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The Enemy’s Game releases this Friday!

by Kristen James

The Enemy’s Game – Romantic Thriller

Releasing Friday in Kindle and Kindle Unlimited! For readers who enjoy remote cabin thrillers… out in the Oregon wilderness… and stories about lies, games, and intrigue… You can pre-order to ensure you get it Friday!

She can’t trust him. She can’t survive without him.

Cora suspects her father’s employer isn’t above board, and then her father suddenly disappears. The only person who can help is the one man she can’t trust: Nick Holloway, the employer’s son.

Instead of helping, he follows his family’s orders and takes her to a remote cabin in the mountains. They think he’s proving his loyalty. Nick says he’s keeping Cora alive and buying time for her father.

Nick swears he’s on her side. That he’s risking everything to protect her. That his lies are meant to keep her alive. Is he playing both sides for some secret goal?

When Alexander Pierce, a man even the Holloways fear, offers his own brand of help, Cora realizes she’s trapped in a deadly game of deception, desire, and betrayal.

Someone knows where her father is. Someone knows what happened to the missing money. Everyone wants her under control.

The clock is ticking. The lies are closing in. And the only way to save her father… is to play the enemy’s game.

TEASER ~~~

“Where are you taking me?”

“There’s a tiny cabin up in the mountains,” he answered while glancing in the rear view mirror at Alexander’s head lights. Or was it Alexander behind them? Maybe Nick was lying so she’d cooperate. “Please don’t be scared, I promise I won’t hurt you.”

Her rattled nerves didn’t need this.

“Then why are you driving me out to a secluded cabin?” While speaking, she slid her arm down the armrest, feeling for a lock button. There didn’t seem to be one. She glanced at the door, saw the controls, and slammed her hand into them.

Nothing happened. Neither button opened the window.

Nick glanced at her hand. “Alexander disables the locks and windows on all the passenger doors. He altered my car a few days ago too.”

Tears stung the inside of her eyelids. Mortified, she rubbed her face, hoping he wouldn’t notice. It seemed likely he was playing both sides, acting like he wanted to help her even as he kidnapped her.

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The Killer Between Us

by Kristen James

Visit the brutal coast of the Pacific Northwest and dive into this shocking psychological thriller in Kristen’s newest standalone release, THE KILLER BETWEEN US, a Domestic Psychological Thriller set on the Oregon Coast

Colette can’t tell who to trust, who’s playing her, and who’s hunting her…

I’ve been so careful… Somehow my past found me just as I’m sucked into the mystery of a missing woman. Are they related? Is the killer really back? Or am I losing it?

Colette Baker has spent her life trying to stay invisible and outrun her past. Her mother abandoned her as a baby. At twelve, a tragedy in foster care forced her to start over with a new name. She’s learned not to need anyone. No one else has ever needed her…until now.

On a cold, foggy Saturday morning, Colette waits for a client. Instead she’s handed a mysterious envelope and meets a crying toddler who grabs onto her. Apparently she looks like his lost mother. But where is Brandon’s mother? Why does his father, Ray, grab onto Colette like some kind of lifeline and ask for her help?

Even as an outsider, Colette can tell something isn’t right about the absence of Ray’s wife. What if he’s involved? And though it seems impossible, could this be related to the envelope she received the same day she met them?

Too many strange things happen, connecting Ray’s situation with Colette’s haunted past. Could his wife’s disappearance actually be related? She escaped from a killer’s clutch once before… twice would be tempting fate.

Colette doesn’t want to lose everything and start over again. But, what if she’s putting Ray and his son in danger? Even while hiding her own past, she has doubts about Ray. As more and more dots connect, she questions everything.

What if it’s all a ruse to push her over the edge? Or catch her in a killer’s snare?

Order THE KILLER BETWEEN US to find out!

Handsome guy, wrong situation. Colette can’t tell who to trust, who’s playing her, and who’s hunting her…

You can hide from your past but you can never truly outrun it.

Available now in Kindle KU and Print

Embers of Hope, Flickers of Passion

by Kristen James

Embers of Hope, Flickers of Passion

A story about balancing motherhood, friendship and romance…

Savanna dreaded telling her family and friends about her failed marriage so much that she hid it while living in another state. But she can’t stay away when her best friend Cassie loses her husband, who dies on duty as a firefighter. Savanna quickly returns home to help, longing to find herself again and make a home for her daughter. She meets Mike’s best friend, Jason, the man who talked him into staying with the department just before the fatal fire. He’s also the man who once saved Savanna’s life. Though hurting herself, something deep inside her won’t let her walk away. Jason needs her but she’s off limits on so many levels. She’s falling for this sexy firefighter but he confuses her to no end. Savanna’s a single mom with secrets, and she could lose her best friend over him.

Review from Melissa from There For You:
I am a woman. If you cut me, do I not bleed? If you offer me chocolate, do I not take it? If you offer me romance, do I not read it?! Of course I do, I am woman. Let me introduce you to my newest weakness. Romance novels by author Kristen James. I met Kristen via an interview I recently did on her (Interview) and decided to try her book. Boy is the woman, and reader, in me happy I did! Embers of Hope, Flickers of Passion is a well written love story, reminiscent of the movie Backdraft, in the fact that the main character, Jason, is a firefighter and his best friend, Mike, is killed in a fire.

The central characters of the story are Savanna, her best friend Cassie, Cassie’s husband Mike and Mike’s best friend Jason. The story starts off with Savanna moving herself, and her infant daughter Aubrey, or Bobby Boo as she is affectionately called, to Texas to help her best friend, Cassie, recover from the very recent death of her husband Mike. Mike is a firefighter who is killed in the line of duty. Mike’s best friend, Jason, is held accountable by himself and Cassie, even though he was not involved in the accident. Savanna quickly realizes that Jason is the firefighter who saved her life a few years before.

Being the mother hen that she is, Savanna soon decides that she not only needs to repair Cassie but also Jason, thus throwing herself in the middle of the two since Cassie blames him. The reader soon realizes that Savanna needs some saving herself as the last 2 or so years of her life with her ex-husband Eric have been horrible. After hearing parts of Savanna’s story, and an intense internal feeling of need, Jason also feels the need to help Savanna.

A beautifully woven plot, Embers of Hope, Flickers of Passion, will have you crying with Cassie, cheering for Jason, and praying Eric does not return to distinguish the flames that are spreading between Jason and Savanna. A romance novel that any woman with a history of being burned by love, and has hopes to rekindle the flame, can enjoy. Next up, More Than Memories, in the Kristen James romance novels.

I hope today you get your daily helping of romance and chocolate! Enjoy your day :)) -Melissa

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