Awards for Romance or Retribution
2009 Golden Heart for Contemporary Series
Romance: Suspense/Adventure WINNER

2009 Daphne du Maurier Award for Excellence in
Mystery/Suspense HONORABLE MENTION

2008 Golden Rose for Contemporary Series
Romance: Suspense/Adventure THIRD PLACE
2009 Reveal Your Inner Vixen Series Contemporary
WINNER
Romance or Retribution

A 57,000-word romantic suspense in which a daring intelligence officer pursues a
mysterious Scotsman into the lair of the reclusive madman who killed her parents.

Undercover CIA officer Evangeline Quill stalks Oliver McCrea for one reason: the
handsome scoundrel can lead her to the untouchable shipping magnate who ordered her
parents’ assassination. She doesn’t want to see the pain in his golden eyes. Compassion for
an outlaw, however chivalrous he may be, won’t help her exact revenge on her nemesis.

But Evangeline is the first good thing that battle-weary McCrea has touched in five long
years, and even though he knows he should evade her pursuit, he can’t bring himself to
turn away from her. She reminds him of the man he used to be, a man he isn’t sure he can
ever be again, not with the ugliness of the underworld slowly disintegrating his humanity.

The closer they get, the hotter their forbidden desire becomes, but they’ll need more than
passion to escape a deadly trap set by the criminal mastermind who manipulates both their
lives.


Loving Abandon

A 55,000-word romantic suspense in which a lonely young attorney falls in love with
the charming CIA psychologist hunting for her estranged father, a government agent
suspected of treason.
Completed Manuscripts
Copyright 2009-2010 Jamie Michele
Award-winning writer of pulse-thumping romantic adventures
Award for Loving Abandon