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Author: Marie-Nicole Ryan | Website

Marie-Nicole Ryan is an award winning erotic romantic suspense author. She's had a life-long love affair with books.She's a member of ROMANCE WRITERS OF AMERICA and MUSIC CITY ROMANCE WRITERS, and Published Authors Special Interest Chapter (PASIC).

She grew up in western Kentucky, and after living for many decades in Nashville, TN, returned to her old stomping grounds. She's a retired RN, but gave up her day job to write full time. 


Published Works & Book Reviews

Taming Talia

She'll take her pleasure hot...until it burns its way to the cold truth.

Over her not-so-dearly-departed husband’s grave, newly widowed Natalia Montrose vows to shake off the memories of her abusive marriage by bedding the first suitable man she meets. Enter handsome, flirtatious Jared Fields, who offers to help her manage her assets.

Natalia has no intention of giving up control of the ranch her father traded away—along with her hand—for gold. But she intends to enjoy this stranger’s advances until all her desires are sated.

Jared is a rarity among Pinkerton agents. Well educated, the disowned black sheep of a wealthy New York City family, he enjoys the freedom afforded by his various assignments. But discovering whether the fiery Widow Montrose had her husband killed is a challenge with an unexpected twist. All he can think about is what he’ll do when he gets her in bed.

Natalia and Jared circle each other warily, feeling the pull of sensual heat. But when the Blizzard of 1889 hits, the sexual sparks may not be enough to keep them warm...or alive.

Warning: Contains a sex-starved widow and a saddled-hardened Pinkerton agent who set the sheets afire.


Broken Promises

An FBI agent and a Mafia princess in love--career suicide.

FBI Special Agent Alex MacGregor has a bad habit of making and breaking promises. Over the years this habit has brought him heartbreak.and broken some hearts as well. But now his older sister has disappeared. Vowing to find her, he takes leave from the Chicago FBI field office's Violent Crimes Task Force and heads to upstate New York. This is one promise he'll keep. Even if it means facing Bette Smithson again, the beauty he rescued six months earlier and left behind with a kiss and a broken promise.

Reviewer: Shnoogiepoo
Review: Dec 9, 2011
Genre(s): Romantic Suspense
I loved the plot idea. What can I say, I'm a sucker for a man carrying a badge and gun, or wearing dog tags. When you find an alpha male who's done both... Hot. Alex is an FBI agent with the Chicago Violent Crimes Task Force. Bette is a mob princess avoiding her family ties like the plague. Before our story opens Alex met Bette and helped get her away from a stalker. He helped her relocate and got her a job

Holding Her Own

Pretending to be newlyweds is a dangerous game…particularly if you’re falling in love.

FBI Special Agent in Charge Caitlin Chaney believes in doing things strictly by the book. It’s the only way to prove she’s earned her rank despite her father’s position in the federal government. Just her luck, she’s been teamed with an agent who’s known for following his instincts, not the rules. To her way of thinking, Agent Jake LeFevre is a screw up and bound to trash her operation—and career.

Jake is used to running undercover ops his way, and he’s not too happy with his new boss—an accountant, no less, whose undercover experience is limited at best. He needs a partner who can hold her own, not a prima donna.

At first the sparks that fly between them aren’t the good kind. From the very beginning, their cover as madly-in-love newlyweds at a New Orleans casino is tested to the max. But as they work together to find a missing whistleblower in a money-laundering scheme, their admiration grows to respect—and something more.

Then Jake discovers the casino CFO is someone he loved as a teenager. If the woman recognizes him, things could go sideways, and fast—and in a way that could leave their bodies—and hearts—in pieces.

Reviewer: Melinda
Review: May 2, 2009
Genre(s): Romantic Suspense
Agent Caitlin Chaney will do anything she can to prove she is a good FBI agent. She has had to work hard because of who her father is. Everybody thinks she has special favors but nobody knows how hard she works like her pretend husband Agent Jake Lefevre. For years her life has been the FBI and work. Now living temporarily with Jake she wants more than just her work. Their job was to find the embezzler not to

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