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Summary: WHEN A SHOCKING SCANDAL EXPOSES SOUTHERN SECRETS...
Review: "PURE READING PLEASURE ...SEXY AND CLEVER. (LINDA HOWARD, New York Times bestselling author) ............................. As the blazing heat of summer gives way to sultry September, a shroud of suspicion settles over Noble's Crossing, a sleepy Alabama town. Nothing is as it seems--and never will be again. Lane Noble Graham stands accused of murdering her ex-husband. And the one man who can help, Johnny Mack Cahill, vowed never to return to the town that scorned him--or the woman whose love he knew he didn't deserve. ...NO ONE IS SAFE FROM COLD-BLOODED MURDER... From the rusted-out trailers on the wrong side of the river to the stately pillared mansions along Magnolia Avenue, everybody has something to hide--but one secret could make Lane and Johnny Mack the next targets of a twisted killer who's struck once and is bent on striking again....
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Summary: Must Read
Review: After Dark is a can't-put-down read. Compelling characters, beautiful language and Ms. Barton's storytelling skills make it a pleasure to read--especially if you love hot Southern suspense! Don't miss this one!
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Summary: An excellent read
Review: After Dark is packed with secrets that keep you turning the pages. Just when you think you know whom the killer is, Ms. Barton changes your mind. This is a must read for the Romantic Suspense lovers. It grabs you and won't let go.The hero, Johnny Mack Cahill is every woman's dream who likes that "Bad Boy" image who makes good. Lane Noble Graham is the perfect heroine to every female who has ever sat on the sidelines and been left out. Both Lane and Johnny Mack exceed their circumstances and come into their own. Johnny Mack becomes as rich as his persecutors and turns the tables on them. He returns wheeling as much power as they do. They can no longer best him. It's a success story packed with suspense and secrets and most important of all a love to die for. A warm relationship builds and glows between the three main characters that you will become a part of. You do not want to miss this one. It's wonderful to curl up with next to a lit Christmas tree during the holidays. I thoroughly enjoyed it. I could not put this story down until I found out every detail, but I hated for it to end.
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Summary: Page Turner
Review: AFTER DARK was a compelling book, atmospheric and impossible to put down. Beverly Barton has a magic touch with the bad boy hero. I highly recommend this book.
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Summary: Steamy Southern Suspense at its finest!
Review: As a hugely popular category romance author, Beverly Barton has proven herself supremely skilled at creating small, scandal-ridden southern towns and three-dimensional southern characters. Her first single title romantic suspense novel lives up to her established readership's expectations, and then some. The atmospheric setting enhances the intrigue, and the rekindled romance is ultra-passionate. My guess is that the disappointed reviewers were looking for a straight suspense novel, rather than a romantic suspense novel, which is a genre in itself. This is a terrific romantic suspense read, and I can't wait to pick up Beverly's next one!
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Summary: A VERY GOOD READ!!!!!
Review: Beverly Barton is one of those authors I buy because of her name. It's not to often that she disappoints. Certainly not with this book. It was great.
Johnny Mack is summoned back to his home town by a letter telling him his son is in trouble. As he left town after someone tried to kill him, he has no knowledge of what has happened there, and he surely knows nothing about a son.
Arriving in town he discovers that one of his old flames was pregnant when he left. But the kicker is that his son was adopted at birth by the only woman he has ever loved. Not that he has ever told her. He respected her to much to touch her.
Now she is the chief suspect in the death of her abusive husband.
They had been divorced for several years. She only married him so she could save Johnny Mack's son.
During the 15 years he has been gone, Johnny has turned his life around and is a multi-millionaire. In a town where he was known as a piece of trash, the same people who hated him before, hate him now.
Facing the woman who has never forgotten him and his son is a new experience for a man who has kept himself seperate from emotional ties.
The search for the killer and the ties that remain from his past, lead us through a very unhappy childhood and finally to the actions that have lead up to these murders.
All in all a very good read.
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Summary: This is going to be Ms.Barton's break-out book
Review: Fifteen years ago Johnny Mack Cahill left his hometown of Noble's Crossing, Alabama, vowing to never return. Johnny settled in the Houston area and became a successful wealthy businessman. Now Johnny has received an anonymous note from his hometown, stating: "Your son needs you. Come home." Johnny never knew he had a child, but the accompanying picture from a newspaper article is that of a younger him. The mother being Lane Noble Graham also mystifies him since she is the only magnolia he failed to score with during his time in town. Finally, he cannot believe that Lane is the prime suspect in the murder of her former spouse as the article also says. Johnny returns to Noble Crossing to meet his son and to learn the truth about who the biological mother is, who sent the note, and who killed Kent. As he begins his search for answers, a killer will murder again to keep certain secrets hidden. As his love for Lane rekindles and she reciprocates, he remains stubbornly convinced that she is too good for him. AFTER DARK is an exciting southern romantic suspense tale. The story line is fast-paced as the mystery supplements a wrong side of the track romance. The support cast adds depth, atmosphere, and dark secrets to the stirring plot. The lead couple is the typical "good girl bad boy" mix yet Beverly Barton brings a feel of freshness to that theme in this engaging book. Harriet Klausner
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Summary: After Dark Dud
Review: I haven't read this author previously and the book was a disappointment. I will not reiterate the plot as it is well synopsed by previous reviewers. The mystery of who done it and the shocking "secret" were blatantly obvious by the first 100 pages. I read the end to confirm my hunches and tossed the book. The book is a series of cliches, the sex was sleazy, the language grating at times, and the atmosphere non- existent. The author would do well to read early Sandra Brown and Tami Hoag for suspenseful, sultry, southern mystery.
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Summary: Great
Review: I love her style of writing and will get all her books!
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Summary: Great
Review: I love romantic suspenses, but this didn't come close. The story concept was good, but the characters were so plastic. The sex wasn't romantic, just plain sleazy. And it wasn't hard to figure out what the secret was. The writing was simply amateurish. I recommend you read Tami Hoag, Sandra Brown, Nora Roberts, or Karen Robards instead.
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