Raintree: Sanctuary

Their name is Raintree.

It's more than a last name; more than a notation on afamily tree. It's a mark of destiny. Each family memberhas a special gift, an otherworldly talent.

Gideon Raintree, a homicide detective, can harnesselectricity and talk to ghosts. He will need to wieldgifts he's kept hidden to solve his newest case—arelentless serial killer unleashed by the dark Ansarawizards. But first he must deal with his reaction toHope Malory, his alluring new partner. He'd neverplanned on love in the midst of battle. With evillurking at every turn, Gideon and Hope are in a raceagainst time to save their love, their family…and theirnewly conceived child.

"A love story, a mystery, an adventure— Haunted has it all, and the plot moves at a lightning pace. Linda Winstead Jones has a magic touch with paranormal, and, yes, the pun is intended!"—New York Times bestselling author Linda Howard

Two hundred years after the Raintree clan defeated and abandoned them on a small Caribbean Island, the Ansara wizards are rising again to take on their bitterest foes. Despite their extraordinary powers and supernatural origin, the Raintree have largely blended into the modern world. They are bankers, cops, husbands, wives and lovers in the society of humankind. But now, from Nevada to North Carolina, the rejoined battle will measure the endurance of their people. It will test their loyalties and relationships. And it will force upon them all new lives they could barely have imagined before.

UNDER SUSPICION

There was no doubt that the woman who called herself Evie Shaw was the key to the high-tech conspiracy that threatened Robert Cannon's computer company--and he meant to take her down personally. But as he trailed her into the heart of a long, hot Southern summer, he found himself questioning everything he believed. For he was face-to-face with a breathtaking passion--for a woman who had to be as guilty as sin....

A tragic accident took everything that mattered to Rome Matthews--his wife, Diane, and their two little boys. And it robbed Sarah Harper of her best friend. In the two years since the tragedy, Sarah has wanted to reach out to Rome, but she knew she needed to stay away, guarding the secret she had kept from him and Diane all those years--that she was in love with her best friend's husband.

But now Rome needs her. And though another woman will hold his heart forever, Sarah agrees to be his wife, knowing that everything has a price, including love. Then something totally unexpected rekindles her hidden hope that a marriage of convenience will become a union of love. Will Rome keep fighting his own growing need for a woman who dares him to believe there are second chances in life...or will he give in to the healing power of love and miracles?

On the trail of a vicious criminal, agent Chance Mackenzie found the perfect bait for his trap: Sunny Miller. So Chance made himself the only man she could trust--and then arranged for her long-missing father to find out about them.

What Chance hadn't foreseen was that Sunny had reasons of her own for hiding from her father--and now Chance's deception had brought them both one step closer to the end of everything they held dear....

Max Conroy didn't let anything get in the way of his job-and his job was to lead a corporate takeover. But to do it, he needed information, the kind the lovely Claire Westbrook could provide. All he had to do was seduce her....

But when Claire dared to let down her defenses and open her heart to him, Max found his loyalties put to the ultimate test. Now his biggest risk wasn't a business deal, but what would happen when Claire discovered the truth.