This Help a Bitch Out request is from Noeli, and she's looking for a book she lost in a hard drive crash (ouch. My sympathy):
Hello! I'm looking for a story I read more than 3 years ago, before my computer crashed and I lost everything on it (please all of you do frequent backups of your documents and books!). I'm pretty sure it was part of an anthology (perhaps an erotica anthology as I read lots of them some years ago).
The heroine and the hero (whose name may be Nick) are both cops, and at one point they were together but the heroine dumped him (perhaps after he proposed? Not sure). Now he's with another woman. They must work together because there's a serial killer targeting blond women, like the heroine, and sending her some kind of material about his killing (because in fact she's his main target).
Of course being together again reignites the passion between them, otherwise there wouldn't be any story.
The important point is that the heroine has some kind of psychic ability, she has visions or dreams about the future. So since being a teen I think she has known she'll be killed and how and when. That's why she broke it up with the hero, for him not to suffer about her death (snort). Finally her power brings him to her after she's abducted, like some kind of beacon, and most of all she's be able to attack the killer's brain to slow him down (or kill him? I think I remember something about the brain leaking by the ears but it could be in another story)(it didn't sound so gross in the story).
There's also a point about the killer (who is their boss by the way) killing young blond women as substitute for the heroine's mother he lusted after when they were young. And the fact the hero comes across the heroine's diary where she writes every dream/vision, and at first he thinks she's crazy or delusional.
Oh, my. Does anyone recognize this book? (I'm kind of curious what happens to the woman the hero is dating, poor thing).
This sounds so familiar? Is there a boat house? Does the current girlfriend break up with him early on but he doesn’t tell the heroine? Hmm…. Now I want to know the name of this.
Something by Kay Hooper, maybe? The Bishop/Special Crimes Unit series? She’s got the psychic thing down pat, but it’s been a long time since I’ve read those.
Dream Man by Linda Howard
A psychic version of the Spider-Man “We Can’t Date Because Of My Enemies” rule? That’s a new one… although I think they did that in Legion of Super-Heroes with Dream Girl a few times too…
Definitely not Dream Man, entirely different plot. This one does sound familiar, and yet the only one I can think of is much more recent, and some of the details don’t quite match.
Not this book, but it reminds me of another with similar elements in case people are in need of more psychic protagonist books – Forgotten Vows by Maggie Shayne
Cynthia Eden’s “Deadly Fear”? Which is only $.99 at BN. I paid full price for the PB when it was new.
Echoing Beth K. (who beat me to the punch), it sounds like something by Kay Hooper in her Bishop/Special Crimes Unit series of novels, and there’s actually one of them with a gloved hand stroking blonde hair on the cover. Let me see… yeah, Sense of Evil (Bishop/Special Crimes Unit #6, Evil #3). The only problem is the main characters are named Rafe and Isabel. However, if you like suspenseful romance novels in which some kind of paranormal ability comes into play, I highly recommend Hooper’s works.
Could this be something by Shiloh Walker? I found this novella description on her website:
The Unwilling by Shiloh Walker
Mica Greer and her former lover, ex-FBI agent Colby Mathis once shared an intimate past and a powerful psychic gift. Now, they’ve been reunited by a bizarre series of murders—and an electrifying passion that could put them both in jeopardy.
It’s in the Hot in Handcuffs anthology.
Here’s a link to Walker’s page with an excerpt: http://www.shilohwalker.com/website/books-by-series/the-fbi-psychics/the-unwilling-hot-in-handcuffs/
I’m pretty sure I’ve read this one, but I can’t find it anywhere. I don’t think it was specifically a suspense novel because I don’t normally read those. This sounds so familiar. I wish I could remember which one it is.
Got to be the Shiloh Walker one – paraFBI.
Gah I’m so sure I’ve just read this one! Now, if I could find it in the many piles of books everywhere in the house…
Quick question, was the hero a twin, by any chance?
i agree with the kay hooper bishop series
I think it is Blood Dreams by Kay Hooper
Hi everyone !
I don’t remember what happened to the “other” woman, I don’t think they talk much about her. The hero has no twin.
So, it’s not Cynthia Eden’s Deadly Fear, nor Linda Howard’s Dream Man. I already read Maggie Shayne’s Forgotten Vows and Shiloh Walker’s The Unwilling, not them either.
The Kay Hooper’s novels don’t seem to be it either, but I put them on my TBR, thanks for the advice!
I remember the killer sending the heroine some kind of video of his last murder, and at one point the heroine warning the hero to stay calm in front of their boss because she feels the boss wants to suspend him (they don’t know yet he’s the killer).
It’s irritating that I remember so many details but not the title nor the author -_-
Is it possible it’s a christian romance?
The same couple of books kept coming for my searches, but usually lacking in one detail
“Sense of Evil” Kay Hooper
“Dead Before Dark” Wendy Corsi Staub
“Until Dark” Mariah Stewart
If you are relatively certain his name might be Nick, you can try (if you haven’t already), in the allromancewriters.com websites, there is one for erotica and you can search by hero/heroine name, and there are a bunch of Nick/Nicholas.