DeLuca Family — Susan Rae

Fear makes your heart race, but passion can kill...
Dr. Elizabeth Iverson's plans for a sheltered, controlled life are shattered when she discovers her college roommate murdered in her apartment. When her former lover FBI Special Agent Drake McGuire shows up on her doorstep with the cops, he unleashes a storm in her heart that further threatens to destroy her world--especially when Drake insists on hanging around to help solve the case when it becomes apparent that Elizabeth was the intended target.

Book One in the Family DeLuca series, heartbeats introduces the close-knit Chicago Cop family in an intriguing tale that takes us from the teeming streets of Chicago to the rural cornfields of Northern Illinois.