Sandra Brown

When Detective Sergeant Duncan Hatcher is summoned to the home of Judge Cato Laird in the middle of the night to investigate a fatal shooting, he knows that discretion and kid-glove treatment are the keys to staying in the judge's good graces and keeping his job. At first glance, the case appears open-and-shut: Elise, the judge's trophy wife, interrupted a burglary in progress and killed the intruder in self-defense. But Duncan is immediately suspicious...

In the second book in #1 New York Times bestselling author Sandra Brown’s beloved Texas! trilogy, readers meet another son of the troubled Tyler clan—Chase Tyler, a man hardened by life and desperately trying to outrun the sorrows of his past.
 
Chase Tyler has been the object of Marcie Johns’s desire since grade school. But when it came time to settle down, the handsome, laconic cowboy chose another woman...

"Lucky Tyler is a born rebel with a fiery temper. But when he becomes the prime suspect in a suspicious fire at Tyler Drilling, the family hothead must put his future in the hands of an elusive woman who is his only alibi. Chase Tyler is a laconic cowboy whose happy life was shattered by an unfathomable family tragedy. Ravaged by grief, he must turn to a woman from his past to help him rescue his business and restore his sense of purpose. Sage Tyler...

Mayor-elect Taylor MacKensie is handsome, charming and charismatic. Still, Ria Lavender never imagined she'd leave a Christmas party with him or be caught up in the magic of a snowfall and a bottle of champagne. But the next morning she faces the stunning truth and eight weeks later she knows she is carrying his child. Desperate to save her baby the stigma of illegitimacy, she decides to somehow persuade Taylor to agree to a temporary marriage. Shortly...

After Cat Delaney receives a heart transplant, she thinks that she can begin life anew by hosting a television show, until someone begins murdering transplant recipients, and Cat is next on the list.