Rionna Morgan picks her favorite romantic suspense flicks
The thing about romantic suspense authors: We're always on the lookout for romance in the action-adventure movies. And we find it a lot. Yay! Romantic suspense author Rionna Morgan, whose Love's Justice is out now from Crimson Romance, joins us to highlight some super romantic action movies.
Rionna: When I started this post, I thought it might be fun to discuss some movies that have the very same elements I love to read. And write.// Romantic suspense!
So I've chosen my top three picks to share.
Die Hard
While the hero of this movie is great, funny and appropriately brave, I love the wife. How she is most worried about her children and punches the obnoxious reporter in the end. Yes!
Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol
This was an amazing movie! The suspense and the special effects were just spectacular. The romantic in me loves the ending where the audience learns that all the sacrifices Ethan made were for Julia. Awww. I love things like that.
Sleeping With the Enemy
Definitely deserving of a mention and is my all-time-favorite romantic suspense movie. It was so scary at times that I cried. I was so terrified that he'd get to her. The psychological elements of the plot were so well placed that they still haunt me, and the movie came out in 1991.
Other great romantic suspense movies: Casino Royale, Batman, The Bourne Identity and Speed.
Do you have a romantic suspense movie you love?
Here's the blurb for Love's Justice:
Sarah Johnson is a profiler in Portland, Oregon. She thinks she has successfully moved beyond the pain of her mother's death 15 years ago. Her mother, a Pulitzer Prize winning writer, died in an Alabama women's prison while on an undercover assignment. However, when Justin Breslow shows up at her office claiming to be an investigative reporter from Dallas wanting to do a feature on her mother, Sarah realizes the pain has just been dormant. She agrees to work with Justin; she's always wanted to retrace her mother's final days, but she has no intention of sharing family secrets with a perfect stranger.
Sarah and Justin unravel a plot more complex and sinister than they expected. They pursue a trail of deceit and corruption to a women's prison in Alabama, a centuries old hotel in Georgia and a family ranch in Texas. Nothing is simple or as it seems. Along the way, Sarah tries not to fall for Justin's Southern charm, and Justin fights to resist Sarah's beauty and sharp intellect.
This unlikely duo will find more than they ever hoped to—in the prison, in their own backyards, and in each other's arms. Whether they survive to enjoy their discoveries is the final mystery.
To find out more about Rionna and her books, you can visit her website, RionnaMorgan.com. You can also connect with her on her blog, Facebook and Twitter (@RionnaMorgan).