Books by Jane Drager

In Manhattan for a special art course, small-town teacher Lauren Howell meets her roommate's gorgeous brother and sparks fly. Stiffed by an ex-fiancé and wary of another relationship, she establishes a rule-friends and only friends. City-bred and wealthy, entrepreneur Deems Lambert is fascinated by the fiercely independent Lauren and would love to make her New York stay easy. Her insistence on friendship proves puzzling, but he accepts her terms. An assault in Central Park changes everything. Deems discovers two men in hot pursuit of Lauren's backpack. When one man winds up dead, the other man attempts a desperate move, and Deems scrambles to tighten Lauren's security. Throwing the friendship pact out the window, Lauren turns to Deems for comfort, and their relationship grows hot and heavy fast. But Deems overlooked one security flaw. With Lauren's life in grave danger, Deems struggles to reach her before he's too late.

Teegan Smith, a bona fide genius, never intended to hide her identity, but Budd Richardson's assumptions about women got a bit under her skin. From the beginning, the attraction between them is strong. Teegan and Budd feel it...and Budd's stalker sees it. As a special ops agent for the FBI, Teegan is assigned to help capture the stalker, a dangerous killer whose body count rises with each encounter. She struggles in a triple role of protecting Budd, maintaining the secrecy of her job, and fighting an overwhelming desire to bed the man. The stalker sees through Teegan's charade and goes after her with a vengeance. A setup to capture the stalker turns into a disaster. Now more than ever will her training be put to the test. She must risk her very existence to defeat a criminal mastermind and race to save the man she loves.

Alexandra Colter wants peace, quiet and a chance to recuperate from an overwhelming work schedule. A vacation in the mountains fits the bill, but she never expects to fall in love. Unfortunately, her surgical career is several states away. With a huge student loan to repay, she needs a high-paying job to make ends meet. Charles, the mountain caretaker, falls for Alexandra. He asks her to stay, but a caretaker's salary is a pittance. He can't help with her debt. Yet, if he doesn't provide a solution, her vacation will end, and she will forever be out of his reach. Alexandra refuses to saddle Charles with her heavy debt, but how can she expect him to wait? Charles can't wait. With Alexandra's uncanny ability to uncover one mountain secret after another, he must tell her the mountain's biggest secret of all: his own.

In the beginning, they asked for nothing in return--but soon found everything they could possibly ask for... Dr. Alena Nichols believes love is forever--until she suffers a stroke and her fiance disappears without a word. Devastated, she wants nothing more than to be left alone, but when her ex skipped out, he left something behind that his partner is willing to kill to get. Treasury Agent Sam McCullen came to the east coast for one reason: retrieve the memory card that Alena's fiance stole. Looking for answers, Sam infiltrates the beautiful doctor's life, becoming her friend and protector. Scarred from a nasty divorce, Sam never wanted another relationship, but getting close to Alena makes him rethink everything. With danger closing in, they follow clues that only Alena can decipher to retrieve the memory card. But can they learn to look beyond the past and trust in love again?

Lt. Mitch Montero of the Philadelphia P.D. does not count romance as part of his life. Work is essential for Dr. Carisa MacDowell to handling her financial woes. Their collision on the street changes everything. Forced onto medical leave, Mitch invites the beautiful doctor to his family's estate in Geneva, New York. A whirlwind of events envelop them involving Mitch's overbearing sister, a lecherous cousin, and a teenager harboring his pregnant girlfriend. To add to Mitch's problems, his father looks like ash, and the dog's teeth keep falling out. Nothing prepares them for the murder of the groundskeeper. Their investigation leads to a child abduction enterprise and a fight for a child's life. Never more than now are Carisa's ER skills tested. Will the chaos cease long enough for Mitch and Carisa to explore their growing attraction?

Antiques expert Marina Cavanaugh is offered an exorbitant salary to appraise a dead man's estate. For a chance at easy money, she accepts the job but soon discovers hidden cameras in the darkest, gloomiest house she's ever seen.Jonathan Blandish, who hired her, wants to know why his murdered brother left a series of cryptic messages implicating Marina. Even a layman can see the house contains only rummage-sale junk. But his brother's forty-million-dollar fortune is missing, and Marina is the key.From the second they meet, Marina and Jonathan are at odds. He's too bossy and reminds her of her abusive father. She's too independent…and too beautiful for him to ignore. A second murder and Marina's disappearance raises the danger level. Convinced she was captured for the clues in the riddles, Jonathan races against time to find her before the killer realizes she knows nothing at all.