The Man She Almost Married

Oklahoma City Police Department #2

by Maggie Price

THE MAN SHE ALMOST MARRIED...

Was now Sergeant Julia Cruze's prime suspect in a heinous murder. Two years ago she wouldn't have believed millionaire Sloan Remington capable of killing anyone. But her heart had been broken, her trust betrayed -- her faith brutally shattered -- when this man she loved had jilted her .... TWO DAYS before their wedding.

Sloan was keeping secrets from her, Julia knew, but what she needed to discover was whether they had something to do with the investigation or everything to do with why he'd left her. Because every moment in his presence brought her one step closer to risking everything for one more kiss, one more touch....

256 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published January 1, 1998

About the author

Maggie Price turned to crime at the age of twenty-two. That's when she went to work at the Oklahoma City Police Department. As a civilian crime analyst, she evaluated suspects' methods of operation during the commission of robberies and sex crimes, and developed profiles on those suspects. During her tenure at OCPD, Maggie stood in lineups, snagged assignments to homicide task forces, established procedures for evidence submittal, even posed as the wife of an undercover officer in the investigation of a fortune teller.

Drawing on her twelve years experience in law enforcement, Maggie Price penned her debut novel, PRIME SUSPECT. One week after Silhouette Books acquired the novel of romance and intrigue, the Romance Writers of America awarded PRIME SUSPECT its prestigious Golden Heart Award for Best Romantic Suspense.

A RITA award finalist, Maggie is the winner of Romantic Times Magazine's career achievement award in series romantic suspense, a Booksellers' Best Award for romantic suspense and a National Readers Choice Award for romantic suspense.

Reviews

[Saly · Rating 4 out of 5]

Rating 3.5
I wasn't sure I would enjoy this book when I started it for quite some time because we had a lot of angst and animosity in the beginning and pure iciness from the hero and the heroine was engaged to marry and love with another guy but well at the end of it, it worked.

Sergeant Julia Cruze was madly in love and engaged to marry Sloan two years ago when he suddenly told her it was a lie and disappeared, leaving her broken and begging for him to come back but she has changed become harder and self-protecting and has moved on an engaged to marry another man when she is called to his company for a murder and is shocked to find he is back in the city.

Julia is tough with him, doubly so to show that he doesn't affect her and she believes that he is guilty but despite the hate she feels for him somewhere inside she doesn't believe he is guilty despite the fact that she keeps accusing him.
She soon finds out why he left herhe discovered he had cancer and didn't want to watch her wither like his mother did, when his father had cancer and she gets angrier that he took away her choice, devastating her.

Most of the book Sloan tries to convince himself he made the right decision, so what if he still loves her and has never even attempted to move on, she is better off without him in his life.

It was quite different reading a book where a hero hasn't moved on and a heroine totally has, but despite the hate that comes off Julia, there is deep love and hurt hiding beneath it and at the end that hero acknowledges he made a mistake leaving her.

This book is related toPrime Suspect since it is the same Homicide Division and the next book is about the fiancee she broke up with.

[Dinjolina]

Hmmm... a hero that has not moved one? Well! That is a new one! On to my tbr...

[Anita Rupe-Peters · Rating 4 out of 5]

I liked the characters, and I liked the plot. Very good story.