North Carolina

Judge Deborah Knott and Deputy Dwight Bryant have only been married a few months, and already they have a hard row to hoe.  Dwight's ex-wife was murdered, and now they have full custody of his son, Cal, who is having to adjust to his new life with them.  Their marriage and Deborah's huge extended family form the backdrop for the investigation of two deaths:  one an obvious, grisly murder, the other looking like a copycat killing.  As Dwight investigates and Deborah hears cases, their jobs overlap, while real life intrudes on their work and a killer may go free...

He can handle just about anything, except this...

Jax Graham is a member of an elite military team, but when it comes to taking care of his four-year-old son after his ex-wife dies, he's completely clueless.

When a hurricane blows through Glory, North Carolina, someone ends up very dead, buried under the fallen church steeple.  But as people try to blame Ann Trask, the church secretary, for calling him out to fix the generator, Storm Channel field producer Sean Miller suspects there's more at work here than just a bad wind.  Can Sean persuade Ann to find out the truth, even as their mutual atraction grows?

North Carolina and archeological mystery

Third in the Harper Connelly Mysteries. Not as good as the first two in this series.

From the inside cover:
“Hired to find a boy gone missing in Doraville, North Carolina, Harper Connelly and her stepbrother Tolliver head there—only to discover that the boy was only one of several who had disappeared over the previous five years. All of them teenagers. All unlikely runaways.

Cathy Bissette is a plain girl who is home in small town Swan Quarter for a summer vacation away from her editting job at a publisher in NYC.  She's got a manuscript by Teak Helm to read while she's there and she may be taking over as Teak's editor later in the summer.  But her peaceful idyll is ruined when Jared Parsons

This book worked despite the odds. Why despite the odds? Because the H has just suffered a coronary and is looking for a stress-free place to relax when he decides to buy...on sight...a log house owned by a 7 mo pregnant woman who makes him uncomfortable. Not only does he decide to buy it, but he actually moves in and starts taking care of her. If he's so worried about having more heart problems, then the last place he should be is with a woman who could go into labor at any time. (It's possible - I have 4 kids and never made it to the 9th month with any of them!)