Lynessa Layne

His name is Klive King and my insides flip-flop every time we meet. I sense something is ... amiss, that he's keeping secrets, but like a mortal fool drawn to a vampire, I cannot fight the pull of Klive's mysterious danger. But Jase is hiding something, too, and I'm beginning to wonder if I have a thing for dangerous men. Who is the better bad decision? **** I should leave Kinsley to Jase. He loves her. She'd never love me if she learned my true identity. Nightshade ordered me to sever all ties to her, however, the further I push her away, the more tempted I am to violate their deadly command and throw us both into peril that forces us together.

Finalist for the 2022 Silver Falchion Awards for Best Suspense and Reader's Choice No one is who they seemed. My friend is dead. Klive King is a hitman! A supposed leader of Nightshade who might have killed her! Rather than being a simple lifeguard and bar-singer, Jase is doing favors for a top-secret agency. Now, he and Rustin want me to pull Klive closer, and make him sloppy so he can arrest him. There’s one I’m number one on Klive’s hitlist and my friend may have died in my place. How could Klive do this to her? To me? How could he lie so bad? How to move beyond the betrayal, fear, anger?! The yearning for who I believed he was … my heart misses a lie. *** Someone killed Sara Scott. Were they aiming for Kinsley? She certainly thinks so - ME! I think I’ll make her believe I’m gunning for her, and I’ll use Henley to fan the flames of her fear. This affair was going to end someday. If only I could stay away … but love is a killer and I’ve fallen hard for a woman who is now my mortal enemy.

In this third volume of the Don't Close Your Eyes series, the love triangle between Jase, Kinsley and Klive stalls. Exhausted with Klive's mind games, Kinsley cozies up to Jase. At long last, Kinsley is his to urge toward the wild side he's used to living on, but is she cut out for his way of life? Similarly frustrated by Kinsley, Klive steps back, resolved to define her as a momentary lapse in judgement. He embraces his responsibilities for Nightshade without reservation. While 'sweet Kins' loses her inhibitions with Jase, she meets a side of herself she doesn't recognize. An inner war ensues as she simultaneously battles old enemies but adds a scary new one when testing the temper of not only Inferno, but the biker gang's leader, Ray, after he threatens her and her co-worker, Sara. Not one to back down, Kinsley's foolish mouth pushes her luck to dangerous places. Despite his best attempts to allow Jase to carry his own baggage, Klive deploys his alter ego in disguise and steps off the sidelines to stand beside Kinsley in keeping Inferno at bay, officially bringing Nightshade into an inevitable turf war. Henley has a face! He's real and has her back, but in accepting his protection, Kinsley draws closest to the one placing her in the most peril due to his disrespect of those who control Nightshade and Klive. Set in the tropical locales of Florida, this dual POV romantic suspense follows Klive, Kinsley and Jase into their perilous conflicts between good, evil, love, hate and the bounds they break when pushed to their limits.

Klive King warned me he was complicated. He drew me in, then pushed me away. He insisted a relationship was dangerous. I learned the hard way how right he was. We fanned the flames of passion and ignited an inferno against us, but they greatly underestimated the lengths I’d go for the man I love.

Coming home for Christmas is a time-honored family tradition. Seeking refuge from persistent press, disgraced national news anchor Tom Snow reluctantly returns to his roots in Evergreen Lake. His biggest problem should be old friends and a bitter family. Little does Tom know, up-and-coming journalist Kamrie Kole has just caught wind of his return. Seeking to make a name for herself, Kamrie uncovers secrets the whole town has whispered about for twenty years.