Kansas City Confessions

Keeping secrets close...and an enemy closer... His protection instincts on high alert, KCPD detective Trent Dixon knew something was wrong with Katie Rinaldi. The special investigator had obviously uncovered a dangerous piece of evidence while looking into a cold case. So dangerous, in fact, that the single mother's life was now in jeopardy. But as much as Trent told himself he was keeping tabs on Katie and her young son as part of his job, he couldn't ignore the very real feelings he had for her. Still, as a professional, he was bound to the badge and would give Katie all the security she deserved. And not give in to the attraction he was having trouble containing...

Finding the truth could be deadly… Kansas City Secrets Six years ago, Rosie March’s fiancé was murdered. Now someone is stalking her, intent on stopping her memories of the murder from being revealed. Detective Max Krolikowski, of the city’s cold case squad, must protect his key witness at any cost. And keep himself from falling for a woman who could be innocent…or a killer waiting to strike again. Kansas City Confessions When Katie Rinaldi uncovers a dangerous piece of evidence while looking into a cold case, her life is suddenly in danger. KCPD detective Trent Dixon is determined to protect her and her young son. But it’s complicated. She broke his heart once before, and the feelings he still has for her are a distraction neither of them can afford.

From a USA Today–bestselling author, a policewoman finds a sexy partner to help her recover from a career-changing injury—and hunt down a murderer. After a gunshot rips streetwise police officer Gina Galvan from the line of duty, all she wants is to return to the front line and stop a shooter. But good guy physical therapist Mike Cutler won’t back down from a challenge, or his blazing attraction to Gina. Without a badge or a gun, Mike is ready to face anyone—including the killer that still lurks—to prove he’s every inch a hero.

Confessions explores a woman’s pursuit of the truth about her broken and dysfunctional family. Very early in her childhood, Debbie had discovered that her life was being controlled by some old and very dark secrets. Then one day her father calls and summons her to come back to Missouri to discuss “some family business.” She arrives to find he is in a hospice, dying, and he wants to make a deathbed confession. Upon hearing her father’s story, Debbie believes her father’s actions were justifiable. Then she learns he confessed it once before—to her mother forty years ago. What was in that confession that destroyed her mother? Every time her father visited Debbie, her mother would go into hysterics, sometimes for weeks. Her mother and father had kept secret the story of their romance and his confession from Debbie for decades. Now she had her father’s story. Would her mother be able to tell her side of the story? Confessions as a novel addresses the relationship between a sin, a confession, and forgiveness. Which is worse, the original sin if kept a secret or the confession of the sin to the recipient? We are taught to confess, to seek forgiveness from the person we have sinned against. But is that always the right choice? What if the confession does not generate the forgiveness we desire? What if the confession destroys that person, ruins their life and the lives of others? What if the confession was given for that purpose, not seeking forgiveness but seeking revenge? Confessions have consequences that can’t always be controlled.

Shurden presents a heritage of denominational controversy and shows how this history continues to shape and affect Baptists today, in this second edition.