Romantic Thrillers by J.J. Templar
Discover The Unfaithful, a five-book series. Join my reader list to receive the complete PDF of book one, The Road of No Return, free by email. More volumes coming soon.
Meet J.J. Templar
I write romantic thrillers shaped by personal and professional experience. Writing helps me make sense of experiences that have stayed with me and is part of my own search for healing.
The Unfaithful - The Road of No Return
Book 1 of 5 · Free PDF for subscribers.
Paperback planned for November 18, 2026. Availability is not yet confirmed. 146 pages · 5.5 × 8.5 in · Cream paper · Matte cover · ISBN 9798141178047.
His duty demands secrets. His family needs the truth.
Sam Forbes can follow an arms dealer through Ravenna without being noticed. He is less prepared for the man's wife to turn to him for help.
Lorena wants to escape Antonio Gucci with their baby. Her information could give the Agency access to his arms network. As Sam grows closer to her, his judgment comes under scrutiny from the people he works beside. He begins making promises that reach beyond his orders, and beyond what he has told his wife.
Ten years later in Virginia, Helen Forbes has built family life around Sam's absences. She has patients to care for, children to raise and a husband who comes home carrying things he will not explain. She is tired of guessing what happened to the man she married.
A medical conference takes Helen to Sicily, where another man's attention finds the space Sam has left between them. Sam knows how to protect classified information. The people at his own kitchen table are still waiting to hear the truth.
The opening novel in The Unfaithful.
The Unfaithful - Shadows from the Past
Book 2 of 5 · Coming soon.
Paperback planned for November 18, 2026. Availability is not yet confirmed. 224 pages · 5.5 × 8.5 in · Cream paper · Matte cover · ISBN 9798141179051.
Helen is planning a wedding. Sam has seen the file on the groom.
Helen Forbes is ready to move ahead with the divorce. She has children to think about and a man who seems willing to share the life Sam kept leaving behind.
Sam has built a successful corporate career, but the separation has settled very little. When his former Agency colleagues bring him back into a secure briefing room, the information they show him reaches straight into Helen's home.
Antonio Gucci is alive. He knows Sam's identity, and his plans involve the family Sam believed he had kept beyond reach. The man Helen wants to marry is part of a picture she has never been shown.
Sam needs her to listen before the wedding plans move further. After years of secrecy, a warning from him can sound like another attempt to control what she does. The Agency can watch the house and the school. It cannot repair the trust he needs to get Helen and their children out of danger.
Every conversation he postpones gives the people watching them more time.
Book 2 of The Unfaithful. Read in series order.
Places from The Unfaithful Series
Explore Ravenna and Sicily, Washington, D.C., and the Virginia settings of Langley, McLean and Middleburg. Continue with spoiler-free first looks at Tuscany, London and the French coast.
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