Showing results for "Emerald" in Romantic Suspense

I crashed a wedding. Got caught by the best man. Now, I'm pregnant with his baby . . . It's Katya's fault. (As per usual.) My BFF despises her ex and wants to hate-watch him marry the woman he left her for. Problem is, she didn't fill me in on that plan . . . until we arrive at the ceremony.

I did a bad thing . . . and the man I love is here to make me pay for it. So now, I'm back where I started. Stuck somewhere I don't belong with a dangerous man who hates me. The difference between now and then? This time around . . . I'm pregnant with his twin babies.

West Point graduate Kenzie Wallis-Manning planned to make the Army her career, but after being severely wounded during her second deployment, and suffering from PTSD, she retires from the military and enrolls in law school. While studying in England, she receives a package containing an emerald brooch with a Gaelic inscription. As soon as she sounds out the words engraved on the stone, she is whisked back in time to May 28, 1944.

The year is 1803 and England and France remain at odds. Hoping to break the English once and for all, Napoleon backs a ring of Irish rebels in uprisings against England and sends the Black Tulip, France's most deadly spy, to the Emerald Isle to help. Meanwhile, not to be outdone by her husband, Letty Alsworthy steals away on a ship bound for Ireland, armed and ready to fight for her spouse and to learn a thing or two about spying for England.

Kiyoko “Emerald” Simmons may be the smallest member of the GEMs team, but that doesn’t mean she can’t take care of herself. The easiest way to get on her bad side is to try and run her life. So when her grandparents arrange a marriage for her to a complete stranger, she loses her cool and cuts ties. Before she can leave Japan once and for all, the man who would marry her tells her about his true love, Mei, who has been missing for months. Kiy vows to find her, going undercover in the same facility where Mei went missing.

My name is Madelaine Moneta and I am a survivor. I fought my way up from the streets of Chicago to claim a spot at one of the top-tier criminal defense practices in the city, but when the looming shadow of the local mob threatens to engulf the firm, I make a life-altering decision. Carrying my mother’s ashes, I escape to Ireland, intent on starting anew in my mother’s homeland.

When Dr. Jade Barnes impulsively stops at a bar before leaving for a four month archaeology dig, she spends a single night with a stranger, not even learning his last name. When she slips away the next morning, she doesn't realize she isn't leaving alone. When they meet again, Cody surprises her by how well he takes the news of impending fatherhood. There are further surprises awaiting, like the fact he's a bear-shifter. Initially that terrifies her, but she soon appreciates his strength and protectiveness.

Four years after his wife’s death, art history teacher Derek Gaines has finally made a kind of peace with himself. He tries his best to stave off memories. His days are ones of familiar routine. Guarded against further pain, he keeps relationships at a safe distance. It’s all part of his necessary transition to surviving alone.

Chloe Larson is a historian obsessed with clearing the name of her grandfather, eight greats back. After his heroic exploits during the Prussian Wars his life slid into oblivion and madness, taking with him the location of a queen’s priceless emerald dowry. Finnegan Kane is a top-notch marine bounty hunter on the hunt for Emerald Fire, a 120-foot Sunseeker yacht stolen by ruthless pirates. It’s the kind of dirty work that keeps his antique ship restoration business afloat. With the fate of NorthStar on the line, he reluctantly teams up with a desperate stranger.

Emerald Eyes is a romantic adventure set in the late 1980s. Charlie is a young archaeologist, and T.J. is her childhood crush and substitute older brother. When Charlie is attacked and kidnapped because of a plain ceramic statue, T. J. and his security company must come to the rescue. Finding the origin of the not-so-plain-after-all statue leads them into the Amazonian jungles of Peru.

Orphaned by her father, degraded by her guardian, young Liberty Moore sought refuge at sea in the arms of a handsome stranger, unaware that he was the naval hero Stephen Delaplane, unaware as she surrendered her innocence that she would be taken from him and forced to become the bride of the most powerful ruler in the East....

In 1928, a fire spread through Twin Springs Hotel and stole General Rockwell's greatest treasures: his three daughters Emerald, Ruby, and Amethyst. How they really died has remained a secret until now. If Isabella Fairbanks had known that morning would change her life, she would’ve hidden better. But, at the tender age of eight, her friends called her Izzy, her father was larger than life, dreams were make believe, boys were gross, and ghosts lived only in books.

Cole’s got big plans for our future—permanent plans that he won’t let me say no to. But we’ve got bigger problems, as a new rival threatens the Savage Society and Cole’s position in it. War’s coming, and my hitman boyfriend’s about to learn what ‘til death do us part really means.

Dee has always been jealous of her best friend Carlie's adventures, but she never imagined actually going on her own. But when Carlie goes missing searching for a 300-year-old emerald, Dee is willing to do anything to get her back. Newspaper reporter by day, handler by night, Ben has plenty on his plate, which means no time for relationships. That is, until he runs into Deirdre - or Dee, as her friends call her - at the local grocery store. Together, Ben and Dee must find their friend and uncover the mystery surrounding the elusive three million dollar emerald before it's too late.

Not much happens in the city of Langley, especially in the dead of winter, and that’s precisely the way newly assigned Chief of Police Jagar Bowie prefers it. For years, Jag served the city of Seattle as one of its finest homicide detectives. He solved more murders than anyone else in his department. But it was the one he hadn’t solved that ruined his career and still haunted his dreams. No matter how hard he tries, he can’t stop searching for the Trinket Killer.

Darcie Bowie spent the last year of her life putting the pieces of her shattered heart back together while trying to get her family off her back about her chosen career in the yachting industry. The last thing she needs is for her ex-boyfriend to show up as a surprise guest.

I'm not usually a fan of women with emotional baggage. Some days after taking care of my patients, I can barely take care of myself, let alone someone with issues. But my new nurse, Ally, is different, and I don't know why. Since day one she's been closed and distant—cold, even. I would be lying if I said I wasn't intrigued. There’s something about her that has me pushing past her walls. Or trying to, anyway.

Lacey: He’s my best friend and a self-made billionaire. Oh, and did I forget that Cash Darby is sexy as sin? Not only that, but now he needs me to be his fake fiancé to appease his parents after he breaks things off with his girl. I’ve known Cash my entire life, since we were kids on the playground, so when he calls me at three o’clock in the morning and says he needs me, I do the one thing that any best friend would do. I hop on a plane and gallop to his rescue. And that’s when he tells me about the lie he’s told his family.

He might very well be Seattle’s most eligible bachelor, and a billionaire nonetheless, but his arrogance is a total turnoff. When he sends his assistant to ask me out on a date, for him, I never want to hear the name Elijah Trevino again. Who does this guy think he is? God? Just because he’s rolling in the dough and just so happens to be sexy as sin means nothing…at least not to me. I’m not like those other girls, and Elijah is about to find that out for himself. If he wants me, he’s going to have to work harder than that.

Heath Savage's life at his family's relocated Irish castle in the picturesque landscapes of Washington is idyllic. When he has an opportunity to work remotely for a prestigious gaming company, his life is almost a dream come true. Now if he could overcome his lingering crush on his sister’s best friend. Quinn O’Brien, a gifted photographer, relishes her time on the staff at the Savage Citadel, especially the captivating moments spent with charming Heath Savage.