This is kind of a late post but I was just look­ing on Ama­zon and ran across Suzanne Brockmann’s upcom­ing orig­i­nal paper­back titled, INFAMOUS (July 2010). Looks like some type of west­ern but it clearly says that it’s a con­tem­po­rary romance with some sus­pense. My first reac­tion to the cover was shock and then glee. I was per­son­ally tired of her Navy SEAL books and was secretly wish­ing she would get back to writ­ing con­tem­po­rary romances.

Here is the synopsis:

When his­tory pro­fes­sor Ali­son Carter became a con­sul­tant to the film ver­sion of the Wild West leg­end she’d ded­i­cated her career to research­ing, she couldn’t pos­si­bly have known that she would not only get a front-row seat to a full-blown Hol­ly­wood cir­cus but would inno­cently wit­ness some­thing that would put her life in peril. Nor did she expect that a tall stranger in a cow­boy hat would turn the movie—and her world—completely upside down.

A. J. Gal­lagher didn’t crash the set in dusty Ari­zona to rub elbows with Hollywood’s élite. Unable to ignore ghosts from the past that refuse to stay buried, A. J. came to put an end to the false leg­end that has tar­nished the rep­u­ta­tion of his fam­ily. But when he con­fronts Ali­son, sparks fly. And when Ali­son is tar­geted by ruth­less crim­i­nals, sud­denly she and A .J. must face the intense attrac­tion that threat­ens to con­sume them—and sur­vive the dan­ger that threat­ens their very lives.

Hope the book’s con­tents is just as good as that cover seems to imply (to me any­way). One reader made men­tion that con­tem­po­rary romances are mak­ing a come­back. I was never really averse to con­tem­po­rary romances. I just found a lot of them very bor­ing. Con­flicts in most of them were for­mu­laic, pre­dictable and unin­ter­est­ing. I like sto­ries that cap­ti­vate me and chal­lenge me. I like my sto­ries dark and complex.

Ms. Brock­mann, don’t let me down. Other Brock­mann titles I’ve enjoyed that are maybe out of print or hard to find these days start­ing with her cat­e­gories The Admiral’s Bride and Love With the Proper Stranger and her sin­gle titles, Heart Throb and The Body Guard. Please note that I haven’t reread all of these titles so my warm fuzzy feel­ings stem from my mem­o­ries of these sto­ries from when I first read and enjoyed them.