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I grew up in a house filled with books and readers. Some of my fondest memories are of reading in the same room with my mother and sisters, arguing about whose turn it was to make tea. No one wanted to put their book down!
I was introduced to romance because of my mom’s habit of leaving books all over the house. One day I picked one up. I still remember the cover. It was a Harlequin by Janet Daily. Little did I know at the time that it would set the stage for my future. I went on to discover mystery novels. Agatha Christie was my favorite. And then suspense with Wilber Smith and Ian Fleming.
I loved the thought of combining my favorite genres, and during high school, I attempted to write my first romantic suspense novel. I wrote the first fou ...more

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Average rating: 4.43 · 28,233 ratings · 1,285 reviews · 39 distinct works • Similar authors

	Smash and Grab (Callahan Security #2) 4.38 avg rating — 3,102 ratings — published 2020 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Break and Enter (Callahan Security #1) 4.18 avg rating — 2,900 ratings — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Diverted (Coast Guard Recon, #1) 4.34 avg rating — 2,647 ratings — published 2021 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Evade and Capture (Callahan Security #4) 4.55 avg rating — 2,298 ratings — published 2021 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hit and Run (Callahan Security #3) 4.37 avg rating — 2,203 ratings — published 2020 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Catch and Release (Callahan Security #5) 4.43 avg rating — 1,662 ratings — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Incinerated (Coast Guard Recon #2) 4.45 avg rating — 1,593 ratings — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Terminated (Coast Guard RECON #5) 4.61 avg rating — 1,288 ratings — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cease and Desist (Callahan Security #6) 4.43 avg rating — 1,329 ratings — published 2023 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Subverted (Coast Guard RECON #4) 4.62 avg rating — 1,092 ratings — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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There are times when I am writing that I become bored. There I said it. I get bored with writing my own books. It’s not that the story is boring. It’s that I have to write down the details so the reader can see the picture I see in my head. It can be so frustrating. I want to be able to download my thoughts into the computer and have it write the story. Okay, not really, but you get the idea.

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Callahan Security (6 books)
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“Trust was bad. Once she trusted someone, they could disappoint her, and she’d get hurt. Getting hurt was just not something she wanted to go through again. She’d fought long and hard to come back from the pain her foster mom had caused. Trust was a painful word for her.”
― Lori Matthews, Hit and Run

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“An unknown subject has been harassing you, spying on you, and following you for weeks. This is no time to play around. Could it be some idiot with no real ulterior motives? Maybe. But it could also be a stalker and I will not risk your life because you were too worried about your reputation to bring in law enforcement. A career can be fixed. I do not possess the power to bring back the dead”
― Lori Matthews, Justified Burden

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“what I want to do’ and ‘what I need to do’ are two different things.”
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