Isn’t it just romance with some danger thrown in? She was standing at the edge of the parking garage on the fourth floor, keys in hand, when she heard it — footsteps that stopped exactly when hers did. She didn’t look back. She walked faster. That moment — the held breath, the hyper-awareness, the sudden…
I was knee-deep in research for my latest novel, watching a retired FBI agent on YouTube describe how he spent months undercover to break up a drug cartel — and the first thing he talked about when the interview turned personal wasn’t the danger. It was the phone call he couldn’t make on his daughter’s…
(A 30-Novel Author Answers) By Robin Christine DeMarco I was browsing the local bookstore when I overheard it. Two women in the next aisle, swapping book recommendations. One of them said, “I tried a sweet romantic suspense once. It was fine, I guess. Just kind of… flat.” I almost choked. Not because she was wrong…
You’re three chapters into a romantic suspense you’ve been enjoying all evening. The dialogue is sharp. The plot is twisting. The heroine is about to figure out who’s been following her through the parking garage. And then, without warning, an R-rated scene is thrust in your face. You didn’t sign up for that. The cover…
You know that feeling when you pick up a book at the store, hoping to find your next clean romantic suspense book, read the first three pages, and suddenly realize it’s not what you thought you were getting into? I’ve been there. More times than I care to admit, I’ve stood in the fiction section…
Let me answer your question with a thought experiment from physics. Imagine a cat in a closed box. According to Schrödinger’s famous paradox, until you open that box, the cat exists in both states simultaneously — alive and dead. You simply cannot know which until you look. Now imagine a romantic suspense novel sitting on…