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Hidden Passions #5
Just Before Dawn: A Forced Proximity Suspense Romance
HE DISTURBED HER SENSES
Her gruff neighbor unsettled Sara Murdoch with his mesmerizing stare. But when escalating threats proved Sara's childhood nightmares were only too real, Nat Sanderson took action. Why a reclusive mountain man knew how to secure a perimeter and soothe a woman's fears was a mystery Sara swore to solve once she and her daughter were safe.
The past he'd thought buried should have kept him away from a woman and child in danger. But when Nat held a shaken Sara in his arms, he knew his own worst nightmare had returned. He could no more refuse to protect them than he could deny that he and Sara would be lovers. Not with evil poised to strike...just before dawn.
256 pages, Kindle Edition
First published May 1, 2004
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About the author
Joanna Wayne
188 books60 followersReal name: Jo Ann Vest
Pseudonyms: Joanna Wayne.
Joanna Wayne began her professional writing career with the release of her first novel, DEEP IN THE BAYOU, in 1994, but Joanna will be the first to tell you that the wheels were set in motion years before. She started reading at four years of age, the same age that she began making weekly trips to the library to check out as many books as they’d let her have, only to finish reading them all before bedtime. That love of books never waned.
Joanna was born and raised in Shreveport, Louisiana and was the middle child of a large family. She moved to New Orleans, Louisiana in 1984 when she married her current husband. New Orleans opened up a whole new realm of activities and she found the mix of cultures, music, history, food and sultry southern classics along with her love of reading a natural impetus for beginning her writing career. It was there that she attended her first writing class and joined her first professional writing organization. From that point on, there was no looking back.
Now, forty published books later, Joanna has made a name for herself as being on the cutting edge of romantic suspense in both series and mainstream novels. She is known for the suspense and emotion she brings to the page, as she takes ordinary people and thrusts them into life-and-death situations. She has been on the Walden Bestselling List for romance and won many industry awards. She is a popular speaker at writing organizations and local community functions and has taught creative writing at the University of New Orleans Metropolitan College.
She currently resides in a small community forty miles north of Houston, Texas with her husband. Though she still has many family and emotional ties to Louisiana, she loves living in the Lone Star state.
Pseudonyms: Joanna Wayne.
Joanna Wayne began her professional writing career with the release of her first novel, DEEP IN THE BAYOU, in 1994, but Joanna will be the first to tell you that the wheels were set in motion years before. She started reading at four years of age, the same age that she began making weekly trips to the library to check out as many books as they’d let her have, only to finish reading them all before bedtime. That love of books never waned.
Joanna was born and raised in Shreveport, Louisiana and was the middle child of a large family. She moved to New Orleans, Louisiana in 1984 when she married her current husband. New Orleans opened up a whole new realm of activities and she found the mix of cultures, music, history, food and sultry southern classics along with her love of reading a natural impetus for beginning her writing career. It was there that she attended her first writing class and joined her first professional writing organization. From that point on, there was no looking back.
Now, forty published books later, Joanna has made a name for herself as being on the cutting edge of romantic suspense in both series and mainstream novels. She is known for the suspense and emotion she brings to the page, as she takes ordinary people and thrusts them into life-and-death situations. She has been on the Walden Bestselling List for romance and won many industry awards. She is a popular speaker at writing organizations and local community functions and has taught creative writing at the University of New Orleans Metropolitan College.
She currently resides in a small community forty miles north of Houston, Texas with her husband. Though she still has many family and emotional ties to Louisiana, she loves living in the Lone Star state.
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August 18, 2019
Nice writing style and a reasonably interesting plot. Good for some escapism.
April 15, 2019
Una historia corta que te mantendrá a la expectativa de que va ocurrir, a veces las pesadillas que tenemos son momentos vivimos que de una forma quiere que lo recuerdes. Sara una chica que tuvo una infancia nada fácil, termino en un orfanato donde personas que deberían brindarles cariño, compresión y amor eran todo lo contrario, marcan su vida desde muy pequeña y a pesar de los años le costara dejar esa vida atrás, me gusta como reacciona Nat a pesar de tener su lado oscuro de sufrimiento no desampara a su nueva vecina.
Kendra y Mackie son los personajes que me gustaron tiernos e inocentes, un buen complemento para la historia que al fin podrán dejar el sufrimiento atrás para empezar de nuevo y ser feliz por fin.
Kendra y Mackie son los personajes que me gustaron tiernos e inocentes, un buen complemento para la historia que al fin podrán dejar el sufrimiento atrás para empezar de nuevo y ser feliz por fin.
March 19, 2011
This book was just OK. You knew who the bad guys were the whole time, just didn't know how they would be caught. While I liked Sara and Nat, everything was just meh to me. At least it was a short read.
August 17, 2011
The plot was not very good, but Joanna knows how to tell a good story.
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