Bøker av Hinze Vicki Hinze

The Shadow Watchers were introduced in the Crossroads Crisis Center novels. Now they return with their own stories…SHE BROKE THEIR ENGAGEMENTIn Seagrove Village, former Shadow Watcher, Tim, receives a stunning text from his ex-fiancé, Mandy, on their long dormant, secure phone. She is in trouble and needs help. Against the team's objections-Mandy had broken their engagement to marry another man-Tim responds…and discovers NINA, Nihilists in Anarchy, an international terrorist organization the Shadow Watchers have tangled with before, is after Tim's team again. This time, through Mandy.NOW SHE RETURNS RISKING BOTH THEIR LIVESThe breakup had devastated Tim, but what he discovers now forces him to work with Mandy to reveal yet another layer of operatives in the NINA organization. A layer that, for Mandy, strikes terror close to home and makes her The Marked Bride.FEW ARE WHO THEY SEEM. FACTS ARE MERCURIALEven those fighting this formidable enemy with the Shadow Watchers are withholding vital information that endangers the lives of all the Shadow Watchers and leaves Tim and Mandy wondering: Can they reveal the truth and protect the nation's interests and stay alive? Can the team succeed in the fight against the enemy and its own side?THEIR SURVIVAL IS IN DOUBT, THEIR FUTURE UNCERTAINWhen all is done, who will survive? And of the survivors, if Tim and Mandy are among them, will they stand together, or again be robbed of their future and forever forced apart?

Welcome to Down and Dead, Inc., where, to Live, Sometimes Ya Gotta Die.MINDING YOUR OWN BUSINESS DOESN'T KEEP TROUBLE AWAYDaisy Grant is in a heap of trouble. Minding her own business, walking to her car after leaving work, she stumbles into a mob turf war and now somebody wants her dead. Actually, several somebodies want her dead. She may be small-town to the bone, not at all the type of woman to deal with the Southern Mafia, but being on her own most of her life has taught her how to get creative fast!NATURALLY THEN IS WHEN YOU MEET THE MAN OF YOUR DREAMSThe way-too-attractive restaurant owner, Mark Jensen. He didn't mean to rescue anybody just by offering them a job, and he certainly didn't mean to endanger his business or himself and need go on the run because of a stubborn, sassy woman. But things rarely work out the way we intend, and in survival situations, a man does what a man has to do.THE PROBLEM IS WHO TO TRUST. WHO IS GOOD? WHO IS BAD? HOW DO YOU TELL WHEN THEY ALL SEEM HALF-CRAZY?Soon Daisy and Mark are up to their ears in so many wacky characters with secret agendas it is impossible to know for fact who is after them and who is on their side.HARD TRUTHS ARE INEVITABLEAs events unfold, Daisy and Mark learn many hard-knock lessons about life. The most important one?To live, sometimes ya gotta die. And sometimes dying right takes…practice.

The Shadow Watchers were introduced in the Crossroads Crisis Center novels, now they return with their own stories…PEOPLE ARE NOT WHAT THEY SEEMSuperstar Elle Bostwick is kidnapped in London. But who has kidnapped her? NINA, a ruthless, powerful organization of opportunists who will do anything to anyone anywhere to gain access to something Elle has that they want? The CIA, who is equally determined to prevent NINA from gaining that desired access? Why kidnap a superstar singer? Why Elle? And why does she not know what they're after?Elle mysteriously appears at a Shadow Watcher's wedding reception, and Nick Sloan is ordered to keep her safe indefinitely. Yet the Top Secret entity issuing the orders doesn't say safe from what or who is pursuing Elle. Not even why, which is atypical. Why is this happening now?OLD WOUNDS RUN DEEPNick and Elle have a history. Determined to never need or want or love anyone because of his horror show of a family, Nick left her without even saying good-bye. He didn't know Elle had been walking wounded, too.Now she's burst back into his life-with baggage that could get him and the other Shadow Watchers killed. Who is on their side? Who is the real enemy? What does that enemy really want? And most importantly, will they find out before they end up dead?CAN LOVE HEAL THEM? IS IT ENOUGH?Nick willingly risks his life for Elle, does does he dare to risk his heart? Does Elle dare? Both have little reason to trust…except for the hope of love they find in each other. Can love heal such deep wounds? Spare the lives and the hearts of Nick and The Marked Star?

Welcome to Down and Dead, Inc., where, to Live, Sometimes Ya Gotta Die.MAKING THE BREAK IS EASIER THAN KEEPING THE BREAK Christine Branch is elated. Finally her sister, Caroline Branch Easton, has made the break from her abusive ex, Martin Easton, and returned to Dallas to Christine's ranchette to heal. Only Martin refuses to let her go. Within twenty-four hours, his thugs are doing everything they can to intimidate Caroline into returning home. Christine knows she must do something to get her sister the time and space she needs to heal and stay safe-and she concocts a plan:OPERATION SWITCH AND BAITThe sisters trade lives and Christine baits the thugs into following her. It works! Caroline undergoes counseling, eventually divorces Martin, though he refuses to accept it, and the operation continues…until Martin shows up at the ranchette and issues a return-home ultimatum. But Caroline isn't the woman she had been under his constant barrage of abuse. Not anymore. And she has had enough. Caroline ends the operation, resumes her identity and disappears.Christine continues with the switch, hoping the confusion of two Carolines will assist her sister in making a clean getaway. On Christmas, Caroline calls Christine. A chef from Dallas is assisting her. She's in Even, Georgia, but within the hour, she is leaving for a place called Sampson Park. She can't say more about it now, but will call again as soon as she's settled.THE LONG WAIT BEGINS... AND CONTINUES…But Caroline doesn't call. Three months later, Christine remains unable to find out anything on the mysterious Sampson Park, or to pick up a single trace of her sister. Caroline has vanished. Panic has set in, and drastic measures are required. All that's left to try in finding out what happened to Caroline is the one thing Christine fears most: Christine must risk leading Martin to Even…and pray hard doing so doesn't get them both killed.Has Caroline escaped, or is she underground, Down and Dead in Dallas?