Captive Hearts

by Andrea R. Cooper

With the betrayal of her fiancé, Ruby has sworn off men. Except her heart has other ideas. Every day she becomes more attracted to Tommy, the man who taught her everything from martial arts to picking a lock to break into a safe. Her life's mission of bringing down the man and company who framed her father has been realized. Life should be normal with the true criminal behind bars...so why is someone trying to kill her?

Desperate to keep Ruby safe, Tommy needs to find out who hired the hitman after her. Time is running out as they flee New York to his hometown of New Orleans hoping to evade the ruthless adversary. Tommy has never admitted his feelings for her, but he can't stop the mounting desire the more time they spend together.

As the body count increases and Ruby is captured, Tommy must face the demons of both their past. Can she break free from the enemy within and without and accept his love?

Even though this is Book 2 of the Hearts series, it can be read as a stand alone book.

185 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 20, 2016

About the author

Andrea has always enjoyed creating characters and stories. But it wasn't until she was in her late twenties that she started writing novels.

What happened that ignited the writing flame in her fingers? Divorced, and disillusioned by love songs and stories. They exaggerate. She thought. Love and Romance are not like that in the real world. Then she met her husband and realized, yes love and romance are exactly like the songs and stories say. She is now a happy wife, and a mom to three kids (two boys and a girl).

Once she heard about a writer who never let her characters deviate from the script. If they did, she just killed them. How sad, she thought. For her one of the best parts of being a writer is letting the characters have a mind of their own and seeing where the story takes them.

She loves this quote from Robert Frost, which sums up her opinion on allowing the characters their freedom: “No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.”
― Robert Frost

Andrea writes fantasy, paranormal, and historical romance. When not writing or reading, one may find Andrea dancing in Zumba.

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She hopes you will enjoy the stories as much as she did writing them.

She believes in the power of change and counting each moment as a blessing. But most importantly, she believes in love.
Even if she has to fight for it.