Romantic Suspense
Danger, secrets, and a love story worth risking everything for. Our romantic suspense shelf blends heart-pounding mystery with slow-burn and sizzling romance: bodyguards, cops, ex-military heroes, and heroines who hold their own. Browse free and discounted ebooks, with new deals added often.
Sometimes doing the right thing… means risking everything.
Excited to receive his very first assignment, Alpha Squad recruit Adam King is ready to jump head-first into the action. With the small town of Sevenoaks experiencing violent attacks on the local population, it’s up to Alph ...
Lovers from Cape May, New Jersey, take a Halloween holiday at a castle in England in Secrets and Ciphers. As their love and trust deepens, they also stumble across and solve a 700 year old mystery! Enjoy this M/M Romance with Morgan Brice’s Erik and Ben from Treasure Trail. (Reads as a standalone ...
Eyes clash, sparks fly, and worlds collide when Anabel meets Luke, but that's the least of her problems. Many strange things are happening in the town of Northfield, Minnesota and Anabel is a magnet for trouble. From her family to her friends, the sassy, blonde bookseller's perfectly uncomplica ...
… The forgotten envelope was like the proverbial can of worms… now that she had opened it, she knew the past would come crawling out, one slimy piece at a time…
Photojournalist Kenzie Reese has spent the past eight years trying to forget her past. Now the Mafia is looking for her f ...
The year is 1919. The location: the small mining town of Floodwood, Ohio. Eryk Laska returns from the war in Europe to find his relationship with Rebecca jeopardized by an unscrupulous rival. Equally disturbing, the town is being terrorized, and Eryk is a suspect in one of the grisly killings.
...
Covering her flu-stricken sister’s shift, Sarah Leech helps at an after-hours jewelry exhibition at the Chicago Art Museum, hoping to network. When a handsome stranger asks her to dance, she agrees. Working around the clock to support her young son and pursue a dream, she figures one waltz gives ...
Diane Thompson wakes up in the backseat of her car, shocked to find she’s acquired a chauffeur. Realizing she’s been inadvertently kidnapped, she swears off tequila—and Chili’s—then dials 9-1-1. But her rescue comes at a cost. Her savior, too-macho-for-words Lt. Cole Anderson, refuses to let Diane o ...
Peace ends in the spirit of joy. Alec was seeking a respite from city life. He thinks he has discovered it on Plymouth Crest, a manor overlooking the forest and a beautiful lake, golden in the sun. But Alec was warned the house is haunted by a murdered pop singer and Hollywood star. Footsteps ...
For Shannon Kelly, coming home to Heart Island's Winslow Cove was bittersweet. After the uncle who had raised her suddenly passed, she inherited the cottage of her childhood. It gave her the opportunity to pick up the pieces of her life and start over on familiar ground. Dr. Kevin Stivers is a li ...
Amnesia stole Tessa's memory--her life! Now her husband has found her, claimed her, rescued her. David’s touch makes Tessa throb. Desire flashes between them like heat lightning on a summer night.
Her body know ...
Solving crimes and chasing bad guys is what Cassie Hart does best ... on paper. Never in her wildest dreams did she expect to do it in reality. Sean Hedley and Neil Armstrong both have ulterior motives for trekking into a rainforest with Cassie. Bullets fly and she is left with partial amnesia, wond ...
Serve his country or rescue his wife?
Federal Air Marshal Reese Donovan has sacrificed everything he loves to keep another 9/11 from occurring again.
After living apart from his wife, Verity, for a year, the last thing he expects is harrowing news that will force hi ...
Danger and desire collide amidst a storm of secrets in Sara Claridge’s romantic suspense set in a French chateau. Tragedy shaped Jean-Luc Delacroix’s life long ago. It’s made the electronics magnate overprotective of the sister he raised and wary of outsiders. But when he rescues a beautiful woma ...
Kansas, 1877. Sadie Sullivan lost everything when a herd of longhorn cattle bound for Dodge City trampled and destroyed her farm. Now she works in Dodge—one of the most wicked and lawless towns in the West—at the Northern Star saloon. But her survival in this new world of sin and violence depends on ...
First Impressions can be deceptive. Aidan Blake needs a plumber. Fast. His boiler is dead, his creaky old house crumbling around him. When his elderly neighbour recommends a local trader, George Mahon, Aidan jumps at the prospect of hot water and warm radiators. But George, short for Georgina, ...
Devoted mother Cassie Carter is hard working and dedicated to running her small farm in Georgia. She tends to her home and sickly son daily while her truck driver husband is away on long hauls across the country. Her life and values take a sharp turn when a handsome and intelligent construction work ...
What happens when a tropical storm and a kidnapping take place on an island days before Christmas?
Tyler Henderson, owner of top-ranked Henderson Security, accepts a job to retrieve information about diamond thefts from a mine in Russia ...
Chef and popular blogger Amanda Johnson hopes publishing her memoir will provide healing and justice. Her estranged husband, contractor and veteran soldier Mark Johnson, tries to talk her out of it, fearing the psychiatrist who seduced her when she was a teen might return to silence her. But Amanda ...
We were friends with benefits, until Paisley slipped up and called me Daddy. Suddenly, all bets were off. Paisley had always put her business first, and I valued our friendship too much to complicate things. But our agreement to keep things casual couldn't prepare us for the rush of feelings that ...
Morgan Whittaker is a shadow of the man he once was. Plagued by personal tragedy, his marriage in shambles, and wounded while serving his last tour of duty he only wants to be left alone. Despite knowing their marriage is over, Cara Whittaker finds it painful and annoying to see what her husband ...
The perfect family? It cracked when Jenna Bergstrom was fourteen and shattered a few years later. Secrets followed by tragedy will do that to you. Now Jenna’s ailing grandfather needs her expertise to restore the family’s legendary artists’ retreat known as Sinner’s Grove. Reluctantly she agrees to ...
Sam Redley Kelleher never gives up. Haunted for over two decades by his still-missing brother’s abduction, the former Navy SEAL faces danger head-on to rescue kidnapped children. So when the woman he loves is viciously taken, he races to track her down. Cassidy Winter can't recover from the gruesome ...
And here is where I fall. Mina Daaé dreams of performing on Broadway. Like her great ancestor, Christine Daaé, who sang at the prestigious Palais Garnier a hundred years before, Mina has the voice of an angel. But after graduating from Conservatoire de Paris, fortune fails her. Until the circus c ...
I was sent to destroy him… but he owns me instead.
Luca Castellano is my mark.
The heir to New Jersey’s most ruthless mafia family.
The man I’m supposed to take down to avenge everything his family’s done.
But one reckless night, I let him have me.
His hands. His mo ...
Ex-Olympic wrestler and reclusive billionaire artist Aristides Stavros has one mission—to rescue his sister, a popular tattoo artist from the old enemy who has kidnapped her. But at every turn, he is confronted by anthropologist Melissa Dermot. Is she just an innocent girl in over her head, or is sh ...
Surprised into hiding in a men's room stall at work, Angie Peterson, owner of the Dunk and Run Coffee Shoppe, overhears two men talking about killing someone named Alastair Honeybun. Picturing a frail, helpless old Englishman, Angie rushes to warn him. There's only one, small problem, Alastair Honey ...
When Avri Lawrence’s high school sweetheart leaves her to enlist in the military, she nurses a broken heart. When Dillon returns four years later, their attraction to each other is stronger than ever, but life’s experiences has changed them. When her life is threatened she’s not su ...
Colorado, 1876. Many years have passed since Bernadette Bellamy fled the Cariboo Gold Rush and her reputation as the sister of a French-Canadian gang of thieves. Armed with only an honest talent for sewing and a willingness to lead a solitary life on the run, she stays one step ahead of everyone see ...
Her routine night turns terrifying. As the storm of the century howls through Destiny, Texas, Dr. Paige Wade remains at her clinic to care for any animals that might need assistance. Her quiet night is disrupted when a man dumps an injured dog on the doorstep just hours before Paige is attacked i ...
A thug pulls a knife on a mean London street. Rookie cop Olivia Johnston-Denny steps up. When irresistible American congressman Jackson T. Paine intervenes, her life is changed for ever. Olivia is a fiery Scot. Jackson’s a cool Oklahoma boy. Feel the heat of the chemical reaction. Tipped as a futu ...
Jes Delaney can't remember anything before she was found at four, barefoot in the headlights of an old Ford. At fifteen, she has adjusted to moving without notice and never fitting in, but everything changes with her adopted mom's hometown. There Jes falls for her mom's nephew, a love she hides when ...
He wants to rule the world. She was born to stop him. Fale secretly began having visions of things before they happen when she turned 18. But when she uses the vision of a deadly encounter to save the life of her hot, biomechanical crush in a fight, she sets into motion the race of their lives. ...
Is that a vintage RV–– painted top to bottom with paw print-shaped polka-dots –– driving into town? You can bet your pupper’s next bubble bath it is! Get ready to plunge into the pages of the third book in the always pet-friendly Rocky Mountain Romances series. When Kathrina gets chased out of her S ...
Where blood flows eternal, only the heart is the masterpiece. Evita is an art curator tasked with assembling a once-in-a-century exhibition at a contemporary art museum in Chicago. Her goal: gather three superstar artists whose fame will shine a light on struggling, lesser-known talent. But her s ...
Hiding in history isn’t the thrill Emily thought it would be—but neither is time travel. When her husband, Dell, was seriously injured in an accident meant to free her from her past, Emily is left to await his recovery alone.
Traversing time without the man of her dreams becomes a nightma ...
Savage by name, Savage by Nature We operate one of the most successful, and brutal, organised crime networks in the world, from our own private island. Here on Caraksay, I am king and my brother rules at my side. Business is business, and we’re both very good at what we do. We surround ourselves ...
When the thief he is chasing becomes more than just a job, will the distraction be his undoing or her death sentence? Claire Mitchell is a master jewel thief, who has a secret. Although the thrill of the heist is exciting there is a reason behind her choice of profession. Family honor above all e ...
Welcome to Valhalla From USA Today Bestseller RJ Gray comes a sizzling military romance sure to leave readers gasping! After being forced into medical retirement, Navy SEAL amputee Hudson “Phantom” McGhee hunts for a way to invest his time and family inheritance to help him feel fulfilled. The ...
A ghost from my past comes out of nowhere with life-changing news: I have a son. A son who desperately needs my help.To protect him and his mother, I bring them to Caraskay, hidden away from the dangers of an increasingly unsafe world. My family and I will do everything we can to help the boy. ...
She'll trust him with her life, but never with her heart. I never believed I'd fall in love, but in one week, Maddie Jenkins proved me wrong. Then she ghosted me, taking my newly found belief in true love with her. And now, she's in trouble. My pretty cyber-security specialist got herself in the ...
He's the monster I prayed I would never meet. Except he turns out to be the stranger who took my virginity And now, the father of my baby. The hard-core tattoos are a new addition to his sun-kissed skin. But the scorching cobalt-blue gaze, and that dirty-talking mouth? Very much the same. His ...
If Cassie were as good at picking men as she was at throwing darts, she wouldn’t be in this mess.
Cassandra Jones attracts trouble . . . or maybe she goes looking for it. But that all changes when she finds herself in over her head.
Now, she’s dodging an ex-boyfriend who refuses t ...
How had she gone so astray? Six months ago she had been a slightly lonely but perfectly respectable young woman; now, mired in scandal, illicitly involved with a married man, she was three sheets to the wind at the wheel of her car, driving away from a criminal with whom she had spent the night drin ...
Hannah Grace is off-limits. Not only is she my new employee, but she is also testing my control. She thinks she can do anything a man can. But, despite her driving me crazy, I want her. She is the definition of trouble- sassy, strong-willed, and dangerously alluring. Hannah is also younge ...
Enjoy this steamy, small-town mystery romance series with a sense of hope, and let the power of love sweep you away.
How many times will you risk your heart for love?
When tragedy tore Jessie’s life apart, Cameron saved her and captured her heart. ...
An unlikely rookie superhero and a dog shifter beer enthusiast team up to stop a nefarious supernatural plot.
Food reviewer Scott Dixon didn’t just lose his job—he started getting premonitions linked to random tastes, a new ability he’s not sure how to man ...
I grew up with the perfect loving, kind family. My every wish was full filled. I married the most wonderful man, always proud, hard-working and in love with the family we created; two beautiful boys and a daughter, Erica. Life couldn’t be better until the secrets of my past surfaced. From my earlies ...
An alpha male determined to protect what’s his. Jackson Archer built his cyber security empire with a mix of street smarts and hard-won hacking skills. The former Navy SEAL isn’t one to fall for a damsel in distress. Usually, he assigns cases to his trusted operatives, but the moment Mira Swanson ...
Prequel - Beachcomber Investigations Series
Ex-special ops legend Dane Blaise takes on a new partner for a kidnapping case, gorgeous Scotland Yard detective Shana George. Mistake? Maybe. The fireworks between them could get them killed before they have a chance to find the missing ...
Despite an illustrious career as a top hostage negotiator, Joe Matarazzo is haunted by the past. It was a year ago that three innocent lives were lost under his watch. But Joe isn't the only one who remembers that day. When Joe's exes begin to fall victim to a violent stalker, Joe seeks the help of ...
Which is harder, trusting someone with your heart or your life?
Morgan Kennedy is a woman with responsibilities, a lot of them. Since her father’s heart attack she’s taken over the management of the family’s jewelry store and upcoming annual charitable fundraise ...
Land of the Free Trilogy:
Book #1 - Irresistible Freedom
Book #2 - Unforgettable Freedom
Book #3 - Ultimate Freedom
Book #4 - Land of the Free collection
LAND OF THE FREE
Escape… a new beginning.
That’s wha ...
After staring down the wrong end of a gun, not once, but twice, all Patty Harmon had wanted was to have a little fun. She’d spent most her life taking care of everyone else but herself. And while she had a plan for ...
He's undercover. She's caught in the middle. Can they escape from all who wish them harm?
Recovering from injuries inflicted by a Cartel, Logan Phelps volunteers for an undercover assignment. What should have been a simple information gathering mission turns into a ...
A man trained for precision. A woman who shatters his aim. Kelly “Breakneck” Gatlin and his SEAL Team are tasked with a joint operation with the DEA and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police to take down a deadly cartel. Their liaison is Sergeant Blair Brown, is sharp, relentless, and a little blinds ...
The voices in her head have decided to kill her. Most people joke about hearing voices in their heads. For Chloe Jeffries, they're real. And as the creative force behind one of the most popular shows on television, she has used the constant flood of voices in her mind to her advantage: fuel for ente ...
Mary Elizabeth has agreed to become a slave to Master Devlin but as time passes, she starts to question her decision. She expected things to get better as time went by, but his treatment of her becomes worse. He loans her out to his friends without her consent, and when she questions him about it, s ...
You cannot escape your fate, especially when dragons are involved. Dragon Storm – .99 Dragon Roar - 1.99 Dragon Fury – 2.99 All three books for the price of one!
RWA Molly Contest Finalist Olivia Breedlove’s father couldn’t control her while he was alive, but continues to try even after his death. Thaddeus’ Will stipulates that in order to inherit her portion of his estate, Olivia must marry a respectable man of means within six months of his death. There ...
A Mafia conspiracy. A female undercover cop. A honed and fit suspect - international boxer and billionaire playboy, Freddie La Salle. Interpol cop, Anna Leyton, spirals down into a hopeless vortex of sexual and emotional turmoil as she fights to keep her professional cool in her latest assignme ...
"Like Grisham and Clancy... this title shines among the genre." -The US Review of Books Espionage. Assassins. Middle East. Homeland meets Syriana in the near future. When the CIA intercepts intelligence on a terrorist attack in Kuwait, Petra Shirazi, a former field agent, comes face to face with ...
The boss is obsessed.
The bully is back.
And Fenella is done playing nice.
Her career is in pieces, her privacy stolen, and the man who once pulled her strings now makes no secret of his craving for her. But the real danger comes from her past, the high school bully tied to a ...
The witch is not done with Lizzie yet... Turmoil is never-ending for Lizzie. She has every reason to celebrate after completing the seemingly impossible task the witch has put upon her, but her cunning adversary, Nia, who’s a bit of a psycho, continues to cause her angst. It all comes to a head duri ...
She thought their marriage would last forever. That she could count on him to be her partner. She was wrong. Six months ago, Stacey kicked her lying husband out of their bed. They made promises to each other. Promises that didn’t include lonely nights and lonelier days missing the man who slept ...
No Way. I can’t be falling for him. No freaking way...,. Alexandria I’ve been the acting chief at this station ever since they let Larry go. There’s no reason why they shouldn't make my position official. I’m a seasoned firefighter and I’m the best man for the job. Besi ...
She's not looking for Mr. Forever - just Mr. Right Now. It all changes when she takes her city's star football player home, and he WANTS more. So much more . . .
Leslie McClunis didn't give up ballet for firefighting to be told she'd get ahead if she acted more 'feminine.' As far as sh ...
Immerse yourself in a Sinner’s Empire dark mafia romance trilogy from USA Today Bestselling Author Nikita Slater. Loyalty. Pride. Family. These are the only values that matter. Jozef is both nephew and enforcer to the Koba crime family. He is ruthless, brutal and completely loyal to his fam ...
Nothing’s going right in Melody Carter’s life right now. She’s broke, unemployed, and living in the shadow of her successful fashion-model sister Sahara. But that ain’t even the half of Melody’s problems, the biggest one is Keith Taylor, Sahara’s new boyfriend who’s slowly worming his way into the s ...
In the wake of heartbreak, loss, and a long separation, Lizzie Legard and Damen Wisler are about to face a dangerous and captivating reunion. Five years have passed since they last saw each other, their lives forever changed by tragedy. After battling through the physical and emotional scars of a ...
Yet the past still haunts Hope Island Securities member Eli Warren every night. His last mission as an Army Green Beret will be forever branded on his heart. Most nights, he can still see her face. The woman who was more than his asset. She called herself Sashi. She’d provided critical Intel for his ...
Kasey Phillips thinks her biggest problem is deciding whether to photograph Cody Tuggle’s honky-tonkin’ tour, until an accident on Route 58 claims the life of her husband. In a desperate race against time as a hurricane threatens the eastern seaboard, they search for her three-year-old son who is ...
Danger. Corruption. Passion. She’s digging deep. He’s hiding the truth.
When preservationist Samantha Jordan’s team discovers a woman’s remains at a controversial San Antonio construction site, she won’t let handsome police detective Nick Ballard sto ...
Damien The toughest part about trying to keep my hands off Alejandra is knowing that I’m doing business with her father, the head of the local cartel. Both of our families would kill me if they knew what was going on between us. She’s so intoxicating though, I just can’t get her out of my mind. I ke ...
Enjoy this steamy romantic suspense series from USA TODAY Bestselling romance author Rene Webb! A Kidnapped College Student While studying abroad, I was drugged, kidnapped, and imprisoned . . . in a Hong Kong brothel. After several failed attempts to escape, I know my time is running out. My inno ...
She’s a traumatized survivor. He’s a closed-off veteran. Can two lost souls find safe harbor together? Hold Me Forever is the captivating first book in the Hartley Brothers romantic suspense series. If you like brave women, softhearted hunks, and the healing power of destiny, then you’ll adore Aless ...
I’ve lived the last two years waiting for the worst.
I never expected help to come from a rancher who acts like he couldn’t care less.
I’m out of gas, out of luck, and on the edge of a storm when he finds me—grumpy, gorgeous, and way too good at fi ...
Liv Scirocco has screwed up again. She has a long road of bad decisions in her rearview. With nowhere else to go, she moves back to her hometown. Her sisters are tired of picking up her pieces and tell her this is her last chance. She’s determined to create a better life, but the only man she’s ever ...
A murdered artist. A rookie author in over her head. And a detective who could save her life, or break her heart.
Lori Sykes thought moving to Badger’s Drift, Maine, would give her the perfect chance to finish her first mystery novel. But when she discovers the body of a local painter, he ...
Cassidy Kincaide and her boyfriend Kell Winston go on vacation to Caynham Castle, where they're looking forward to sightseeing, enjoying the Midsummer festival, and relaxing in the English countryside. When the theft of a magical heirloom endangers a centuries-old pact with the Fae, Cassidy and Kell ...
A hot tea or a glass of wine in your left hand, the book in your right, the cat or the dog by your side, you will be transported into Jasmine's world. Side by side you will catch her boyfriend dealing shady business out of the apartment they share in Seattle. You accompany her, when she grabs her ...
Did someone say dance like no one is watching? Guess that’s the only way Tyler CAN dance now. Slip into the pages of the fun and feisty second book in the Rocky Mountain Romances series. Tyler Carter has everything she dreams of—she’s the starring ballerina in a Cirque-du-Soleil type show, a splashy ...
Monster: Hidden away from society by his criminal father, there lives a man who has never entered the outside world. Now, having taken over his father’s business, he has all the money and power he could dream of, yet still he refuses to let himself be viewed by the rest of society. Lily: Traum ...
A dark mafia romance novel by USA Today Bestselling Author, Nikita Slater. She despised them all, yet she was wife to one. Drifting in a world of glittering diamonds, mansions, lunches and designer clothes, Casey Hernandez could happily disappear, except the life of the mafia wife demanded she ...
One sexy billionaire... One Fiery temptress, defying his every move... Boardroom battles are just foreplay leading to forbidden nights of ecstasy. Can she he resist Noah's allure, or will the boardroom become their playground of passions? Just as I was ready to claim my CEO throne, along comes Noah, ...
The only thing more exciting than a famous local author staying at the bed and breakfast is a real murder mystery. Mystery novelist and member of the Mystery Writer’s Murder Club, Jessica Murdoch, heads off for a staycation at a bed and breakfast in her hometown of Badger’s Drift, Maine for some re ...
Jack
If I fail, millions will die at the hands of Big Oil.
Ever since I announced my $50 million-dollar anti-fracking campaign, they're aiming to shut me up for good. But I won't relent.
And now that I'm being targeted by a rogue sniper, this pretty little brunette d ...
Ava West is desperate to get out. But just when the resilient survivor thinks she’s found safety from her violent fiancé, her need to seek medical care for her seven-month-old son exposes them both to harm. And after strangers snatch her child and leave her distraught, her heart leaps when she reuni ...
What happens when the past threatens the future Miranda and Jason fought for? Miranda thought she finally had it all -- love and a family. But when a rich and successful ex-lover from her past surfaces, Jason's insecurities flare up. Unable to bear watching Miranda give up her dream because of finan ...
The killer knows they’re coming for him. Can Seth and Evan save the next victim and shut down the dark witch, even when they’re cursed?
Seth Tanner and Evan Malone head to Savannah, GA, to hunt the seventh of the coven members responsible for the death of Seth’s brother and so many other ...
Weird things are happening again in Cape May and the ghosts of old mobsters never rest easy. Erik Mitchell gets a strange delivery of antique poker chips with odd markings tied to a casino that burned a century ago. Ben Nolan finds a dead guy in one of his rental units—turns out the guy's been mi ...
Jump into a world where small-town secrets, heart-stopping suspense, and unexpected romance collide! The Windsor Series Box Set 1 packs a punch with four stories that'll keep you guessing. Imagine stumbling upon a serial killer who's eerily interested in you, or finding a dead body while house-sitti ...
Savannah Santos is on the run. She fled everything she ever knew to follow her career dreams. But she wasn’t expecting her new roommate to be her dream guy. For Cooper Quin, being any girl’s dream man is nothing new, but he’s determined to stay exactly that: a dream. His focus is o ...
Enjoy this steamy small-town romantic suspense series, where family bonds run deep, and let the power of love sweep you away.
Do you hear the bells ring? They’re ringing for us.
Single mother Rachel Adams loves teaching her music classes and singing at Siren’s ...
From USA Today best-selling author, Autumn Archer, comes an Age Gap, Forced Proximity Dark Mafia Romance where an indecent proposal leads to blood tainted love.
Once upon a time he set me free. This time it won't be that simple.
I can't stop wondering w ...
Unforgettable characters, epic love story, page-turning mystery. When her husband is killed in a hit-and-run bicycling accident, it takes all of Michele’s strength not to burrow into their bed for the rest of her life. But she promised herself she’d do the Kona Ironman Triathlon in Adrian’s honor, a ...
In a world ruled by greed, betrayal, and secrets, Giselle Whitfield has always danced on the razor’s edge between elegance and destruction. It all started with Ms. Greta Mitchell, her jealous-hearted mother, who abandoned her at a young age only to barge back in and unleash hell. To survive, Gise ...
With the aid of an inexplicable super-power, he's determined to conquer any hurdles to gain back his freedom. Except one hot mess of an obstacle he can't get around. An attack leaves thousands of Americans dead or with diminished brain function. As the government seizes control, order is restored bu ...
Faith McKenzie is fleeing from a past she doesn’t remember. Everything about the attack that almost claimed her life including the identity of the person responsible is a blank. With each new move, Faith makes, her stalker manages to find her. Now, Faith is positive he’s tracked her down to the sma ...
