In The Midnight Rain

A RITA award finalist for Best Contemporary Romance from Romance Writers of America. Barbara Samuel's first women's fiction, writing as Ruth Wind. LOOKING FOR THE PAST… Ellie Connor is a biographer with a special talent for piecing together fragments of the past. Her latest project, though, promises to be her most challenging–and personal. Not only is she researching the life of a blues singer who disappeared mysteriously forty years ago, but Ellie is also trying to find the truth about the parents she never knew. The love child of a restless woman who died young and an anonymous father, Ellie has little to go on but a faded postcard her mother sent from a small East Texas town–the hometown of her latest subject. COULD MEAN FINDING HER FUTURE It is there that Ellie meets Blue Reynard, a man with deep roots and wide connections who may help her find answers. With a piercing gaze and cool grin, Blue is as sultry and seductive as the Southern night air. Beneath his charming surface, however, lies a soul damaged by loss. Despite her better judgment, Ellie finds herself irresistibly drawn to Blue’s passion–and his pain. But Ellie’s been lured by sweet talk and hot kisses before. How can she possibly stay with blue when every instinct tells her to run?

Barbara Samuel, who also writes as Barbara O’Neal, has written more than 40 romance and women’s fiction novels. She is a Romance Writers Hall of Fame winner, with 7 RITAs to her credit and numerous bestsellers. One of her novels, How To Bake A Perfect Life, was a Target Club Pick. She loves to hear from readers at Barbara@barbaraoneal.com