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Romantic Thrillers

Hot Ice by Cherry Adair

Even in a San Cristobal jail cell, jewel-thief Taylor Kincaid maintains the upper hand when Huntington St. John, operative for the antiterrorist organization T-FLAC, comes to ask for her help.

 

Ellie's romance with a N.Y. cop-turned-California winery owner is derailed by the reappearance of her deranged, estranged brother—heading straight from the sanitarium is to see his unsuspecting sister.

 

Hot Target by Suzanne Brockmann

When her latest feature film makes her the target of angry extremist groups, producer Jane Chadwick is thrown together with enigmatic Cosmo Richter, hired to protect her from would-be assassins.

 

The Alibi by Sandra Brown

Charleston district attorney hopeful Hammond Cross may have to kiss the election goodbye when his alibi for the night his opponent was murdered is that he was in the arms of a suspected murderess.

 

The Maze by Catherine Coulter

After the “String Killer kills her sister” Lacey Sherlock joins the FBI and meets handsome computer expert Dillon Savich, using their combined resources to lure her sister's killer out of hiding.

 

The Daughter by Jasmine Cresswell

On the lam after 6 years in prison, and trying to prove her innocence in her mother's murder, Maggie Slade teams up with a former detective to find the real killer.

 

Every Breath She Takes by Suzanne Forster

L.A. detective Rio Walker believes a Supreme Court justice's beautiful daughter is the avenging angel who has been turning the tables on some of the city's most dangerous sexual predators.
 

Silent Run by Barbara Freethy

Sarah Tucker awakes from a car accident unable to remember if the man yelling at her to return their daughter is the man she married or a complete stranger.
 

Hide by Lisa Gardner

Annabelle Granger discovers that the only thing harder than convincing police detective Bobby Dodge that she isn’t dead is trying to stay alive long enough to get to know him better.

 

Slow Burn by Julie Garwood

Bostoncop Dylan Buchanan heads to South Carolina when he detects a pattern in the “accidents” his sister's best friend keeps having.

 

Drop Dead Gorgeous by Heather Graham

Lori and Sean were torn apart 15 years ago when he was accused of murder. Now he and Lori have both come back home to Miami, but another murder casts suspicion on Sean once again.

 

Finding Laura by Kay Hooper

After Laura Sutherland buys a mirror at an estate sale, the former owner suddenly dies. Believing the mirror is somehow connected to the crime, Laura finds deadly skeletons in the ancestral closet.

 

Cover of Night by Linda Howard

When a B&B guest vanishes, widow Cate Nightingale turns to handyman Calvin Harris to protect her from her missing boarder's enemies.

Left to Die by Lisa Jackson

Detectives Selena Alvarez and Regan Pescoli wonder if the man who saved Jillian Rivers from a serial killer could be a murderer posing as a good Samaritan.

 

In Face of Deception, Officer Joe Quinn's feelings for forensic sculptor Eve Duncan destroyed his marriage. In this follow-up he asks her to use her skills to help identify the young victims of a killer.

 

Flash by Jayne Ann Krentz

When Jasper Sloan acquires 51% of Olivia's company he never imagines that the she will turn his head from the boardroom to the bedroom, but outsmarting a dangerous blackmailer brings the two closer.

 

Amber Beach by Elizabeth Lowell

Unlike her four brothers, jewelry designer Honor Donovan was never welcomed into her father's gem-trading empire. But when her favorite brother disappears, Honor heads to the Pacific Northwest to find him.

 

Night Whispers by Judith McNaught

As part of a money laundering investigation, the FBI wants policewoman Sloan Reynolds to reconnect with her socialite father in Palm Beach. Just as she's beginning to find happiness her wealthy grandmother is killed and her cover is blown.

 

The Senator's Wife by Karen Robards

Tom Quinlan is brought in to tone down the image of a candidate's sexy second wife. After Quinlan falls for the senator's wife, they both become prime suspects when the senator is killed.

 

Homeport by Nora Roberts

Dr. Miranda Jones's reputation as an art expert is jeopardized when the piece she went to Italy to authenticate is exposed as a fake. Her efforts to find the original are complicated by a debonair art thief.

Scream for Me by Karen Rose

Georgia Bureau of Investigation Special Agent Daniel  Vartanian can’t help falling for the beautiful women who asks for his help locating her missing stepsister.

 

The Guardian by Nicholas Sparks

When a young widow finally takes a chance on new love, her life becomes a living nightmare as one man's jealousy spins into a deadly obsession.