Bayou Books

Purple Papaya, LLC
January 14, 2014
ISBN-13: 978-1621811152
ASIN: B00HV5RM30

Louisiana lush, bayou bad…DEAD END brings Father Cyrus (FRENCH QUARTER) into his own intense story. With the victim’s brother, maverick architect Marc Girard and medical examiner Reb O’Brien stirring the waters of intrigue and murder…and stirring their own unfinished business. DEAD END is a page-turning race to find and stop a killer, and unearth a secret buried too deep for too long.

a significant expansion of the story originally published as COLD DAY IN JULY

Read the Interview! – New York Times Bestselling Authors Jayne Ann Krentz and Stella Cameron chat about rewriting old books, Stella’s indie career, and pets.

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Harlequin Mira
November 15, 2012
Amazon ASIN: B009NEFGRG
ISBN-13: 978-0778322788

A Bayou Book

A Stella Cameron classic. First time in eBook.

Emma Lachance is taken by surprise when she runs into her friend and high-school crush, Finn Duhon, on a construction site in Pointe Judah, Louisiana. But the last thing she expects to find is the corpse of her friend, a local journalist whose relentlessly scathing articles have enraged every lawmaker and opportunist in town, including the mayor—Emma’s husband.

When more bodies are found, Emma and Finn wonder if the link is Secrets, an eclectic support group for women in which all the murder victims were members. A group that has helped Emma find the strength to divorce her abusive, unfaithful husband.

Could an innocent women’s club drive a furious husband or boyfriend to murder, or are the killings only made to look as if that’s the connection? Emma and Finn intend to find out—before Emma becomes the next body of evidence….

(originally published March 2006 by Harlequin MIRA)

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Harlequin Mira
November 15, 2012
Amazon ASIN: B009NEMGMO
ISBN-13: 9781460308523

A Bayou Book

A Stella Cameron classic. First time in eBook.

‘Tis the season to be wary…

Christmas is coming and all is far from calm in Pointe Judah, Louisiana. Newcomer Christian DeAngelo — Angel to his friends — is at his wit’s end trying to manage Sonny, the hotheaded nineteen-year-old everyone believes is his nephew. In fact, Sonny is the orphaned son of a notorious mob boss, a protected witness…and Angel’s responsibility.

Angel has been commiserating with Eileen Moggeridge, whose lonely son Aaron has latched on to Sonny and gotten into deeper trouble than ever. But nothing could prepare Angel and Eileen for the boys’ latest crisis: as they are horsing around in the swamp one afternoon, a shot rings out. Aaron is hit, but was the bullet meant for Sonny?

Suddenly, goodwill toward men is in short supply and Angel doesn’t know who’s more dangerous: the hoodoo mystic with an eerie hold over the boys, the hit man roaming the bayou or Eileen’s volatile ex-husband, Chuck.

(originally published April 2008 by Thorndike Press)

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Harlequin Mira (reissue)
November 15, 2012
Amazon ASIN: B009NEDW0E
Barnes & Noble ID: 978-1460308554

A Bayou Book

A Stella Cameron classic. First time in eBook.

Roche Savage is a talented psychiatrist with an insatiable — some might say kinky — sex drive. He’s always avoided gentle, reserved women because he knows that if he loses control… Unfortunately, he spies reticent Bleu Labeau, a young widow who has come to Toussaint to start a new school — Bleu, who was taught that sex is dirty, wrong and best performed in the dark.

The school has unleashed another passion, as well. When bodies start turning up, the local sheriff and the townspeople must fend for themselves. Taking the lead, Roche and Bleu race to unravel the mystery. But when it’s revealed that all the victims are former patients of Roche, speculation arises that the people of Toussaint may not be looking for a stranger, but one of their own.

(originally published August 2008 by Avon Books)

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Harlequin Mira
November 15, 2012
Amazon ASIN: B009NEMGT2
ISBN-13: 978-0778323532

A Bayou Book

A Stella Cameron classic. First time in eBook.

The first mistake
Dead: an ordinary man in a pressed suit and tie. Just the latest in a string of losers in the wrong place at the most disastrous time. Not the kind of case to yank New Orleans Homicide Detective Guy Gautreax away from his leave of absence in Toussaint, Louisiana, the only home to offer him a sense of purpose after a tragedy that nearly destroyed his life.

The second mistake
But there’s someone in Toussaint Guy will do anything — even open up a dead cold case — to shelter. Jilly Gable is desperate to find the love of the family who abandoned her as a child. And when the wife of a powerful New Orleans antiques dealer, loan shark — and twisted degenerate — sweeps into town claiming to be her mother, Jilly is all too willing to love and forget.

The final reckoning
Slowly and methodically, an evil envelopes Jilly and Guy must bare the truth to snatch her back from the edge. Connecting the dots between the Big Easy and Toussaint all but cinches his case, but Jilly and Guy are drawn deeper into corruption and they have only each other for protection.

Will that be enough?

(originally published October 2006 by Harlequin MIRA)

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easyePublish.com
powered by Purple Papaya
August 22, 2011
Amazon ASIN: B005IKJB4S
Barnes & Noble ID: 294-0013037397

Bayou Book #1

The shocking death of her employer and patron Errol Petrie, the excesses suggested by the murder scene, and the investigation that is sure to follow are just some of the pieces of Celina Payne’s nightmare. And the last man she trusts is now the only man she needs.

Errol’s business partner and friend Jack Charbonnet, is powerful, enigmatic, and not about to let Celina hide from the truth. Somebody in New Orleans’ French Quarter killed Errol and Celina Payne tops the list of suspects. Jack’s past is as mysterious as the sultry bayou. He is said to be too dangerous to know, and deadly if crossed. Jack holds the key to Celina’s deliverance or her destruction…

This version of FRENCH QUARTER contains bonus excerpts from Stella Cameron’s paranormal, DARKNESS BOUND, an intense story of mystical danger and romance and her eBook re-release, KEY WEST, a steamy and suspenseful romance.

(originally published September 1998 in hardcover by Kensington and June 1999 in mass market paperback by Zebra Books)

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Mira
February 1, 2008
Amazon ASIN: B00134D6VC
ISBN-13: 978-1460308547

A Bayou Book

A Stella Cameron classic. First time in eBook.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR STELLA CAMERON’S STEAMY NEW SUSPENSE CUTS LIKE A KNIFE

“If you’re looking for chilling suspense and red hot romance, look no farther than Stella Cameron!” —Tess Gerritsen

The object of obsessive hatred or an evil killer? Max Savage claims he is a marked man who unwittingly attracts danger to anyone he cares about, but the folks in Toussaint, Louisiana aren’t so sure.

When Annie Duhon meets Dr. Max Savage, she tries to deny their mutual attraction. Scarred both physically and psychologically by a terrifyingly violent incident in her past, she’s a young woman who has struggled to overcome feelings of inadequacy. For years she has avoided all romantic relationships with men. Now, as manager of Pappy’s, the colorful dance hall and eatery in Toussaint, she’s achieved a level of success she never thought possible — but the scars remain. Max has other reasons for keeping his feelings for Annie to himself. For years, he claims, an unknown assailant has hounded him — a lunatic who has viciously killed any woman Max has become involved with. The clever villain has even managed to turn suspicion for his crimes on Max. No charges have ever been proved, but neither has Max ever been able to establish his innocence. Better to deny himself and keep Annie safe than expose her to possible danger.

Now, Max has come to Toussaint to start a new practice far from the rumors and innuendo that have nearly ruined his life. As he works with his brothers to develop his new clinic, Max finds himself growing closer to Annie. Finally, unable to resist his attraction to her, he convinces himself that he can risk a new relationship.

Then another woman, a colleague, goes missing and suspicion again falls on Max. Though he insists that he isn’t the serial killer, that someone else is targeting him, can Annie take the chance that he’s just a marked man?

Finding himself in the same situation — again suspected of a terrible crime — Max realizes that he’ll never beat his tormentor by running away. Rather, he must unmask the killer and prove his innocence before it’s too late — for himself and for Annie.

(originally published November 2006 by Harlequin MIRA)

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Mira
April 1, 2007
ISBN-10: 0778324257
ISBN-13: 978-0778324256

A Bayou Book

Nearly two decades ago a charismatic man called Colin controlled an isolated community hidden in foothills north of San Francisco in what was supposed to be a life free of materialism. Instead, Colin turned The Refuge into a mass grave as he completed a sinister plan to exterminate his followers—all except three children, who slipped through his fingers and escaped with his secrets.

Today, Nick Board and the two beautiful sisters, Sarah and Aurelie, who escaped with him, are living quietly under the radar in the little bayou town of Point Judah, Louisiana. But when the bodies at The Refuge are uncovered, the nightmare of the past forces the friends out into the open. To survive, they must stay one step ahead of the man who has been waiting for them to surface. Driven by greed and anger, he intends them to take his secrets to their graves.

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Mira
November 1, 2004
Amazon ASIN: B000AI4K6C
ISBN-10: 0778320995
ISBN-13: 978-0778320999

A Bayou Book

Death at Mardi Gras

Ellie Byron witnessed the first murder…

Two years ago during Mardi Gras a young woman was brutally killed with an ice pick. Charles Penn, a hard-eyed man with a history of violence, was convicted. But Ellie was never certain of his guilt. Now, while being transported between maximum security prisons, he’s escaped.

Death in Diamonds

Suddenly another woman is found dead, lying cold on a bed of diamonds in a New Orleans jewelry shop. Recognizing that both murders mirror the crimes in bestselling novels by Sonia Elliott and must be connected, the police show up at Ellie’s Toussaint, Louisiana, bookshop. The first murder had frightened Ellie, but their news of a second terrifies her. Afraid for her own safety, she turns to the only person she really trusts: attorney Joe Gable. Joe would give his life to protect Ellie, but neither he nor Ellie knows just how deadly and brilliant an enemy they face—or how near he is.

Death of a Witness

When the third book in Elliott’s mystery series is released, Joe and Ellie realize that time has run out. In this book, the killer eliminates the only threat to his freedom. The last death will be the death of a witness.

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Mira
November 1, 2003
ISBN-10: 1551667452
ISBN-13: 978-1551667454

A Bayou Book

RT TOP PICK! 4½ Stars.
Cameron masterfully takes readers to a truly enticing place with this suspenseful tale. Her vivid storytelling makes each scene come alive and will draw you in from the first page.” —Debbie Richardson, Romantic Times

Just weeks after inheriting Rosebank, a once-magnificent plantation on the banks of Bayou Teche, David Patin died in a mysterious fire that destroyed his popular New Orleans restaurant. In the aftermath, his daughter Vivian and wife Charlotte are shocked to discover that the family finances are as run-down as their only remaining asset—Rosebank.

With her degree in hotel management and her mother’s restaurant expertise, Vivian Patin decides to restore the family fortunes by turning the lushly overgrown and decaying Rosebank into a resort hotel with all the sultry charm of old Louisiana. But Vivian’s dream becomes a nightmare when she finds the family’s lawyer dead on the sprawling grounds of the estate—with a rose on his chest and a brilliant lipstick mark on his cheek. Suddenly Vivian begins to wonder if someone is targeting Rosebank and the Patin family . . . and if her father’s death was, in fact, an accident.

Dissatisfied with the local police investigation, Vivian approaches Spike Devol, deputy sheriff of a nearly town, who has a reputation for being smart, honest and tough. She asks him to help her find the truth. But the instant attraction between them leaves Spike reluctant to get involved–until he discovers that Vivian could be the next victim. When another shocking murder occurs at Rosebank, it’s clear that the stakes have never been higher—and that now it’s up to Spike and Vivian to catch a killer . . . before he kills again.

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