Showing results for "the-escape" in Romantic Suspense

When hot-headed Zena's parole conditions lead her to the local turtle breeding ground to investigate the decline in hatchlings, she and her sister make an unexpected and horrific discovery. Now they're dodging bullets and running for their lives, and there's only one person who can help: her sister's ex-boyfriend.

Jane McGregor will never fall in love again. Her previous relationships all failed, the last one ending miserably. Besides, as an ambitious young microbiologist working in a prestigious lab in Boston, she has other aspirations. Nevertheless, the mysterious freelance photographer, Sam Swift, who just moved in next door, keeps distracting her from her work. To make matters worse, Jane’s boss reassigns her from her current project to a top-secret lab to study a new strain of bacteria. There her orderly life spins out of control when she makes a devastating discovery.

What happens when your home turns toxic? The place she should have felt safest was a nightmare turned reality for Josie Day. Each day that passes gets worse and worse. And it’s been that way her entire life. But she refuses to be a statistic, so she comes up with a plan to get out. Huck Davidson immediately recognizes the signs when a chance encounter puts him face-to-face with Josie for the first time in years. He pleads with her to let him help, and she agrees.

Brielle Ives prefers dogs to people, and who could blame her? Her sled dogs are loyal to a fault, trust her implicitly, and couldn’t care less about the scars that mar her face. The only human who’s never disappointed her is her mentor, Dr. William Hunter. When his plane goes missing in the remote Alaskan wilderness, Bree will do anything to find him...even if it means turning to a frustrating, irresponsible, and too-sexy-for-his-own-good California boy for help.

Megan Thomas is running for her life. From Chicago, from the mob, from her controlling husband. She runs to the only place she ever felt at peace: a North Carolina barrier island she remembers from her childhood. Now she only wants to get lost—in someone else's life. A new identity, soothing ocean winds, and a quiet existence are all she needs.

Emily Carter’s life is a delicate balance of silence and routine—trapped in a marriage to a man who no longer sees her, and hiding her pain behind a mask of everyday normalcy. For years, she’s kept her dreams, desires, and sense of self buried beneath the weight of her responsibilities and fears. But when the quiet despair of her life becomes too much to ignore, Emily begins to plan a bold escape—a journey to rediscover who she is, free from the life she’s outgrown.

Not long ago Special FBI Agent Simon Sloan found his boss dead in his Washington DC office. He left a letter warning Sloan with one word—Run! And so Sloan did. But he took someone with him. Now he regrets that decision. PI Janelle Wesson can’t believe she left her job at the Parker Agency for this. She thought she was in love with the secretive FBI Agent. Now she’s racing across South America with him with an unknown enemy at their heels—ready to destroy them as soon as they’re in his sights.

Brooks Hoffman, billionaire, loves women, expensive toys, and fighting - in that order. A week romancing a beautiful woman on his private island near Cozumel is a great way to pass the time. When Sydnee Lee Swenson isn’t impressed with his money, or charmed by his...well, charm, Brooks takes it as a personal challenge to change her mind.

Michael McGinnis has finally escaped the clutches of alcohol. And with his brother Casey doing well in rehab, for the first time in his life, he dares to hope that what only seemed like a fantasy a year ago - a life with Eva as his wife, a child or two, and a job he was born to do - will become a reality. But Viper reaches out, even from prison, and sets out to shatter Michael's dreams. With help from outside sources, he frames Michael for a string of arson cases.

Cici Wright has built a life she loves as a jewelry appraiser. But when her latest find—a priceless ruby necklace—links to decades-old murders in her hometown of Shadow Cove, Cici becomes the target of ruthless killers. Forced to flee, she must rely on the man she humiliated in the most shameful moment of her life.

When Alma Raymond's father passed away, he left her a sizable inheritance along with the request that she marry Alvin Whiter. Alvin did not seem to be a poor choice. He was successful in his own right and had a proper reputation. Imagine Alma's dismay when she overhears a conversation between Alvin and a business associate. A frank discussion about how he would kill Alma and take her inheritance after they were wed.

When Alma Raymond's father passed away, he left her a sizable inheritance along with the request that she marry Alvin Whiter. Alvin did not seem to be a poor choice. He was successful in his own right and had a proper reputation. Imagine Alma's dismay when she overhears a conversation between Alvin and a business associate. A frank discussion about how he would kill Alma and take her inheritance after they were wed.

A woman on the run from domestic violence with no one but her vulnerable and damaged teenage child as a companion, lives in isolation and fear. While her hand to mouth scenarios are played out in the shadow of a threatening suspense, a story of crime and love unfolds around her. She cannot risk her child. Her own longings for love and romance have to take a poor second place.