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Too many infant boys of Palm Beach gentry are dying of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS). Only obstetrics nurse Casey Jansson is suspicious. Al Warner, crack Miami homicide detective, is inactive, languishing on medical leave from a deadly shootout with the Angel of Death. He’s in the best physical condition of his life, but struggling to convince the department’s shrink he is not suffering from PTSD. Learning of the SIDS deaths from Casey, Warner concedes it sounds more than coincidental, agreeing to help investigate and hoping romance develops later.

A psychopathic killer lurks in Miami’s shadows, snatching and murdering young auburn-haired women. Strangely, they are killed without trauma and left clad in frilly prom-style dresses. Miami’s crack homicide detective, Al Warner, is on the case, but the killer has left few clues. Why were these girls taken and then executed? Was he intent on killing redheads, or was there some other connection? And why were their bodies so carefully arranged in peaceful repose, wearing prom dresses?

Ashley Easton rescues a badly abused horse, deciding to return to show jumping, the passion of her youth. The animal gives unquestioned love, something lacking from her husband, Keith. But when Ashley begins to compete, she is terrified as the show course seemingly changes into an old forest and the jumps appear as real walls, fences and trees. Her thoughts spill through her head in elegant French. As she attacks the fences with an unfamiliar, fearless abandon, she begins winning every competition.

She survived the crash. That was the first mistake. After a devastating car accident and a "routine" surgery that goes terribly wrong, Jackee Maren wakes to a nightmare worse than death. Trapped inside her own body, she is fully conscious but completely paralyzed, and able to communicate only by blinking. Then the horror escalates. The crash was no accident. Someone wanted Jackee dead, and they may still be trying to finish the job.

The second serial killer in less than a year is prowling the streets of Miami, systematically killing off some of South Florida's most beautiful young women. Detective Al Warner is just back on the job, fully recovered from a bullet wound that cracked his skull during a deadly chance encounter with another madman. Due to rigorous physical therapy, Warner is in the best shape of his life, but his days are laced with headaches and his sleep fraught with terrifying dreams.

While sailing the eastern Caribbean, Derik Brand hunkers down on an uncharted isle during an unexpected hurricane. Safe in a hidden cave, he stumbles upon buried pirate treasure worth mega-millions. After the storm, his new-found loot hidden below decks, Derik sails to Martinique to refit the sloop and relax. At the beach, he finds gorgeous, redhead twins who join him in three days of torrid sex that somehow morphs into a mutually abiding love.