Determined to catch the person who is trying to kill Joe Colton, police detective and single father Thaddeus Law comes up against Heather McGrath, Joe's eager to help niece whose suggestive glances are distracting him from his mission. Original.
Ruth Ryan Langan (aka Ruth Langan) is an award-winning author of romance novels. She is a Romantic Times Career Achievement Award winner and has twice been nominated for Romantic Times Reviwers' Choice Awards, for Jade and Return of the Prodigal Son. She has spent much of her career writing historical romance novels for the Harlequin Historicals line of category romances. Many of her book are set in medieval times, while others are western romances. She has also written some contemporary romances, and often includes elements of suspense in her novels.
Langan began her writing career in secret. Her family discovered her writings when her children came home unexpectedly from school one day and found her writing. When Langan's husband was told of her hobby, he bought her an electric typewriter "because 'writers need tools'". Her first book was published by Silhouette Books in 1981 after an editor picked it out of their slush pile. After the first sale was completed, Langan got an agent.
Langan is a charter member of the Romance Writers of America. She has five children and lives with her husband in Michigan.
Joe Colton's foster brother's daughter, Heather, came to help with business accounts.
Thad Law was hired to look at Joe's security system and suggest improvements. Then, after a second attempt on Joe's life, Thad was assigned to that case.
They are thrown together more often as Heather babysits Brittany, Thad's daughter. When a fever alarms Thad, Heather is called and their attraction burst into flames. Then the hurdles of rich-expectations on Thad's part must be allayed, but not before Heather is nearly gone for good. They become engaged.
"Meredith" has crossed a line; Joe cuts her off. She begins blackmailing Graham. Her assassin has tracked Emily to Wyoming.
"Louise's" therapy isn't going as well as her doctor had hoped and might be postponed.
I really liked this book. It was a fun, quick read that held my attention from page 1. I liked both the main characters Heather McGrath (Joe Colton's niece) and Thaddeus (Thad) Law (Detective). Heather is a hard working lady that surprises Thad at every turn. He has her pegged for a spoiled rich girl. Thad is the Detective working on a case trying to figure out who is trying to kill Joe, who happens to be a single father of an adorable little girl named Brittany. Would read others in the series.