12 Thriller Romance Books to Get Your Heart Pounding in Every Way

Brad McKenna is on the run from brutal killers who want nothing more than to see him dead. A DEA agent, Brad seeks refuge in the Everglades, creeping further into the tangled wilderness.

But his luck catches up with him, and he is shot and left for dead.

Wendy Hawk lives a reclusive life in the wild and is cautious of the unconscious stranger she finds. However, she acts instinctively to save Brad’s life and provides him with shelter.

Now, with secrets and anonymity lingering between them, Wendy and Brad grow close as they both become targets of the lethal enemy. 

Embry Ford is living under the radar, hiding his identity after a tragedy shook his world.

He is desperate to understand what happened and to get vengeance on those who nearly destroyed him. He’ll do whatever it takes, even working for, and sleeping with, a man he hates. 

Brogan Smith is usually incredibly focused, and he takes his job as a bodyguard to an arms dealer very seriously. But when he sees his client’s hot assistant, Brogan can’t seem to forget him. 

Embry never meant to get his heart involved, but now he can’t imagine a life without Brogan. Can he be satisfied by love over revenge?

There’s a serial cop murderer on the loose, and Pittsburgh Police Officer Kate O’Hern will stop at nothing to catch him. He’s already killed Kate once, and she’s only alive thanks to a miracle at the hands of trauma surgeon Joshua Lightner. 

But ever since she was brought back to life, Kate’s experienced terrifying visions of others’ deaths. Joshua doesn’t believe in that kind of psychic power, but he can’t deny he is falling for Kate.

As Kate’s visions lead her closer to the killer and further into danger, she could face an end that can’t be reversed this time. 

When Violet Baker was a child, her friend Darlene was brutally murdered. The slaying has always haunted Violet and now, on the 20th anniversary of the death, Violet’s father is found dead with a note confessing to Darlene’s murder.

Believing that something isn’t adding up, Violet travels home to small-town Tennessee. 

Violet must handle being viewed as a murderer’s daughter while also navigating the growing attraction between her and Sheriff Grady Monroe, Darlene’s half-brother.

As it becomes apparent that Violet herself is in danger, they race to solve the mystery and Grady determines to protect Violet. 

Ex-Navy SEAL Tucker Frost’s own brother was the “Iceman,” a serial killer in Louisiana who was only stopped when Tucker saved his final victim, Dawn Alexander.

Since then, Tucker has become part of an elite profiling division within the FBI. When victims start being murdered by the same technique used by the Iceman, Tucker is sent back to Louisiana to get on the case. 

Back home, Tucker is faced with his connection with Dawn, which hasn’t fizzled despite the seven years that have passed since they last spoke. As they struggle to continue their desires they must face the truth that it appears as if the Iceman is back to hunt again. 

Lieutenant Reed Solliday has never seen anything like the current string of house fires plaguing Chicago in all of his time as a part of the Fire Department.

To make the case even worse, he’s been partnered with the bossy and controlling Detective Mia Mitchell. 

Mia believes that the arsonist is purposefully making the personal to their team. As the fires become more lethal, and the killer begins to target those close to Reed and Mia, the duo must learn to work closely together in order to save their loved ones and their own lives. 

Late-night radio show psychologist Rain Sommers is being plagued by a caller who has a terrifying obsession with Rain and her long-ago murdered famous singer mother. Rain is put even further on edge as an unrelenting serial killer known as the Vampire  preys on her home of New Orleans. 

FBI agent Trevor Rivette is convinced that the caller is the Vampire. As the Vampire embarks on a personal vendetta against Rain, she allows herself to be protected by Trevor and lets him get close to her.

When Trevor discovers that his hidden past is tangled with the disturbing events of the present, his life might be on the line as well.

Many years ago, Dani Pembroke’s mother, Lilli, vanished. Dani was made to live with her wealthy relatives who had their own shady and shadowy history.

The rest of the town of Saratoga, New York believes Lilli’s disappearance will never be solved, but Dani holds onto hope that she will find the truth. 

When security expert Zeke Cutler moves to Saratoga they embark on a mission to find out what really happened to Lilli.

But Zeke has his own connection to the case, and their search is putting them on a direct collision course with a killer hiding secrets of his own. 

After inheriting a fortune from her estranged brother’s death, Lauren Stevenson is able to start her life anew. She opens a successful store with her friend, buys a beautiful farmhouse, and even invests in plastic surgery to fix a medical problem and give her a whole new face. 

The last piece falls into place when Matt Kruger, a rugged builder and friend of her brother’s, comes into town and brings romance with him. Everything is working out until Lauren starts noticing some strange things.

Near death experiences, changes inside her house, and all kinds of new dangers lead Lauren to believe she’s being stalked. Someone is after her, or who they think she is. 

After accidentally seeing her ex-fiance, Lance, digging a grave in the woods, Cari North, an author, runs for her life to her house through a raging storm. 

Arriving home she receives the shock of her life: her family and home have both been completely blown away in the storm. 

On the run from Lance, Cari trades IDs and lives with her near-identical cousin. Trying to recover from injuries and start a new life as Susan, Cari takes shelter with Susan’s caring boss.

Cari chooses to plan her own plot to catch the killer and pull off a plot twist unlike any that even she could write. 

After Jillian Kincaid, the daughter of a wealthy businessman, begins receiving terrifying death threats, her father hires the sultry Nolan Garrett to be her bodyguard.

But Jillian is not an easy client, she’s tough, independent, and doesn’t need anyone’s help. 

As Jillian’s stalker becomes more and more dangerous, Nolan must stay close to ensure Jillian stays alive, even if she is pushing him back every step of the way. As the tension rises, their closeness and desires threaten to bubble over and put them both in danger. 

A dying woman asks lawyer Abigail James to look into the hit-and-run death of her beautiful sister Rosemary 50 years earlier.

Looking to the past, Abigail uncovers suspects, including a disappeared hoodlum and a judge who might get put on the Supreme Court.

As she grows closer to her partner on the case, Ross Stewart, Abigail finds that the past doesn’t always stay in the past. She must learn to trust and rely on Ross as new threats make it apparent that looking into Rosemary’s death might just lead Abigail straight into danger.