O'Connells

NY Times & USA Today bestselling author Lorhainne Eckhart brings you The Fallen O'Connell, "Now over eighteen years later, the truth about Raymond O'Connell has been revealed, and it has come at a cost. That cost is measured by the loss of life, the loss of innocence and the loss of what could have been." "Hold on to your seats! This book is filled with so many twists, turns and surprising revelations that you won't be able to put it down until you have read the last page." (Rebmay) Thirty-five years ago, Raymond O'Connell didn't exist, at least not until the moment Iris walked into his life. His very existence had been a secret, a carefully cultivated lie, except for the fact that he loved Iris and the six children he'd never planned on having. He'd become careless, living a life that belonged to someone else. Becoming Raymond O'Connell had made him forget who he really was, and when he fell in love with a fantasy he knew he couldn't have, he put his family in danger. Ultimately, he found himself covering up a murder to protect the woman he loved, and that act forced him to walk away and return to the shadows of a secret life that he couldn't find his way out of. When he returns to Livingston with a son in tow, what he doesn't expect is to be dragged from the shadows to protect a family that suddenly has a target on their backs. Soon, Raymond finds himself becoming part of a bigger, deadlier plot-one that could leave someone in his family, someone he's sworn to stay away from, dead. The choice he'll have to make to protect the O'Connells could come at a heartbreaking cost. Can Raymond choose between the son he has now and the family he walked away from?

A newly-released prisoner who wants her daughter back. An adopted little girl suddenly in jeopardy. Will the battle over her fate be more costly than anyone can imagine? She gave her daughter up. Now she wants her back. What do you do when a woman shows up on your doorstep, suddenly wanting her daughter back? Never in a million years did Marcus and Charlotte O'Connell expect to be faced with this kind of dilemma, but when Reine Colbert is released from prison, she shows up at their house, demanding they return her daughter, Eva. Worse is the fact that Sheriff Marcus never received a courtesy call from the prison or parole board to warn him that Reine was about to be released. As far as he and Charlotte were concerned, they had followed Reine's wishes, adopting her daughter so she could serve her time, knowing Eva was loved and in a good family. But now she's changed her mind, and she believes Marcus is somehow responsible for her lost years with her daughter. Though Marcus and his siblings step in to talk it through with Reine, who has been given a raw deal, little Eva is the one caught in the middle of the tug of war. Will the O'Connells be able to reason with a woman who has no reason to trust anyone? Find out in a novel about secrets, hurts, lies, and the true of meaning of family.