The Scent of Lies by Debra Burroughs
Emily Parker thought she had a perfect life...until her dashing private-eye husband was brutally murdered. After his murder goes unsolved and the case grows cold, she discovers that he may not have been who he claimed to be. Can she uncover the truth with the help of her best friends and the hot new police detective before she winds up dead too? 

  
Big Girls Don't Cry by Taylor Lee
The blonde-haired beauty hits the streets to find her brother's killer. In the sleazy cesspool of drug dealers, strippers and pimps, she closes in on the killer. But he's out to get her before she gets him. 

  
Deadly Secrets, Loving Lies by Cynthia Cooke
Sometimes the risk is worth the fall. Ex-secret agent, Genie will stop at nothing to find her father, even accepting help from the one man she let close enough to learn her family secrets, secrets that could destroy them all. But will he keep them? 

    
The Romantics by Stephanie Queen
Big bad bodyguard Joseph Allario keeps his biggest fear a big secret until a so-called cupcake assignment takes him to London to play undercover babysitter to Lady Veronica Douglas. Ronnie made a deathbed promise to her mother to redeem her father's reputation and prove he was murdered. Now Joe finds himself falling for Ronnie as he tries to stop the killer before the killer stops her. Even if it means facing the one thing he fears most...

  
Tidal Falls by Jacquie Biggar 

When Nick Kelley loses most of his teammates in an IED explosion overseas, he shuts down. It takes meeting and falling in love with a woman in danger to make him realize life's worth living.

  
'Where are the Children?' by Katy Walters
Looking down at the mutilated body of a young woman, D.I. Sam Templeton's fears grow. Where are the victim's children? Sam realizes she is faced with a killer hell bent on vengeance; his reign of terror is just beginning. In the race to catch him, Sam joins forces with profiler Ryan Anderson only to find herself embroiled in a tempestuous romance. As the second body is found, more children go missing. Where are they? Are they still alive?

  
"Where are the Children?" is a stand alone in a series of crime books. If you like female leads with a will of iron, action-packed suspense, then you will enjoy this series.

  
Her French Count by Mona Risk
What could be more exciting for a young American architect than to live in a French chateau owned by a handsome count, and to work on the restoration of a chapel in the Loire Valley? But when her professor is poisoned because he knew too much about a missing statue, Cheryl's summer job changes into a dangerous treasure hunt and Count François is faced with a difficult choice. Are the statue and his chateau worth endangering the life of the impetuous young woman who's turned his life upside down?