Romantic suspense Books

Jane Austin-college professor and romance novelist-has her first book reviewed by D. Fitzgerald Williams, a professor at nearby Derby College. His condescending tone and dismissive critique irk her, but it's Fitz's support of a nearby construction...

Anne Jamieson and the rest of the Snoop Group are once again called into action when Fran Harrison, the former President of their writers' group, dies in front of dozens of witnesses during a luncheon. The death was no accident. Someone knew about the...

Several decades ago, a former C.I.A. Agent, Mel Greenstone convinced high ranking U.S. officials to draft orphans and young criminals to become trained assassins. That worked until Agent Laura Black's team fought back and destroyed them. It has been one...

Spending her summer break from college in the small town of Wellington is not Grace Adams' first choice for excitement. But when her friend falls for the program's recruiter she decides to tag along. The moment Wellington's gates lock behind them, she...

After losing her sister to a serial killer years earlier, scientist Mia Lindgren survives by focusing on the most dangerous viruses known to man. She's become adept at shutting herself off from human contact-until her lab partner drowns under suspicious...

Marnie Edwards thinks she has her life together. Then State Trooper Scott Randall starts asking mysterious questions at the same time she learns her mother has been hospitalized with cancer. When a bedside confession reveals she was adopted, suddenly...

Luca Wolff and Joy Sullivan are competing for guardianship of their estranged, teenage nephew, Eric, after his parents are killed in a plane crash. Evidence shows the crash wasn't an accident. Neither was a recent explosion that destroyed Luca's house...

Arabella Holmes-yes, daughter of that Holmes-wants to return to her job as a purveyor of abnormal science. She has temporarily been demoted to a botanist, until her love interest, Henry Watson-yes, that Watson-can help her get her less-than-professional...

Country singer superstar, Teddie Donavan, returns to her hometown for a sabbatical due to exhaustion, and to come to terms with her parents' deaths-a tragedy that has haunted her for seventeen years. She'll also have to face the boyfriend who broke her...

Megan Holloway is startled when Professor Jordan Kaine informs her she must travel with him to Cairo to collaborate on a proposed contract for the Egyptian Agricultural Ministry. Sole provider for her ill mother, Megan can't leave her side. But Megan's...

In Manhattan for a special art course, small-town teacher Lauren Howell meets her roommate's gorgeous brother and sparks fly. Stiffed by an ex-fiancé and wary of another relationship, she establishes a rule-friends and only friends. City-bred and...

With Connor Flynn's promises of a future together and an antique pendant clasped close to her heart, Kaitlyn Donovan left Ireland eight years ago. But they lost touch and her dreams of a lasting love died. Now that she's back, Kaitlyn won't risk her...

After a successful mission, Laura Black and her colleagues finally feel free to live the "normal lives" they have desired for so long. But, after only eight months of an ordinary existence, team members discover they are still in danger. Apparently,...

Top notch CFO Sydney Raines is devastated when her coveted job working for a high profile conglomerate is yanked out from under her. Determined to restore her mangled reputation, she finds her second chance when the owner of an upscale art gallery hires...

Hey, y'all-I'm Tucker Frye, pub mistress and transplanted Southerner, minding my bar and my business here in Iowa. Then my nephew, an undercover animal rights activist, was murdered right in my back yard. I've got the evidence that might prove who killed...

When this killer is playing, every move could be your last. The Chess Master found something special in Violent Crimes Detective Jesse Reid...a worthy adversary. Never before has the game been so exciting. Never before have the stakes been so high. As...

Once you're in a prison gang, you're in it for life. That's what Mason Harding thought until the boss accepted his resignation. After the State releases him on parole, a sexy divorcée behind the wheel of a car almost ends his life quicker than a shank...

Corinne Ritter's life changes drastically after she loses her husband twice in the same night. Several months later, the Texas native is en route to a family gathering early on Christmas Eve when an emergency shopping trip lands her in the middle of a...

Reeling from the deaths of her ex-husband and their nine-year-old daughter, Meg Evans suspects foul play in the mysterious auto accident. Clues lead her to Gemini Island, where she goes undercover cataloging Northwest Indian artifacts while conducting...

Teegan Smith, a bona fide genius, never intended to hide her identity, but Budd Richardson's assumptions about women got a bit under her skin. From the beginning, the attraction between them is strong. Teegan and Budd feel it...and Budd's stalker sees it...

FBI Agent Matthew Montgomery is handed a serial killer case on the same day his worthless cousin files suit for half of the sizable Montgomery Trust. His brothers, fellow retired SEALs, dig in to help find the proof needed to thwart Matt's cousin...

Milo Everhart is waiting out the rain in a pub when she is captivated by the handsome man next to her. Blocking the road to romance are two mysterious corpses who turn up in the tower of her Torpedo Factory Art Center. As if that weren't enough, a second...

In both the best and worst first day at work ever, docent Claire Wilding meets the man of her dreams, but her carefully rehearsed guided tour of the George Washington National Masonic Memorial collapses when she discovers a body and is drawn into a dark...

Financial analyst Sky Chapman must free her sister of a murder charge. Ex-SEAL Dirk Browning uses his skills as a private investigator and a military dog trainer to search for a way to keep Sky safe while they look for the killer and the missing millions...

An Internal Affairs Investigator was murdered and his brother, Donovan Goldwyn, was framed. Now Donovan is desperate to prove his innocence. And the one person who can do that is the woman who saved him from a deadly hurricane-Beth Kennedy. From the...

Bohemian artist Talia Bonilla discovers a body while picking tomatoes for salsa. Ex fiancée Luis Arroyo, Denton County's D.A., is up to his eyebrows in missing debutantes. Wanting to win back his heart, Talia decides to secretly solve this case. To do it...

After catching her fiancé and a bridesmaid in a tete-a-crotch, Jessie Maynard vowed to renounce men forever. Or at least until Christmas. She figured she'd hole up for the holiday in her late Aunt Blanche's sleepy southern town. But the residents of...

Tucking a weapon into a holster is part of getting dressed for Detective Maylee Morgan of the St. Louis Police. Her new assignment is the case of an unidentified body, and she soon discovers her new neighbor is more than a potential jogging partner...

Devices. Jolie's got tons of them. Coping mechanisms that ensure she's not falling victim to the mental illness that's taken hold of both her brother and father. Helping the homeless gives Jolie much needed consistency. But when a stranger struts into...

Callie Bryant, a young woman with partial amnesia, returns to her childhood home with hopes of restoring the memories that are slowly coming back. She may have been a witness to her mother's murder twenty-five years before. Instead of being welcomed,...

Beth and Donovan have come a long way from Hurricane Sabrina and the San Francisco earthquake. Now they are approaching their wedding day and anxiously waiting to promise each other a lifetime of love. The journey down the aisle isn't smooth, though, as...

All Holly wants for Christmas is to prove to her parents that her pricey college education was worth it. When she lands a reporting job in tiny Blue Lake, where the chill winds blow off Lake Huron all winter long, and a guest dies at a dinner party, she...

Raised in a dysfunctional family, Cassandra Devlyn Ferguson has tried to leave the past behind and carve out a new life with her husband, former Black Ops specialist, Sean Ferguson. Her family's shady business dealings never involved her, and she intends...

A seemingly perfect life goes awry for Mallory Larsen after discovering her fiancé's affair with her maid of honor. Escaping to her childhood home she hopes to hide from her humiliation and heal. Her quirky family and an understanding neighbor provide...

Caleb McCrae is a powerful man with a broken soul. In six years, Leah was the only person to help him forget the painful memories, but only for one night. Now she seems to have disappeared. A mysterious letter arrives, and she's in trouble...in more ways...

Ex-Navy SEALs Cooper and Dirk Browning's PI firm has been hired to find out who kidnapped their teammate's ten-year-old daughter, Christie. They are stretched thin investigating two frustrating cases, in addition to handling their flourishing military...

After her fiancé is killed, Laura Friday takes an investigative reporting assignment in El Paso. She has no intention of reviving a friendship with the sheriff there, Mitch Carter, a former deputy in her hometown of Cole Harbor, Maine. That plan is nixed...

Janet Ennis tragically died five years ago in what the police labeled an accidental fire. But Janet's mother, Nora, believes it to be murder and arson. And she's hoping ex-cop Michael McLaren can prove it quickly, for she's losing her memory to dementia...

Finding the bludgeoned body of bestselling author Isadora Powell sends Anne Jamieson and her four remaining critique partners into a panic. All have secrets and motives for seeing the woman dead. And the victim, a genius at research, knew what lay hidden...

Pursuit and passion, bullets and blowguns, arousing art and sublime satisfaction-welcome to Peru. When her husband walks out leaving their final divorce papers unsigned, bilingual editor Jill Flanders hops on a plane to Peru to find him. She's waited a...

Breaking the rules is never without consequence.And that's what Dominic Reed was to me. A devastating consequence.It seemed harmless when we met. He needed a nanny, and I needed a job. Badly. I was the only thing keeping food on the table and lights on...

Twenty-two year old Sienna Reynolds juggles with grief, self-discovery, and love. Seeing love as a want, she finds herself in a delicate forbidden romance with a professor who has trouble with love himself. Secrets about his past are revealed and the...

Sienna and Ethan's love life seemed perfectly fine on the surface. Settling into a new situation, the two experience what it truly means to be in love with someone. Sienna continues to manifest her dreams into reality. Being older and wiser, drama...

Notice Me. Leonie Krause has obsessions. First, it was with words, then facts, and then the most passionate subject came to light. With absolute certainty, she knew that she loved Dawson Arzola since she learned how to speak. Three years older...

Do you think a person deserves forgiveness? Before lighting your torches or throwing sharp stones,  You should know my side of the story. They called me evil, ruthless, sometimes the sparkled definition of a sociopath. I was, in fact,...

Nine curses. Nine weeks to live. Joel Hatcher has inherited more than a family legacy. It's a time bomb that's ticking down to the inevitable: his own death. But the curse won't die with him. Unless he can find a way to break the cycle, his younger...

I never imagined a game of seduction would lead to this. The unexpected arrival of this stealth child has shattered my carefully constructed world. Now, with David returning from his tour, we must continue the charade that has protected our family's...