Hot Rocks

your job, aren’t you?”
    “Yeah. I am. I’m going to have Officer Ricky take you to a hotel. If you think of anything else, you can contact me through Cop Central. Oh, these diamonds you wrote about. When were they stolen?”
    “Two thousand and three. March 2003. Appraised at over twenty-eight million at that time. About three-quarters of them were recovered and returned.”
    “That leaves a lot of loose rocks. Thanks for your cooperation, Ms. Gannon. I’m sorry about your friend.”
    She stepped out, working various theories in her mind. One of the sweepers tapped her shoulder as she passed.
    “Hey, Lieutenant? The fish? They didn’t make it.”
    “Shit.” Eve jammed her hands in her pockets and headed out.

Love blooms in the second novel
in the celebrated Bride Quartet series from
#1 New York Times bestselling author
    NORA ROBERTS
    BED of ROSES
    Florist Emma Grant is finding career success with her friends at Vows wedding planning company, and her love life appears to be thriving. And yet even though men swarm around her, she still hasn’t found Mr. Right. And the last place she’s looking is right under her nose.
     
     
    But that’s just where Jack Cooke is. He’s so close to the women of Vows that he’s practically family, but the architect has begun to admit to himself that his feelings for Emma have developed into much more than friendship. When Emma returns his passion—kiss for blistering kiss—they must trust in their history . . . and in their hearts.
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
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#1 New York Times bestselling author
Nora Roberts
BLACK HILLS
    A summer at his grandparents’ South Dakota ranch is not eleven-year-old Cooper Sullivan’s idea of a good time. But things are a bit more bearable now that he’s discovered the neighbor girl, Lil Chance. Each year, with Coop’s annual summer visit, their friendship deepens from innocent games to stolen kisses, but there is one shared experience that will forever haunt them: the terrifying discovery of a hiker’s body.
     
    Twelve years after they last walked together hand in hand, fate has brought them back to the Black Hills at a time when the people and things they hold most dear need them most ...
     
     
     
     
     
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