Last Series

An FBI agent and a preeminent archeologist tracking down stolen artifacts become tangled in a world-spanning web of deceit and murder in this action-packed romantic suspense novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Last Words.

“Fast-paced . . . thrilling . . . Mariah Stewart is at her best.”—Genre Go Round Reviews

There’s no time to breathe.

As renowned archaeologist Dr. Daria McGowan readies the most important project of her career—a university museum exhibit showcasing the priceless artifacts her great-grandfather unearthed a century earlier in the Middle East—she makes a shocking discovery: many of the most significant pieces have vanished. Panicked, Daria turns to the FBI.

Agent Connor Shields is more than happy to take the case: he’s been unable to get Daria out of his mind since their paths first crossed two years ago. Working together, Daria and Connor discover a trail of bodies—collectors who have met brutal, bizarre ends at the hands of a killer whose murderous methods are based on the rituals of an ancient civilization. While Daria and Connor race to unravel a mystery that stretches across oceans and centuries, an ingenious murderer follows a sinister plan to gather the coveted antiquities and one last acquisition—Daria.

An FBI agent and a police chief realize that to catch a serial killer, they’ll need to set a deadly trap, in this exhilarating romantic suspense novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Last Look.

This killer takes their breath away. . . .

A nine-year veteran of the FBI, special agent Mia Shields thinks she’s seen it all. But nothing prepares her for the terror that descends upon the idyllic bayside community of St. Dennis, on Maryland’s Eastern Shore, where a depraved killer has left a grisly surprise for Chief of Police Gabriel Beck: the body of an unidentified woman, naked and completely encased in plastic wrap, stretched across the backseat of Beck’s car. Hidden in the wrapping is a tape recording of the victim’s last, gasping words, terrifying evidence of the horror endured at the hands of a madman. Soon the body count begins to rise as more victims are found, all gruesomely cocooned, their final pleas also captured on tape.

Determined to catch the sadistic killer, Beck and Mia team up and set a trap—with Mia as bait. But their prey is closer than they ever could have imagined. Now Beck must race against time to save Mia from becoming the next victim of a serial killer as elusive as he is evil.

When a dead body connected to a decades-old murder is discovered, it’s up to an FBI agent to untangle the mysteries of past and present—all while a killer lies in wait—in this romantic suspense from the New York Times bestselling author of Hard Truth.

The truth won’t stay buried.

News that the body of a recently murdered prostitute—stabbed repeatedly and dumped on Georgia’s Shelter Island—has been identified as Shannon Randall stuns the FBI, particularly special agent Dorsey Collins. Twenty-four years ago, nineteen-year-old Eric Louis Beale was convicted and later executed for Shannon’s murder—and the agent in charge of the case was Dorsey’s father. Now Dorsey is determined to find out where her father’s investigation went wrong, what part he played in the death of an innocent man, and where Shannon has been all this time.

The heat is on FBI special agent Andrew Shields to discover what happened to Shannon on that night decades ago—to find out who killed her . . . and why. Dorsey shadows Andrew’s every investigative move, hoping to redeem her father’s reputation and capture a cunning killer. Together, Dorsey and Andrew unravel a shocking mystery that will shatter one family and rock an entire town.