-husband waiting for her in her kitchen.  He's supposed to be in prison. Gaby manages to call 911 and escape, but she's afraid her ex-husband's next stop wi...

• Feb-2016
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State's Attorney Livvy Marini and Detective Ryan Ward have many reasons to dislike each other.  Starting with Livvy's sister once arresting Ryan.  But when Livvy's boss assigns her to interview Ryan about a case, they have to put aside thei...

• Nov-2015
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Police officer Mia Donovan is studying for the detective's exam when her captain offers her an assignment -- be Finn O'Rourke's personal bodyguard for the next three weeks. He's in town to film a movie, he has a stalker, and the threats are escalat...

• Apr-2015
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Chicago cop Brendan Donovan loves the adrenaline rush of his role on a tactical team. So when he's assigned to an undercover job to ferret out the supplier of a new and deadly sex drug, he's thrilled. His partner is Cilla Marini, a detective he'd met...

• Nov-2014
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Raine Taylor has one goal -- justice for her murdered sister. She knows Genie's husband strangled her and left her in an alley -- Peter had been threatening to kill his wife for years. The police said there was no proof Peter Northrup killed Ge...

• Jan-2014
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When Helen Brody needed her office repaired, she never expected that the contractor would be Jamie Evans, the man with whom she shared an unforgettable night a year earlier. Jamie hasn't forgotten either, and now that he's found Helen, he's determin...

• Dec-2013
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After witnessing the murder of an FBI agent in a parking garage late one night, Lizzy Monroe meets with the FBI and agrees to work with a sketch artist. But on her way out of the office, she comes face to face with the killer -- another FBI agent....

• Dec-2013
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When Tessa Porter returns home from work one evening to find her apartment has been broken into, the Chicago nurse is shocked when the detective who responds to her call is her sexy neighbor -- the one she's been fantasizing about. She'd ca...

• Feb-2013
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The hardest thing is doing what's right Nathan Devereux's parenting days are over. He raised his siblings, and now he's ready to start living a life free of responsibility. After the year he's had, he deserves it. But when the daughter he never kn...

• Sep-2012
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Everyone is hiding something Darcy Gordon lives in fear of the past catching up with her. So when a horrible accident injures her boss, she can't shake the thought that it was meant for her. And her problems only worsen when her boss's brother, FB...

• Mar-2012
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Cal Stewart has it all. Tall, blond and built, the football star is a smooth-talking charmer. But there's one situation he can't talk himself out of -- and now he's stuck doing community service at Frankie Devereux's after-school center for troubled ...

• Mar-2011
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There's no blueprint for this! Nick Boone may be a brilliant architect, but his life is one-dimensional: just the way he wants to live it. He's a woman-of-the-week man, not marriage material. Not by a long shot. And fatherhood? Forget it. He has no ...

• Nov-2010
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She didn't know she was lost...until he found her She's deleted every trace of Chantal, the celebrity rocker she used to be. Delaney Spencer is making good as a carpenter, a staunch friend and a decent member of the community in Otter Tail, Wisconsi...

• Jun-2010
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He's back -- and the heat is on! Just the sight of Walker Barnes in her kitchen is enough to panic Jen Summers. Those feelings she once had that seemed like cold ashes for so many years are turning out to be hot, hot coals. Walker's sudden appearanc...

• Jan-2010
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It all seemed so simple before Maddie Johnson landed back in Otter Tail. Sell her godfather's pub, pay off her debt, return to Chicago and start over. Quinn Murphy, however, is not part of that plan. Maddie hasn't seen Quinn since a certain humiliati...

• Apr-2009
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One broken heart too many Once upon a time, everything was perfect. Fiona McInnes had it all figured out: fabulous career, famous friends and oodles of time to herself to create beautiful jewelry. Until her sisters force her back to Spruce Lake to h...

• Dec-2008
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All Bree McInnes has to do is make it through the summer without anyone from her hometown discovering her secrets. And then she is so out of here. Because running away is what this single mom does best. Keeping a low profile turns out to be harder...

• Aug-2008
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The past always comes back to bite Zoe McInnes. So of course everybody believes she's to blame when her former father-in-law strokes out in the middle of a fight...with her. Thank God the man's going to be okay. But--of course--Zoe ends up behind bar...

• Dec-2007
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Seth Anderson has come to Sturgeon Falls determined to prove two things. First, that he'd never fathered a child. Second, that Dr. Kat Macauley, the prime suspect in his counterfeiting case, isn't fit to be a mother. But face-to-face with the fier...

• May-2007
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He wants the truth... Journalist and single dad Dylan Smith is on assignment--looking for the father he has never known. He finds himself in Sturgeon Falls with barely any information, and there's only one person who seems able to help him.... ...

• Sep-2006
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Gabe Townsend has a lot of nerve to show up after seven years and book in to her B and B. It hadn't been easy for Kendall Van Allen to move on after her husband was killed. But she'd persevered, picking up the pieces, running a successful business an...

• Mar-2006
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Never get involved with your patients. That's no problem for by-the-book police department psychologist Kira McGinnis. She has enough on her plate taking care of her five-year-old daughter and her troubled teenage brother. And now she has the diff...

• Jul-2005
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He thinks she's a bleeding heart. She knows that's better than having no heart. Mac MacDougal is a detective with a case to solve and no one, especially not victim's advocate A. J. Ferguson, is going to get in his way. He's chasing a man suspected...

• Feb-2005
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To escape from her hometown, Claire Kendall has to leave her past -- and her sister -- behind... Now her sister's sudden death has Claire going home to confront her past and her orphaned nephew -- who blames her for saving herself and not his mot...

• May-2004
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Be careful what you wish for! Eleanor Perkins has always longed for more excitement in her life. But the last thing she expects as she reaches her car after work one Friday evening is to find herself facing down a man with a gun. Mike Reilly is de...

• Aug-2001
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Secret Agent Griff Fortune faced his greatest challenge when charged with the task of protecting Willa Simms. Her life was in his hands and to make certain she stayed alive, Griff moved her to a remote hideaway. Trapped together,Willa managed to pene...

• Feb-2001
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THE AGENT: Marcus Waters, loner -- but not for long! THE MISSION: Keeping innocent beauty Jessica Burke safe until her kidnappers are found. THE ULTIMATE CHALLENGE: Keeping himself from falling hard and fast for a woman too young -- and too i...

• Oct-2000
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A killer is on the loose... A man with no memory stands accused... One nurse puts her life on the line... No one knew who "Tom Flynt" was. But Tina White, the nurse tending to the amnesiac patient, was certain of one thing. His warm brown ...

• Feb-2000
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YOU AGAIN?! For three years, Andi McGinnis had haunted Chase Remington's dreams. She was the one woman in the world he would never trust - or ever forget. Now she was back, as infuriatingly brazen - and alluring - as ever. But this time, he vowed ...

• Sep-1999
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HER GUARDIAN GROOM Fiercely independent Janie Murphy knew she was Deputy Ben Jackson's only hope for gaining custody of orphaned Rafael. He needed to marry immediately, and their one night of soul-searing passion had become grist for Cameron's rum...

• Apr-1999
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HE WAS SWORN TO UPHOLD THE LAW.... And that meant FBI agent Jesse Coulton never let emotion interfere with duty. But when he went undercover as a ranch hand, Shea McAllister made him forget all his rules. She was sexy as sin - and a potential susp...

• Jan-1999
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REASON TO WORRY... The alluring, mysterious woman who had arrived in Sheriff Devlin McAllister's town spelled trouble. Devlin distrusted pretty females who stuck their noses where they didn't belong. But he was mesmerized by the long-legged beauty...

• Oct-1998
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ONCE A FATHER... They were two innocent little girls, yet they were the only witnesses to a murder. So FBI agent Damien Kane whisked them away to the safest place he knew -- a secluded cabin in Cameron, the town he'd once called home. Despite the...

• Aug-1998
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THE RODEO MAN RETURNS Not a night passed that Becca Johnson didn't dream about one long-ago summer and a certain wandering cowboy. She thought she'd finally made her peace with the past-until Grady Farrell reappeared. The ruggedly handsome ex-rode...

• Apr-1997
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HER LIFE WAS ON THE LINE.... Eagle Ridge was turning out to be far from the tranquil oasis Tory Falcon had envisioned. A serial killer was loose in the town, preying on single women, and the police feared Tory would be his next target. She could t...

• Nov-1996
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THE WOMAN HE'S SWORN TO FORGET Caine O'Roarke worked alone and he liked it that way. Romantic entanglements had no place in a mercenary's world. He'd made only one mistake: Lexie Hollister, the boss's daughter. Forbidden in mo...

• Apr-1996
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HOW FAR WOULD YOU GO? Two years ago, Luke McKinley had gone too far. One wrong move had cost him his badge, leaving him nothing -- except a burning anger at the woman he blamed for his dismissal. WHAT PRICE WOULD YOU PAY? The guilt had followed...

• Apr-1995
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HE'S BACK. Connor MacCormac could hear the whispers as he walked down the streets of his hometown. He had been Pine Butte's bad boy -- sexy, smart and a bit too wild. He'd left twelve years ago, but the townspeople had long memories. A...

• Jun-1991
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THE UNTOLD STORY The minute Tess Phillips crossed the finish line in the Chicago Marathon, her life began to change. As the female winner in this year's race, she was handed a check for fifty thousand dollars! The money would keep her fledgling ...