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Secret Lover
A mysterious and sexy stranger
Andrea Sinclair found herself inexplicably drawn to Jim Richards--mind and body--as if she already knew him. His hair and face were wrong, but there was something about the man... Was he the one she'd been searching for ever since he left the Witness Protection Program with a price on his head?
Jim had been alone for too long--alone and lonely. He couldn't help fantasizing about Andi, though she represented life-threatening danger to him. She knew everything about him--everything he'd carefully tried to erase. Could he trust her to help him find the killer who pursued him...? He didn't have a choice. His heart wouldn't let him leave her.
Andrea Sinclair found herself inexplicably drawn to Jim Richards--mind and body--as if she already knew him. His hair and face were wrong, but there was something about the man... Was he the one she'd been searching for ever since he left the Witness Protection Program with a price on his head?
Jim had been alone for too long--alone and lonely. He couldn't help fantasizing about Andi, though she represented life-threatening danger to him. She knew everything about him--everything he'd carefully tried to erase. Could he trust her to help him find the killer who pursued him...? He didn't have a choice. His heart wouldn't let him leave her.
- GenresRomance
256 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published May 1, 1999
12 people want to read
About the author
Shawna Delacorte
70 books11 followersShawna Delacorte has lived most of her life in Los Angeles, California. Even though she earned her living for many years by working in television production, she's always been interested in writing. However, writing novels was the furthest thing from her mind when she made her first serious attempt at putting fingers to keyboard with the hope of creating something that would catch an editor's attention. She combined her interest in writing with her longtime avocation of photography and began doing magazine articles.
In 1991 Silhouette books purchased Sarah and the Stranger, her first published novel, for their Desire line with a release date of August, 1992. She was honored with the Waldenbooks award for Bestselling Series Romance by a New Author. The award was presented at the Romance Writers of America National Conference in 1993. She has since appeared numerous times on the Waldenbooks Bestseller List and has been included on the USA TODAY Bestseller List.
She has always loved mysteries — novels, movies, plays — and has participated in several interactive murder mystery games, one of them on a train from Chicago to New York. So she naturally expanded her writing to include romantic suspense and straight mysteries.
In November, 1994, she made the career change to write full time. She is temporarily residing in Wichita, Kansas. She still does some photography. She loves to travel and particularly enjoys visiting England as often as possible. In addition to writing full time, she also teaches an eight-week fiction writing class twice a year in the Continuing Adult Education Non Credit classes department at Wichita State University.
Shawna enjoys hearing from her readers and can be reached at 6505 E. Central, Box #300, Wichita, KS 67206, or by email at ShawnaDelacorte@aol.com.
In 1991 Silhouette books purchased Sarah and the Stranger, her first published novel, for their Desire line with a release date of August, 1992. She was honored with the Waldenbooks award for Bestselling Series Romance by a New Author. The award was presented at the Romance Writers of America National Conference in 1993. She has since appeared numerous times on the Waldenbooks Bestseller List and has been included on the USA TODAY Bestseller List.
She has always loved mysteries — novels, movies, plays — and has participated in several interactive murder mystery games, one of them on a train from Chicago to New York. So she naturally expanded her writing to include romantic suspense and straight mysteries.
In November, 1994, she made the career change to write full time. She is temporarily residing in Wichita, Kansas. She still does some photography. She loves to travel and particularly enjoys visiting England as often as possible. In addition to writing full time, she also teaches an eight-week fiction writing class twice a year in the Continuing Adult Education Non Credit classes department at Wichita State University.
Shawna enjoys hearing from her readers and can be reached at 6505 E. Central, Box #300, Wichita, KS 67206, or by email at ShawnaDelacorte@aol.com.
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April 17, 2018
Who were the main characters of this book again?
July 20, 1999
With a confusing mystery and a hero and heroine who get shoved to the sidelines, "Secret Lover" really fails to satisfy on any level. While preparing to write a book, Andi Sinclair meets a mysterious man with a dangerous secret. Once we find out Jim's secret, we get to see all of the suspects and minor players doing mysterious things, with no clue which will turn out to be sinister and which are red herrings. In the end, it's just too much. Even when we find out who the bad guys are, I was unable to backtrack and figure out what all of those red herrings must have meant.
But the biggest problem is that all the attention that's given to the secondary characters leaves our hero and heroine out of the picture. Jim and Andrea really don't do anything. Their love is established early on, and they basically stand around while all the minor players work themselves into a frenzy for the rest of the book. They never act--they just react--and that means they're not really dynamic characters in any way. When a "secondary" character like Steve gets more action and story time than our hero and heroine, while all Jim gets to do is threaten to go on the run over and over and over again, it's kind of hard to stay involved in the story. It's not romantic and it's too confusing to be suspenseful...how does this qualify as romantic suspense? Add in the fact that the premise and the setup for the finale are both very contrived, and "Secret Lover" really misses the mark.
July 20, 1999
With a confusing mystery and a hero and heroine who get shoved to the sidelines, "Secret Lover" really fails to satisfy on any level. While preparing to write a book, Andi Sinclair meets a mysterious man with a dangerous secret. Once we find out Jim's secret, we get to see all of the suspects and minor players doing mysterious things, with no clue which will turn out to be sinister and which are red herrings. In the end, it's just too much. Even when we find out who the bad guys are, I was unable to backtrack and figure out what all of those red herrings must have meant.
But the biggest problem is that all the attention that's given to the secondary characters leaves our hero and heroine out of the picture. Jim and Andrea really don't do anything. Their love is established early on, and they basically stand around while all the minor players work themselves into a frenzy for the rest of the book. They never act--they just react--and that means they're not really dynamic characters in any way. When a "secondary" character like Steve gets more action and story time than our hero and heroine, while all Jim gets to do is threaten to go on the run over and over and over again, it's kind of hard to stay involved in the story. It's not romantic and it's too confusing to be suspenseful...how does this qualify as romantic suspense? Add in the fact that the premise and the setup for the finale are both very contrived, and "Secret Lover" really misses the mark.
March 22, 2019
This one kept me guessing until the end. Of course, these characters do stuff that get them into sticky situations, well, she does. I can see why though. If, under the same circumstances, I would probably do the same thing. But me as the reader, was thinking, no, you are an idiot, don't do that. LOL Oh well, that is the nature of the romantic suspense novel. :D
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