Distrust Her Shadow (1982)
by Jessica Steele
What Darcy had at first thought of as just another innocuous temp. job had turned into a kind of nightmare when she found herself kidnapped by a perfect stranger just call me Neve' — who made it clear that he thought she was the worst kind of criminal, and nothing she could say or do would convince him otherwise.

He eventually let her go, but that was by no means the end of the story. For, whether Darcy liked it or not, somehow he kept on intruding into her life. Where would it all end?

Donna Kauffman - The Black Sheep and the Hidden Beauty
(2008)

Summary:

Bronx born, Rafe escaped the streets of his tough childhood but he still has his urban instincts and they run deep. He's always listened to that little voice that tells him when someone has something to hide, even if that person is Elena Caulfield, a horse whisperer who works on a ranch for abused horses. Elena is nothing like the girls he's use to, yet Rafe can't deny his attraction toward her. All he knows is that she is concealing something big and dangerous and it may have to do with the murder of a racehorse at the breeding ranch where she use to work. Rafe intends to take care of things his way to protect what he loves, or die trying.

Iris Johansen - On The Run

Summary:

#1 New York Times bestselling author Iris Johansen is back with an electrifying new thriller that pits a mother and daughter against a relentless killer who takes no prisoners, accepts no surrender, and leaves his intended victims with no choice but one: to run for their lives.…

Wherever you stop, he'll be waiting.…

The picture was a warning: they'd found her. For eight years Grace Archer hoped this day wouldn't come-and knew in her heart that it would.

She'd taken her daughter, Frankie, to a rural Alabama horse farm that might just as well have been at the end of the earth. But the man out to kill them would gladly follow them that far. And now, it seems, he had.

A woman with a highly classified past, Grace had never run from anything in her life. But as a mother, she'd do anything to keep eight-year-old Frankie safe. Now that safe world has been shattered, and a ferocious hunter has been unleashed. Suddenly the agency that owed Grace its gratitiude and protection has abandoned her and only one ally remains: a man even more dangerous than her worst enemy.

She hasn't set eyes on Jake Kilmer since the catastrophic events of eight years ago. Now he's asking Grace to trust him with the one thing more precious to her than life itself. But with a ruthless criminal kingpin determined to make her pay for the past, her and her daughter's lives on the line, and time running out, she just may have to put her faith in a man who she believes has already betrayed her once.

Fire of Spring by Elizabeth Lowell

LOGAN GARRETT DIDN'T BELIEVE IN LOVE

He belived in revenge. Dawn Sheridan's beautiful, calculating mother had destroyed Logan's older brother, and Logan had sworn vengeance. When he won the Sheridan ranch in a poker games he should have been satisfied - but he wasn't. Dawn, who resembled her beautiful mother so closely, was the perfect target for his anger. Yet Logan found that in hurting her, he came away wounded.

Dawn understood what Logan was afraid to admit - that what he wanted from her was love, not hatred. She gave him that love, risking everything to reach the gentle, caring man beneath his pain, knowing that if she lost, Logan would finally have the vengeance he sought.