The Killings Begin

Gia Delgado doesn’t ask permission to live her unconventional life.

At eighteen, she fled her small farming village and her father's threat of an arranged marriage for Madrid. Working as a maid left nothing for the life she wanted—just a grimy apartment in a crime-ridden neighborhood—until an unusual arrangement with three men offered her a way out. A stunning penthouse at The Peacock. A future on her own terms. The first big decision she's ever made for herself.

It's unconventional. It's liberating. Gia becomes the keeper of their secrets—secrets even they don't share with each other. And no one is allowed to fall in love.

Meanwhile, you know who the killer is.

Across the Atlantic, Judge Tracey Lauch—respected, philanthropic, deadly—is fleeing to Europe. A newspaper article has exposed his four murders and branded him the Parking Lot Strangler. He retires, hoping a change of scenery will finally quiet the urge he doesn't understand and can't stop.

For five years, Gia has shared dreams, inside jokes, and fierce loyalty with the three men. She’s had time to figure out what she actually wants. Now she’s ready to see the world. She takes a job with the Spectrum River Cruise Line to work with her best friend Mari. They spend their days off in hidden corners of Europe, relax in intimate cafés filled with the aroma of fresh coffee, and explore shops they find along sun-drenched cobblestone streets.

But one of the Spectrum passengers carries a darkness that could destroy everything.

Two storylines. One inevitable collision. Someone won't make it home.

Perfect for readers drawn to non-traditional love stories, found family—and the lurking feeling that while the characters laugh and have fun, something fatal lies ahead.

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Isabelle Ronaldo's passion has been to become a riverboat captain.

No desk. No office. Just the world, tracing the shores of intimate rivers, meeting passengers immersed in art, architecture, and history.

She worked harder than any man to prove she could do it, until she became Spectrum's first female riverboat captain. But her personal life has been less successful: wrong men, worse timing.

Frank is Isabelle's best friend from childhood. He has always looked like he has it all together, but he doesn't. His relationship with his father has never been easy, and he's looking for escape—something that makes him feel alive. So he recruits Lydia into a dangerous game: high-stakes theft.

It's reckless. It's thrilling. And when Isabelle discovers what he's been doing, their innocent camaraderie fades.

While their long-term friendship unravels, the killer is still traveling.

Tracey Lauch is traveling again in Europe as a sophisticated tourist—quiet, unremarkable, blending seamlessly into the background. And on a Spectrum river cruise, at a stop in Strasbourg, he's drawn to the gothic artistry of the famous Cathédrale Notre-Dame. But so is a woman who makes him realize nothing has changed.

Captain Ronaldo is commanding a different Spectrum vessel that also stops in Strasbourg. Two of her passengers are Frank and Lydia—and Isabelle tries to avoid them while maintaining her professional demeanor, until she realizes some bonds don't break cleanly. They fray, slowly, until something snaps.

Five lives converge—in ways none of them can predict.

One rainy night. One person dies. And one person gets away.

For readers who love complicated friendships, impossible choices—and stories where one moment changes everything.

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For the first time in his life, Tracey Lauch belongs somewhere.

He and his wife Charlotte—who knows nothing of what he really is—have built a life in Italy with a tight circle of friends. A group they met on a Spectrum river cruise while pulling away from the Eiffel Tower.

After their trip they invite one another into their homes. They share a murder mystery dinner in Milan, gather for a winter solstice party and dance around a bonfire on the beach. Their group of six—Tracey and Charlotte, Remy and her cousin Frannie, Fong and Lee—trust each other completely.

It's everything Tracey has wanted: connection, normalcy, a world where no one suspects the truth.

But Remy Martin, one of his new friends, bears scars.

Since college, she has lived by a set of relationship rules. Badly hurt, she's created a careful existence designed to keep her heart protected. She only sleeps with married men—no emotional entanglements, no messy consequences.

Until she breaks her biggest rule and takes things too far. Remy knows she's crossed a line she swore she never would—and now she's in too deep to walk away cleanly.

In the meantime, Tracey's darkness won’t stay contained. His murders are getting sloppy. More personal. The version of himself he's built—husband, friend, philanthropist—is cracking.

Close friends. One affair. One killer they never suspect.

Ideal for readers who are hungry for morally complex characters—and the creeping dread that danger has been sitting across the dinner table all along.

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Penelope Huber is formidable and the women’s only hope.

Divorced for many years and focused on her career, Penelope is now retired as a detective from the Raleigh Police Department. She channels her relentless energy into marathon training as she prepares for her first triathlon. She's never been good at sitting still.

She's also not good at letting go. Even though she knows it belongs to the department, she keeps working on the cold case—the Parking Lot Strangler case. On her own time, she spends hours studying the evidence. The dead women deserved better than to be forgotten, and all along, she's been determined to be their voice, their advocate. She can't give up on them.

To some, it's dedication. To others, obsession. To Penelope? It's just who she is.

Now, Tracey Lauch is returning to Raleigh one last time.

He has everything—Charlotte, his beautiful wife who adores him, and baby Sarah, recently christened, surrounded by those who love her. Finally, it's time to sell his Raleigh house and hand off his philanthropic endeavors before their permanent move to Sicily. A meticulously constructed life where he believes his past is buried deep enough to stay hidden.

But when Penelope is invited to Tracey's house, everything changes. A connection surfaces that redefines her entire investigation.

Unexpected evidence. A killer’s day of reckoning. And betrayal that cuts deep. 

For readers who live for the moment it all shatters—and stories where the truth leaves no one unscathed.

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