Guarded Heart

Summary: "Fulton creates characters that live on in the memory, and in the heart." Bay Area ReporterLauren Douglas, closeted star of the hottest soap on daytime television, Dr. Kate, is about to sign a bloated new contract, when she is publicly outed. Scrambling for damage control, her network writes her out of the show and her father, a US Congressman, wants her out of the country. As if the slavering press doesn't have enou...gh to report, a creepy fan enraged by the revelation, shoots Lauren. This means zip to FBI Special Agent Pat Roussel whose hunt for the Kiddy Pageant Killer has consumed her for three years. Suffering from burnout, and hoping fresh eyes might come up with a new leads, Pat reluctantly takes herself off the case and goes on leave. Soon bored, she allows herself to be talked into a private security gig babysitting a celebrity. Her first assignment sounds like hell'a stint on a tropical island guarding a TV star with a bullet wound. It should be the easiest money she ever made, only Lauren is not the spoiled narcissist Pat was expecting. Erotic, funny, and insightful, A Guarded Heart, the fourth romance in the acclaimed Moon Island series, combines a passionate love story with a compelling mystery sub-plot. [read more]