The first book in the New Man in Town series, 2010

Dear Reader,

Years ago I wrote four romantic-suspense novels and always wanted to write more…just never had a chance. Secretive Stranger is the first in a Silhouette Romantic Suspense trilogy.

This one is Sophie’s story. As she and her sisters know well, sometimes you just can’t recover if your whole life was uprooted at a very young age. Sophie doesn’t willingly trust anyone or anything.

Cord starts out less a hero than a cattle prod. He isn’t who he says he is, and he can’t-or isn’t-telling her the truth. He’s the last man Sophie could possibly trust… but the one man she must trust, to heal her heart and reach out for love.

I hope you love the story-I loved writing it!

Jennifer Greene

One more block. That’s all Sophie Campbell had to walk. All right, so maybe it was pouring rain and she was juggling a satchel of heavy books and an overfilled grocery bag. So maybe she never dreamed October nights could be this cold in Virginia, and she was soaked to the bone, and darn it, her feet hurt. Still…she could make it that last block, couldn’t she?

A fat, pretty orange bounced out of the grocery sack and rolled down the sidewalk. When she instinctively shifted to grab it, a head of lettuce followed the orange.

Sophie opened her mouth to let out a scream of frustration-but, of course, she didn’t. As a little girl, she’d been the attention-grabbing drama princess of the family, but at twenty-eight, she’d long conquered those nuisance traits. She could stay steady and calm in a tornado. Everyone said so.