Buddy System — Caitlyn Willows

Genre: Romantic Suspense

Psychiatrist Declan Trent and Homicide Detective Pam Donaldson are both divorced and neither is anxious to become entangled in another romantic relationship. But then there's the sex angle. How can they obtain satisfying sexual liaisons without the entanglements that go with it? The answer is simple -- they will become sex buddies.

It's an arrangement that works exceedingly well. In fact, it sizzles. Never has either met a person they were more sexually compatible with -- trust, adventure, play, and soul-screaming fulfillment. Do they dare take step they swore they'd always avoid? Why not?

Then the murders begin. One by one Declan's patients are being eliminated. How far will their trust of each other go now? Especially when Pam views the crime scene photos and finds the victims bound to their beds, the killer having used the same type of knot Declan uses during their sex play.

Declan begins to have his own doubts. Did he harbor a future murderer years before when he refused to report his first wife for attacking him with a knife? Is she the culprit? She knew each victim. But so did Pam. Each victim also wasn't shy about her attraction to him. Now that he and Pam have moved into a romantic relationship, how does he know jealousy hasn't come into play?

As the pieces of the puzzle come together, they learn someone else has an agenda. Someone who will do anything, kill anyone, to keep Declan.