Best of
Romantic-Suspense

2000

The Return


Dinah McCall - 2000
    Although Catherine wasn't a blood relation, kindly Annie Fane had taken her in after her parents were mysteriously murdered. But the superstitious townsfolk of Camarune used to consider Annie a witch, and they immediately apply the label to Catherine as well, menacing the schoolteacher's plan to stay in the isolated cabin while she tries to make sense of her life. Then she meets Luke DePriest, the area's sexy sheriff, who tries to protect her, all while hunting a thief who's been leaving strange wooden carvings in the place of the goods he steals. When a deranged farmer shoots Catherine in the back, the townsfolk are jolted back to their senses, Luke and Catherine are forced to confront their love for each other, and Catherine finally discovers the long-lost truth of her past.

A Place to Call Home


Sharon Sala - 2000
    All detective Judd Hanna was looking for was a few days of peace and solitude, away from the dark shadows of big-city crime. But in a little town in the Wyoming high country, he found something more, much more; a woman who made him dream, for the first time in years, of a life filled with love and laughter. . . But even here, peace was hard to find. For Charlotte "Charlie" Franklin, a strong but gentle woman who was raising an adorable little girl alone, was in mortal danger. And before Judd could hope for a future with her, he had to make sure she lived to see tomorrow. . . .

Stealing Shadows


Kay Hooper - 2000
    police catch killers - until she makes a terrible mistake and an innocent child dies. Cassie flees to a small North Carolina town, hoping that a quiet life will silence the voices that invade her unwilling mind. But Cassie's abilities know few boundaries. And she's become certain - as no one else can be - that a murderer is stalking Ryan's Bluff.It's his fury that Cassie senses first, then his foul thoughts and perverse excitement. Yet she doesn't know who he is or where he will strike. The sheriff won't even listen to her - until the first body is found exactly where and how she predicted. Now a suspect herself, she races desperately to unmask the killer in the only way she knows: by entering his twisted mind. Her every step is loaded with fear and uncertainty... because if he senses her within him, he'll trap her there, so deep she'll never find her way out.

Man Of Passion


Lindsay McKenna - 2000
    Man Of Passion by Lindsay McKenna released on Jun 23, 2000 is available now for purchase.

Images of Ecstasy


Loure Bussey - 2000
    Here, she introduces magazine editor Shay Hilton, a woman who longs for charismatic District Attorney Braxton Steele -- a man she's only seen in newspapers and on television. But when her ex-fiance is murdered in her penthouse, Shay comes face to face with the sexy lawyer -- as her prosecutor.