Bøker av Debra Erfert

A police detective who wants a lifetime of love, a private investigator who values her independence, and their struggle to trust each other.Married women aren't supposed to cheat!Married women are being murdered. Identical paisley silk scarves tied around their ashen necks, missing wedding rings, and blood alcohol content beyond absurdity leave no room for doubt: the killer is the same sick man.Private Investigator Candice Shane joins forces with her boyfriend, Phoenix Police Detective Alexander Delaney, when her new client fears she will be the next victim. She may have seen the killer.Each clue takes Candice dangerously closer to an apparent organized serial killer. It's a race to capture the madman before he takes another woman and before Candice becomes a victim of the Silk Strangler.The Silk Strangler: A Shane Investigations is a gripping crime thriller filled with heart-melting romance and mystery.

A police sergeant, the woman who dumped him, and their second chance at love.While on a stakeout to catch the cretin who's stalking a client, Private Investigator Candice Shane finds a house on fire--at midnight. A pink tricycle in the yard prompts her hasty decision to break in, saving a sleeping woman and her three children.Her ex-boyfriend, Sergeant Alex Delaney, thinks she's insane to take on the woman as a client. But with the husband out of town during the incident, he's the prime suspect, and Candice has a gut feeling he didn't do it. Who would want a woman and three children dead?As clue after clue leads Candice and Alex down a dangerous road, her heart is also on a treacherous path--one of falling for Alex again. Sure, Candice can dodge bullets and interrogate witnesses, but she can't she resist Alex's wit, charm, and good looks.In the end, if she and Alex can't find who set the fire, her heart might not be the only thing she loses.Fire Setters: A Shane Investigations is a gripping crime thriller filled with heart-melting romance and mystery.

Gutsy, grieving Julianna is determined to find who murdered her husband. Hampered by agonizing loneliness, her obsessive-compulsive mother and her over-controlling father, she defies convention and the law to investigate on her own. When she runs up against a handsome police detective who's determined to save Julianna from herself, she has to step up her rogue search for the killer before time, and dwindling leads, runs out.

Artist Abigail Carson crashes off the deserted highway during a Wyoming blizzard while driving to reach her dying mother. Carbon County Sheriff Jackson Reynolds rescues her, leaving her Jeep in the snowdrift as the storm becomes a whiteout. They're trapped at his ranch for the week leading up to Christmas, along with his two young daughters, a protective mother-in-law, and a bitter memory of his dead wife.Tensions rise as Abby's attraction grows for the tough sheriff. She must crack through his emotional wall before the storm breaks or lose her only chance for real love. But if the storm doesn't stop soon enough, Abby may lose her opportunity to ask her mother's forgiveness for running away almost ten years before.Snowdrift is a story about love, faith, and forgiveness.

Buying the 1920s farmhouse south of Phoenix, where the rumors of John Dillinger's gang hid out in the 30s, is supposed to be accident-prone Grace Evanheart's way of escaping an old romance. When she finds an ancient diary with a map under the bedroom's floorboard, the rumors solidify into fact. She doesn't know who to trust with the news; Micah Stevens, the handsome deputy and the great grandson of the original landowners with whom she's attracted, or Jerry, the young historian who seems too intent on learning about her new home?Micah seems convinced their paths cross exactly at the right time and in the right place for them to fall in love. Now he just has to convince Grace of the same thing before suspicions of his real motive have her running again.

Inspired by her father and his pretty young wife, novelist Claire Abney allows her imagination to run wild and pens a best-selling thriller. However, as Glen Abney suffers multiple freak accidents, she wonders exactly where the prose stops and reality begins.Claire screens her family from the prying eyes of success with a masculine pen name and her handsome editor, her shill for photo ops and book signings. But her father's unexpected death, and bungled attempts on her own life, force her to admit the strategy may have backfired. Now, with the help of her brother and Max, her dreamy frontman, she must separate truth from fiction before life imitating art becomes deadly.

The small plane crash at the Sedona airport wasn't typical: A Beechcraft nosedived into the wooded canyon after takeoff, no fire, the dead pilot still strapped into his seat, and the body of a missing teenage girl found in the rubble.Private Investigator Candice Shane has a friend in trouble. Artist Parker Lane has been there for her in the past, putting together an impromptu wedding reception, and supplying the paintings for her house. Now it's time to return the favor.When Parker first learns of her husband's death in a plane crash, she is lost. When gruesome details emerge about his teenage girl passenger, she contacts Candice to investigate. From Sedona to Phoenix to Las Vegas, Candice won't stop until she unearths the dreadful facts, enlisting the help of her husband's police contacts to uncover the truth. Underage girls, a pocket full of jewelry, and a delusional 'best friend' provide plenty of adventure, danger, and even more treacherous questions.

Avery James, field producer of Hollywood's hottest reality show, My Only Love, hires Larabee Investigations after someone tries to kill her while scouting next season's filming location in Arizona. Maxine Larabee hopes solving the celebrity's case might end her company's financial struggle, and at the same time prove to her lead investigator, Jack Atmore, she has what it takes to be a good detective.But Max has a bigger problem than just trying to prove her investigative abilities to a man with whom she's attracted and probably falling for. The strongest lead in Avery's case trails straight to an ex-contestant Chantilly Belle, a woman who's engaged to His Royal Highness Prince Armanno d'Avalos of Cardinara. Getting to question Chantilly might be more difficult than getting Jack's respect, or keeping Avery alive.

A police detective who wants a lifetime of love, a private investigator who values her independence, and their struggle to trust each other.Private Investigator Candice Shane had a good reason for breaking up with her university boyfriend Alex Delaney five years ago. His career choice after graduation as a police officer was dangerous. She knew this personally after her parents, both cops, died by the same loathsome gunmen when she was only eight. But Candice wasn't expecting her easy job of asking questions and simple surveillance to be just as hazardous. Detective Alex Delaney understands Candice's job. His love for her keeps him standing beside her while he'd rather stand in front of her to keep her safe from a maniac strangler who seeks out vulnerable women. Three bodies in three weeks and they still have no solid clues. Candice is brought in on the investigation as a consultant, but even being in the background brings her to the killer's attention. Now it's a race against time before he can claim another victim, and before Alex loses his love to the Silk Strangler. The Silk Strangler: A Shane Investigations is a gripping crime thriller filled with heart-melting romance and mystery.

Pride and Prejudice in the Wild WestCan anything good come from a man accepting a childish challenge when it involves a woman''s heart?Lord Christopher Lockwood''s life as a Western cowboy was all he imagined. Calloused hands, tan skin, and more hard work than he can handle. He gave up his aristocratic life of leisure to safeguard his only sister as she fled to America from the man who killed her husband. She found love again with a cattle rancher. It wasn''t until a friend challenged Christopher to open his heart to the rancher''s sister did he realize how little effort he''d made to get to know her. Priscilla Bellamy fell utterly and desperately in love with the English lord the moment he almost kissed her hand when they first met. Yet, he''s never given her a second look. In fact, he has gone out of his way to ignore her when in the same room, so on her eighteen birthday, she made the difficult decision to end her pursuit of the handsome lord. Until something changed.Now Christopher is wholeheartedly pursuing Priscilla, but it may be too late for him to win her heart. Learning that his older brother has died, he needs to return to England. Can their romance bloom if they live on two different continents? The Lord and the Cowgirl is a Victorian Western romance novel of approximately 53,000 words. No cheating. No cliffhangers, and a guaranteed happily ever after.

Pride and Prejudice meets the Wild WestA young British duchess fleeing from her husband''s murderer. A widowed American cowboy with a small daughter. Their second chance at love.At twenty-one, Jane Langley the Duchess of Chatham, is too young to be a widow. Her husband''s misguided duel with his ruthless younger brother leaves him dead. The new duke''s menacing threat to Jane-marry him or else-has her fleeing her home to America for safety and an opportunity to where she can buy her own property. Although Jane worries about her new role as a landowner in the Wild West, she wonders if a proper British duchess will be accepted in a land that lacks propriety. Does Carson City have a high society? Or does she become a pioneer woman? Her concerns change the morning she meets the ruggedly handsome cowboy, Mr. Bellamy.Heath Bellamy is no stranger to misery. He lost his wife shortly after their daughter was born, and for the past two winters, the cruel Nevada blizzards killed too many of his ranch''s cattle. They need grass to survive. When a new owner takes over the neighboring big spread, he sees the possibility of the herd grazing on her land. When their relationship turns from friendship to deep affection, they must decide if love is worth risking getting their hearts broken all over again."The Duchess and the Cowboy" is a historical romance novel of approximate 66,000 words. No cheating. No cliffhangers, and a guaranteed Happily Ever After!