With Me in Seattle Universe Books in Order

Leigh Lennon's entry in the With Me in Seattle Universe, Forbidden With Me, leans more openly into romantic suspense than many of her other books. It still has the emotional intensity her readers expect, but this time the love story is tied directly to a criminal case and a past tragedy that never really stayed buried.

The story centers on Wells and Malia. He is connected to the trauma that changed her life when she was a child, and years later their paths cross again as a similar string of murders begins to haunt Seattle. That setup gives the romance a built-in unease. Their attraction is real, but so are the memories, the danger, and the question of whether the past can ever stop shaping the present.

The Seattle setting helps the mood. This is a city book in the best way, professional lives, police work, old family ties, and a social world that makes the stakes feel immediate. Even when the romance turns tender, there is still a case unfolding around it, which keeps the pacing tighter than in Lennon's more purely contemporary series.

The forbidden element matters, too. Wells and Malia are not simply falling in love at the wrong time. Their history makes the relationship feel complicated from the start, and Lennon uses that complication to keep both characters emotionally off balance.

If you want romance with suspense threaded through it, this page is the one to open. It is protective, dangerous, emotional, and full of the feeling that love might be possible only if the truth finally comes out.