Lovestruck! Books in Order

On this page, Lovestruck! is the home for Susan Andersen's early suspense-leaning romance.

These books are not one long continuing storyline. They are separate adventures, but they share the same basic engine: danger is already in the room when the hero and heroine meet, and attraction has to fight for space beside fear, secrecy, and survival.

Across these stories, Andersen drops readers into very different worlds. Shadow Dance brings in a showgirl and a serial killer case. Obsessed centers on an emergency-room doctor and the cop next door. Present Danger follows a woman trying to outrun an ugly past. On Thin Ice moves into the world of skating and undercover investigation. Exposure puts a single mother and her daughter in a harbor town where hiding only works for so long. The details change, but the pressure stays high.

These stories move.

They also show what Andersen was doing early in her career that she kept doing well later on. Her heroines are not passive victims. Even when they are scared, watched, hunted, or badly cornered, they still have jobs, habits, opinions, and a will of their own. The heroes tend to be cops, agents, or other capable men with rough edges. Protection matters, but so does the question of whether either person can really trust the other.

The tone is a little darker and more suspense-forward than in some of her later comedic contemporaries. There are criminal cases, obsession, stalking, old scandals, and real physical threat. Even so, the books still feel recognizably hers. The dialogue is brisk, the chemistry is strong, and the emotional payoff matters as much as the mystery.

What makes this grouping interesting is that you can watch Andersen working with the bones of romantic suspense before she branched more fully into other kinds of contemporary romance. If you like your love stories with cops, danger, secrets, and a faster pulse, this is a good place to look.

They are all readable as standalones. There is no big cliffhanger to chase. Still, read together, they give a clear picture of Andersen's early style, sharp, energetic, and very interested in what happens when fear and desire arrive at the same time.