Romantic Suspense

Haunting Rachel
by Kay Hooper

Rachel Grant's fiance disappeared ten years ago and shattered her world. Now a man has come to town, a man who is an exact twin of her lover, named Adam Delafield. He's been watching Rachel, haunting her. He has a locket she gave her missing fiance and he claims to owe her dead father three million dollars, although there's no record of a loan.

Adam can't prove his identity, and he always seems to be around whenever accidents happen to Rachel. Who is he, really and what does he want with her? Can Rachel unravel the mystery before the next attempt on her life succeeds?

Kay Hooper's writing is tense, the story moving at a quick pace to the harrowing conclusion. The book is an intriguing thriller with enough twists and turns to keep a romantic suspense fan happy.

True Betrayals
by Nora Roberts

26-year old Kelsey Byden is in the middle of a painful divorce when life throws her another curve ball: her long presumed dead mother is actually alive, and has spent the last several years in prision for murder. Kelsey's parents chose to lie to her rather than expose her to the painful truth. After her mother is released from prison, Kelsey travels to her Virginia horse farm to get to know her long-lost mother, Naomi, and falls in love with both the horses and her mother's next door neighbor, gambler Gabe Slater.

As her romance with Gabe heats up, a series of events that include murder and sabotage threaten both their burgeoning relationship and their lives. Kelsey, Gabe and Naomi have to race to discover who their enemy is and why they are in danger.

Nora Roberts is a popular author, with many different types of romance books under her belt. Despite its flaws, such as cookie-cutter characters, the book moves at a fast pace, with lots of action and colorful descriptions, making it a fun, light read.