Silver Linings
When you get rejected in love, you naturally build walls. Mattie Sharpe, a shy but successful art dealer, lays bricks sky-high after Hugh Abbott, a professional adventurer, breaks her heart. She vows that she'll only meet Hugh again over her -- better his -- dead body.They do meet again, but it's...
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When you get rejected in love, you naturally build walls. Mattie Sharpe, a shy but successful art dealer, lays bricks sky-high after Hugh Abbott, a professional adventurer, breaks her heart. She vows that she'll only meet Hugh again over her -- better his -- dead body.They do meet again, but it's over someone else's dead body. Now they're running for their lives through an island jungle. Hugh's gentle touch gets him back into Mattie's heart, but now Mattie's life depends on Hugh. Will he let her down again?"Steamy sensuality and snappy dialogue...an outstanding romantic adventure." (Romantic Times)
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Format: ebook
ISBN:
9780743496384 (0743496388)
Publish date: February 1st 2004
Publisher: Pocket Books
Pages no: 352
Edition language: English
I love Jayne Ann Krentz. This novel was thoroughly entertaining romantic suspense. It had significantly more intrigue than I've ever read in her other novels and love her statement on mass market versus high art. The only thing that I have trouble with is how Mattie and Hugh shacked up in the fi...
This is probably one of her most category like hero/heroine. I preferred the side characters better. Re-read digital.
This is Krentz at her best. I like everything she’s written between 1990 and 2005, no matter under which of her three nom de plumes – Jayne Ann Krentz, Amanda Quick, or Jayne Castle – a novel is published. This one is a contemporary romance, and despite the lack of internet and cell phones, it reads...
Whatever name she's writing under, Krentz's books are among my favorite guilty pleasures. Formulaic - you bet! Do I care - nope! When I want a happy ending with fun verbal sparring, the unconventional heroine, the brooding alpha male, I know I can pick up a Krentz novel and be happy, no matter how m...