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Linda Barlow
Also known as: Linda Ruth Barlow
Linda Ruth Barlow was born in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. She is the author of fifteen published romance novels in various sub-genres, including family sagas, historical and contemporary romance, romantic suspense, and general mainstream fiction. Publishers have included Doubleday, Dell, Penguin, Warner Books, New American Library/Signet, Berkley/Putnam, Silhouette and Harlequin, and the books have been translated into approximately 20 foreign languages. Her novels have won numerous industry awards, including the Rita from Romance Writers of America (1989), Best New Historical Romance Author from Romantic Times (1986) and a Lifetime Achievement award from Romantic Times. She also contributed two essays to Dangerous Men and Adventurous Women, a collection of scholarly essays on the enduring appeal of the romance edited by Jayne Ann Krentz. This book won the Susan Koppelman Award for Excellence in Feminist Studies of Popular Culture and American Culture in 1993. She was Romance Writers of America’s keynote speaker at the annual conference in 1989. She served as President of Novelists, Inc. in 1992 and did two three-year terms on the Executive Council of the Authors Guild in the 1990s. When she is not at her computer writing, she is likely to be reading. She cannot imagine what her life would be like without books!
The reindeer were a bigger hit than Santa, no doubt about it.
— from Keepsake
Most acclaimed
Midnight Rambler
Explosive. Pulse-pounding. Heart-racing. From the bestselling author The Wall Street Journal hails as "one terrific writer," Midnight Rambler is the breakout thriller of the year--a brawny, brainy novel of suspense that pairs James Swain's trademark smooth-as-silk prose with a plot bigger and bolder than anything he's done before.In South Florida, Jack Carpenter is infamous. He's the cop who busted the notorious serial killer Simon Skell--aka the Midnight Rambler--and sacrificed his badge and marriage in the process. Haunted by the Skell case, Carpenter now works as an abduction specialist in Fort Lauderdale, reuniting families with their missing children.But the body of one of the Midnight Rambler's victims has just been uncovered--and forensic evidence suggests Carpenter jailed the wrong man. With Skell just days away from release, the tarnished hero must reopen the case that shattered his life and the lives of eight murdered women.As waves of heat and rain wash over the steamy streets, Carpenter races against the clock to reaffirm the case against Skell. Yet the deeper he digs, the more he starts to realize that Skell is just one piece in a terrifying puzzle of predation and murder, just one player in a shocking conspiracy that ranges across the state of Florida. And as the relentless Carpenter draws the net tighter, his enemies prepare to spring a devastating final surprise. From the seaside bar that Jack Carpenter calls home to the glittering tourist kingdom in Orlando to the funky jungle of Coconut Grove, James Swain unleashes a wild ride into the heart of evil--with the Rolling Stones' "Midnight Rambler" as the throbbing, terrifying soundtrack.From the Hardcover edition.
Beguiled
2006
A Woman of Rare Valor At the wedding ceremony of her sister, Sarah, Agnes MacKenzie leapt in the path of a speeding arrow, saving Edward Napier's life. For Agnes, it was a matter of instinct and training—all Scotland knew her fame as a bodyguard. Few knew the heartache that spurred her perilous course. A Man of Science—And Mystery Despite the towering rage of her father, Lachlan, Duke of Ross, Edward Napier used his medical skills to tend Agnes' wounds. Owing her his life, the widower granted her request to accompany him and his children to Glasgow. But he had no intention of allowing this beautiful, foolhardy woman to search out his unknown assassin. A Passionate Union of Equals Agnes had forsworn romance until she could right the wrong that burdened her, yet Edward's powerful intellect and easy grace drew her like a magnet. Her audacious ways provoked him to fascination—and occasionally to fury. Amid a new storm of poisoned arrows, they would yield to a love as sudden as it was joyous...a love to cherish and protect as fiercely as life itself.
Intimate betrayal
"Reese Delaware is an investigative reporter with a burning desire to seek the truth. But one story eludes her--her own. Fifteen years before, she survived a tragic accident that robbed her of her family and left her with missing memories of her life. Now, determined to succeed despite the past, she accepts an assignment to profile Maxwell Knight, the millionaire computer wizard who is also fleeing a shadowy past of his own. The attraction between them is powerful, sparking a desire neither can deny. But it isn't until they have gone beyond professional boundaries and come closer to surrendering to a need greater than their willpower that Maxwell and Reese begin to uncover the shattering secret that links their lives."--P. of cover.