Due Dates

She had the perfect life. Then one pregnancy changed everything.

Killeen Ames has always been a winner.

Beautiful, brilliant, athletic, and dating the star quarterback at ASU, she has a full-ride scholarship and a future that looks almost too good to be true.

Until her boyfriend graduates.

He leaves her pregnant, alone, and facing the possibility of losing her scholarship—and even her home. With her carefully planned future collapsing around her, Killeen is forced to confront a choice she never imagined having to make.

Then an unexpected inheritance changes everything.

Suddenly, Killeen has the freedom to start over. She can choose where she lives, what she does with her future, and what happens next with the baby.

But a second chance comes with a price.

There is a man she can't resist. Christopher sees something in Killeen that she has tried desperately to hide from the world. He doesn't know her secrets. He doesn't know what she's running from. And if he discovers the truth, she could lose the one person who makes her believe she might actually have a future worth fighting for.

Then the past catches up with her.

As secrets unravel and danger closes in, Killeen discovers that some choices don't come with a second chance.

Now she must make a decision that could cost her everything—including her life.

The Scandals series begins with five young adults who have spent their lives believing they have no siblings.  They come from very different backgrounds and have little in common – until the death of a famous country musician named Roger Elliott changes all of their lives.

Roger left behind more than music and money.  After his death, the five young people discover that they are his children, half-brothers and half-sisters, raised separately and completely unaware he was their father – and the owner of a private-investigation agency in Austin, Texas.  But there is a condition attached to the inheritance.  The five siblings must agree to work together if they want to keep what their father left them.

For these young adults, the inheritance is far more complicated than receiving money or a business.  They suddenly have todeal with strangers who are their brothers and sisters, a father they didn't know, and a legacy that comes with dangerous enemies.

The series is part romantic suspense, part family drama, and part private-investigator mystery.  The romance in each book is intertwined with the investigation, so the characters aren't simply solving crimes – they're also discovering who they are, learning to trust one another, and confronting the complicated legacy their father left behind.