laura caldwell

A Clean Slate chronicles the days of Kelly McGraw, a Chicago woman who suddenly can't remember the last five months of her life, a time when she was dumped by her soon–to–be fiance and laid off by the company she thought would make her partner. Overwhelmed and confused but otherwise feeling wonderful, she begins to realise that she has a clean slate in life. She can do anything she wants, go anywhere she wants, be anything she wants. But what, exactly, does she want?

Follow Kelly on a journey that includes her search to discover what caused her memory loss, an internship with a bad–boy British photographer, a Caribbean photo shoot, her boyfriend's desire to come crawling back and, eventually, a brutal discovery that will cause her to reevaluate both her old and new lives.

2 Greek islands

And one life–changing vacation

Casey Evers realises that the choices she's made in her 26 years aren't exactly making her happy. In fact, her life is so on course – college, law school, boyfriend, job offer – that

It was a crime of passion or so the police say. Valerie Solara has been charged with poisoning her best friend. The prosecution claims she's always been secretly attracted to Amanda's husband...and with Amanda gone, she planned to make her move. Attorney Izzy McNeil left the legal world a year ago, but a friend's request pulls her into the murder trial. Izzy knows how passion can turn your life upside down. She thought she had it once with her ex–fiance, Sam. Now she wonders if that's all she has in common with her criminally gorgeous younger boyfriend, Theo. It's Izzy's job to present the facts that will exonerate her client whether or not she's innocent. But when she suspects Valerie is hiding something, she begins investigating and uncovers a web of secret passions and dark motives, where seemingly innocent relationships can prove poisonous

Chicago attorney Izzy McNeil is ready to take a break from private investigation and focus on her career in criminal law. But as a favour, she agrees to work with Madeline Saga, a beautiful art gallery owner who fears that artwork she has sold is fake. Who in Madeline's tight circle of artists and gallery owners is guilty of the forgeries? When Madeline's life is threatened, Izzy is suddenly asking a more troublesome question: Who wants the gallery owner dead? As the case spins out of control, there's only one person who makes Izzy feel safe – Detective Damon Vaughn. But getting close to her former nemesis is full of surprises. Astonishing truths about the glittering Chicago art scene will introduce Izzy to the deadliest art of deception.…

There is no statute of limitations on murder.

That's all the anonymous letter said, but attorney Hailey Sutter understands the meaning behind the well–chosen words: Someone wants her to investigate what happened to her mother, who died when Hailey was only seven.

The death was ruled accidental, but Hailey begins having flashbacks that tell a different story: a pounding at the door her mother struggling to stand a man with a gold ring that flashed in the night as he held the lifeless body.

Obsessed with uncovering the truth, Hailey can't trust anyone, and especially not her father, whose secrecy both unnerves and protects her. Desperate to remember that fatal night she determines to seek out the brother and sister who left home after their mother's death. But they have disappeared. And it's soon clear to Hailey that the answer is right in front of her. All she has to do is find the courage to look closely

Chicago is the Windy City, and these days the winds of change are whipping Izzy McNeil's life all over the map. A high–profile job on Trial TV lands her in the hot seat. After a shocking end to her engagement, she finds herself juggling not only her ex–fiancee, but a guy she never expected. And a moonlighting undercover gig has her digging deep into worlds she barely knew existed.

But all of this takes a backseat when Izzy's friend winds up brutally murdered. Suddenly, Izzy must balance the demands of a voracious media and the knowledge that she didn't know her friend as well as she thought.

They say bad things happen in threes. When her fiance, Sam, disappears on the same day her mentor and biggest client is killed, hotshot Chicago attorney Izzy McNeil starts counting. But trouble keeps coming. Sam is implicated in the client's death, her apartment is broken into and it's not just the authorities who are following her. Now, to find Sam and uncover her client's murderer, Izzy will have to push past limits she never imagined. Lucky for her she's always thrived under pressure, because her world is falling apart. Fast. And the trail of half truths and lies is red–hot.

Izzy McNeil is hot on the trail of one of Chicago's most notorious gangsters. Not that he realises the crimson–tressed enchantress, a self–proclaimed 'lapsed lawyer,' is moonlighting as a private investigator. But when an unexpected run–in trashes Izzy's cover, she's swept into an evil underworld where she is definitely not safe.

That is until Izzy receives help from an unlikely source: the ultimate guardian angel. And the last person she ever dreamed she'd see again. Now Izzy is racing from Chicago to Rome, all the while battling personal demons, Mafiosi killers and red hot emergency desires

A couple's best friend?

Stylist Jessica Champlin knows it takes more than a darling goldendoodle to save a marriage. She and her ex–husband, investigative journalist Sebastian Hess, had too many irreconcilable differences for even their beloved dog, Baxter, to heal. So they've agreed to joint custody, and life has settled into a prickly normalcy.

But when Baxter heroically rescues a child and the video footage goes viral, Jess  and Sebastian are thrown together again, and her life takes some very unexpected twists. The line of dogwear she creates becomes wildly successful, and suddenly she's in the spotlight with everyone watching–the press, the new guy she's seeing, Sebastian and the past she never imagined she would face again. Soon there's only one person by her side–and it's the person she least expected. She's willing to open up to a new normal…just as long as Baxter approves.

"Laura Caldwell is a force we can't ignore.” –New York Times bestselling author Stella Cameron

By Laura Caldwell

Kate Livingston is blissfully in love with her new husband Michael and living a dream life in an idyllic French–Canadian town.

Yet something is not right.

Kate senses a connection between Michael and her best friend, Liza. As she becomes increasingly suspicious of their evasive behaviour, she begins to doubt her own sanity. Is her husband's restaurant a front for something far more sinister? Is Liza really a pharmaceutical salesperson? Is anyone who they seem?

Desperate for answers, Kate stumbles upon a secret that shatters her world. The death of a Russian journalist becomes the catalyst for a series of international events that will put Kate's life – and the lives of the people she loves – in grave danger. with twists that will leave you breathless, THE GOOD LIAR takes you from the battlefields of the Vietnam war to modern day Chicago, while grappling with that most complex of moral dilemmas: Does the end justify the means?

A long–awaited promotion. Freedom from emotional baggage. A newly–ahem–amorous husband. What's wrong with this picture? Welleverything!

For starters, Billy hasn't actually earned any of it. Instead, like some character in a fairytale, this stuck–in–a–rut publicist has had all her wishes granted overnight, which feels great–at least at first. But soon Billy's brand–new success starts to unravel

Who'd have thought becoming a VP would be so Very Painful? Or that a harmless crush on a co–worker would turn not–so–harmless when he starts crushing back? It'll take a surreal, rollicking, high–stakes journey for Billy to realise what she really wants out of life–before it's too late.

Laura Caldwell

A gripping psychological thriller where innocence is relative, truth a fluid concept...

They called her The Golden Child, and in her naivety Rachel Blakely accepted her destiny: she would be the Golden Wife living a Golden Life. But how could Rachel possibly have suspected that her idyllic existence would become tarnished so very soon?

The first blemish was her husband Nick's infidelity. Then, a business trip to Rome led her to a one–night stand. A passionate encounter with a stranger, it left Rachel with misgivings. But hey, it was payback, the closing of a chapter. No–one other than her girlfriend Kit needed to know. It would be their little secret.

So, back in Chicago, Rachel threw herself into her career, and that of her husband–an elegant and ambitious plastic surgeon who was determined to wine and dine his way into the city's elite. Life was golden once again. They had a future, a grand plan.

But out there, watching her every move, was someone who knew more about payback than Rachel–someone determined she would pay, someone who believed that some people deserved to have it all taken away...

And before long that person would see to it that Rachel's 'little secret' would lead to more secrets until, eventually, the weight of them would have her terrified of her own shadow. Even as Nick continued his relentless climb to the top, piece by piece, Rachel's entire life would unravel.

But once Kyra reluctantly becomes a celebrity by association, there's no turning back. And even though she has all the trappings of success, she can't do the things that make her happy. Like throw a party; drink a glass of wine (or four) in a quiet cafe; confide in her friends.

And when Declan's fame literally endangers Kyra's life, she starts to wonder: Can she survive more than a year of living famously?