Erica Spindler (born 1957) is a New York Times Best-Selling author, who specializes in romantic thrillers. Personal life Spindler was raised in Rockford, Illinois. She lives with her husband, an advertisement executive, and their two sons in New Orleans, Louisiana. Spindler had planned on becoming an artist, earning a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Delta State University and a Master of Fine Arts from the University of New Orleans in the visual arts. In June 1982, while she was in bed with a cold, she picked up a romance novel for relief from daytime television. She was immediately hooked and soon decided to try to write one herself. She leaped from romance to suspense in 1996 with her novel Forbidden Fruit. Bibliography Novels Heaven Sent (1987) Longer Than (1991) Baby Mine (1992) Tempting Chance (1993) Baby, Come Back (1994) Slow Heat (1995) Red (1995) Forbidden Fruit (1996) Fortune (1997) Shocking Pink (1998) Cause for Alarm (1999) All Fall Down (2000) Bone Cold (2001) Dead Run (2002) In Silence (2003) Blood Vines (2010) Justice for Sara (2013) The First Wife (2015) The Other Girl (2017) The Look-Alike (2020) Series Opposites Attract Chances Are (1989) Read Between the Lines (1989) Rhyme Or Reason (1990) Wishing Moon (1991) Blossoms of the South A Winter's Rose (1992) Magnolia Dawn (1993) Night Jasmine (1993) Stacy Killian See Jane Die (2004) Killer Takes All (2005) Last Known Victim (2007) Watch Me Die (2012) Kitt Lundgren Copycat (2006) Breakneck (2008) The Lightkeepers "Random Acts" (2015) in Sweet Dreams Boxed Set The Final Seven (2016) Triple Six (2017) (aka If You Dare) Fallen Five (2018) References American thriller writers Living people 1957 births American women novelists Writers from Rockford, Illinois Writers from New Orleans University of New Orleans alumni American romantic fiction novelists Women romantic fiction writers 20th-century American novelists 20th-century American women writers 21st-century American novelists 21st-century American women writers Women thriller writers Novelists from Illinois Novelists from Louisiana