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Tell Me Something: Suspenseful Romance

by Charli Cotner

A homecoming shadowed by old loss and a new killing

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A homecoming shadowed by old loss and a new killing

Set in Cedar Cove, Maine, this contemporary romantic suspense novel brings a journalist back to the town where her parents and first love were murdered ten years earlier. Her return to care for her injured grandmother coincides with another killing on the anniversary of the earlier crime, drawing her investigative instincts into a case that reopens long-held fears. The central tension runs through competing trust: Sheriff Jack Mercer offers protection but keeps his own secrets, while Reed’s resemblance to her lost love makes him an especially unsettling presence. Romance and danger are closely entwined as the narrator weighs attraction, suspicion, and the risks of uncovering what Cedar Cove conceals.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Adults who enjoy contemporary romance blended with murder-mystery stakes
  • Readers interested in small-town secrets and return-to-hometown premises
  • Fans of romantic suspense centered on mistrust and competing romantic interests

Themes

Grief and unresolved traumaSmall-town secretsMurder investigationTrust and suspicionRomance under threat

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Book overview

Returning to Cedar Cove, Maine, wasn't on my bingo card for this year or, well, any year. This town is less "quaint seaside charm" and more "where all my worst memories live." But my grams took a bad fall, so here I am back where my parents and my first love were murdered a decade ago. A real Hallmark homecoming.

 

I barely unpack before another murder rocks the town, on the exact anniversary of the one that wrecked my life. I'd say I'm here to help, but honestly? It's my journalist instincts that won't let me walk away. Cedar Cove's new sheriff, Jack Mercer, thinks I'm in over my head. He's infuriatingly good-looking, disarmingly nice, and doesn't seem half as grumpy around me as he does around everyone else. Annoying.

 

Then there's Reed. He's tall, dark, and unsettlingly similar to Rhett - the type of guy I should be avoiding at all costs. Now I've got two men in my life: One who's paid to keep the town safe, and another who's setting off every alarm in my head. Both of them are hiding something, and if history is any indication, trusting the wrong person here could be lethal.

 

In Cedar Cove, love can be murder. And if I'm not careful, I might be next.

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