Лучшие книги Бренду Новак

Зачем он это сделал? Почему любимый истязал ее пытками и оставил умирать возле убитых подруг? В поисках ответов она задумала проникнуть в глубины сознания маньяков. И оказалась на богом забытой Аляске, в промерзшем, заснеженном краю, где за стенами уникальной суперсовременной тюрьмы собраны самые опасные психопаты страны. Но не все они заперты в камерах… «Новак начала новую потрясающую серию. После этого романа хочется еще и еще». - True Crime Magazine «Захватывающий поворот в творчестве Новак - и вновь оно поглощает с головой». - Library Journal «Продуманный сюжет, кипение страстей, жизненные характеры… Сплошное удовольствие». - Эллисон…

Опасный маньяк открыто бросил вызов полиции Сакраменто. В городе уже убиты две женщины. Почерк преступника не оставляет полиции сомнений, что третьей жертвой выбрана Мэгги Рассел, репортер криминальной хроники. Для ее защиты в редакции появляется федеральный агент, для прикрытия назвавшийся Ником Соренсоном. Служебный долг в Нике борется с горячим чувством. И неприступный красавчик понимает, что пропал, ведь теперь эта рыжая застенчивая женщина и ее маленький сынишка для него самое дорогое на свете…

Грейс Монтгомери закончила Джорджтаунский университет первой в группе. Она стала отличным помощником прокурора и не проиграла в суде ни одного дела, а ее по-особенному чувственная красота будила в мужчинах самые разнузданные плотские желания.
Но была в ее прошлом тайна, грозящая раздавить и ее саму, и ее семью, и все то, что Грейс с таким трудом выстроила за эти годы. А она вернулась в этот городишко Стилуотер, где почти все относились с презрением и злобой к ее семье, считая их "белой швалью" и подозревая в убийстве отчима, преподобного Ли Баркера, уехавшего однажды и уже никогда не вернувшегося назад.
Грейс вернулась для решающей схватки со своим прошлым, в которой ей предстоит или выиграть, или погибнуть!

Романтичная история первой любви Бонна и юной Хоуп закончилась прозаически. Не получив поддержки от любимого, беременная девушка сбежала из-под опеки своей семьи - сектантов, пропагандирующих полигамные браки... В Нью-Мексико она согласилась на процедуру тайного усыновления, которую ей предложила владелица родильного центра Лидия...
Прошло десять лет. Жизнь Хоуп полностью налажена, и она почти не вспоминает о своем далеком прошлом. Лишь узнав, что ее юная сестра Фейт беременна от нелюбимого, Хоуп решает вернуться и помочь ей бежать, как когда-то бежала сама. В поисках убежища они оказываются у старых знакомых - Лидии и администратора центра Паркера Рейнольдса.... Кажется, Паркер не рад возвращению Хоуп... С чем же связана его враждебность?

Натаниэль Кент, прославленный и дерзкий «джентльмен удачи», пытался взять в заложницы знатную британскую леди, - но в результате случайной ошибки его пленницей оказалась бедная юная модистка, пытавшаяся бежать из Англии от издевательств жестокого отчима! Поначалу мужественный капитан был в ярости. Однако очень скоро он понял, что судьба подарила ему встречу с женщиной, которая стала для него всем - пылкой и страстной возлюбленной, преданной и верной подругой, счастьем и истинным смыслом существования...

Something happened to her mother that night. Something no one wants to talk about. But she's determined to uncover her family's dark secrets, even if they bury her.

Five-year-old Sloane McBride couldn't sleep that night. Her parents were arguing again, their harsh words heating the cool autumn air. And then there was that other sound--the ominous thump before all went quiet.

In the morning, her mother was gone. The official story was that she left. Her loving, devoted mother! That hadn't sat any better at the time than it did when Sloane moved out at eighteen, anxious to leave her small Texas hometown in search of anywhere else. But not even a fresh start working as a model in New York could keep the nightmares at bay. Or her fears that the domineering father she grew up with wasn't just difficult--he was deadly.

Now another traumatic loss forces Sloane to realize she owes it to her mother to find out the truth, even if it means returning to a small town full of secrets and lies, a jilted ex-boyfriend and a father and brother who'd rather see her silenced. But as Sloane starts digging into the past, the question isn't whether she can uncover what really happened that night...it's what will remain of her family if she does?

Lieutenant Crawford Treynor has fought valiantly for everything he has. The bastard child of a noblewoman, he was handed over as an infant to a poor farmer—and beaten so badly that he ran away at age fourteen. Now a respected officer, he vows to command his own frigate one day. There is no place in his life for a woman, especially one of noble birth. He has no love for the aristocracy…
After narrowly escaping the guillotine in the French Revolution, petite beauty Jeannette Boucher agrees to secure her family’s future by marrying a wealthy English baron. But when she learns what her impotent husband has planned in order to produce an heir, she escapes on their wedding night, stowing away aboard Lieutenant Treynor’s ship. Once she’s discovered, the handsome, duty-bound lieutenant is tempted enough by her beauty and spirit to go against everything he believed he’d ever do—and soon he must decide between returning her to a husband he knows will abuse her, or risking everything to keep her all to himself.
Revised edition: Previously published as The Bastard, this edition of Honor Bound includes editorial revisions.

Did she once have a sister? Has her mother lied all these years? Why?

After a painful divorce, Maisey Lazarow returns to Fairham, the small island off the North Carolina coast where she grew up. She goes there to heal—and to help her brother, Keith, a deeply troubled man who's asked her to come home. But she refuses to stay in the family house. The last person she wants to see is the wealthy, controlling mother she escaped years ago.

Instead, she finds herself living next door to someone else she'd prefer to avoid—Rafe Romero, the wild, reckless boy to whom she lost her virginity at sixteen. He's back on the island, and to her surprise, he's raising a young daughter alone. Maisey's still attracted to him, but her heart's too broken to risk…

Then something even more disturbing happens. She discovers a box of photographs that evoke distant memories of a little girl, a child Keith remembers, too. Maisey believes the girl must've been their sister, but their mother claims there was no sister.

Maisey's convinced that child existed. So where is she now?

A shocking betrayal…

Riches. Power. An ancient heritage of pride. The Earl of Druridge wanted only for an heir. So when he learned that his wife was carrying another man’s child, he was filled with a thirst for vengeance.

But he wasn’t the one who caused Katherine’s death. Or was he? To his horror, he remembers nothing of that dreadful night, when their last shocking confrontation ended in scorching flame and cold blood.

A forbidden love…

Rachel McTavish, the beautiful daughter of a coal miner, knows something about the fire that took Lady Katherine’s life. In secret, the strong-willed girl strikes a bargain with the desperate earl: he must send his physician to help her dying mother or he may go to the scaffold—and the devil. The earl agrees, but Rachel is still unsure that her revelation will be enough to save him when so many wish him dead.

Passionately drawn to the nobleman, despite all the doubt and mystery that shrouds him, Rachel wonders if he can really be a murderer. Or if he is the only man who will ever own her heart…

Романтичная история первой любви Бонна и юной Хоуп закончилась прозаически. Не получив поддержки от любимого, беременная девушка сбежала из-под опеки своей семьи - сектантов, пропагандирующих полигамные браки... В Нью-Мексико она согласилась на процедуру тайного усыновления, которую ей предложила владелица родильного центра Лидия... Прошло десять лет. Жизнь Хоуп полностью налажена, и она почти не вспоминает о своем далеком прошлом. Лишь узнав, что ее юная сестра Фейт беременна от нелюбимого, Хоуп решает вернуться и помочь ей бежать, как когда-то бежала сама. В поисках убежища они оказываются у старых знакомых - Лидии и администратора центра Паркера Рейнольдса.... Кажется, Паркер не рад возвращению Хоуп... С чем же связана его враждебность?

New York Times bestselling author Brenda Novak welcomes you to Silver Springs, a picturesque small town in Southern California where even the hardest hearts can learn to love again…Struggling to make ends meet after a messy divorce, Sadie Harris is at the end of her tether. Her waitressing gig isn't enough to pay the bills let alone secure primary custody of her son, Jayden, a battle she refuses to lose. Desperate, she accepts a position assisting Dawson Reed–the same Dawson Reed who recently stood trial for the murder of his adoptive parents. Joining him at his isolated farm seems risky, but Sadie is out of options.Dawson has given small town Silver Springs plenty of reasons to be wary, but he's innocent of the charges against him. He wants to leave his painful past behind and fix up the family farm so he can finally bring his dependent sister home where she belongs.As Sadie and Dawson's professional relationship grows into something undeniably personal, Sadie realizes there's more to Dawson than the bad boy everyone else sees–he has a good heart, one that might even be worth fighting for.

One Christmas can change your life…Kyle Houseman believes he’ll never find anyone he could love as much as Olivia Arnold, who’s now married to his stepbrother. Not only did he lose her, he's been through one divorce and has no desire to go through another. He’s determined to be extra careful about the next woman he gets involved with—which is why he fights his attraction to the beautiful stranger who rents his farmhouse for the Christmas holiday.Lourdes Bennett is a country music artist. She’s only planning to stay in Whiskey Creek long enough to write the songs for her next album—the album that’s going to put her back on top. Her dreams don’t include settling in a town even smaller than the one she escaped. But as she comes to know Kyle, she begins to wonder if she’d be making a terrible mistake to leave him behind…

Home is where her heart isWhen Presley Christensen returns to Whiskey Creek with her little boy after two years away, she has completely changed her life. She's made peace with her past and overcome the negative behavior that resulted from her difficult childhood. Now she's back in the small town that was the closest thing to «home» she ever knew–the town where she can be with the sister who's her only family.There's just one catch. Aaron Amos still lives in Whiskey Creek, at least until he moves to Reno to open a branch of the Amos brothers' auto body shop. And no matter how hard she's tried, Presley hasn't been able to get over him. Seeing him again makes the longing so much worse. But she hopes she can get through the next few months, because she can't fall back into his arms…or his bed. She's come too far to backslide now. And there's a secret she's been guarding–a secret she'll do anything to protect.