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Back Cover:

He will bed her…
Elise Carlton is looking forward to having her freedom. Years as a trophy wife have left her wary. But there is one man to whom she is not immune….

For revenge and for pleasure!
Vincente Farnese is rich and devastatingly handsome, his own special brand of dark Italian temptation! But it is no coincidence that Vincente has sought out Elise. What will she do when she discovers he wants her only for revenge?
 

My Review:

I started out feeling really good about this book, it was an interesting premise and suspense was well-built.  The chemistry between them was almost a compulsion, and I loved seeing them both drawn to each other and surprised by the intensity of their feelings.  The first time they made love was a revelation for them and the hero reacted by panting and murmuring in wonder "who are you", which was really a great image. 

But then the hero/heroine manipulate each other, find out the hero's secret motives, and are so cold to each other that it puts a distance between them. 

Bethan Steele is a relief society nurse who was recently caught in an explosion in Beirut. Her friend was killed and Bethan was sent back to England for recovery, and although her wounds are now mended she's sort of got PTSD so her boss insists that she can't be sent back into the field.

Anna is conceived as a designer baby, a genetic match for her sister Kate who has leukemia.

Laura Lippman - Every Secret Thing - 2003 - William Morrow publishing

Two 11 year olds, banished from a birthday party, take a wrong turn onto an unfamiliar Baltimore streeet and find an abandoned stroller with a baby inside it... They only want to be helpful, to be good...

One of my all-time favorite books, The Stand is an end-of-the-world saga as only Stephen King can tell it.  When the US government's secret bioterror lab suffers a catastrophic failure, a super-flu virus is released which wipes out something like 95% of the world's population.  Those left alive must not only find a way to survive and regroup, they also fight a battle between God and the devil fo