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Harper Allen

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19 books
4.6 (8)
39 readers

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Harper Allen is an Canadian writer of romance novels. She is a four-time nominee for a Career Achievement Award by Romantic Times Book Reviews magazine and her novel Dressed To Slay was named the magazine's choice for Best Silhouette Bombshell of 2006. Her Irish ancestry lends them a touch of Celtic mysticism, while her work as a reporter in the criminal court system gives her books a darker edge, first and foremost each one is a story about a man and a woman falling in love and holding on to that love. Her characters have always been real people with real flaws, desperately struggling to find the love that will redeem them - and for that Harper need look no further for inspiration than her own life. Harper grew up in a blue-collar motor city, and with comments such as "Does not play well with others" on her grade-school report cards. Underneath the motorcycle leathers and the rose tattoo, beats the heart of a true romantic. The day she met the man who eventually became her husband, she told her sister, "I've just met the man I'm going to marry. How long do you think it'll take him to figure it out?" They married, and had little kids, who aren't the first ones picked for the volleyball team. Her idea of a great date with her husband is going to a baseball game. Her idea of a great baseball game is any one in which the Red Sox win.

Books

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McQueen's Heat

5.0 (1)
5

Having been to hell and back, investigator Stone McQueen knew he had nothing to lose when he raced into a burning building to save a small child. But he was dead wrong. For the fire was set by the same arsonist who had destroyed his career seven years ago. And in a bizarre twist, he found himself reunited at the scene with the only woman who had ever mattered to him - Tamara King. A woman he now had to protect from the elusive fire started. As Tamara and Stone joined forces, their passion ignited into an all-consuming blaze. And soon Stone couldn't figure out what was more dangerous - the arsonist who crimes were turning increasingly personal or the secret he'd kept from Tamara that could destroy this second chance...

Sullivan's last stand

5.0 (1)
3

THE FIRST TIME HAD BEEN HARD... Bailey Flowers should have known a man who'd been to hell and back would break her heart. But now ex-mercenary Terrence Sullivan was the only man who could help her locate her missing sibling - before the police framed her sister for murder! THE SECOND TIME WOULD BE IMPOSSIBLE These former lovers thought they could set aside personal feelings to solve an increasingly bizarre - and deadly - investigation. But when their simmering passion exploded in an all-consuming desire, Bailey knew this tortured mercenary needed her help. Because the only key to Sullivan's salvation lay in her ever-loving arms...

The Man That Got Away (Harlequin Intrigue No 468)

5.0 (1)
4

SHE COULDN'T REMEMBER Her name, her past or how she’d been shot—it was all a blank to Dana Smith. For five years, she’d built a new life, became a new person—and dreamed of a man whose hands caressed her, whose kisses set her on fire.... HE COULDN'T FORGET The mystery lady had kissed him and disappeared into the night—but after shots were fired, her body was nowhere to be found. P.I. Gabriel O’Shaunessy could tell the police nothing about her disappearance, only that he’d been hired to follow her. Five years later, the lady walked back into his life—with no identification, no answers and a plea for help he couldn’t ignore....

Dead is the New Black

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Ever since Tash's grandfather Darkheart revealed the big family secret—Tash and her triplet sisters were born of a vampire slayer—Tash's life has been a series of surprises. But none of that prepared her for the possibility of turning vamp herself.That's the good news. The bad? The most gorgeous man she's ever laid eyes on is over two hundred years old. And one of her sisters wants to stake him, while the other wants to doom him to a life of tortured guilt. Worse yet, with a new Queen Vamp in town, it's up to Tash to infiltrate her army. As a semihuman, there's no danger of Tash falling under Lady Jasmine's control. Or so she thinks....

Twice Tempted

3.5 (2)
9

Twice the heat Bounty hunter Annie Ryan had seen everything--until she started seeing double! Matthew Logan was a by-the-book FBI agent--and the twin brother of the bounty Annie was after. Annie's hunt had compromised Matt's own investigation, and now they would have to work together ...intimately. Twice the spice Matt's orders were infuriating, his rules irritating ...but his kisses intoxicated Annie's senses and left her longing for more. Friction between them heated up the chase--and Matt's bedroom eyes distracted Annie from her job. Could she get the man she was after--and the man her heart desired?

Dressed To Slay

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Megan's preparing to walk down the aisle with her triplet sisters as her bridesmaids when their long-lost grandfather Darkheart interrupts with staggering news: they are heirs of an ancient vampire-slaying legacy. One of them is a natural-born slayer. One is a healer. One will become a vampire. And they're all in imminent danger from the vamp who murdered their mother. With a fiancé out for blood, a bodyguard as wild as he is wolf and a dreamy detective on her trail, Megan is unnerved and deeply conflicted. If the prophecy is true, she may be her sisters' deadliest enemy. But if it's not, who will save them all from a world turned vamp?

Guarding Jane Doe (Harlequin Intrigue 628)

5.0 (1)
7

RENEGADE HEARTS If he hadn't received a letter from a dead woman who'd once saved his life, Quinn McGuire wouldn't have agreed to help a frightened Jane Doe to honor his unpaid debt. As her twenty-four-hour protector, this burned-out soldier for hire would go to the wall to save "Jane" from a madman who claimed she'd committed a heinous crime. When their joint investigation uncovered her past, Quinn thought convincing Jane she was innocent of cold-blooded murder would be his greatest challenge—but he was wrong! Finding the courage to love Jane was…

The Bride And The Mercenary (The Avengers)

5.0 (1)
1

If bride-to-be Ainslie O'Connell hadn't seen the derelict pushing the shopping cart, she might have married the wrong man. Because that "derelict" who now suffered from amnesia, was Seamus Malone--the only man she'd ever truly loved. The man she'd buried two years ago! The man she thought she'd known...but really hadn't. Ainslie knew that unmasking a secret from Seamus's shadowy past as a soldier of fortune would guarantee his safety. But her greatest challenge lay in convincing Seamus he'd never be truly alive without her by his side!

Protector with a Past

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"SHE'S OURS." No words could terrify Julia Stewart more. After two years of hiding, of dreaming about darkly sensual police detective Cord Hunter, and the life she'd left behind, Cord had found her. And he'd brought their orphaned goddaughter -- a child in danger.... Julia's career as a child protection officer had ended after a near tragedy. But she couldn't turn away from the little girl she'd sworn to protect, even though it meant working side by side with the man she still loved with furious passion. Even though it meant exposing the secrets she'd driven Cord away to keep....