A scintillating new novel of romantic suspense by the author of "Now or Never" and "The Secret of the Villa Mimosa". When Dan Cassidy, the owner of a rundown California winery, walks into Ellie Duveen's bistro, a friendship is sparked that threatens to turn into a serious romance. Online feature.
With the flair for sizzling romantic suspense that has made her books international bestsellers, Elizabeth Adler, whose work has been hailed by critics as "mesmerizing" "Internet Bookwatch," "exhilarating" "Publishers Weekly, " and "sensuous" "Kirkus Reviews, " is at the top of her form with her latest novel, All or Nothing. Lithe, leggy attorney and law professor Marla Cwitowitz is dying for some excitement in her life--that is, other than being the girlfriend of Al Giraud, private detective, sexy soul mate, and all-around best friend. So when she sees the potential for a crime-solving spree, she jumps at the chance to moonlight as a detective. According to the evening news, local real estate agent Laurie Martin is missing and presumed dead. Marla and Al happened to have seen her dining with an attractive man several days before her disappearance. The man is Steve Mallard, loyal husband, doting father, and prime suspect. But Marla senses that something is not quite right. And her intuition has never let her down. Believing that there's more to the story than meets the eye, she takes matters into her own hands, vowing to get to the bottom of what's beginning to look like a very complex case. Al wants Marla to stay out of the way, fearing for her safety. He knows what's involved in detective work, and he's not sure she can hold her own as an investigator. But she won't be warned off this case. Their relationship has never been more fraught with complications--or sexual sizzle. With little warning or preparation, the two find themselves crisscrossing the United States in frantic pursuit of a remorseless criminal in an effort to prove Mallard's innocence. Finally Marla's found the excitement she's been looking for. With her, it's always been all or nothing.
After three women are murdered by a serial killer in Boston, Detective Harry Jordan turns to New York journalist Mallory Malone for help, hoping she will run the killer's composite picture on TV. The request leads to romance, but not much cooperation. Little does Jordan realize that Malone was once raped and made pregnant by the killer.
As millionaiare Ed Vincent climbs out of his small Cessna, someone stops him with a bullet. Lying comatose in the hospital, he can hear the doctors talking but he can't reply. He knows who is behind the attempted assassination. But there's now way to tell anyone or warn the woman he calls Zelda."--Jacket.
Peach de Courmont -- Wild child, teenage temptress, exquisite woman. The adored granddaughter of Leonie and heiress to the de Courmont dynasty, she grew up in luxury, used to having life -- and love -- on her own terms. Noel Maddox -- Raised in an Iowa orphanage, used to the mean streets of Detroit, he fought his way from the assembly line the pinnacle of power. Peach --and the automobile empire she commanded -- were part of the dream he meant to have... at any price. From wartime Paris to the dazzling Cote d'Azue... from the frenetic boardrooms of Detroit and the palatial homes of Grosse Pointe to the stately English countryside, their indomitable wills collide in a saga of consuming passion and raw power played out against the backdrop of a rich and reckless world.
Mac Reilly is a private investigator with a penchant for lost causes. One night in Malibu, he comes to the aid of a distraught woman in a black negligee waving a gun in the doorway of a fabulous beach house. When the woman then disappears and the gun shows up in his car, Mac is pulled into a web of deception and lies that entangle his whole life.His quest to find the damsel in distress takes him from southern California, to the beaches of Mexico, to the streets of Rome and the countryside of France. All the while, he's one step behind an elusive murderer, and one step ahead of an actress who wants nothing more than to get lost...And if getting lost is the order of the day, what better place to do it than among the vineyards, cafes and lavender fields of France? -- Publisher description.
Wrongfully implicated in the disappearance of a woman he assisted before she went missing, celebrity investigator Mac Reilly launches an investigation that takes his him from Mexico to Europe, a case that is further complicated by an actress's determination to lose herself.
The three met in the aftermath of San Francisco's devastating 1906 earthquake--the Mandarin Lai Tsin, a runaway American heiress, and a young Englishwoman. Against all odds they made their dreams come true, building one of the world's largest trading companies and most luxurious hotels... They had only each other--and bloody secrets to bury even as they rose to dizzying heights, wary of love yet vulnerable to passion in its most dangerous forms... The Mandarin would pass his multi-billion-dollar empire only to the women in the Lai Tsin dynasty--along with one last devastating truth.... Sweeping from the turn of the century through the 1960's, from the Orient to San Francisco and New York, Elizabeth Adler has written a magnificent novel of new wealth and old privilege, family passions and secret shame, of women surviving, triumphant, in the riveting saga of romantic intrigue. "From the Paperback edition.
PI Mac Reilly, the star of TV's Mac Reilly's Malibu Mysteries, and his fiancâee, Sunny Alvarez, are looking forward to spending June at Chez La Violette, a villa they've rented in St. Tropez. Sunny arrives first, only to discover that they've been scammed, along with a number of others who thought they were renting a fancy house on the French Riviera, among them Belinda Lord, the estranged wife of a Russian mobster, and widower Billy Bashford, a Texas rancher, and his eight-year-old daughter, Laureen. After Mac arrives, Sunny and Mac decamp to the nearby Hãotel des Rãeves, where they help protect Belinda from her nasty husband and become entangled in some art thefts in St. Tropez. An enchanting subplot involving the cute but realistic Laureen, who befriends an abandoned 11-year-old boy staying at the hotel, lifts an escapist eclair into something more substantial" -- from author's web site.
Thinking she has achieved her dreams when she becomes the owner of a promising hotel after a whirlwind wedding, chef Lola Laforêt finds her happiness shattered when her husband leaves her and the hotel's ownership comes into question.
Successful psychiatrist Dr. Phyl Foster's efforts to help a beautiful young amnesiac reconstruct the mysteries of the past take her on a romantic and perilous journey from Hawaii to Paris and the South of France. 35,000 first printing. $35,000 ad/promo.
Once Lamour Harrington was a carefree little girl, living with her hard-up, writer father in Italy - first Rome, then the lovely Amalfi coast. Lamour will never forget the happiest years of her life. Now, nursing a broken heart, she decides to leave Chicago and her career to rediscover the Italy of her memories.
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The Elizabeth Stories serves as a legacy of Alfred Baroodys wife, Elizabeththe authorwho previously published several articles, short stories, and books. This is a collection of ten short stories and two novelettes compiled into one book. These are stories about adventure, action, mystery, and so much more.
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