Books by Kelly Abell:

An innocent trip to an online store to buy her three year old son a Christmas gift turns into a living nightmare for Cheryl Rubio. Mark, her poker obsessed husband has just cleaned out their entire savings account for a high stakes poker tournament three weeks before Christmas. On top of that he's decided to leave her and the son he never wanted because Cheryl "doesn't get him". Devastated, scared and confused Cheryl must find a way to keep her struggling law practice alive and provide some kind of Christmas for Robbie.

In Book Two of the In Lies Series Jack and Caroline are faced with insurmountable odds and we get to meet sexy Bomb Squad Commander Dane Kendrick.  Dane will become embroiled in Jack?s tumultuous life and meet his beautiful sister, FBI Agent, Lucy Chavez.  Although they meet under less than ideal circumstances the sparks fly leading to a passion that explodes off the page, literally.  Read on to see what?s in store in Captured In Lies?       Just before Thanksgiving and after a passionate honeymoon in the Caribbean, Jack and Caroline Weaver return home to D.C. to start their new life together.  Approaching their house Jack?s cell phone rings and the violent explosion that follows will change Jack?s and Caroline?s lives forever.  The Emperor is back and he wants revenge.     Jack, reeling from what has just happened to the love of his life, is anxiously awaiting word from the doctor when he gets another call.  The relentless Emperor now has Lucy, Jack?s sister, strapped to a bomb, somewhere in the city and in order to find her he must play a deadly game of scavenger hunt.  The stakes are upped even higher when The Emperor places another bomb in Boston knowing that the sexy ex-SEAL with the maverick reputation can?t be two places at once.  How can Jack find his sister, keep his wife safe, and stop the destruction of American lives?     Jack will be forced to trust a former military comrade, hunky Bomb Squad Commander, Dane ?Boomer? Kendrick.   Dane must go after Lucy while Jack heads to Boston.  When Dane locates Lucy and arrives on the scene there is an instant attraction, despite the fact she is set to explode in less than 3 minutes.  Can Dane and Lucy defuse the bomb and save Lucy?s life?  What about defusing the passion that begins to grow between them?  Will Jack be able to stop the deaths of innocent Americans without losing those most precious to him?  It?s hard to know who to trust if you?re Captured in Lies.

Destiny Dove is the only survivor of a tragic car crash that killed her parents and baby brother. A teen uprooted from her home, she is forced to live with her eccentric grandmother whom Destiny has been taught her whole life to fear. She must start her life over living with an old woman who is not only a stranger to her, but just strange. All Destiny wants is to fit in with kids like her and begin to pull her life back together.           But Destiny soon discovers she is not like the other teens at all. She has developed the family gift of being able to see and talk to ghosts and her estranged grandmother will be the one person who can help her understand what the fates have dealt her?a haunted destiny. Being the town freak does not put Destiny high on the potential friends list, but Jake Turner sees something in her that the other teens from Blake High don?t. Destiny is actually able to put her unique talent to use and help Jake communicate with his recently deceased sister forming a bond between them that no one else can share or know about. In an extraordinary twist of events, Jake?s girlfriend Amy receives some furniture with some frightening ghostly spirits attached to it, and Jake turns to Destiny for help.           Now Destiny must struggle with a force she is unprepared to handle. When a party at Amy?s becomes a showdown between good and evil will Destiny have what it takes to save Amy and the others? Will the help of her grandmother, two resident ghosts and a surprise visitor be enough to rid the Morgan family of the evil possessing them and allow Destiny to finally gain the acceptance she so desperately wants? Or will the ancient evil destroy them all?

Jack Weaver can?t seem to escape a life of lies. First a Seal, then as an undercover CIA operative working in the largest drug cartel in Columbia Jack?s entire existence is based on being someone other than who he truly is. While serving as Chief Security Officer to one of the most dangerous men on earth Jack uncovers a plot to assassinate the President-Elect on Inauguration Day. Suddenly things become infinitely worse when his ex-SEAL commander who is now a Deputy Director with the CIA shows up and blows his cover. Forced to kill him, Jack is now on the run not only for his life but he?s the only one who knows about the assassination attempt, other than a mysterious man who calls himself the Emperor and seems to be calling all the shots.           Moreover, Jack is being haunted by terrifying dreams from his past that seem to be connected to this entire conspiracy involving his old SEAL team. Desperate for answers Jack breaks into the home of Vice-President elect Warren Walters, another SEAL teammate, where he is discovered by Warren?s abused wife Caroline. He forces Caroline to go with him with the intentions of letting her go once he gets the information he needs. Overcoming her fear of Jack, Caroline refuses to leave, seeing this as an opportunity to escape her own life of lies. This starts a chain reaction of feelings neither of them is prepared for. The Emperor has seriously underestimated Jack?s determination to find answers and is losing control over all the puppets he has in play. As Jack and Caroline come closer and closer to the answers and each other will they be able to save the President-elect?s life as well as their own, or will a blast from Jack?s past destroy them all?