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 family reconciling their troubled past. A new enemy emerges. Will this unsettling development ruin the O'Connell's hard-earned harmony? In "The Return of the O'Connells," life for the O'Connell family remains uncertain after the upheaval caused by a murder charge. With their father's surprising return from the dead, they come to realize that justice isn't always fair. As they prepare for the arrival of a new grandchild and adjust to their new identity, a lingering sense of trouble looms. A shadowy new enemy threatens the close-knit family, jeopardizing the strong bond between siblings and pushing them to contemplate cutting ties with each other. Will they find a way to overcome the challenges and restore their family unity, or will this new threat tear them apart forever? Dive into this gripping tale of resilience, love, and the unbreakable O'Connell spirit.

The moment Brady told his family he was engaged, his fiancée was nowhere to be found. Six months ago, Brady's true love, Cassie Arnold, walked into his hometown and his life. Everything was perfect, including their plans for their upcoming wedding-but one night, when he came home, Cassie was gone. How could she just vanish? Brady turns to his sheriff brother, Marcus O'Connell, and is stunned by what he discovers. Not only is there no trace of her, but it's as if she never existed. As they dig deeper into the days before Cassie vanished, Brady is stunned to learn of a series of mysterious phone calls, and he realizes his bride-to-be and her seemingly perfect smile were hiding dark secrets, including an unsolved murder at her family's cabin in a hometown he's never heard of. Brady soon suspects that to find Cassie, he may also have to figure out what really happened the night of the murder-and why Cassie kept it all a secret.

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.

A small-town girl who's a bit of a misfit. The perfect guy who's anything but. Will his suspicious behavior reveal things she doesn't want to know? Alison Sweetgrass-O'Connell believes she's forever a misfit and will never fit in until she meets who she believes is the perfect guy. But when a suspicious turn of events has her fearing she's being stalked by someone who knows one of her secrets, something no one should know, Alison soon realizes everyone's seemingly perfect lives have a dark side. After struggling to recover from a teenage crush that dealt her a crippling blow, Alison watches from the sidelines in the small town of Livingston, Montana, which hasn't been friendly to her. Silently, she believes everyone's seemingly perfect lives have a dark side. And soon her beliefs prove true. Alison meets young, attractive med student Bennett Warren, new to Livingston. Suddenly, Bennett is showing up everywhere she is-and then, in her good fortune, he turns out to have rented the apartment right next door. At first, she's convinced it's fate, and maybe there is hope for her, but a suspicious turn of events has her fearing she's being stalked by someone who knows one of her secrets, something no one should know. She tries telling herself she's imagining things, but she soon realizes someone has been inside her apartment, going through her very personal belongings. She finds herself looking over her shoulder, not knowing who she can trust. When she confides in Bennett, she's convinced he thinks she's crazy, too. Then Alison comes across evidence that has her questioning not only her sanity but also the real reason Bennett showed up in Livingston-and even more disturbing is the possibility that him moving right next door to her wasn't entirely coincidental.