In The Blink Of An Eye (The Taylor Clan) (Harlequin Intrigue) [Paperback]

Julie Miller (Author)

Book Description

Series: Harlequin Intrigue | Publication Date: February 1, 2002

The mysterious explosion at the crime lab had cost one man his life, and had pitched Mac Taylor into perpetual darkness. Now, as the evidence mounted against the temporarily dismissed forensic expert, one person had dedicated herself to proving his innocence: the former girl-next-door, Julia Dalton. Before long, Mac's predicament had them racing against time and running for their lives, a life Mac could no longer imagine without the experienced nurse by his side. Suddenly Mac was seeing more with his heart than he ever had with his eyes....

--This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"Julie Miller introduces readers to another sexy Taylor brother in this combustible intrigue." -- ROMANTIC TIMES magazine

"Ms. Miller has given us a treasure. Her . . . hero is a true one-of-a-kind. Look for more Taylors, I hope!" -- RENDEZVOUS Magazine, March, 2002

From the Inside Flap

She'd never gotten to touch Mac like that before She'd never touched any man like that. She never thought she could. Fingertips tracing the angles and dipping into the contours of his rugged face. Julia's palms receiving a jillion little jolts of electricity as she rubbed them along his beard. Nothing in her limited experience had made her so aware of a man. In last night's brief, charged moments with Mac, something inside her had awakened. All her school-girl dreams of what it might be like to be truly intimate with a man had escaped the little Pandora's box she kept tightly locked deep inside her heart. That little locked box had saved her from humiliation more times than she cared to remember. "I'm thinking of you as a woman," he'd said. Well, she was certainly thinking of him as a man . . .

Product Details

• Paperback: 256 pages
• Publisher: Harlequin (February 1, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0373226519
• ISBN-13: 978-0373226511
• Product Dimensions: 6.4 x 4 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #548,202 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Julie Miller is an award-winning, nationally bestselling author--with a National Readers Choice Award and a Daphne du Maurier among other prizes. In 2009, she was honored to receive a Career Achievement Award in Series Romantic Suspense from RT BookReviews. Several of her 45+ books have appeared on the USA Today, Amazon, Borders and BookScan Top 100 Romances bestseller lists.

After starting her career writing single-title romantic suspense with a paranormal twist, Julie joined the Harlequin family when her first Intrigue, ONE GOOD MAN, was published in 2000. Since then, she has crafted the bestselling, award-winning Taylor Clan series for Intrigue, as well as its equally successful spin-off series, THE PRECINCT. While she continues to write about cops and crime scenes for Intrigue, Ms. Miller occasionally writes for Harlequin Blaze--where her romantic suspense books get a steamier twist, and her military heroes have been especially popular. She also writes for continuities and other special projects at Harlequin Enterprises.

Check out Julie's book giveaway contests, monthly newsletter and more on her website at www.juliemiller.org.

Customer Reviews

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Myshelf.com Book Reviewer, April 21, 2002

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Suzie Housley (Oak Ridge, Tn United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: In The Blink Of An Eye (The Taylor Clan) (Harlequin Intrigue) (Paperback)

In the blink of an eye a whole world changes . . . nothing will ever be the same again.

When Forensic Expert Mac Taylor decides to work late he is unprepared at the illegal activities that he finds taking place at the police crime lab. There he discovers his lab assistant is destroying crucial crime evidence. He is determined to put an end to this means of sabotage, but he is not quick enough to prevent a lighter being lit in the highly flammable area. The explosion plunges him quickly into a world of complete darkness.

Only when you believe things cannot possibly get any worse, the world suddenly shifts and another obstacle arrives in your life to battle.

Nurse Julie Dalton recently resigned from her job and sought the comfort of her family to help heal the pain in her heart. Arriving home, she learns a neighborhood friend is in need of her help and services. Mac Taylor was blinded in a horrific explosion that cost one man his life. Circumstantial evidence suggests he is covering up a crime scene. She knows in her heart Mac could not be guilty of such betrayal, she is determined to help prove his innocence. By doing so, she puts her own life in jeopardy.

Julie Miller has impressed me with her superb writing talent. IN THE BLINK OF THE EYE is the first of her books I had read, but it surely will not be my last. This Romantic Suspense contained all the elements I have learned to demand from this type of novel. The pages seemed to effortlessly fly by as I helped gather the clues to prove the hero's innocence. This is just the type of book to convert any mystery reader into a romance fan.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Another Spectacular Taylor Book!, March 14, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: In The Blink Of An Eye (The Taylor Clan) (Harlequin Intrigue) (Paperback)

Julie Miller continues to impress me! Like always, her characters are vivid and as real as you and me and the story is packed with breathtaking suspense and heartrending emotion. A real treasure! Don't miss it!

5 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars A fair "airport waiting lounge" read but not memorable, March 9, 2002

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Susan Smith (A small rural village in the English Midlands) - See all my reviews

This review is from: In The Blink Of An Eye (The Taylor Clan) (Harlequin Intrigue) (Paperback)

I usually don't read Intrigues (although I make an exception for Gayle Wilson even though I prefer her historicals) but, travelling alone last week, and bored as hell, bought this one at LAX while waiting for a flight back to London. I see now, from looking at Amazon that this is the third in Miller's series about the Taylor family and they are, in this book at least, portrayed as a little bit too good to be true.

Mac Taylor ("the professor" according to the Taylor clan details) is a forensic cop who gets blinded in a lab explosion which kills one of his staff. He is released from the hospital, only 6 weeks after the accident, which I thought a bit strange as he goes to live on his own and not into some serious rehab to learn some basic daily living skills. Anyway, his interfering but loving mother gets old neighbour hiding a hurt, Julia Dalton, RN, to come and look after him aided and abetted by Julia's own mother.

Without going into too many plot details, Mac and Julia become caught up in a rather complicated conspiracy which has been fomented by an Internal Affairs cop gone bad. The "mystery" of the novel is OK - probably about averagely portrayed. The main focus of the story is on the relationship between Mac and Julia.

I felt there were some really pretty silly details here about sudden loss of sight and the impact it has on a man's life. Mac becomes able, almost immediately Julia arrives on the scene, to cope with his blindness and solve a complicated crime whilst on the run and in hiding. Sorry, I believe this stretched reality a bit too much. Julia, for an intelligent woman, aged 30, still sees herself as an ugly 15 year old because she has a poor body image.

Mac loves Julie and Julie has always loved Mac. So, ergo, they are destined for a deep and abiding love. Whilst that is OK and quite satisfying for the reader as well as our H/H, the peripheral details of Mac's blindness, the idea that he could solve a complicated crime with the unhesitating and unquestioning support of his family (mainly cops themselves) who, although unquestionably loyal, should have known better is a bit too much for me.

I have problems with Intrigues because they are "neither fish nor fowl". I think I will stick to Faye Kellerman or Elizabeth George when I want a detective story, and revert to my usual sorts of traditional contemporaries, historicals and regencies for romance.

A good enough book but nothing here that would make me want to read it again.