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Secret Promises: Crossed Hearts / Threats and Promises
Two timeless love stories from a beloved New York Times bestselling author of contemporary women's fiction
Crossed Hearts
Garrick Rodenheiser got a second chance when he crawled away from an accident four years ago. He's been trying to move on with his life ever since, but when a rain-soaked, injured woman comes banging on the door of his remote cabin, everything changes. Leah Gates doesn't look like a reporter, but Garrick isn't sure he should let his guard down. Falling in love is the easy part—learning to trust again will be a different challenge entirely.
Threats and Promises
Strange accidents keep happening to Lauren Stevens, but she's so caught up in her new life that she doesn't notice until it's almost too late. On top of everything else, someone has definitely been in her house, going through her personal belongings. Just as Lauren starts to feel threatened, Matt Kruger appears, claiming to be a friend of her brother's. But her brother has been dead for more than a year, so why show up now? Something about Matt seems too charming…and he's too interested in Lauren. What is he really after?
Crossed Hearts
Garrick Rodenheiser got a second chance when he crawled away from an accident four years ago. He's been trying to move on with his life ever since, but when a rain-soaked, injured woman comes banging on the door of his remote cabin, everything changes. Leah Gates doesn't look like a reporter, but Garrick isn't sure he should let his guard down. Falling in love is the easy part—learning to trust again will be a different challenge entirely.
Threats and Promises
Strange accidents keep happening to Lauren Stevens, but she's so caught up in her new life that she doesn't notice until it's almost too late. On top of everything else, someone has definitely been in her house, going through her personal belongings. Just as Lauren starts to feel threatened, Matt Kruger appears, claiming to be a friend of her brother's. But her brother has been dead for more than a year, so why show up now? Something about Matt seems too charming…and he's too interested in Lauren. What is he really after?
- GenresRomance
496 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published September 30, 2014
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About the author
Barbara Delinsky
308 books4,362 followersI was born and raised in suburban Boston. My mother’s death, when I was eight, was the defining event of a childhood that was otherwise ordinary. I took piano lessons and flute lessons. I took ballroom dancing lessons. I went to summer camp through my fifteenth year (in Maine, which explains the setting of so many of my stories), then spent my sixteenth summer learning to type and to drive (two skills that have served me better than all of my other high school courses combined). I earned a B.A. in Psychology at Tufts University and an M.A. in Sociology at Boston College. The motivation behind the M.A. was sheer greed. My husband was just starting law school. We needed the money.
Following graduate school, I worked as a researcher with the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, and as a photographer and reporter for the Belmont Herald. I did the newspaper work after my first son was born. Since I was heavily into taking pictures of him, I worked for the paper to support that habit. Initially, I wrote only in a secondary capacity, to provide copy for the pictures I took. In time, I realized that I was better at writing than photography. I used both skills doing volunteer work for hospital groups, and have served on the Board of Directors of the Friends of the Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center and on the MGH’s Women’s Cancer Advisory Board.
I became an actual writer by fluke. My twins were four when, by chance, I happened on a newspaper article profiling three female writers. Intrigued, I spent three months researching, plotting, and writing my own book - and it sold.
My niche? I write about the emotional crises that we face in our lives. Readers identify with my characters. They know them. They are them. I'm an everyday woman writing about everyday people facing not-so-everyday challenges.
My novels are character-driven studies of marriage, parenthood, sibling rivalry, and friendship, and I’ve been blessed in having readers who buy them eagerly enough to put them on the major bestseller lists. One of my latest, Sweet Salt Air, came out in 2013. Blueprints, my second novel with St. Martin’s Press, became my 22nd New York Times bestselling novel soon after its release in June 2015. Making Up, my work in progress, will be published in 2018.
2018? Yikes. I didn’t think I’d live that long. I thought I’d die of breast cancer back in the 1900's, like my mom. But I didn’t. I was diagnosed nearly twenty years ago, had surgery and treatment, and here I am, stronger than ever and loving having authored yet another book, this one the non-fiction Uplift: Secrets From the Sisterhood of Breast Cancer Survivors. First published in 2001, Uplift is a handbook of practical tips and upbeat anecdotes that I compiled with the help of 350 breast cancer survivors, their families and friends. These survivors just ... blew me away! They gave me the book that I wish I’d had way back when I was diagnosed. There is no medical information here, nothing frightening, simply practical advice from friends who’ve had breast cancer. The 10th Anniversary Volume of Uplift is now in print. And the money I’ve made on the book? Every cent has gone to my charitable foundation, which funds an ongoing research fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital.
Connect with me on Facebook: facebook.com/bdelinsky
Look for my photos on Instagram: instagram.com/barbaradelinsky
Following graduate school, I worked as a researcher with the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, and as a photographer and reporter for the Belmont Herald. I did the newspaper work after my first son was born. Since I was heavily into taking pictures of him, I worked for the paper to support that habit. Initially, I wrote only in a secondary capacity, to provide copy for the pictures I took. In time, I realized that I was better at writing than photography. I used both skills doing volunteer work for hospital groups, and have served on the Board of Directors of the Friends of the Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center and on the MGH’s Women’s Cancer Advisory Board.
I became an actual writer by fluke. My twins were four when, by chance, I happened on a newspaper article profiling three female writers. Intrigued, I spent three months researching, plotting, and writing my own book - and it sold.
My niche? I write about the emotional crises that we face in our lives. Readers identify with my characters. They know them. They are them. I'm an everyday woman writing about everyday people facing not-so-everyday challenges.
My novels are character-driven studies of marriage, parenthood, sibling rivalry, and friendship, and I’ve been blessed in having readers who buy them eagerly enough to put them on the major bestseller lists. One of my latest, Sweet Salt Air, came out in 2013. Blueprints, my second novel with St. Martin’s Press, became my 22nd New York Times bestselling novel soon after its release in June 2015. Making Up, my work in progress, will be published in 2018.
2018? Yikes. I didn’t think I’d live that long. I thought I’d die of breast cancer back in the 1900's, like my mom. But I didn’t. I was diagnosed nearly twenty years ago, had surgery and treatment, and here I am, stronger than ever and loving having authored yet another book, this one the non-fiction Uplift: Secrets From the Sisterhood of Breast Cancer Survivors. First published in 2001, Uplift is a handbook of practical tips and upbeat anecdotes that I compiled with the help of 350 breast cancer survivors, their families and friends. These survivors just ... blew me away! They gave me the book that I wish I’d had way back when I was diagnosed. There is no medical information here, nothing frightening, simply practical advice from friends who’ve had breast cancer. The 10th Anniversary Volume of Uplift is now in print. And the money I’ve made on the book? Every cent has gone to my charitable foundation, which funds an ongoing research fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital.
Connect with me on Facebook: facebook.com/bdelinsky
Look for my photos on Instagram: instagram.com/barbaradelinsky
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December 11, 2019
Only read Crossed Hearts. A friend of Leah Gates offers to let her use a mountain cabin to live in until Leah finds a more permanent arrangement. When Leah arrives, she finds that all is not the same as she was lead to believe.
March 11, 2024
This book has two books within. They are both good reading.
March 2, 2015
I do love reading your books, Barbara, but this first story (there are 2 in this book)was going so well until it became filled with explicite sexual scenes that went on and on. Barbara's storylines are so interesting that it is not necessary for her to lower herself to x-rated love scenes. The second story was very good and more like the good writer that she is. I will continue to read more of her books in hope of quality stories that drew me to her books in the first place.
January 20, 2015
3.5 for the first, 2.5 for the second. I really enjoyed the first story but I felt like the characters' relationship progressed too quickly, making me feel somewhat disconnected from them. The second story wasn't terrible, but, again, the relationship between Lauren and Matt was rushed and not fully developed. The story was predictable and I was led through it without being able to think for myself.
October 26, 2015
Two novels: Crossed Hearts and Threats and Promises. Garrick Rodenheiser lives a solitary life in a mountain cabin. Leah Gates lands there in a huge storm ~ ~ 2. Lauren Stevens meets up with danger and intrigue after beautiful reconstructive surgery. Matt Kruger comes to the rescue. . .
September 5, 2016
There are two stories in this book. Crossed Hearts - pretty good read and typical of the style of story that Barbara Delinsky usually has. Threats and Promises - didn't enjoy it so much. The story was a bit far fetched and not had a lot of gaps in it.
May 20, 2014
This Author always delivers a good read.
October 12, 2015
The first story was ok, but the second story in the book was really good.
October 7, 2016
I thought the first story was boring so I skipped to the other story. For a short story it was a good one. A mystery love story. Good
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April 13, 2015I have read the first one, sometime i will come back for the second.
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