Julia Derek: 46 books

LOVE IS BEAUTIFUL. UNTIL YOU REALIZE SOMETHING IS WRONG WITH YOUR LOVER.... Sparks fly when struggling actress Nina Tyler meets lawyer Dylan Whitman. Their chemistry is so intense Nina even rethinks her staunch position on relationships being a waste of time. But there's something about Dylan...

Rose Nichols’s husband Mark is shot to death while walking the dog one night. When Rose learns what’s happened, she’s shocked but not sad. Mark used to beat her so much that she started drinking as a coping mechanism for their fractured marriage. Detectives Cooper and White are put on the case....

When Sam visits his new girlfriend, Yasmine, he discovers that she has hanged herself. Devastated, he gets drunk instead of calling the authorities. Detectives Cooper and White soon determine that foul play was involved in the death, and everything points to Sam having killed Yasmine. Sam knows he’s...

Celeste Jones has a lot on her plate---not only is she the new owner of Six-Packs, a floundering gym, but she’s also promised her new pal Lennie the ghost to help him solve crimes so he can move on. Lennie used to be a bad, bad guy while alive, and he’s not setting foot in Heaven unless he redeems...

Two years ago, FBI Agent Gabi Longoria thwarted a conspiracy from taking over the world and filling it with meta-humans—genetically engineered human beings who are better-looking, healthier, more athletic and smarter than regular people.   When America finds out that not only has the...

In her first trimester, Special Agent Gabi Longoria gets a disturbing email. It informs her that the baby she's carrying has serious genetic defects. Basically, it will become a bloodthirsty monster, a human killing machine. She and her fiancé/partner, Special Agent Ian Armory, try to reach the...

A gang of bank robbers known as the Jokers has the authorities scratching their heads. The FBI believes the bank robbers consist of meta-humans—genetically engineered humans with superior abilities—because not only are they extremely elusive, but one of them outran a speeding car. Having experience...

When the FBI assigns the Crucifix Killer case to Special Agent Gabi Longoria and her partner, she's confident. They'll surely catch the sadistic killer within days. After all, they just took down a worldwide conspiracy that has forever changed the earth's population. But the case is not as straightforward...

A HAPPY MARRIAGE. TERRIBLE SECRETS. Happily married Lexi Woods thought losing a child would be the worst thing that could ever happen to her. She was wrong. It turns out that life has more ugly surprises for her. When she is finally through the heavy depression of losing her newborn, she finds...

Having solved a second murder with Lennie the ghost in a matter of days, Celeste Jones decides she needs a timeout or she’ll have a nervous breakdown. For now, she’ll focus all her attention on getting Six-Packs, her gym, off the ground and getting back in shape after eating far too many donuts....

SHE HAD THE PERFECT LIFE. NOW SHE CAN TRUST NO ONE, LEAST OF ALL HER OWN MOTHER. Reality TV star Eden Elk is shocked to learn she was born a man. Well, that's what the National Enquirer claims. Eden herself has never had reason to suspect she was anything but a woman. It turns out her own mother...

After a drunken feast in the year 1067, Leif Blackhair’s life takes a terrible turn: He’s accused of raping and strangling a Jarlabanke daughter, member of one of Sweden’s most powerful Viking clans. And he doesn’t remember a thing.  Only when he’s exiled and his family’s farm is...

DUPLICITY---THE STAND-ALONE PREQUEL TO THE "GIRL UNDERCOVER" SERIAL. Annika Hansson's real name is Gabi Longoria and she isn't really a trainer from Sweden but a rookie cop from L.A. She's working at a Manhattan health club to help the feds nail an elusive, covert drug lord. In order to do so, she must...

Celeste Jones has always dreamed of owning a gym. So, when the opportunity arises to buy Six-Packs for peanuts, she's thrilled. The fact that the previous owner claims the place is haunted doesn't bother her one bit--she doesn't believe in ghosts. With all her experience, she'll revive floundering...