In Calem, the first of the New York’s Finest series from contemporary romance author Christopher Harlan, a renowned psychologist and an embattled NYPD detective join forces to end the city’s reign of terror, finding salvation and love in each other’s arms in the process.Dr. Cordelia Summers is a brilliant psychologist. Well respected among her peers and patients alike, she lives only to help … to help others with their problems. While consulting with her colleague on a case, she realizes that her feelings towards him are more than just friendly.
Enter Detective Calem Walters: brave, intelligent, and a reluctant hero, he’s the best the NYPD has to offer. He’s worked some of the city’s most dangerous cases and his latest may be the worst. His self-sacrificing nature calls him to duty, but he’s struggling with the stress of a failed relationship, and the burden of a long chase with one of the worst criminals of his storied career. Can Cordelia help unburden him and help him catch the man who holds the city in his grasp? And does he share her romantic feelings?
A Happily Ever After (HEA) contemporary romance series with each book set in a different borough, the New York’s Finest series will follow the interconnected lives and loves of five NYPD officers. The events of book 1 take place in Manhattan. Book 2, Jesse, will be released in the fall of 2017, and will be set in Queens, the author’s home borough.
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This is the first of this author i have read and won’t be the last!.
I really enjoyed this story of dedicated Detective Calem and Cordy, a well known psychologist. While working together to catch a serial rapist, their friendship starts to change, as they both realise that their feelings for each other are more than each may be willing to admit. But are they both ready to risk their friendship?
With action, drama, mystery and some seriously steamy scenes, this book has everything you could want!!
The whole New York City’s Finest series is such a great, quick read. Taking you through the boroughs with these alpha men who want to help, to fix, to save. These characters make you wish the world around you was like this family of men are. Each man has his own story but the big picture story when you finish all the books warms your heart and gives you hope that there are chivalrous men out there still.
Calem was a well written story, set in modern times which made it believable. I enjoyed the characters, their professions and their personalities. The story had me catching my breath a couple of times. At first I had trouble getting into the story. Maybe there was a bit more description than I needed. Author Christopher Harlan is a new to me author, but I will enjoy reading more from him.
Calem is the first book in the New York’s Finest series of 5 books by Christopher Harlan. It is a romance novel with a happy ending, and it is about a detective named Calem Walters who works as a homicide detective in Manhattan. Calem and his partner, Jesse, are trying to find and arrest a serial rapist, torturer, and sometimes murderer of women. Calem is extremely stressed because he feels a lot of pressure from his boss, but mostly from himself, to catch the guy responsible for these horrific crimes. Dr. Cordelia Summers is a psychologist who is in private practice, has a good heart, and truly wants to help people. But also Cordelia has been working with Calem and Jesse trying to identify any similarities between the serial rape cases, and trying to find anything that might lead them to the psychopath committing these horrible acts before another woman is harmed. Along the way, Cordelia becomes romantically attracted to Calem and is not quite sure if he is sending signals that he might also be attracted to her.
I really enjoyed this book! Christopher Harlan has written strong characters, describing their backgrounds in detail. I enjoyed the friendship between Calem and Cordelia, and the natural progression that they take to flirtation. I also liked how the characters have a sense of humor, and how they dealt with their stress with that sense of humor, which is a natural way for people who work in high stress professions to be able to deal with their stress. All of these things made the story so much more believable, and one of the reasons why the book is so good! I definitely would recommend this book to all lovers of a great romance!
Calem Walters and Dr. Cordelia Summers share a common goal of helping people. Calem is a detective with the NYPD and Cordelia is a brilliant, compassionate psychologist. They both listen to and observe people before coming to a conclusion as to how to proceed. Cordelia often assists Calem with his cases, which has brought them closer together. Calem has been promoted swiftly through the department after closing many difficult cases.
A serial rapist/murderer is terrorizing the women of Manhattan and Calem is obsessed with putting an end to the violence. He dislikes it when people refer to him as a hero, because he feels guilty for the victims he could not save. Cordelia, since getting to know Calem, thinks of him as her hero and she always will. The attraction they have for each other is fierce, but they are reluctant to act on it because they don’t know if the other reciprocates the feeling.
When the rapist strikes again, leaving the victim clinging to life, Calem realizes that he needs Cordelia’s help more than ever. He texts Cordelia and asked her to meet him at the station. When she walked into the conference room, she gasped and dropped her coffee. She saw the pictures of the victim and recognized her as one of her patients. Calem was upset for Cordelia and he found it unsettling that one of her patients was the victim. Cordelia meant everything to him and he intended to keep her safe.
Will Calem’s obsession with the case lead to an arrest before the killer strikes again?
“Calem” is the first of five books in the New York City’s Finest series by Christopher Harlan. Each book takes place in one of the five boroughs of New York City. Harlan combines sexy, romantic scenes, with the grim reality of big city violence. ” Calem” is suspenseful, sensual and full of surprises. I am looking forward to the next book in the series “Jesse”, which uses Queen as its backdrop.