Deadly Love
A Francesca Cahill Novel
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- $18.99
Publisher Description
Deadly Love: A Thrilling Historical Romance in Turn-of-the-Century New York
Step back in time to the lost, magical world of turn-of-the-century New York City, where glittering mansions of society's elite are just footsteps away from the impoverished back alleys of the city's underbelly. On January 18, 1902, during a society ball, a little boy is kidnapped right out of his bed. Crime-solver extraordinaire Francesca Cahill stumbles across the ransom note just as she meets New York City's newly appointed police commissioner, Rick Bragg.
Francesca refuses to bow to convention and is determined to right the ills and injustices of society. She can no more stay out of this investigation than she can stop herself from falling in love with the city's powerful police commissioner. But little does she know that on this singular night, her life will change forever.
Deadly Love is the first book in an ongoing historical romance suspense series from B.D. Joyce (a.k.a. Brenda Joyce), featuring the beloved Bragg family. Immerse yourself in a world of true danger and even truer passion as Francesca and Rick navigate a web of intrigue, deception, and desire.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Seasoned historical romance writer Brenda Joyce recently branched out into contemporary fiction with a new series (House of Dreams), written under the pseudonym B.D. Joyce. Beautiful socialite Francesca Cahill is a determined bluestocking who prefers learning and good causes to society's dizzying whirl. As a reluctant guest at a family ball, she meets New York's handsome, young, but feckless police commissioner, Rick Bragg, while unbeknownst to both of them, a young child is being abducted next door. Soon a series of cryptic notes begins to arrive, each more terrifying than the last. Francesca jumps into crime-solving, and in the process moves from tentative friendship to passion with the dynamic but mysterious Bragg. The implausible crime (for example, how did the child's abductor--his father, an ineffectual socialite--get hold of the tip of an unidentified person's ear?) and its flimsy resolution are unsatisfying, even for a lighthearted book. In contrast, Joyce excels at creating twists and turns in her characters' personal lives. The steamy revelations that confront Francesca as she probes into the secrets of friends and family are genuinely intriguing, and just enough of them are left unresolved at the book's end to leave readers waiting eagerly for the series' next installment.
