Silhouette Intimate Moments #573: Knight's Corner

ISBN 0373075731 - I'm not a romance fan, but am finding that the better romance novels have an actual storyline, other than the love story. Knight's Corner isn't great, but definitely has a better secondary storyline than most I've read. Cord Knight is a tortured ex-agent who has been accused of rape, is believed to have bought his way out of trouble and, despite coming back from his presumed death a year ago, isn't warmly welcomed home by his family or the small town they live in. Just settling back into his life, Cord feels he left things unfinished when he quit his job but has no plans to return to tie up loose ends. Even though he's certain that the problems of illegal immigrants have escalated, Cord has more than enough to deal with in a town that shuns him. Sarah Durand is the daughter of Simon Durand, the local doctor in Knight's Corner, adopted by Simon and his wife after her family is killed in Iran. Following in her father's footsteps, Sarah has become a doctor, living in New York. When Simon died in a fire, Sarah returns to her father's beloved small town home to settle his estate. Something isn't right, though - the small town feel is a little off, the pleasant neighborliness Simon had told her about seems to be cloaked in fear. Sarah and her daughter run into Cord, to Sarah's surprise - she believed he was dead - and the two begin to look into the death of Simon, which begins to look less and less like an accident. Did Simon find something that got him killed? And is Cord right about the local men he thinks are involved in the illegal immigrant trade? They have to find out, because if they're right, they could end up dead as well. And that would certainly put a crimp in their love story. Good, not great, but worth a read for romance fans. Quick read, as well, which is a plus in romance novels for me. Despite being written in 1994, there's a certain timely aspect in the town's treatment of Sarah who, her birth mother's American family says, resembles "those terrorists".