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1) Play dirty
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After five long years in federal prison, Griff Burkett is a free man. But the disgraced Cowboys quarterback can never return to life as he knew it before he was caught cheating. In a place where football is practically a religion, Griff committed a cardinal sin, and no one is forgiving. Foster Speakman, owner and CEO of SunSouth Airlines, and his wife, Laura, are a golden couple. Successful and wealthy, they lived a charmed life before fate cruelly...
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A poor-boy college football hero turned successful partner at a prominent Dallas firm, who long ago checked his conscience at the door, catches a case that forces him to choose between his enviable lifestyle and doing the right thing in this masterful debut legal thriller. Scott Fenney is assigned to provide pro bono defense for the woman accused of murdering the son of a presidential hopeful. As the case unfolds, pressure is exerted on Scott to deter...
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For Rebecca Macklin, an ordinary summer brings about an extraordinary change of heart when she discovers that her aging father has been wandering the Dallas streets alone, and his wife, Hanna Beth, has landed in a nursing home. Now Rebecca must put aside old resentments and return to her childhood home. In this moving story of separation and forgiveness, two women will unravel the betrayals of the past and discover the true meaning of family.
4) Nine lives
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Cat's a bounty hunter with a score to settle-and she's about to meet her match. A gripping series kick-off from the New York Times–bestselling author.
Bounty hunter Cat Dupree first cheated death when she was thirteen. The second time left her orphaned and scarred. And the only thing that will diminish her lust for revenge is finding the man who left her for dead as she watched him murder her father. Every job she takes is an opportunity to invade...
6) Love me back
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Single mother Marie hides her private struggles behind her professionalism as a waitress at an upscale Dallas steak house before succumbing to self-destructive habits.
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In the second installment of Susan McBride's Debutante Dropout mystery series, Dallas heiress Andrea Kendricks must expose a high-society assassin ... before she becomes the killer's next target.
Website designer and high-society rebel Andrea Kendricks would never have gotten involved with ego-in-pumps lifestyle hostess Marilee Mabry if it weren't for the underhanded machinations of Andy's upper-crust mama. But thanks to Mother Cissy, Andy's
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Blue sky hills ; 3
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J. Norman Alvord's daughter hires teenager Epiphany Salerno to stay with him in the afternoons. Widowed and suffering from heart trouble, Norman wants to be left alone. But in Epie's presence, Norman discovers a mystery--memories of another life and a woman who saved him.
10) Sarah's child
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A tragic accident took everything that mattered to Rome Matthews -- his wife, Diane, and their two little boys. And it robbed Sarah Harper of her best friend. In the two years since the tragedy, Sarah has wanted to reach out to Rome, but she knew she needed to stay away, guarding the secret she had kept from him and Diane all those years -- that she was in love with her best friend's husband.
But now Rome needs her. And though another
...11) Killings
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Dutton
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[1993]
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English
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Dallas attorney Bino Phillips must try to prove his client is innocent of drug trafficing, but the witness he needs is the prisoner of a serial killer who has his eye on Bino's secretary.
12) Doin' dirty
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St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2000.
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English
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A year ago, Dallas Homicide Detective Jeb Quinlin went through an alcohol rehab program that was rather more intense than usual, as he double-timed his treatment with tracking a serial killer on an AA agenda. Now, sober and taking things one day at a time on the job and cautiously but successfully involved with Madeline Meggers, a woman he met in the Jitter Joint, he's fragile but surviving.
Quinlin and his partner Paul McCarren's latest case involves...
13) The dime
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2017.
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"Betty Rhyzyk, Brooklyn's toughest female police detective, relocates to rough-and-tumble Dallas, Texas, where she must contend with a group of unruly subordinates, a persistent stalker, a formidable criminal organization, and an unsupportive girlfriend." --
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St. Martin's Griffin
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2002.
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In her mind's eyes, she could see Wes, tall and elegant in his tailored tuxedo with a patterned vest, black tie, and snow white pocket square. Her red Valentino slip gown highlighted her honeyed complexion and chocolate brown eyes. The gown also picked up the red in Wes's vest and the red in the rose in his lapel.
They were the perfect couple and it was show time. And, she wanted to scream.
Madison Reed, popular talk show host and America's darling...
15) Beyond summer
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2010.
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When soon-to-be college student Tam Lambert learns that her family's finances are collapsing, the privileged life she's known is forever changed. Tam and her family must move to a tiny house owned by her father's company, Householders, in the Dallas neighborhood of Blue Sky Hill. Shasta Reid-Williams and her husband have just purchased their first home in Blue Sky Hill, and it's the perfect place to raise her children. Even better is having a great...
20) Constant risk
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"Deputy Tanner Dempsey and Bree Daniels are tasked with unraveling a deadly mystery in Dallas--one that involves transmitting live feeds of victims trapped in tanks as they fill with water. Bree's computer genius is their only hope at solving the crime. Knowing the darkness in Bree's past, Tanner is determined to make sure she comes out of this emotionally unscathed. Especially once they both become a killer's next target ..."--
