Sally n'en croit pas ses oreilles. Travis, l'homme qu'elle doit épouser, lui annonce froidement qu'il a décidé de rompre… La veille de Noël qui plus est… Partagée entre la colère et l'incrédulité, Sally se demande si elle ne rêve pas. Puis, folle de rage, elle se lance dans une tirade d'injures. Rien ne l'arrête… Mais la scène a un spectateur : Harlan a tout entendu, caché dans l'ombre de la terrasse. Harlan Boyd, superbe Texan au physique de cinéma qui, dit-on, vit plus ou moins d'expédients… - Bonsoir, Sally. Joyeux Noël ! Sally ignore encore que ses quelques mots viennent de marquer le début d'une intense relation de haine…et d'amour.
L'Amérique entière s'attendrit sur Vanessa et David Merritt ; le séduisant couple présidentiel vient d'être frappé par la tragédie : la mort subite de leur bébé de trois mois. Pourquoi, cependant, la " première dame " des Etats-Unis contacte-t-elle Barrie Travis, une journaliste de télévision ? Pour lui confier son chagrin ? Lui confesser son sentiment de culpabilité ? Ou lui suggérer que cette mort pourrait ne pas être un accident ? Intriguée, Barrie entreprend de s'intéresser de près à la vie privée du couple. D'abord repoussée puis aidée par Gray, un ancien conseiller du Président qui a brutalement quitté la Maison-Blanche pour le Wyoming, elle va découvrir des secrets susceptibles de provoquer le plus énorme scandale de l'histoire américaine. A condition de vivre assez longtemps pour les révéler au grand jour... Après Le Coeur de l'autre et Faux-semblant, voici le nouveau roman de Sandra Brown, déjà un des grands noms du thriller avec quarante millions de livres vendus dans le monde.
After stumbling upon a chilling small-town secret in South Carolina, a determined public defender must protect herself -- and her young son -- from those who want them dead. Kendall Deaton pulls herself and her baby out of a wrecked car, and a mixture of courage and fear gets her to the top of a ravine, where she flags down help. But she doesn't dare reveal her true identity to the authorities. Instead, she plans her immediate escape, and her perilous flight begins. Kendall, the best public defender in Prosper, South Carolina, has stumbled upon a chilling town secret, turning her marriage to one of Prosper's most powerful men into a living hell. Now Kendall is a terrified mother trying to save her child's life, a reluctant witness who knows too much about an insidious evil . . . and a woman surrounded by forces that will stop at nothing to protect what is "theirs."
The countdown to murder has begun . . . When a caller to a late night radio talk show announces his intention to murder a woman he's kidnapped within seventy-two hours, mayhem ensues. Paris Gibson, the mysterious host of the show in question, finds herself in the spotlight for the first time in years. Who has been abducted? And what is the identity of the caller, known only as 'Valentino'? The clock is ticking and in the midst of the frenzy to track down the missing woman, Paris finds herself working alongside someone she's tried hard to forget: Dean Malloy, the police psychologist who's heading up the investigation. With every hour that passes, the hunt grows increasingly desperate but how significant are the secrets that Dean and Paris conceal in their mutual past? They need to identify Valentino before he can execute his murderous plans . . . and before he can exact vengeance on Paris for trying to stop him. *********** Praise for Sandra Brown 'Virtuoso plot twists . . . Brown's thriller engages the primal senses' Kirkus Reviews 'An edge-of-the-seat thriller that's full of twists . . . Top stuff!' Star 'Brown's novels define the term "page turner"' Booklist
Dawson Scott is a well-respected journalist recently returned from Afghanistan. Haunted by everything he experienced, he's privately suffering from battle fatigue which is a threat to every aspect of his life. But then he gets a call from a source within the FBI. A new development has come to light in a story that began 40 years ago. It could be the BIG story of Dawson's career one in which he has a vested interest. Soon, Dawson is covering the disappearance and presumed murder of former Marine Jeremy Wesson, the biological son of the pair of terrorists who remain on the FBI's Most Wanted list. As Dawson delves into the story, he finds himself developing feelings for Wesson's ex-wife, Amelia, and her two young sons. But when Amelia's nanny turns up dead, the case takes a stunning new turn, with Dawson himself becoming a suspect. Haunted by his own demons, Dawson takes up the chase for the notorious outlaws. . .and the secret, startling truth about himself.
Dr. Emory Charbonneau, a pediatrician and marathon runner, vanishes in North Carolina's mountains. As her husband Jeff reports her missing, search efforts are hindered by harsh weather. Meanwhile, Emory, suffering from a head injury, awakens as a captive of a mysterious man with a violent past, fueling her determination to escape.
New York Times bestselling author Sandra Brown returns with a tale of corruption and betrayal, revenge and reversal - where friends become foes, and heroes become criminals in the ultimate abuse of power.When newswoman Britt Shelley wakes up to find herself in bed with Jay Burgess, a rising star detective in the Charleston PD, she remembers nothing of how she got there...or of how Jay wound up dead.Handsome and hard-partying, Jay was a hero of the disastrous fire that five years earlier had destroyed Charleston's police headquarters. The blaze left seven people dead, but the death toll would have been much higher if not for the bravery of Jay and three other city officials who risked their lives to lead others to safety.Firefighter Raley Gannon, Jay's lifelong friend, was off-duty that day. Though he might not have been a front-line hero, he was assigned to lead the investigation into the cause of the fire. It was an investigation he never got to complete. Because on one calamitous night, Raley's world was shattered.Scandalized, wronged by the people he trusted most, Raley was forced to surrender the woman he loved and the work to which he'd dedicated his life. For five years his resentment against the men who exploited their hero status to further their careers -- and ruin his -- had festered, but he was helpless to set things right.That changes when he learns of Jay Burgess's shocking death and Britt Shelley's claim that she has no memory of her night with him. As the investigation into Jay's death intensifies, and suspicion against Britt Shelley mounts, Raley realizes that the newswoman, Jay's last sexual conquest, might be his only chance to get personal vindication -- and justice for the seven victims of the police station fire.But there are powerful men who don't want to address unanswered questions about the fire and who will go to any lengths to protect their reputations. As Raley and Britt discover more about what happened that fateful day, the more perilous their situation becomes, until they're not only chasing after the truth but running for their lives.Friends are exposed as foes, heroes take on the taint of criminals, and no one can be trusted completely. A tale about audacious corruption -- and those with the courage to expose it -- Smoke Screen is Sandra Brown's most searing and intense novel yet.
A New York Times Bestseller Hot on the heels of Smoke Screen, which debuted at #1 on the New York Times bestseller list, Sandra Brown returns with a new novel full of her trademarks--shocking twists, breathless suspense, and sizzle. When a prominent Atlanta businessman is shot and killed during an armed robbery, it appears to be a situation of wrong place, wrong time. But his friend Julie Rutledge believes differently and sets out to prove that it was murder, orchestrated by the victim's nephew, Creighton Wheeler. Representing him is famed defense lawyer Derek Mitchell, who soon realizes that his client is as depraved as Julie claims.
Cleary, North Carolina, is a sleepy mountain town—the kind of place where criminal activity is usually limited to parking violations. Not so, lately. Four women have disappeared from Cleary over the past two years. And there’s always a blue ribbon left near the spot where each of the women was last seen. There are no bodies, no other clues, and no suspicion as to who their abductor might be. And now, another woman has disappeared without a trace. It is to this backdrop that Lilly Martin returns to close the sale of her mountain cabin, marking the end of her turbulent eight-year marriage to Dutch Burton, Cleary’s chief of police. Dutch’s reluctance to let her go isn’t Lilly’s only obstacle. As she’s trying to outrun a snowstorm, her car skids on the icy road and strikes a man who emerges from the woods on foot. She recognizes the injured man as Ben Tierney, whom she’d met the previous summer. They’re forced to wait out the storm in the cabin, but as the hours of their confinement mount, Lilly begins to wonder if the greatest danger to her safety isn’t the blizzard outside, but the mysterious man right beside her. Is Ben Tierney the feared abductor? Or is he who he claims to be...her rescuer from harm and from the tragedy that haunts her?
