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The Unknown Colton/An Innocent Hostage
Series: The Coltons of Alaska
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The Unknown Colton - Lisa Childs Their love is on the line... and so is her life. Returning home after being gravely injured on an oil rig, Troy Amos fears Lakin Colton is pulling away from him. Despite being in love since they were kids, their...
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The Unknown Colton - Lisa Childs
Their love is on the line... and so is her life.
Returning home after being gravely injured on an oil rig, Troy Amos fears Lakin Colton is pulling away from him. Despite being in love since they were kids, their long-distance relationship has taken a toll. Fed up with waiting, Lakin’s pursuing her dream of creating a boutique hotel...without him. But Troy must put aside their personal troubles, because someone is stalking Lakin — and neither of them know if it’s the stranger claiming to be her real father or the serial killer terrorising their Alaskan town...
An Innocent Hostage - Deborah Fletcher Mello
His daughter is being held hostage by a cult... can his ex, and a cult survivor, help?
FBI Agent Marcel Broussard knows recruiting PI Alexis Martin into his undercover cult rescue plan is risky. Their past is complicated, and she herself was the victim of the same cult in her youth — a group that’s currently trafficking babies. But saving his infant daughter depends on convincing the leader they’re married and fully indoctrinated. Soon, neither can deny their lingering feelings...even as their lives hang in the balance. Can Marcel trust the woman whose heart he broke to put aside the past and help him take down the evil in their midst?
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The Unknown Colton/An Innocent Hostage
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Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781038957924
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 12 August 2025
Country: Australia
Imprint: Mills & Boon Romantic Suspense
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 26.0mm
Width: 130.0mm
Height: 200.0mm
Weight: 316g
Pages: 416
About the Author
Ever since Lisa Childs read her first romance novel (a Harlequin of course) at age eleven, all she ever wanted to be was a romance writer. Now an award winning, best-selling author of nearly fifty novels for Harlequin, Lisa is living the dream. Lisa loves to hear from readers who can contact her on Facebook, through her website www.lisachilds.com or snail mail address PO Box 139, Marne, MI 49435. Deborah Fletcher Mello has been writing since forever and can’t imagine herself doing anything else. Her first romance novel, Take Me to Heart, earned her a 2004 Romance Slam Jam nomination for Best New Author, and in 2009, she won an RT Reviewer’s Choice Award for her ninth novel, Tame a Wild Stallion. Born and raised in Connecticut, Deborah now considers home to be wherever the moment moves her.
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