steamy and thrilling fiction
Dive into a world of passion and suspense with our top picks for steamy and thrilling fiction books. Explore heart-racing romance, intense drama, and page-turning excitement in every story.
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Safety in Numbers
by Carla Cassidy
Trained to protect, Meredith West had always been self-sufficient. That is, until she discovered she had a stalker. Suddenly, the tough, trained bodyguard was a damsel in distress--and too embarrassed to ask for help. Lucky for her, she didn't have to. Under the guise of needing a vacation, disturbingly handsome investigator Chase McCall arrived in Cotter Creek, Oklahoma. The purpose of his trip was complex--and a conflict of interest given his sizzling reaction to Meredith. Not only did she need his protection, but she was also a potential link to solving his top-secret case--and the potential key to his happiness.
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Don't Look Down
by Jennifer Crusie
Recruited to finish a four-day action movie shoot, commercial director Lucy Armstrong finds the job challenged by egomaniacal actors, her stunt director ex-husband, and a would-be killer.
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Tempt Me Tonight
by Toni Blake
He was her first: the first man she longed for, the first man she truly desired. Then he betrayed her and broke her heart. Now her revenge will be oh-so-sweet . . . and hot! Trish Henderson has returned home to Eden to take care of some family business . . . and some personal business, as well. Though she's achieved remarkable success as a high-powered Chicago attorney, Trish has never forgotten her small-town high school sweetheart, Joe Ramsey, or the devastation of heartbreak. Now she's come face-to-face with the gorgeous sex god Joe has grown into, and she's determined to get him out of her system once and for all—and maybe take a little revenge, too. And this time, she has all the power. After all, where is it written that only men can explore and enjoy a physical relationship without commitment? Her plan: seduce him for just one night, then walk away . . . But there's just one problem. Trish is about to find out that one night with Joe may never be enough . . .
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Exposure Behind Closed Doors
by Victoria Taylor Murray
EXPOSURE BEHIND CLOSED DOORS is centered around one earth-shattering week in the life of New Orleans Police Lieutenant, Grieco Storm. A police detective whose passions and convictions run as deep and sizzling as the sultry city he is bound by duty and honor to protect. The discovery of arsenic found in the blood-systems of two International Super Models, Johna Bauer and Ursula Rhee; initially ruled accidental prescription drug overdoses by the city's shady coroner, is what initiated a secret branch of the Justice Department to get involved. Not only was the State of Louisiana suddenly faced with the very real possibility of a serial killer being on the loose in their Historical City, but it was suddenly faced with a potential scandal of such magnitude that it could rock New Orleans back several decades, politically, on its ear!
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Out of the Shadows
by Linda Lael Miller
Here, for the first time in one volume, are two complete novels in Linda Lael Miller's acclaimed New York Times bestselling world of vampires and mortals, lovers and legends. Forever and the Night introduces readers to Aidan Tremayne, a vampire damned to a bloodthirsty immortality against his will...and Neely Wallace, a mortal woman who arouses a forbidden temptation that could destroy them both. For All Eternity is the passionate story of Aidan's twin sister, Maeve Tremayne, a beautiful vampire who haunts the battlefields of Gettysburg like an angel of death...and who dares to lose her soul to a mortal soldier.
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Billionaire Bachelors
by Anne Marie Winston
Billionaire Bachelors: Stone by Anne Marie Winston released on Feb 22, 2002 is available now for purchase.
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Fulfillment
by Barbara Delinsky
Fulfillment by Barbara Delinsky released on Mar 25, 2002 is available now for purchase.
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No Strings Attached
by Alison Kent
No Strings Attached by Alison Kent released on Feb 22, 2002 is available now for purchase.
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My Enchanted Enemy
by Tracy Fobes
Posing as a gypsy, Juliana St. Germaine vows to wed Cole Strangford, the sole heir to the gypsy clan that cursed her family centuries ago to live as half-human, half-dolphin creatures as punishment for stealing the mysterious Sea Opal. Though Juliana's mission may succeed, she realizes too late she's about to lose her heart.
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The Fortune Hunter
by Diane Farr
Desperate to replenish his fortune, Lord Rival draws up a list of wealthy women that he can marry for their money, but when he encounters Lady Olivia Fairfax, one of the ladies on his list, he unexpectedly finds himself attracted to the enigmatic and beautiful spinster. Original.
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Confessions of an Ex-girlfriend
by Lynda Curnyn
Bridal magazine editor Emma Carter's boyfriend of two years suddenly decides to move to Los Angeles without her, leaving her single in New York and with questions about her career, appearance, and future romances.
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Tall Dark... and Framed?
by Cathleen Galitz
Tall, Dark...And Framed? by Cathleen Galitz released on Mar 25, 2002 is available now for purchase.
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Summer's End
by Danielle Steel
Deanna was eighteen when she married a handsome Frenchman, attorney Marc-Edouard Duras. Now, at thirty-seven, she should be happy with Marc, her elegant home in San Francisco, and their teenage daughter, Pilar. But one summer changes it all when she realizes her failing marriage is a trap she must escape.
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Key of Valor
by Nora Roberts
A woman’s quest for courage opens her heart to love in the third Key Trilogy novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts. Growing up, Zoe McCourt did not have an easy life—some might call it “disadvantaged.” A hairstylist from a West Virginia trailer park, she ended up in beautiful Pleasant Valley, Pennsylvania, by sheer determination. How she ended up on a quest for a key to unlock the soul of a warrior demigoddess is another story… Invited to an imposing estate overlooking the town, she met Malory Price and Dana Steele. Each woman was at a crossroads in her life, each facing an uncertain future. And a mysterious couple offered them the chance of a lifetime: a million dollars each if they could free the trapped souls of three mythological sisters—an artist, a bard, and a warrior. Malory and Dana had to reach deep inside themselves to find their keys—and not without paying a price. Now, it has become Zoe’s quest. As a single mother, she has more to risk, more to lose. But her courage in the face of overwhelming odds cannot be underestimated. A nurturer to her son, a defender of her friends, she must confront dark forces amassed against her to make all of their dreams come true… Don’t miss the other books in the Key Trilogy Key of Light Key of Knowledge
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Le Fin
by Victoria Taylor Murray
The Lambert Series (Thief Of Hearts, Forbidden and Friendly Enemies), is centered around one earth-shattering week in the life of Nouri St. Charles Sommers, a beautiful young woman that rushed into marriage with a mysterious billionaire...a man she knew nothing about. Two short years later, Nourias fairytale marriage suddenly turns into a nightmare changing her life forever a].Falling in love a] out of love a] in love againa]a fairytale marriage turned nightmarea]implicated and then cleared in two gruesome murdersa]surviving a death threat after being forced into hiding from a stalkera]Nourias one week from hell continues. Now six weeks later, Nourias life continues to spin out of control, drawing the reader deeper and deeper into the turmoil of The Lambert Series with the final book to the series, Le Fin. Nourias billionaire husband, Ethan Sommers, has been shot and killed. Her former lover, high-powered attorney Clint Chamberlain, is feared dead after his car plummets off a bridge in Paris during a rain storm, and if those things arenat bad enough for her to deal with, Nouri suddenly discovers that the man she has finally chosen over both Clint Chamberlain and Charles Mason, homicide detective Gabe Baldwin, has returned to Boston to wed his former fiancA(c)e after an argument Nouri and Gabe had while they were still in France.
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Be Buried in the Rain
by Barbara Michaels
There are terrible secrets from generations past buried at Maidenwood. Medical student Julie Newcomb has returned to her family's decaying plantation—the site of so many painful childhood memories—to tend to her tyrannical grandmother, felled by a stroke. The fire of malevolence still burns in the cruel, despotic matriarch's eyes—yet, for Julie, a faint spark of redemption and second chances flickers in this hated, haunted place. But her hope—and her life—are seriously threatened by a nightmare reborn . . . and by the grim discovery on the lonely road to Maidenwood of the earth-browned skeletons of a mother and child.