Böcker av M. Katherine Clark

In this third and final installment of the Greene and Shields files, Jon and Courtney find themselves embroiled in espionage, mafia, and revenge. Rob had a final piece to play last month and the Black Queen has finally come forward. Negotiating a deal with three mafia heads, the Black Queen's revenge is nearly complete but one thing stands in her way... Jonathan Greene. His death would be the unifier needed to finalize the agreement. Meanwhile Jon and Courtney follow the leads to Minneapolis where a familiar face warns them to let sleeping dogs lie. Ignoring the advice, they work together to discover who is behind the death of a prominent judge. Working against the government's secret organizations, friends, and the clock, Greene and Shields attempt to unravel the web and solve this case once and for all. However, Jon's old sins come back to haunt him. And some things that should have remained hidden are brought to light.

Gabriel "Reaper" Collins lives his life always looking for that next big thing. He was the star rugby player in University and moved up quickly through the ranks of police until he was offered his dream job in Police Special Operations. That was nearly 5 years ago and now he's looking for something new and exciting. Approached by his former boss, Gabe and his partner are recruited into MI6's newest off the books team. Parliament's answer to diversity and inclusion; a team made up solely of LGBT+ members, The Charing Cross Boys. There's only one problem, Gabe is straight, married, and a father of two boys. He has never even looked at another man in that way, but recently he's beginning to wonder why he has issues keeping his eyes off his best friend and partner. Nigel "Diamond" Sweet has loved Gabe since he saved Nigel from racist and homophobic bullies when he was sixteen. Knowing there could never be anything between them since Gabe was straight, Nigel resigns himself to the fact they will be nothing more than friends. When he is recruited with Gabe into MI6's newest team, he loves the job, loves his team, and still loves... his straight partner. With a knock at the door one evening, Nigel's life changes and with it, his visions of the future. Gabe's wife cheated on him, and he and the boys need a place to stay. But will the forced proximity, the domestication, and the family aspect of their suddenly merged lives bring with it a realization that even though Gabe is straight, he just might have deeper feelings for his best friend. Working their newest case, one that claimed the lives of two other agents, The Charing Cross Boys Team juggle their personal lives with the uncertainty of their professional future. There's a traitor in their midst and the CCBoys will stop at nothing to bring them to justice. Though this wasn't intended to be read as a standalone, it can be. Sweet Caroline reads best after Set Fire to the Rain book one in the Charing Cross Boys series. This is a friend to lovers, gay-for-you, HFN, MM romance with a spy twist. Trigger Warning: Cheating by secondary character affecting one of the main characters, intense on page bullying, homophobia and homophobic rhetoric. For full list of triggers see the Trigger Warnings inside the book.

Eighteen years ago, Sommerset Kiter made a mistake and it cost him the love of his life. Drifting through life chasing the next best thing for his career, he never stops to remember because with remembering comes hurt and anger. But now, as a retired-from-active-duty Colonel, he's putting together a team. A team of elite men who have the skills needed to go where MI6 wants them to go but cannot sanction. The Charing Cross Boys. Six of Britain's best of the best, and the first recruit under the team captain is none other than Kiter's childhood best friend and ex-lover Rhys "Leo" Campbell. Coming home after an argument is one thing but coming home after an argument and an eleven-month deployment to find your boyfriend in bed with another man is something else entirely. Rhys "Leo" Campbell, late of Her Majesty's Special Reconnaissance Regiment team, The Zodiacs, is currently serving as leader of Police Special Operations for Scotland Yard. He is approached and recruited into MI6's most recent off-the-books team. It feels good to be wanted, needed, until he meets the boss. His ex-best friend and love of his life, Sommerset "Scorpio" Kiter. The man he found cheating on him nearly twenty years ago. The missions sound amazing, and he knows he's the best one for the job but can he keep his heart out of the way so he doesn't get hurt again? After a disastrous first mission without Leo, Kiter makes his way to Leo's flat, needing the care only he can give. They make a plan to work together to avenge their fallen brothers. Together will they save the world? Or set it on fire and watch it burn? Working their newest case, one that claimed the lives of two other agents, The Charing Cross Boys Team juggles their personal lives with the uncertainty of their professional future. There's a traitor in their midst and the CCB Team will stop at nothing to bring them to justice.

After losing his wife and unborn daughter in a horrific automobile accident, Lachlan O'Quinn swears off feeling anything romantic for anyone. Taking over his father's veterinarian practice in County Kerry after his retirement ten years later, Lachlan adjusts to his new life as a widowed country doctor at only thirty-eight. Dodging the old biddies who try to set him up with one or the other of their daughters, granddaughters or nieces, Lachlan successfully stays away from dating, love, and feeling anything below the belt. Until one night, when a particularly brutal storm rolls in from the sea, and with it, a exceptionally beautiful woman banging on his door well after midnight, begging for help. Corrine McDonnagh is running from her father's debts. He gambled *her* in a poker game with the heir to the London Mafia and when he lost, Corrine knows it's only a matter of time before they come for her. Running is the only thing she can think of, even if it means sacrificing her father's health and well-being. What she doesn't expect, is Hurricane Tyrone making landfall just as she makes it to a small town on the Irish coast. Her trusty companion; her Irish wolfhound, Oscar by her side, she attempts to navigate though one of the worst storms in Ireland's history. When a tree splits in half and the trunk pins Oscar down, unable to move, she tries to free her beloved dog and get him to safety but the wind and the weight of the wood is too much. Rushing to the lone cottage with a single lamp lit in the window, a sign to travelers the occupant was in the medical field, she hurries to the door banging on the solid frame, begging for help. She never expects the most handsome man she's ever seen to answer her cries. His toffee colored eyes, beautifully haunted and yet gentle, threatens to swallow her up, if Hurricane Tyrone doesn't beat him to it. Letting the strangely attractive woman and her dog stay overnight is one thing but when travel is impossible for the next few days, Lachlan needs to figure out who she is so afraid of and how to protect her, all while guarding his own shattered heart from her soft smiles, sweet caresses, heated kisses, and the song of heart's desire.*Possible trigger warning. Loss of wife and child, electrocution, and POW situations with PTSD*

Emmet O'Quinn, second born son of the O'Quinn sons is known far and wide as a playboy. After some shocking news, he knows he needs to put that behavior behind him if he has any chance at a bright, though scary, future. Happy with how he has been able to abstain, he starts to become more and more comfortable with his new identity. That is, until someone from his past shows up out of the blue and long buried feelings begin to surface. Mara McGrath is running from someone in her past and time is running out. She left London for her home in Ireland only to realize the threat is still near. Pursuing her singing career, she accepts a position in the south of Ireland but a chance meeting with Emmet O'Quinn, her sister's ex-fiancé, stirs feelings she believes she has no right to have. Ever since she was a little girl, Emmet was the unattainable idea of a man. When he and her sister broke up, her ideal persona of what a man was supposed to be was shattered, that is until she was faced with true evil. Can she give in to the feelings surrounding her and put his life in danger? Can she trust her new-found freedom and life to a man who hurt her big sister? One thing is certain, she never expected her life to begin anew when she went across the Irish Sea.

After his rival stole the woman of his dreams, Trevor O'Quinn decides to focus his efforts on his studies. Final year Vocal Performance at Trinity College in Dublin is stressful enough, but when a chance meeting flares the feelings never quite quenched, Trevor realizes Cassie Doyle is still the woman he loves. But her dream has turned into a nightmare. Cassandra Doyle always cared for Trevor, ever since they connected over having American mothers. So when a masked stranger sweeps her off her feet at the Christmas Masquerade, she hopes it's him. But when Robbie McConaghy claims to be the man she fell in love with, she resigns herself to the fact Trevor would never be more than a friend. When Trevor, Cassie, and Robbie are cast in the musical drama department's production of the Phantom of the Opera as the three leads, Cassie comes face to face with a difficult choice, one that will affect all their futures. Trevor loves singing and to be cast in the title role of the production is the pinnacle of his college career. However, with Cassie's choice looming before them, Trevor knows they are approaching the point of no return and in Dublin fair city, their lives will change forever. **Though this can be read as a standalone, for the best reading experience, please consider reading Across the Irish Sea first!

Keera O'Quinn and Paddy O'Shea promised to never tell her family they were a couple, mostly because she worried about her cousin Emmet's reaction. Paddy was his friend but he was also known as a player, at least, in the past. Dating since Keera's final year at school until she went to America for the last two years of her college, they only just rekindled the fire when they have an argument resulting in their break up. Keera finds another but is never as happy as she was with Paddy and Paddy buries himself in work. When Emmet it in hospital, Paddy and Keera are faced with their unfinished business, though Keera's pregnancy scare with an ex-boyfriend could get in the way. A change of scenery is what they both need so when their favorite author is in Limerick, Paddy takes her to meet him, though Paddy has another reason to introduce her to T.S. Jameson. Strolling through town, hand in hand, Paddy and Keera share their secret desires, and tell each other something they've never told another living soul, all on the river Shannon.

The Alpha Couple is a thing of myth and legend...Alasdair MacConchor is journeying back to his Highland home after years fighting Shapeshifting Druids in Erin. Hating the demons who killed his father, Alasdair and his brothers move quickly through Druid lands, but an unexpected runaway makes them reconsider their dislike of Druids. Deena ran from her father's grove after he demanded she marry a man who always scared her. Lucien, the Dark Druid of the grove, helped her escape before anyone realized they did not marry in truth. Racing through the wind, rain and thistle patches of Scotland, she meets three Highlanders and their pet wolf. With her father close behind them, Deena and Alasdair must decide, do they defy the gods will or will they forever be star crossed?

After their transition into immortality, Tristan and his pack escape Wolf's Bane Field and head north into Sutherland land. Adding members to their wandering family, the small group seek shelter and alliance with the much larger human clan to the north. Though the Sutherland clan appear normal, Weylyn, Tristan and Aedan suspect there is more to them than meets the eye. After losing one of their members, the pack heads toward Skye to begin their life anew. Battling the elements, animals, and a new enemy along the way, the Loch Alsh Pack quickly realize new alliances, though tenuous and suspicious, could be their last chance of survival. And a mysterious druid creates a unique bond with one pack member making his friendship indispensable.

The Wolf's Bane Saga: Wolf's BaneBook OneLegend has it, that before the Romans invaded Britannia in 55 B.C. the people of that land roamed wild and free. Once the Roman legionnaires pushed back the wild and untamed Celts, they built a wall; Antonine's Wall. It was once magnificent, once imposing... trust me, I was there, I saw it. But was it the humans they feared... or us?There are so few of us left. But under the Hunter's Moon, we lived and we died and this is the story of both.

Nikki Thompson, bestselling mystery writer, is suffering from the worst writer's block of her life after her boyfriend of five years tells her he never loved her. Heartbroken, she accepts an invitation to the 10th Annual League of Extraordinary Writers Authors' Retreat just north of Edinburgh, Scotland. The accommodations are something out of a fairy tale and the ghost is complimentary.Fearsome MacPherson, a Scottish Laird from the eighteenth century, roams the halls of Castle MacCulloch looking for the Highland Pride, something stolen from his family centuries before. Juggling her desire for a fresh start and her growing need to help the Scottish ghost, who seems to appear only to her, Nikki enlists the help of Ross Sutherland, a mysterious Scot who has secrets of his own. Follow Nikki's journey as she and Ross attempt to find the Pride and lay their ghosts to rest.

IMPD Lieutenant and Vietnam Veteran, Jonathan Greene is set in his ways. His new partner and rookie, Courtney Shields will only get in his way. They quickly butt heads and struggle to find common ground. But after a surprise joint venture, staring as the two main characters in a community musical, the two form a bond that will quickly be of infinite value. Jon's past resurfaces into the present and his friends and family become the targets of serious threats. With Jon's loved ones in danger, he will do anything to protect them. Dodging danger and hostility along the way, Jon and Courtney will stop at nothing to discover who is behind this. After all, Blood is Thicker Than Water.

Every 20 years, a human lass is chosen to join in marriage with the MacKay clan and fulfill the treaty set down many generations ago. But when Clan Healer Brigid Lewis is tricked into leaving her home, only to be tied to the stake in the bailey of the keep, she expects nothing but death and certainly not a gigantic green dragon to descend from the sky defending her. Aodhfionn MacKay is the eldest of four brothers and son to the Dragon King. He volunteers to take a human lass as his mate and fulfill the treaty with the humans, but when he sees Brigid is not a willing lass and therefore the treaty is broken, he battles with his dragon's desire for his mate and his human side, knowing the right thing to do, is give her back. With his brothers eager to challenge him and take his place as heir, Finn and Brigid agree to a fake marriage until he can avenge her against her clan for forcing her into marriage and keep the treaty alive in the eyes of the dragons. But what they do not expect, is the growing affection between them. The thought of giving her up, however right it would be, could kill him.

Always and Forever...After Caylean made the hardest decision of his life and left his pack and mate, he travels to the coast. But before the grief overtakes him, he allows his hybrid-wolf self to take over, not realizing the cost. Weylyn, Aedan, and Tristan join Dagda in his search for Caylean but soon they face a foe none of the wolves have ever seen before; Fae, the mystical creatures of Scotland and Ireland. Friends both old and new join in their quest, but little do they realize, one of the greatest threats never left the Wolf Village. As one of their own labors with the darkness, they may lose the heartbeat holding them all together; Weylyn. Fighting a new and powerful foe, the wolves turn to a mysterious wanderer who may have the answers they need to save them before the moon rises and all is lost.