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Now You See Her
456 pages
A steamy, dream-drenched romantic thriller where passion and paranoia bleed onto the canvas.
What it feels like
Reading this book feels like stepping into a fever dream where the lines between passion, creativity, and danger are dangerously blurred. The narrative moves at a brisk, urgent pace, pulling you through a sensory-rich atmosphere drenched in vivid colors and unsettling premonitions. Linda Howard balances the steamy, high-stakes romance with a genuinely tense psychological mystery, making the reader feel the protagonist's growing paranoia and disorientation. The prose is visceral and visual, perfectly capturing the obsessive nature of an artist losing her grip on reality. It is a perfect fit for readers who crave romantic suspense with a touch of the psychic and the surreal, delivering a satisfying blend of heat, mystery, and adrenaline.
- Mood
- dreamlike
- tense
- steamy
- unsettling
- Tone
- suspenseful
- sensual
- urgent
- mysterious
- Pace
- brisk
- Themes
- blurring of reality and dreams · creative obsession · trust and betrayal · sudden passion · unconscious knowledge
- The writing
- Vivid and sensory, leaning heavily into visual descriptions and visceral emotional reactions to build both romance and suspense.
- The arc
- Moves from a restless, creative contentment into a disorienting spiral of passion and paranoia, culminating in a tense fight for survival and clarity.
- Who it's for
- Readers who love a blend of steamy contemporary romance and psychological thriller, especially with a touch of the paranormal or psychic.
Content notes
- murder
- graphic violence
- gaslighting
- sexual content
About the book
A talented painter in her early thirties, Paris Sweeney has achieved enviable success: her work sells at an exclusive New York City gallery, and her popularity is at an all-time high. Life is good, and Sweeney, as she prefers to be called, is content.
But lately, Sweeney's dreams--lush, vivid, and drenched in vibrant hues--seem to echo a growing restlessness that has taken hold of her. Suddenly, impulsively, Sweeney falls into a night of intense passion with millionaire Richard Worth. Now, the true dangers of her all-consuming urges are about to be revealed where Sweeney least expects it: in her paintings.
After a creative frenzy she can barely recall, Sweeney discovers she has rendered a disturbing image-a graphic murder scene. Against her better instincts, she returns to the canvas time and again, filling out each chilling detail piece by piece. But when a shattering, real-life murder mirrors her creation, Sweeney falls under suspicion. With every stroke of her brush, she risks incriminating herself with her inexplicable knowledge of a deadly crime. And every desire--including her hunger for Richard--is loaded with uncertainty as Sweeney races to unmask a killer.
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