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Originally Posted by Blossom
I want to just enjoy reading again after such a huge break and discover authors who are more my style. I don't have a TBR list anymore.
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We don't tend to have that much overlap in our taste in books, but have you looked at the Brown & DeLuca series by Maggie Shayne? I've read a couple of her old Harlequin romances and enjoyed them and I read a novella in this series that is free (I think it's #1.5 in the series). It looks like it's a slow burn romance and the focus is more on the suspense. It's not light/humorous though.
Also, I'd recommend Marie Force's Fatal series starting with Fatal Affair. The setup is somewhat similar to the In Death series although it isn't futuristic and the MCs are only superficially like Eve and Roarke. (She is a police lieutenant in Washington DC and he is the chief of staff for a Senator who gets murdered in the first book). There are some pretty steamy scenes between them, but the focus is on the murder investigation and on character development, not on the sex. This series is published by Carina Press and the ebooks go on sale occasionally. Also the first 8 books (out of 9) are in print so they might be available at the library or UBS.