Heartbreaker (2000) (Pocket Star Books)Julie Garwood
Grade: B
Genre: romantic suspense
Sex scenes: mild
Source: own
Buchanan/FBI: (1) Heartbreaker
Romance RBC 2015: A romantic suspense
The last thing that Father Tommy
Madden expects to hear from the other side of the confessional box is a twisted
maniac bragging about the women he’s killed and the lucky woman who’s next on
his list – Laurant, Tommy’s younger sister. When the self-named ‘Heartbreaker’
drops off clues with the police, Tommy is no longer morally torn at the
prospect of divulging confidential information and calls his childhood best
friend, Nick Buchanan, for help. Nick is only too happy to use his forced
holiday to be productive and shadow Laurant. Miraculously, they’ve never met
despite Nick’s lifelong friendship with Tommy and Nick is astounded that the
skinny girl he remembers from photographs has blossomed into the woman standing
before him. What Nick really doesn’t expect is for Laurant to be so stubborn
about carrying on her life as normal in an effort to trap Heartbreaker. When
the pair return to Laurant’s house in the tiny town of Holy Oaks, their close
quarters reveal a fiery attraction that shows no signs of extinguishing …
