Rapid Fire

#928 Bear Claw Creek Crime Lab

by Jessica Andersen

Harlequin (Intrigue)

Contemporary Romance, Contemporary Romance: Romantic Suspense, Contemporary Romance: Category Romance

July 11, 2006

ISBN-13: 0373229283

Available in: Paperback

Rapid Fire
by Jessica Andersen

With her badge and her reputation on the line, criminal psych specialist Maya Cooper vowed to catch the serial killer whose attacks plagued Bear Claw Creek. She had no choice—she was his next target!

Now, to catch the madman, she'd need Thorne Coleridge's help. But trusting Thorne had never been easy for Maya. Her former police academy instructor was the one man who knew the secrets of a past she'd worked hard to forget. And remembering what they might have had together threatened the safety of Thorne's protection. Protection that was the only thing keeping her from falling prey to the killer's deadly scheme.

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Jessica Andersen's Bio

Me in five hundred words or less. . .

When I finished grad school with a PhD in Genetics, a Patent Agent's registration from the U.S. Patent and Trade Office and a finished (albeit deeply flawed) romantic suspense manuscript, I realized something kinda scary. . . I didn't want to work in a big Boston law firm, a genetics lab or a pharma company. I wanted to write romantic thrillers for a living.

Thankfully, my fiance, Brian, supported the idea (phew!). He even petitioned his company for domestic partners' health insurance so I could leave the lab to write full time, while working as a scientific editor to keep some $$ coming in.

I started writing seriously in 1998 and got The Call from Harlequin Intrigue in the spring of 2002. Dr. Bodyguard came out in the fall of 2003, and since then I've written more than a dozen Intrigues that have been translated into a variety of languages and have sold over a million copies in total. I've been nominated for a Romantic Times Reviewer's Choice Award and two RITA awards, and hit the Waldenbooks bestseller list.

These days, I'm working on several Intrigues as well as a dark paranormal series set in the final four years before December 21, 2012, the day the ancient Maya predicted the world would end. The first of the Final Prophecy books, NIGHTKEEPERS, is scheduled for release in June 2008 as a lead title for Signet Eclipse!