The herione lives in a privileged and insulated existence. It's a great palette cleanser after all my recent book porn bingeing. Everything is a tease and surprisingly I don't mind.

These two have great chemistry, but there is very little sex in this book.

This keeps throwing Francesca in the socially unacceptable path of New York's Police Commissioner, Rick Bragg. Eventually, her mother might change her mind when a neighbour's child comes up missing. She would rather spend time and energy participating in organizations that fix societal ills. Her mother Julia worries that unlike the other women in the family, she has absolutely no interest in the social whirl or snagging a husband. Francesca is the beautiful, but secret bluestocking daughter of 1900's industrialist Andrew Cahill. This book was a departure from her more well known historical romance novels. This is the first book in Brenda Joyce's Francesca Cahill mystery series. I read this a long time ago, and discovered a few significant forgotten plot points. Let me take you back in time to the lost, magical world of turn-of-the-century New York City-where the glittering mansions of society's elite are only footsteps away from the impoverished back alleys of the city'sunderbelly-and into the heart of true danger and even truer passion. But little does she know that on this singular night, he life will change forever. And Fracesca can no more stay out of this investigation than she can stop herself from falling love with the city's determined and powerful police commissioner. Francesca stumbles across the ransom note just as she meets New York City's newly appointed police commissioner, Rick Bragg. She refuses to bow to convention, wears her heart on her sleeve, and is determined to right the ills and injustices of society/ Deadly love begins Francesca's mad escapades when the neighbors' little boy is kidnapped right out of his bed during a society ball. Welcome to the world of Francesca Cahill, crime-solver extraordinaire. Joyce was born, and with it, the first book in an ongoing series, Deadly Love. Well, imagine my surprise when my 'muse' prompted me to begin a new historical romance suspense series-and then I realized a Bragg had to be the hero! And so the nom de plume B.D. To this day, many of you still clamor for more Bragg books. I have never lost sight, however, of my audience-my historical romance readers, and especially fans of my books featuring the Bragg family.

It has been an exciting literary journey-my writing has evolved in many unexpected way, including recently into the realm of powerful and suspenseful contemporary women's fiction, which I shall continue to write under my own name, Brenda Joyce. I never know where my 'muse' will take me next.

Deadly Love by Brenda Joyce