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Melissa F. Miller

    A former attorney, USA Today bestselling author Melissa F. Miller traded the practice of law for the art of storytelling. Her thrillers, legal and forensic alike, are unified by pulse-pounding plots and smart, unconventional heroes. Miller crafts stories with dynamic action and protagonists who overcome challenges through unique resourcefulness and unexpected experiences. Her writing delivers a compelling blend of suspense and intriguing character-driven narratives.

    Clingmans Dome (An Aroostine Higgins Novel, Band 6)
    Crossfire Creek (An Aroostine Higgins Novel, Band 5)
    Dark Path (A Bodhi King Novel, Band 1)
    Twisted Path (A Bodhi King Novel, Band 4)
    Intentional Acts (Sasha McCandless Legal Thriller, Band 11)
    Inevitable Discovery (Sasha McCandless Legal Thriller, Band 13)
    • 2021

      Get swept up in the dramatic conclusion to Olivia and Trent's story in the third Shenandoah Shadows novella from USA Today bestselling author Melissa F. Miller. Their relationship was forged in fire. Now they'll face the most incendiary danger of all: each other. Olivia was trapped in a loveless marriage to an icy control freak for more years than she cares to remember. She swore that once she was free, she'd never settle for anything less than fierce, true love. She thought she'd found it with Trent; obviously, she was wrong. When Trent closes his eyes at night, all he sees is Olivia's huge blue eyes, full of fire. In his sleep, his hands trace her curves in the air. But every morning he wakes up alone in a cold bed. He doesn't deserve her, he knows that much. And he's determined to leave her in peace. Easier said than done. When they're both called as witnesses in a federal prosecution, they're marked for execution. Forced to stay together in a safe house, they do their best to avoid one another. But when the government safe house goes up in flames, they end up right back where they started: on the run with no one to trust but each other.

      Ablaze
    • 2021

      From USA Today bestselling author Melissa F. Miller comes the first novella in the explosive Shenadoah Shadows series. The match is struck. The fuse is lit. It's a matter of time. CIA operative Olivia Santos lives on a razor's edge. As a NOC-an agent with non-official cover-she's well aware of the risks: if her cover's blown, there's no diplomatic immunity, and a life sentence in a foreign prison is the best-case scenario. The worst-case scenario is too gruesome to mention. But she never imagined her cover would be compromised from the inside. She has no choice but to go on the run-as luck has it-with her musclebound driving instructor. Once upon a time, Trent Mann thrived on danger. Now the former Navy SEAL's haunted by a costly mistake in his past. He focuses on his work for Potomac Private Services to hold his nightmares at bay. But when he's saddled with a vapid trophy wife as a defensive driving student, it doesn't take long for the fiery blonde with the enormous eyes to land them both in deep trouble. Soon Trent and Olivia are on the run from the government, foreign agents, her husband, and an endless list of shadowy enemies. As the danger reaches a boiling point, Olivia and Trent will have to ignore the fire crackling between them to focus on staying alive.

      Burned
    • 2021

      Hidden secrets combust in the second Shenandoah Shadows novella by USA Today bestselling author Melissa F. Miller.Trent Mann stuck his hand into the flame once before. Now he’s determined to protect himself ... and his heart.Trent should have known better. He does know better. But, somehow, still mourning the death of his partner and lover, the former Navy SEAL fell, and fell hard, for a married woman. He and Olivia Santos walked through fire together. But when they came out the other side, he froze. He hasn’t laid eyes on the CIA operative in months, not since they worked together to reveal an explosive political scandal. The heat between them was unmistakable. But the minute the dust settled, he fled like he was being chased by a ghost. Because he was.Olivia has problems of her own. A vengeful ex-husband, livid political enemies, and a meddlesome mother, to name just a few. But she can’t stop thinking about Trent—and the haunted look in his eyes. He blames himself for the jihadist ambush and execution of Carla Ricci. But Olivia has an inkling that there’s more to the story than Trent realizes. And she’s never been one to ignore her hunches.When Trent learns she’s playing with fire, he races to her side. But will he be too late to save her from the forces she’s unleashed?

      Scorched
    • 2021

      Little kids, little problems. Big kids ... federal felony charges? Attorney Sasha McCandless-Connelly has her hands full with her six-year-old twins, but she adores her pack of nieces and nephews. So when sixteen-year-old Colin calls and tearfully announces he's been arrested, she flies into action to protect him. Colin's accused of using the Internet to make threatening statements, a federal felony. Social media posts by Colin threaten his ex-girlfriend's new boyfriend with violence-and worse. Colin swears he didn't make the posts, and Sasha believes him. Then the private messages turn up. As she shines a light on the high school's dark underbelly, the teenagers close rank, and the whispered secrets multiply. But she's confident she can clear Colin's name. Then someone actually tries to make good on the threat to kill the other boy. Colin's taken into custody on an attempted murder charge, and the prosecutor vows to try him as an adult. Someone's trying to frame him. But who? And why? Sasha navigates a web of lies and ever-shifting alliances as she scrambles to save a kid whose diapers she once changed ... even as she realizes she doesn't know him nearly as well as she thought she did. Innocent Mistakes is the fourteenth full-length novel in the USA Today bestselling Sasha McCandless series.

      Innocent Mistakes (Sasha McCandless Legal Thriller, Band 14)
    • 2021

      The Buddhist precept of avihiṃsā or ahimsa calls for the reverence of all living creatures. Forensic pathologist Bodhi King's efforts to walk this path might just get him killed. Bodhi's restorative solo camping trip to the Chesapeake Bay takes a sad turn when he comes across a dead bird on the beach. Then another. And another. When he reports the avian deaths to a ranger, he learns there's been a mass die-off. The ranger enlists Bodhi to autopsy the birds over his objections that he's not a veterinary pathologist. Bodhi discovers that the birds are dying from lead poisoning, an unexpected and puzzling cause of death. As he probes to find the source of the toxin, he stumbles on to a smuggling ring. He ingratiates himself with the smugglers to learn the details of their operation and bring them to justice. Will he succeed or has he flown too close to the sun?Flight Path is the sixth book in the Bodhi King forensic thriller series by USA Today bestselling author Melissa F. Miller.

      Flight Path (A Bodhi King Novel, Band 6)
    • 2020

      When a corpse surfaces during an archeological dig, Bodhi King's in the wrong place at the wrong time.Bodhi tags along as his girlfriend's plus-one at a convention of small-town police chiefs. While Bette is learning the latest in law enforcement advancements, Bodhi plans to meditate in the resort's Japanese garden and hike its verdant trails.Instead, he ends up helping archeology Professor Davina Jones determine how, why, and when someone buried a woman near the cabin of a post-Civil War sharecropper. As the circumstances around the dead woman's demise come to light, the secrets of the past threaten to unleash destruction in the present.Undaunted, Davina and Bodhi work the cold case, even as it heats up to a boiling point. Cold Path is the fifth book in the Bodhi King forensic thriller series by USA Today bestselling author Melissa F. Miller.

      Cold Path (A Bodhi King Novel, Band 5)
    • 2020

      A college kid who's a doppelgänger for a dead man. A pattern and practice of possible prosecutorial misconduct. And a husband and wife team who refuses to look the other way. Sasha and Leo are back. When Sasha spots a young man who looks exactly like her dead brother Patrick, the resemblance is too strong to ignore. She won't rest until she uncovers the truth about him--even if that truth has the power to destroy her family. Meanwhile, she and her law partners have taken on a pro bono case that's getting murkier by the moment. They ask for Leo's help to investigate a series of abuses by the authorities. If they're right about what's happening, exposing it threatens to tear the city apart. In the aftermath of both bombshells, she'll be left to wonder if sometimes ignorance really might be bliss.

      Inevitable Discovery (Sasha McCandless Legal Thriller, Band 13)
    • 2020

      A mass murderer hides somewhere in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. He has a deadly secret. And a bomb. Tracker Aroostine Higgins and Special Agent Patton River Banks have a strained relationship. But, when Aroostine picks up the trail of a fugitive during a visit to Clingmans Dome, she and the National Park Services criminal investigator have no choice but to work together. Alan Steven Reynolds has been on the run for years-ever since he helped engineer one of the country's deadliest bombings. When Roo finds evidence that he's hiding out in the park's 800 square miles of dense forests, she and Patton join forces to find him. They aren't the only ones looking for Reynolds, though. He's been active during his time underground, and a new client has explosive reasons to stop him from talking to the authorities. Roo and Patton are in a race against time and a shadowy enemy. They need to bring Reynolds in before his partner brings him down, along with anyone else who happens to be in the woods. Clingmans Dome is the sixth book in USA Today bestselling author Melissa F. Miller's smart, fast-paced Aroostine Higgins series.

      Clingmans Dome (An Aroostine Higgins Novel, Band 6)
    • 2019

      Wanted Wed or Alive: Thyme's Wedding

      • 262 pages
      • 10 hours of reading

      Youngest Field Sister Thyme is marrying Victor in the sixth book in the rollicking, romantic mystery series by USA Today bestselling author Melissa F. Miller! Thyme has her doubts about having a wedding. She's sure about marrying Victor. But after her two older sisters' weddings, she's not expecting the big day to go smoothly. She also isn't expecting ... this. When Thyme applies for a marriage license, she's denied. It turns out her name has been entered into the Social Security Administration's Death Index, the official master file of dead people. And while dead men tell no tales, dead women can't get married, book flights, or access their bank accounts. Thyme, Sage, and Rosemary set off with their men to find out who really died ... and why she was using Thyme's name. It'll take a lot of luck and loads of ingenuity to clear Thyme's name so she can walk down the aisle and take Victor's. Join the sisters for a madcap wedding adventure with plenty of surprises.

      Wanted Wed or Alive: Thyme's Wedding
    • 2019

      The Field Sisters Return in another rollicking, romantic mystery from USA Today bestseller Melissa F. Miller!When Sage and Roman's wedding is cursed, Sage laughs it off ... until everything starts going wrong in the days leading up to the big event.Rosemary and Thyme come to the rescue. The three sisters (and their better halves) team up to get to the bottom of a longstanding feud between Roman's family and a powerful Gullah/Geechee conjurer and ensure that Sage's happily ever after doesn't become a disaster.

      Wedding Bells and Hoodoo Spells: Sage's Wedding