title: Stranded with the Detective (Tennessee SWAT)
author:  Lena Diaz 
description: "Everything happens at the right time, the romance never interferes with the suspense, and it feels genuine. STRANDED WITH THE DETECTIVE is smoothness itself!"-Fresh Fiction
zlib_text: > _Walking After Midnight_
  
  > > Karen Robards
  
  > Dell (1995)
  
  > * * *
  
  > Rating: ★★★★☆
  
  > Tags: Romance, Suspense, Contemporary
  
  > Romancettt Suspensettt Contemporaryttt
  
  The nude male body lay on the embalming table, battered beyond recognition.
  Gingerly, Summer McAfee, chairman, CEO, and sole employee of Daisy Fresh
  cleaning service, reached out to touch an arm to reassure herself that she
  hadn't just seen the corpse move. Suddenly, shockingly, her hand was in the
  viselike grip of a man very much alive and desperate enough to take her
  captive on a no-holds-barred run from cops, killers, and his own decidedly
  complicated past...
  
  Summer's former life as a New York lingerie model had gone south with her
  marriage, leaving her, at thirty-six, single and back home in Tennessee, on
  her hands and knees scrubbing other people's bathrooms. But the drab present
  vanishes in a flash as she's forced to flee into the Tennessee wilds with the
  stranger she calls Frankenstein, first as his captive, t