Romantic Suspsense

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• Romance
• Suspense
• Jayne Ann Krentz read-alikes
• Fast-paced
• Emphasis on characters

Outlander
By Diana Gabaldon
ROMANCE GABALDON
WWII nurse Claire Randall is suddenly hurled back 200 years when she visits an ancient circle of stones in Scotland. Her chief goal is to return to her own time, but she becomes entangled in local distrust between the Scots and the ruling English. The only way for her to escape being arrested and held by the English is for her to claim rights as a Scot – by marrying one. Claire is torn between surviving long enough to make it back to the circle of stones and her husband in 1945, and her growing attraction for the husband of her marriage of convenience in 1743.

How to Marry a Marquis
By Julia Quinn
ROMANCE QUINN
James, Marquis of Riverdale, is masquerading as his Aunt Agatha Danbury's estate manager in order to discover who is blackmailing her. Elizabeth, her companion, who must marry a wealthy man in order to provide for her brother and sisters, suddenly discovers a how-to manual in Lady Danbury's library and decides to practice upon the new estate manager.

Coming Up Roses
By Alice Duncan
ROMANCE DUNCAN
Set at the Chicago World's Fair of 1893, Rose Gilhooley, star bareback exhibition rider for Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, attracts the attention of cynical Globe columnist H.L. May.

A Dash of Scandal
By Amelia Grey
ROMANCE GREY
The outspoken daughter of a Duke masquerades as a plain Miss in order to gather scandalous tidbits for her Aunt's gossip column. When confirmed bachelor Chandler Preswick, the Earl of Dunraven, discovers her writing notes on the back of her dance card, he suspects her of planning the next Mad Ton Thief burglary, but he is enchanted by her and finds himself plotting ways to attract her attention.