Missing You (The Lonesome Lawmen Book 3)

A lonely lawman finds love again. If only she could remember her name…

Denver Homicide detective Luke Kirby believed he’d found love and lost it. On the anniversary of his wife’s death, all he wants is peace and quiet, so he heads up to the family cabin in the mountains near Long’s Peak. Instead he finds trouble. A beautiful and mysterious woman has taken refuge in his cabin as a storm moves in, but there is a bigger storm brewing.

She’s lost her memory, but she hasn’t lost the trouble that landed her there.

With no memory of her name, and memories that don’t seem to connect, “Goldie” needs to find out if she’s a good girl or bad—and do it fast…though looking at Luke makes her wonder if being bad couldn’t be good…

To untangle this mess, the brothers Kirby must join forces before Luke’s heart troubles are ended permanently.

I’m a sucker for an amnesia story, even the ones that aren’t scientifically sound. I researched amnesia in the writing of this story. Not a lot of it made it onto the page, but it helped me feel confident that my fictional amnesia was as real as fictional amnesia can be.

I was a little freaked when an early editor for this book wanted me to rewrite the book without the amnesia. Because that would have been a completely different book. I’m glad I didn’t. I like this story. I had fun writing it. I even enjoyed writing some of the bad dudes and dealing with all the bad dudes. It’s very cathartic to deal with bad dudes in your fiction.

So, Luke finally got his girl. One of the fun things about being an author is taking two people who seem so wrong for each other and figuring out how to make them work as a couple. And live long enough to work as a couple. Yeah, that’s a challenge, too.

So, my LONESOME LAWMEN were supposed to be finished. And I did move on, but their widowed mama tapped her foot inside my head and I realized I had one (short) story left before I could close the book on the lonesome lawmen. It was fun writing the story and finding out how everyone was doing. And it was a nice way to celebrate the anniversary of THE LAST ENEMY.

I love writing romantic suspense, but I took a break from it to pen some action-adventure romance. That was fun, too. OUT OF TIME, my World War II time travel romance, was a total kick to write. While I try not to have favorites, if I did, OUT OF TIME would be one of them.

And how does one explain a sudden, right turn into outer space? I’m still a bit bemused about it, because I never considered myself at all scientific. And after writing five science fiction romance books, and two short stories in the my fictional universe, I’m pretty sure I was right. I’m not scientific. I totally make it all up.

I’m not done with outer space, or steampunk, but I am taking a break to revisit a city I love: New Orleans. And a genre I love: romantic suspense. THE BIG UNEASY is my latest romantic suspense, with RELATIVELY RISKY debuting as the first book in that series. More will follow.

To find out what and when, pop over to my website at paulinebjones.com.