Amanda Stevens
1) The Kingdom
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Re-read award-winning author Amanda Steven's chilling modern gothic series and relive the journey of Amelia Gray, Graveyard Queen. THE KINGDOM Deep in the shadowy foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains lies a dying town… My name is Amelia Gray. They call me The Graveyard Queen. I've been commissioned to restore an old cemetery in Asher Falls, South Carolina, but I'm coming to think I have another purpose here. Why is there a cemetery at the bottom...
2) The Restorer
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A cemetery restorer with a haunting secret must break her own rules when she meets a detective on the hunt for a killer in this romantic urban fantasy.
Never acknowledge the dead.
Never stray far from hallowed ground.
Never get close to the haunted.
Never, ever tempt fate.
My name is Amelia Gray. I'm a cemetery restorer who sees ghosts. In order to protect myself from the parasitic nature of the dead, I've always held fast to these...
3) The Tempted
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The frightened woman standing before millionaire Jared Spencer hardly looked like the housekeeper's spirited daughter who'd once captured his heart then betrayed him. But the moment their gazes met, he felt the same fiery, forbidden desire. Tess Campbell had come with a plea to help find her missing child. A child who should have been theirs. Tess tempted fate by going to Jared. But for her little girl, she'd face the devil himself. Jared's millions...
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A mantle of mystery had closed in on Elizabeth Blackstone. An inexplicable, unnatural, sensation of being watched had stricken her ever since the accident that claimed her young son and nearly her, as well. Trapped in the depths of despair, she'd been experiencing gaps in her memory, hearing and seeing things that weren't there, feeling even more frightening things. Her once-loving husband, Paul, a handsome, successful businessman, had become a grief-stricken...
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Something strange is going on at Echo Lake.
Detective Adam Thayer is devastated when he arrives too late to save his friend who had called for help. But a series of obscure clues brings Adam to coroner Nikki Dresden, who’s eager to determine if one of the town’s most beloved citizens was murdered. Now they must work together to unravel a deadly web of lies and greed…or die trying.
6) The Innocent
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A personal relationship was strictly forbidden, but that didn't stop Sergeant Abby Cross from wanting Sam Burke. She'd thought the FBI profiler cold and arrogant-until she worked with him, side by side, late into the nights on her town's desperate search for two missing little girls. Sam hid his emotions well, but beneath the surface Abby sensed his fierce determination to bring the innocent children home. Falling for Sam could cost her reputation...
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THE HAVEN WITHIN…
With his darkly handsome looks and edgy attitude, Officer Cullen Ryan could spark a woman's deepest fantasies. He'd never looked at brainy, virginal Dr. Elizabeth Douglas that way. But when the former town outcast strode into the room where Elizabeth had found a body, her heart beat fast. And when they formed a wary partnership to investigate the murder, Elizabeth discovered something else-a dangerous passion that threatened her...
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If she wants to stay alive
She must remember who wants her dead
Returning to Bishop's Rock is meant to jolt Lea Westin's memory. But only more questions greet her. Questions, and Cole Matheson, who announces Lea had hired him to investigate threats against her life. With no recollection of her own past, can Lea believe the man claiming to be her loving husband? Or does she trust the sexy stranger who feels oddly familiar and dangerous in an...
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HARBORING DESIRE… Haunted by a traumatic past, Carrie Bishop exiled herself on the shadowy Cape Diablo island in search of the truth. She never expected to cross paths with a steely-eyed stranger as she combed a crumbling Spanish villa for clues. Nick Draco was as primitive and dangerous as the land he inhabited... and yet his magnetic presence awakened a breathless yearning inside her. An intense premonition of evil on the island left her chilled...
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Every family has its secrets... Prepare to be shocked and seduced by these three tales of deception, passion, and long-awaited revenge. The Hero's SonValerie Snow is desperate to clear her wrongfully convicted father of the abduction and murder of the young son of a powerful Memphis family. But the justice-seeking journalist hits a blue wall of silence. The son of the cop who helped put Valerie's father away thirty years ago, Lt. Brant Colter now...
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The first secret is personal. The second one is a killer… The trip with old friends to Whispering Springs should have been a happy reunion. Yet former army ranger Dylan Burkhart suspects there's something darker at play. It doesn't take long before a game of anonymous secret-telling stirs the embers of a decade-old tragedy. A time when Dylan and Ava North stole a night of passion…and one of their friends died.
Then Ava stumbles upon a written...
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To catch a serial killer and exonerate his father, an FBI Agent must reconnect with a beautiful criminal psychologist in this tense romantic thriller.
Ethan Barrow's father was the most brilliant FBI profiler of all time-until he became a suspect in the murders he investigated. Now he's in a psychiatric ward, and Ethan is an Special Agent determined to clear his name. When Ethan finds evidence that the Twilight Killer is still at large, it leads...
13) What She Forgot
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A woman will do anything to remember her identity in this beloved story by Amanda Stevens, which was originally published as The Second Mrs. Malone by Harlequin Intrigue in 1997.
A woman was found wandering down a street in the middle of the night, covered in blood - not her own. She knew her name was Andrea, but not what had happened to the man whose wedding band she wore. Or why the family she was supposed to belong to hated her so much.
The...
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AN ACCIDENTAL RUN-IN? A benign business trip to Mexico turns sinister when one man turns up dead and another - impossibly - returns in the flesh! Penelope Moon couldn't believe her eyes when she saw her fiancé, Simon Decker, a man who had been languishing in a coma for months, on board a passing yacht with a man who would die within hours. But this Simon wasn't the kindly accountant she'd fallen in love with, who knew her intimately as though he'd...
15) Kiss and Tell
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In Kiss and Tell by Amanda Stevens, which was originally published as part of the Colorado Confidential anthology in 2003, a private investigator is tasked with discovering whether or not a man who is running for governor kidnapped his nephew. To do so, she must pose as his fiancée.
A covert network of secret agents is Colorado's most lethal weapon-and its only hope. Bound by love, loyalty and the law, these men and women are trained to handle the...
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THE MISSION: WITNESS PROTECTION. Brady Morgan's objective was clear: find Grace Drummond and keep her safe until she could testify. But Brady's past with the beautiful reporter was fraught with tension and desire. Seeing her again raised unanswered questions, including why she didn't want to be found. Grace Drummond was between a rock and a hard place and both were Brady Morgan! She was desperate to avoid testifying, but could she trust Brady with...
17) The Abandoned
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Every cemetery has a story. Every grave, its secrets. Enter the world of Amanda Stevens's Graveyard Queen series-where forbidden passion and secrets from the past are as restless as the ghosts-in the series prequel novella, The Abandoned.
There are rules for dealing with ghosts. Too bad Ree Hutchins doesn't know them.
When her favorite patient at a private mental hospital passes away, psychology student Ree Hutchins mourns the elderly woman's death....
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Work is a welcome refuge for New Orleans homicide detective Evangeline Theroux. Feeling suffocated by her new baby, in whose eyes she sees only her dead husband, she throws herself into a high-profile murder case. Reclusive writer Lena Saunders offers Evangeline a provocative theory about the crime: it is the work of a lunatic vigilante. Lena spins the sordid story of Ruth and Rebecca Lemay, whose mother brutally murdered her male children in an insane...
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Sometimes secrets are better left in the past
Renowned anthropologist Catherine March fears she's the biological daughter of a convicted serial killer. Tormented for years by nightmares and vague memories, she'd make a deal with the devil to investigate her mysterious adoption. Nick LaSalle eagerly takes the case, determined to prove someone is willing to kill to keep Catherine's past buried. But when the evidence hits too close to Nick's home, he...
20) Silent Storm
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HE WAS THE MOST EXTRAORDINARY MALE… The kind a small-town girl like Marly Jessop had rarely-if ever-seen in the flesh. Deacon Cage arrived in Mission Creek, Texas, like a specter in the night, stealthy and secretive. And his ability to stir Marly's feminine senses was like no other man's…. But she didn't have time for female fantasies. As local deputy, Marly had her hands full with a rash of suspicious suicides. Could there be a link between them...