Intimate Strangers

She felt him before she ever touched him. And once she did, she couldn't let go.

Laurie James has her life perfectly under control - a thriving Miami law practice, a family who loves her, and a fierce independence she's spent years protecting. Then the visions begin.

A dark room. A man's voice, broken and begging. Pain so raw it drives her to her knees.

She doesn't know him. She's never met him. But somehow, she knows he's dying - and that she's the only one who can save him.

When Laurie follows the pull of something she can't explain to an abandoned Miami Beach hotel, what she finds changes everything. Jake North is a battered, barely conscious NYPD detective, deep undercover in a world of ruthless men - and someone just betrayed him to the worst of them. He should be dead. He would be dead, if a green-eyed stranger hadn't found him first.

Jake North doesn't believe in angels. He doesn't believe in much of anything anymore - not after everything he's survived, everything he's lost. But lying in that hospital bed, he remembers the brunette on the beach. The one he couldn't stop staring at, even as he walked toward what he thought was his end. The one whose voice somehow reached him in the dark and kept him breathing.

Now she's sitting beside him, her hand wrapped around his - and the danger is far from over.

The men who tried to kill Jake want him finished. And now they know about her.

Forced together by circumstance and guarded by a secret neither of them fully understands, Laurie and Jake circle each other in a dance of heat, distrust, and an undeniable pull neither can outrun. She's warm where he's closed off. Stubborn where he's cold. She makes him feel things he buried long ago - and that terrifies him far more than the men hunting them both.

But can she trust a man who is dangerous by nature and scarred by design? And can he let himself want a woman who sees straight through every wall he's ever built?

Intimate Strangers is a breathlessly paced romantic suspense set against the sultry backdrop of Miami, where the line between saving someone and falling for them disappears entirely. With a cast of unforgettable characters - a flamboyant, fiercely loyal secretary, a sharp-tongued psychic cousin, and a police chief who knows a love story when he sees one - this novel is as warm as it is dangerous, and as tender as it is thrilling.

Perfect for readers who love their romance wrapped in mystery, their heroes beautifully broken, and their heroines brave enough to reach for what no one else can see.

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Fans of Sandra Brown, Nora Roberts, and Julie Garwood will not want to miss this debut.

"Sometimes the person you were meant to find is the one you'd walk through fire to save."