Yum. Another Buchanan hero! Say no more. Well, we’ll whet your appetite just a bit… Here’s the thing. Slightly rumpled, laid back Chicago detective Alec Buchanan is totally fed up with his job and his boss, and has just been accepted for the FBI. As ‘punishment’ for the remainder of his time on the force, he’s relegated to babysitting duties when heiress Regan Madison receives an emailed murder photo. Ghastly! Things escalate when Regan and two friends attend a shonky seminar run by self-help guru Dr. Lawrence Shields, hoping to expose him for an opportunistic shyster.
In a self-help-obsessed inner healing (idiot) furore, the doctor advises his attendees to write their own personal murder list: Would your world be a better place if these people ceased to exist? Tongue in cheek, Regan does. Next thing, the people on her ‘murder list’ start turning up, dead! The murderer – horrific as it may sound – appears to be trying to please (and/or woo?) Regan! What a nightmare. It freaks Regan out and snaps Alec into alert, macho, Alpha mode. It’s a roller coaster of passion and suspense to the nail-biting, heart-pounding finale, when the murder list narrows to one last, chilling name. Start salivating girls, because when the action heats up, so do Alec and Regan. Something Julie Garwood does so well!