When romance collides with danger, sparks truly fly

It can be as simple as an ominous sound in the night. An unexpected knock at the door. A suspicious car parked across the street. You turn on all the lights in the house. Check the locks on the doors. Your heart races. A chill runs down your spine. Fear drowns out common sense. This…well, this has all the makings of a great romantic suspense novel.

Romantic suspense explores the dark places in our mind we’d like to keep locked away. The fears we all have. The sudden burst of danger, a step outside your norm. Romantic heroes and heroines are torn from their familiar worlds and thrust into nightmares, forced to navigate uncharted and perilous territory with little more than their brains, their courage and each other. And that's why as a writer, I love writing romantic suspense.

Romance and suspense make for strange bedfellows, don’t they? In real life, if you were caught in the crosshairs of a serial killer, chances are romance would be the last thing on your mind. In real life, disaster and romance are usually separated.

But in the romantic suspense novel, it’s the adrenalin rush that makes the story click. When the hero and heroine face heart-palpitating danger that’s when the romance, along with the story, truly take flight in the reader’s mind.

But defining the romantic suspense can be as different as the author and reader of the genre itself. There are those romantic suspense stories that delve into the dark and gritty world of serial killers and then there are those stories with only light elements of suspense. In other words, what I’m saying is there is something for just about everyone’s taste in this genre.

I hope you have enjoyed this glimpse into the dark abyss that is the great romantic suspense novels. But let me leave you with one last thought. Don’t forget to lock your doors because you never know what’s lurking out there in the shadows!



All the best...


Shadow Games - Available now at Champagne Books
Mary Eason
http://www.maryeason.com/