New York Times author Christina Dodd's bestselling romantic suspense series, Lost Hearts:
Mystery and misery scar their young lives. Three sisters and their foster brother are torn apart by tragedy and scattered across the country to grow up alone...
After Pepper Prescott witnesses a brutal murder, she's forced to flee a vengeful killer, leaving behind her home, her business...and the identity she's spent years cultivating. She seeks shelter in the only place she's ever felt safe--the small mountain town of Diamond, Idaho. Diamond was where she had spent a year of high school in a loving foster home. And met the boy who captured her heart, and taught her body to love...only to be forced to leave him without a backward glance.
Her flight brings her face to face with Dan Graham again. His time in the Special Forces has left him wounded, body and soul. Like Pepper, he hides a dangerous secret that could get them both killed. Yet no matter what bitterness and anger has kept them apart, sweet, swift passion still brightly flares each time they touch. Can they learn to trust each other before murder and treachery finds them? Or is it too late for them both?
Read an excerpt:
In the dark kitchen, someone had surprised Pepper, tackled her, taken her to the floor.
She couldn't see a thing, yet even before he spoke, she knew who lay on top of her. She recognized the weight of him, the scent of him, the glorious impression of his body stretched across hers.
Dan Graham. Her lover. Her heartache.
How could she ever forget him?
She knew there were things she should say. Questions she should ask. But all she could think was Dan...
His heat warmed her chilled body. His voice lowered to a croon. His hands slid into her hair. "Where have you been these last nine years?"
But he didn't seem to care about the answer, for he blocked her mouth with his.
For one stunned and helpless moment, a fragment of memory held her brain, the remembrance of an excited teenage girl's voice confiding to her ... Dan is the best kisser ever.
That had been a challenge to Pepper. To find out if it was true.
And it was. Damn. It was.
His lips opened over hers, and she forgot the past, forgot the present. All that existed was his lips on hers, the hard floor beneath her body, and a long-banished warmth welling up from the depths of her soul.
ALMOST LIKE BEING IN LOVE is a full-length Romantic Suspense.
The Lost Hearts series includes:
-- JUST THE WAY YOU ARE Enhanced
-- ALMOST LIKE BEING IN LOVE Enhanced
-- CLOSE TO YOU Enhanced
-- GABRIEL'S GIFT: A Christmas Short story
Readers of Nora Roberts and Jayne Ann Krentz will enjoy ALMOST LIKE BEING IN LOVE: Book #2 Lost Hearts. This edition of ALMOST LIKE BEING IN LOVE is enhanced with bonus material that includes eighteen pages of new material with commentary by the author.
