Books with author Jacqueline Simpson

She loved him, then hated him, but did she kill him?Forensic psychology student Kadee Carlisle never believed in love at first sight. Beautiful and bold, with a flair for neurotic intellectualizing and internal banter, she thought she was destined to spend her life alone. A cynic at heart, her belief: “Romantic love is a delusion.” An attractive stranger, a chance encounter…One morning, in line at a coffee shop, she meets tall, handsome, elusive Noah Donovan. The moment changes everything. Passion turns to obsession…A relationship burgeons. Taken in by Noah’s allure, his masterful listening, his attentiveness, Kadee lets her guard down and is swept away by their romance. But some subtle indications suggest that Noah is hiding something. Torn between her love for him and her growing sense that he isn’t being honest, Kadee finds herself in the throes of obsession, unraveling rapidly. She thinks of killing him. But does she? Nothing is quite as it seems…Five women, one murder, a web of secrets, lies and betrayals, a quest for answers, a search for the truth, the intertwining of love and hate, and the larger looming question: What leads someone to commit murder? A piercing look at the dark side of love and the contradictory nature of human emotion. The multiple point of view narration offers a wavy ride, with a harrowing glimpse into the lies we tell ourselves, in this erotic thriller exploring passion gone terribly wrong.

After a bad breakup, I packed up my life and moved to Miami to study for my doctorate in psychology. I made one promise to myself: Do not get romantically involved while I was in school. I needed to heal.And then Will Easton came into my life. He was warm and sweet and intelligent. And he got me. What I didn’t know was that Will was running from a tragedy of his own. When you try to escape your past without confronting your emotions, you repeat those same past patterns over and over. And that’s just what happened to Will and me, along with a few others who got swept up into the storm that was our relationship. Then came the awful secret. The one that changed everything. Sometimes the most painful relationships are the ones that help us grow into who we are and to find the love we had been searching for all along.Which begs the question: Can we choose who we love?

Were the Vikings only seafaring marauders who built fine ships, looted Christian settlements, and recorded their barbaric adventures in epic poetry; or were they also a civilized race who flourished on both land and sea? By relating archaeological discoveries to the wealth of early literature, Jacqueline Simpson has produced a vivid picture of everyday life in Viking times. She depicts their life on the land, their ships and sea expeditions, their trade, weapons and warriors. She also describes in detail their families and social life, games, arts and poetry, and their religion and funeral rites.

The second year of graduate school started out as a new beginning. I felt stronger. My heart had stitched itself up. I had finally healed enough on the inside to let love flourish once again. But an ever-present ex-boyfriend made the unresolved emotions between us impossible to ignore.Then new complications emerged: Said ex-boyfriend began dating Cecilia, who just happened to be the ex-girlfriend of my new love interest. I should have hated her. I wanted to hate her. But, I have to admit, I liked her.As the semester progressed, the tangled web between us deepened in ways I never could have anticipated, and it spread to those closest to us. We had the same classes, the same friends, the same interests. Then, of course, there were all the secrets, some of which could ruin the love I believed I wanted, I deserved.Once again, I got pulled into the dizzying vortex of all that remained unfinished. And doubt crept in. Had I really healed enough to make myself vulnerable again? Had I made the right choices?But the big question is: Can we ever really leave past relationships behind?This is the second book in the Where You'll Land series, but can be read as a stand-alone.

A gruesome murder…Radio psychologist Jacob Temple is found dead on the floor of his den. A gaping wound in his neck, lacerations crisscrossing his chest, a fork bored into each eye. No break-in. No evidence. Bouncing back and forth in time, the story of Jacob Temple’s life unfolds as told by the people closest to him, particularly his ex-girlfriend Jane Light, who has been stalking Jacob for nineteen years, ever since he left her. Still reeling from her boyfriend Noah’s murder, Kadee Carlisle works alongside Detectives Poole and Gibbs to unravel the facts behind Jacob Temple’s life and death. As time ticks away, Kadee struggles to reconcile her conflicted feelings about her own past—and present—and their ominous parallels to the Temple case.When the circle of trust is broken... As the hunt for the killer ensues, a tragic love story unfolds, along with a plan for vengeance and an unflinching look into the mind of a murderer. But will they ever figure out who killed Jacob Temple? Piercing the thorny line between facts and deception, passion and obsession, this torrid thriller illustrates one important thing: Sometimes the closer you are to the truth, the harder it is to see.

She loved him, then hated him, but did she kill him? Forensic psychology student Kadee Carlisle never believed in love at first sight. Beautiful and bold, with a flair for neurotic intellectualizing and internal banter, she thought she was destined to spend her life alone. A cynic at heart, her belief: “Romantic love is a delusion.” An attractive stranger, a chance encounter… One morning, in line at a coffee shop, she meets tall, handsome, elusive Noah Donovan. The moment changes everything. Passion turns to obsession… A relationship burgeons. Taken in by Noah’s allure, his masterful listening, his attentiveness, Kadee lets her guard down and is swept away by their romance. But some subtle indications suggest that Noah is hiding something. Torn between her love for him and her growing sense that he isn’t being honest, Kadee finds herself in the throes of obsession, unraveling rapidly. She thinks of killing him. But does she? Nothing is quite as it seems… Five women, one murder, a web of secrets, lies and betrayals, a quest for answers, a search for the truth, the intertwining of love and hate, and the larger looming question: What leads someone to commit murder? A piercing look at the dark side of love and the contradictory nature of human emotion. The multiple point of view narration offers a wavy ride, with a harrowing glimpse into the lies we tell ourselves, in this erotic thriller exploring passion gone terribly wrong.

A gruesome murder… Radio psychologist Jacob Temple is found dead on the floor of his den. A gaping wound in his neck, lacerations crisscrossing his chest, a fork bored into each eye. No break-in. No evidence. Bouncing back and forth in time, the story of Jacob Temple’s life unfolds as told by the people closest to him, particularly his ex-girlfriend Jane Light, who has been stalking Jacob for nineteen years, ever since he left her. Still reeling from her boyfriend Noah’s murder, Kadee Carlisle works alongside Detectives Poole and Gibbs to unravel the facts behind Jacob Temple’s life and death. As time ticks away, Kadee struggles to reconcile her conflicted feelings about her own past—and present—and their ominous parallels to the Temple case. When the circle of trust is broken... As the hunt for the killer ensues, a tragic love story unfolds, along with a plan for vengeance and an unflinching look into the mind of a murderer. But will they ever figure out who killed Jacob Temple? Piercing the thorny line between facts and deception, passion and obsession, this torrid thriller illustrates one important thing: Sometimes the closer you are to the truth, the harder it is to see.

Samantha Corley was not exactly a model mother to her only child, 13 year-old Jasmine. Besides the issue of addiction, the widow of an Iraq war veteran was tormented by the thought that God had forgotten her. She had given her life over to drugs and alcohol as well as to the attentions of Jake, her ex-con boyfriend who was plagued by his own demons of the past. Jasmine’s so-called life was mostly spent hiding from Samantha’s drug-induced rampages and Jake’s evil influence in their tiny trailer home in rural Louisiana. But on one fateful day, Jasmine was determined to destroy her mother’s drug hoard, angering Jake in the process. The ensuing violent rage resulted in a severe head injury for Jasmine. Samantha and Jake were jailed, as the hospital staff worked to save the girl’s life. Jasmine remained in a coma with little hope of recovery as far as the medical team could tell. But God had a different plan for the girl and her mother. At the same time as Samantha was experiencing supernatural angelic visitation in jail, Jasmine was experiencing the atmosphere of heaven, an idyllic realm of peace and love where she met Jesus as well as her deceased father and grandmother. Her amazing adventures in heaven were to be short-lived because Jesus asked her if she would be willing to returning to her body to bear witness on the earth to life after death.During her time in the comatose state, Jasmine’s doctor, Patrick D’Souza and his trauma nurse wife, Sarah, were fervently praying for her supernatural healing and recovery. Their prayers were answered as Jasmine awoke, only to face the fact that her mother was not with her and that Jasmine’s body and mind would need intense retraining after the injury. Dr. D’Souza and Sarah decided to become Jasmine’s foster family as she recovered, and in the process, they soon discovered that she had inexplicable knowledge and memories.For Samantha, life moved beyond the jail to a halfway house environment thanks to her own God-encounter while incarcerated. She begged heaven to spare her daughter’s life, promising in return to dedicate her own life to Jesus. In so doing, she experienced supernatural deliverance from her addictions and began to seek God, desperately trying to get back to some semblance of a normal life.But unknown to Samantha, the court had allowed Jake to obtain early release from jail. Fueled with cruel thoughts of revenge on her, it wasn’t long before Jake was hot on Samantha’s trail as she moved to her new apartment. Jake wasn’t going to rest until his former girlfriend was back in his power.Thanks to the efforts of Samantha's caseworker and the D’Souzas, Jasmine and her birth mother were able to be reunited during supervised visitation, and the two were looking forward to comparing notes on their separate but profound supernatural experiences. But Jake’s reappearance at Samantha’s apartment interrupted her plans, and she found herself on a deadly path, which, without Heaven's intervention, would end in disaster for mother and daughter.