The Discovered Truth Series consists of romantic suspense novels featuring complex, gutsy women and equally complicated, charismatic men who find themselves immersed in dangerous and intriguing modern-day challenges, such as human trafficking, drug and arms smuggling, national security threats and identity theft. When the heroine and hero meet, worlds collide and sparks fly, kindling unforgettable romance and intrigue.
Take a look at the books in the series, including the prequel at the bottom of the page, Discovered Beginnings, which is free to download when you join the Reading Gems weekly newsletter here.
Discovered Secrets (The Discovered Truth Series Book 1)
He refused to face his past…so it came crashing into his present.
Can be read as a standalone. HEA. Second Chance.
While exposing a crack cocaine epidemic, LA Times investigative reporter Jesse McMillan scores the biggest story of his career. An elusive Mexican mafia kingpin agrees to talk—but the price Jesse must pay is greater than he ever imagined.
When Jesse reunites with Clare, a girlfriend from the past he has dreamed about, but never thought he’d see again, the increasingly dangerous investigation puts his budding romance in jeopardy.
The more Jesse digs, the more disturbing and potentially deadly connections emerge between his childhood home in the Canal Zone, Panama and the Mexican mafia.
Can Jesse and Clare survive the deadly secrets he uncovers about their past? Will he live to write the article?
If you like Nora Roberts, this second chance romance with an HEA is for you.
Discovered Memories (The Discovered Truth Series Book 2)
Memories buried so deep…only he can help her unlock them.
Can be read as a standalone. HEA.
Haunted by memories of her Latina mother’s mysterious death when she was just 6, fearless overseas investigative reporter Alexa Kent is up against her toughest case yet. On location in La Paz, Mexico, she uncovers a human sex trafficking ring and races to save the little girls.
Against her better judgment, Alexa turns to “Macaw” Sam Elvia, a Panamanian-Italian hiding out in Mexico. Alexa finds herself drawn to this irresistible bad boy, and Macaw is uncharacteristically driven to help the beautiful foreign correspondent.
The closer they get to saving the girls and exposing the ring leader, the deadlier the chase becomes, and a disturbing link to Alexa’s mother’s premature death slowly emerges.
If you like Nora Roberts, Kendra Elliot, or Mary Burton, this book is for you. Start reading now!
Discovered Indiscretions (The Discovered Truth Series Book 3)
Walls built so high…only he can help her tear them down.
Can be read as a standalone. HEA.
Border patrol agent Tatiana Romero guards the San Diego/Tijuana line as fiercely as her heart. Until one night when she meets a handsome surfer and stumbles into the most dangerous situation of her career.
Brett Johnson was waiting to surf at first light and never expected to come face-to-face with fiery Tatiana. Neither have time to react—they find themselves witnessing an execution of a Mexican Mafioso and the kidnapping of his sultry mistress, Ramona Valdez.
As Tatiana finds herself in the middle of a dangerous kidnapping plot, she wonders if she should open her heart and accept Brett’s help. What he isn’t telling Tatiana is that surfing washes away the pain of deep loss. Helping the beautiful border patrol agent, he’s tempted to risk it all and tell her everything.
If you like Nora Roberts, Kendra Elliot, or Mary Burton, this book is for you. Start reading now!
Discovered Liaisons (The Discovered Truth Series Book 4)
Long-buried feelings…only she can help him face.
Can be read as a standalone. HEA.
The woman who stole Jessica Reynold’s identity should have done her homework. A forensic auditor, Jessica reacts quickly to the security breach, setting out to Puerto Vallarta to stop the charade. Soon after arriving, she witnesses a murder and is relieved yet irritated when gruff Secret Service consultant Spencer Abbott steps in to help her.
Spencer is also annoyed. He took this job at the request of his college buddy, because he thought it’d be a lucrative, slam dunk case. Protect Jessica, while locating the identity thief, and then hop on the first plane to Aspen to hunt down ski bunnies.
One look at Jessica, and Spencer finds himself uncharacteristically concerned about the intellectual beauty’s safety. Even worse, she stirs up in him long-buried feelings that threaten to unhinge him. Spencer knows for the sake of his sanity, he should stay out of Mexico, but before long, he becomes hopelessly ensnared in the tangled web woven by Jessica’s stray social security number.
Discovered Betrayal (The Discovered Truth Series Book 5)
A past mistake she can’t forgive…Or can she?
Can be read as a standalone. HEA. Second Chance.
Tony Molinaro regrets the night it all went wrong with his wife, Joanna. But the former police detective can’t change the past. Holed up in the jungle of Puerto Vallarta working to bring down a dangerous Asian gang counterfeit pharmaceutical ring, he’s trying to put the past behind him.
But then Tony’s home is stormed by the enemy. When he escapes through an underground tunnel system and ends up back in San Diego, he soon finds himself at a crime scene with none other than Joanna, now a special agent with the FBI.
As happens when she’s around Tony, Joanna finds herself swept up in a maelstrom. It soon becomes apparent that Joanna’s life is in danger, so she turns to the man she’s been trying to forget. Will they find out who’s behind the pharmaceutical ring and who’s after Joanna? Can she forgive Tony for the past?
If you like Nora Roberts and Kendra Elliot, this Second Chance book with an HEA is for you!
Discovered Denial (The Discovered Truth Series Book 6)
A past he wanted to deny…until he met her.
Can be read as a standalone. HEA.
With the newspaper industry tanking, Iris Avena wonders about her future as an investigative journalist. In the paper’s back parking lot one night after surviving another round of layoffs, Iris witnesses a drug exchange.
For months, undercover narcotics officer Joey Landau has struggled to figure out how black tar heroin is flooding the streets of Santa Ana, California. When he tracks the source to the newspaper, questions are answered, except for one. Who’s the brown-haired beauty sniffing around?
Iris wonders about Joey, too. The magnetic mystery man appears to be involved in a local Mexican gang. She should stay away, but the two soon find themselves enmeshed in a dangerous Italian Mafia drug cartel cover-up that takes them to Italy. As Joey’s feelings for Iris deepen, he avoids revealing his past mistakes. Yet he knows it’s only a matter of time before she discovers the truth.
Discovered Distractions (The Discovered Truth Series Book 7)
A past mired in deception…until she met him.
Can be read as a standalone. HEA.
When grifter Irena Martin finds her life in danger after pulling a con in Las Vegas, she happens to meet Gordon Bradshaw. To Irena, Gordon appears to be a perfect new mark for funding her escape. Irena doesn’t know that Gordon dismantles companies for a living and immediately sees through Irena’s alias.
At first, Gordon strings Irena along, because she intrigues him. But before long, he finds himself enmeshed in Irena’s troubles with an unknown assailant. Gordon isn’t without problems of his own. When the SEC tries to stop him from boarding a flight home, he and Irena soon find themselves running from the mistakes of their pasts and life-threatening consequences of the present.
Will they learn to trust one another as they untangle who’s hunting them down?
Discovered Deception (The Discovered Truth Series Book 8)
After decades dreaming about each other…they reunite on a fateful moonlit winter’s night right before Christmas.
Can be read as a standalone. HEA. Second Chance.
When Susa York’s cousin, Hermann, leaves her unwittingly holding a bag of stolen rare diamonds and disappears days before Christmas, the shy scientist working on a groundbreaking experiment must face the fact that her cousin’s life is in grave danger.
Soon after Hermann’s disappearance, she reunites with race car driver turned chef Kent Aronson, whom she has dreamed about for two decades. Kent has also fantasized about one day reuniting with Susa since they met at a Georgia lakeside resort twenty years before. As they search for Hermann, Kent and Susa discover a connection to the secret moonlight ceremonies with gems Hermann involved the three of them in at the lake.
Will Susa and Kent find Hermann before it’s too late? Can they discover what gem mayhem comes with the moonlight?
Discovered Lies (The Discovered Truth Series Book 9)
Fate tore them apart…and now danger is bringing them back together.
Can be read as a standalone. HEA. Second Chance.
Working under the radar as a sous chef in Southern California, Ernesto Morales is trying to stay out of trouble and not think about the woman he loved and whose life he saved before going underground.
Once a successful journalist, Gabriella Cortez is hiding out on a palm tree farm in Mexico. She spends her days working on the farm and longing for Ernesto, who she thinks is gone forever at the hands of her lethal drug kingpin uncle, Pedro Perez.
Ernesto will do anything to keep Gabriella safe—including stay away. But when Perez gets out of jail early with his first order of business to hunt down and silence his niece, Ernesto risks his safety to save Gabriella at all costs.
Will Ernesto get to Gabriella before it’s too late. Will they outrun and outwit Perez?
Discovered Lies (The Discovered Truth Series Book 9)
One look at her…and everything changes.
Can be read as a standalone. HEA.
An expert sniper, Estevan Reyes is on a mission in South America. To hunt down and neutralize whoever is kidnapping people for a vicious organ theft ring. But when the usually cool-headed marksman-for-hire meets Loretta King, he’s immediately drawn to the auburn-haired beauty, even though she isn’t part of the plan.
Loretta King took a sabbatical from her job as a bank manager to shake up her life. On a whim, she signs up with Doctors Without Borders in Colombia and is pleasantly surprised when she meets handsome Estevan. Loretta expected to be sitting on the sidelines at a computer, but soon finds herself on a harrowing journey with Estevan through the most dangerous jungle in the world.
Will Loretta and Estevan survive the jungle and stop who is kidnapping people and killing them for their vital organs?
Discovered Redemption (The Discovered Truth Series Book 11)
Is he the hunter….or the hunted?
Can be read as a standalone. HEA.
Cool-headed CIA operative Veronica Valencia looks forward to her next assignment. Locating handsome MI6 agent Robert Harroway and finding out everything there is to know about him. But from the very beginning, things slip sideways. Rather than compromising Harroway, she finds herself at his mercy. To further complicate matters, her father and hero, a high-ranking U.S. government official, is indicted for treason.
Robert Harroway is in hiding in the south of France when his sister goes missing. As he sets out to locate her, he comes face-to-face with Veronica. Intrigued by the CIA agent, but aware of her motives, Robert soon finds himself in a cat and mouse dance with the beautiful operative.
When it becomes apparent that the two have goals in common, they find it necessary to trust one another in a race against time to save those they love.
Discovered Obsession (The Discovered Truth Series Book 12)
She’s captive….and he’s determined to help her escape.
Can be read as a standalone. HEA.
Born into poverty in Budapest, Sasha Farkas came to America to make a better life for herself and her mother back in Hungary. But Sasha finds herself caught in a Russian mafia human trafficking ring that keeps her captive without a passport until she works off her passage to America using her nursing skills.
Los Angeles neurologist Hans Wagner meets Sasha when he’s forced at gunpoint to tend to a patient at the medical center where she works. Hans senses that Sasha is working at the clinic against her will and becomes concerned for the beautiful nurse’s safety. Though Sasha initially resists the handsome doctor’s help, when their lives are threatened, she’s forced to trust him.
Will Sasha and Hans escape the clutches of the Russian trafficking ring and survive?
Discovered Transgressions (The Discovered Truth Series Book 13)
Until they met…they had no idea they were looking for each other.
Can be read as a standalone. HEA.
When a masked, armed man shoves an envelope containing rare orchid photos into Savannah Sanchez’s hands and claims the plants are leading to murder, the FBI agent is skeptical. Until she reaches out to Brent Larson, whose business card was included with the photos.
Brent was living a quiet life as a US Forest Ranger until a colleague mysteriously dies. When Brent meets the beautiful FBI agent and she verifies his coworker’s death was no accident, it soon becomes apparent someone is willing to kill for the horticultural gems.
Savannah is surprised at the sparks of interest she feels when she meets Brent. Five years ago, she lost her husband, another FBI agent, and doubted she’d ever have feelings for another man. But as Brent and Savannah become embroiled in a deadly war over the orchids, they soon find their mutual attraction undeniable.