<p><b>From “the queen of romantic suspense” (<i>The Columbus Dispatch</i>), #1 <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author Nora Roberts, two rival journalists become <i>Partners</i> while pursuing a story where they find themselves risking their lives—and their hearts.</b><br><br>New Orleans is a city of desire and danger. Investigative reporters Laurel Armand and Matthew Bates walk its streets and reveal its secrets in competing bylines. When they’re assigned to work together on a murder case, the underlying tension between them becomes undeniable passion. It is a distraction neither can afford professionally or personally. But as their partnership grows, so does the threat of a predator with an insatiable bloodlust…</p>