Readers' Crown contest for Best Romantic Suspense. To be qualified to earn the coveted prize, a book (published in 2011), must score higher than 8.0 on twenty questions provided to six randomly selected reader judges. This year's winners were the best of the best! NEW FORMATTING! Lies have consequences… Twelve years ago, Max Crayton had no choices. Honor bound to hunt a traitor, the government declared him dead to the outside world. He completed his mission, but lost the only woman he ever loved and a child he never knew existed. And so does breaking a woman’s heart… Max was her life, her very heartbeat. After his death, alone and haunted by a dangerous past, Kat Jannsen made the ultimate sacrifice to keep their daughter safe. When Kat discovers Max is alive her carefully constructed jigsaw puzzle life is torn to pieces. But an old enemy has been watching…waiting to strike. As the danger mounts, she has nowhere to turn but to Max. She can trust him with her life, but does she dare trust him with her heart?

Falling in love can be deadly... Maria Lucano didn't want to be a vigilante, but when she lost her sister to a vicious crime family and then her husband to an assassin, she vowed that no innocent would ever suffer as she has. Seven years later she is close to her goal and has tracked down the final link to the sniper who murdered her beloved husband in cold blood, a dangerously sexy man code-named Ghost. When a traitor cost the Black Fire team the lives of four good men, Greg Lassiter reluctantly agreed to put his gift for Intel to work and to take over the unit. His primary job is to hunt and eliminate further threats. The beautiful Maria is definitely a threat; she knows too much, has too many secrets, and instantly wakens his long dead heart. He knows two things for sure: the bad guys desperately want her dead, and he'll risk anything to untangle the complex web of lies, deceit and murder surrounding them. He must, because somewhere in-between the mind-blowing kiss that saved his life and when they blew up her truck, he took the ultimate risk...he fell in love. Now nothing will stop him from keeping the seductive beauty by his side forever.

Maggie Chambers didn't want to help with the bank robbery, but to keep her sister safe she was forced to commit a horrible crime. Now she's on the run with nothing but her wits and her secrets to keep her alive. She'll do anything, even disappear, to protect someone she loves. Trouble is, Jack Myles makes her dream the impossible...stop running and finally trust someone with the truth. Jack Myles is one of the FBI's best trackers. The beautiful but elusive Maggie has haunted him day and night for two years. He's finally closing in, solving the puzzle, and uncovering all of her secrets. Now that she's in his sight, he can't let her go. Trouble is, he's not the only one hunting her...