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Binding: HardcoverDewey Decimal Number: 813.54 Format: Bargain Price Label: William Morrow Manufacturer: William Morrow Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 416 Publication Date: June 01, 2007 Publisher: William Morrow Release Date: June 19, 2007 Studio: William Morrow Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: Kayla Shaw is a private banker in Arizona—smart and capable but underpaid and underappreciated. Rand McCree is a haunted man who paints landscapes in the Pacific Northwest, burning with a need for answers about the terrible event that shattered his world. They are two strangers with nothing in common . . . until their lives entwine—and explode. On what at first appears to be an ordinary day, everything changes for Kayla, as she barely escapes a kidnapping attempt and finds herself accused of a shocking crime: the illegal laundering of hundreds of millions of dollars. Damned by lies and false "evidence," she is trapped with no place to run. After five agonizing years, Rand has finally been offered what he desires the most: the name of his twin brother's murderer. Hungry for vengeance, he accepts a job with St. Kilda Consulting that will place him in the killer's orbit . . . and tantalizingly close to Kayla Shaw. The cold-blooded international criminal responsible for Rand's brother's death has targeted Kayla as his next victim. Since she can't turn to the police, who believe she's guilty as sin, she must place her life in the hands of the shadowy, secretive man who has come out of nowhere to protect her. Suspicious of each other, needing each other, they are two against the world—with unknown enemies on all sides and even the government itself suspect—as the violence of the past erupts in the present. And now innocence alone will not be enough to keep Kayla Shaw alive. . . . Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Starts out strong...I generally like most Lowell books, but this one fell a little short for me. Starts out very promising, but after she sets up Rand's back story, for me it fell apart. I found most of the characters somewhat irritating or uninteresting. This one isn't a keeper for me. Rating: - LacklusterI generally enjoy Lowell's books but this one was formulaic and lacked punch. The heroine and hero, Kayla and Rand, are all but stock characters, and their relationship is totally uninspiring. Luckily then for a great villain, Bertone, and his beauty queen wife, whose horrific crimes, committed on an international scale, fill this novel with much needed suspense. If only, Kayla and Rand were up to the challenge... Rating: - Innocent as SinIn the latest of her 60-plus novels, Elizabeth Lowell tells a tale inspired by facts [relatively] `ripped from the headlines' - brutal wars far from home shores, money laundering, the smuggling of blood diamonds, the inter- and trans-national illegal arms trade, among other things. Kayla Shaw, a private banker in Arizona, is unwittingly forced to become involved in money laundering on a huge scale when her client's husband blackmails her into complicity. The philosophy from which the title ... Read More Rating: - St. Kilda Rides AgainI will have to say I liked this more than The Wrong Hostage. I really just found Grace's character terribly annoying. However she and Joe are now married and in this book she is much more likable. Their son Lane appears off and on in it also and he is just a cool kid. That said this book kept my interest though Kayla's character was a little far fetched at times. I haven't read a lot of EL books but the ones I have the heroine suddenly becomes this alpha person taking on the bad guys and hello even ... Read More Rating:  - BoringI bought this book about 2months ago and have only read about 50 pages, maybe when I'm stuck with nothing to read I'll pick it up again. 
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