Valerie Hansen

"Run and don't stop!" Those were her former boyfriend's last words. Before the thugs he associated with murdered him in cold blood. Now they're after Marie Parnell. She flees with her five-year-old daughter-until car trouble strands her in Serenity, Arkansas. The handsome mechanic who promises to get her back on the road is suspicious-and purposely slow. With nowhere to turn and nowhere left to run, Marie tells Seth Whitfield everything. About her...

Someone wants to see her silenced. An Emergency Responders story Back home after a mission trip, nurse and EMT Sara Southerland learns that her cousin's death might not have been an accident-and now someone wants her dead. The only person she can trust is longtime crush and fire captain Adam Kane. With a stalker on their tail, Adam will do whatever it takes to protect the woman he's realizing he can't live without.

SUSPICION OF GUILT When Special Agent in Charge Max West and his K-9 partner, Opal, look into a series of bombings in Northern California, horse trainer Katerina Garwood instantly seems suspicious. As the ex-fiancée of a man tied to the criminal Dupree family, Katerina may know more than she's letting on - especially since the infamous syndicate is targeting her. And Max isn't sure he can believe her when she says she knows nothing. Despite his reservations,...

What she forgot could kill her A heart-stopping True Blue K-9 Unit book Injured by an attack she can't remember, Abigail Jones knows someone's after her, but she doesn't know why or who. Now the man who rescued her, Officer Reed Branson, and his K-9 partner will shield her while she regains her memory. But unraveling the mystery surrounding Abigail leads to more questions than answers...and to a ruthless enemy who's determined to take their...

TILL DEATH DO US PART? When her estranged husband Dylan's inadvertent dealings with a crime ring bring danger to her doorstep, Grace McIntyre has no choice but to follow him into the witness protection program. To safeguard her children, they must all go into hiding as one big happy family. Grace doesn't know what's worse having to pretend she's in love with the man who betrayed her trust or keeping ahead of the killers. In hiding, Dylan is all that...

When Lillie Delaney's life in the big city didn't work out, she headed home to Gumption, Arkansas, longing for the peaceful predictability of the tiny town. Not to mention the proximity of the grandmother who'd raised her. Yet Lillie was in for a shock: her grandfather had taken off with a younger woman and her grandmother-- running around in a pink shower cap-- wasn't handling it very well. So Lillie turned to town pastor James Warner, only to find...

Fall in love with this fan-favorite novella of family, romance and dogs from author Valerie Hansen. Single mom Krista Brody has no problem walking up to a neighbour's door while searching for her son's runaway puppy, Puddles. But the stranger who opens the door is very familiar… Mark Vanbruger hasn't seen Krista in years, but now they're living in the same small town. They missed a chance at romance years ago-could a matchmaking puppy help them...

DEFENDING HIS OWN Newly sworn in as chief of police, Ryder Hayes is ready to defend the citizens of Desert Valley - especially his five-year-old daughter, Lily - from his wife's murderer. So when Ryder starts to grow close to K-9 trainer Sophie Williams, he pushes her away to protect her. He can't let Sophie become the next target of the deranged serial killer who's obsessed with him. But Sophie has secrets of her own, and Ryder's caution isn't enough...

NEIGHBORLY LOVE… Single dad Zac Frazier arrived in the close-knit town of Serenity expecting little more than a fresh start. But he never counted on having his wounded heart rejuvenated by his son's bubbly preschool teacher, who lived a few houses away and had an extraordinary gift for understanding small children. In record time, pretty and petite Tina Braddock brought laughter back into his lonely little boy's life-and encouraged the disillusioned...

Despite their differences, Tyler Corbett assumed Kara Shepherd was a fine woman...for somebody else. He had no intention of falling for her, despite a vast local conspiracy. But how could the strapping cowboy avoid Kara when she popped up everywhere he went…even in church? Widowed Kara figured there was only one way to get her family-and Tyler's-to stop matchmaking. They'd simply pretend to fall in love, then break up. Step One of the charade was...