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"Gripping Romantic Suspense"
Reviewed by Cynthia Meidinger
Posted December 1, 2002

Samantha Carroll had a normal life. She grew up with two parents who were devoted to her and to each other. Her father had died two years previously and now she and her mother own a gallery in Steamboat Springs, Colorado, specializing in western art. Then one Read more...

"exciting romantic suspense"
Reviewed by Harriet Klausner
Posted December 25, 2002

In Steamboat Springs, Colorado, two unsavory individuals visit Samantha Carroll at her Western Wonders Art Gallery. They insist her real father crime boss Nicholas Merlitta is dying and wants to see her for the first time since her mother fled Boston with her over three decades ago. Samantha Read more...

"Sizzling Romantic Suspense"
Reviewed by Sheri Melnick
Posted December 25, 2002

While Ms. Potter achieved success in romantic fiction through her historicals, she has proven her versatility with her recent foray into romantic suspense. In her latest, she explores organized crime and Tracy Merritta's escape from her life as wife to the heir of the powerful Boston Merritta family. Read more...

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From USA Today bestselling author Patricia Potter comes a riveting novel about a man who thought he'd escaped his unsavory past -- and a woman who didn't know she had one...

Summary

Samantha Carroll's world is turned upside down when the life she always thought was perfect turns out to be a lie. When two cold-eyed men enter her western art gallery, she learns that her biological father is an ailing crime boss who now wants to see her...whether she wants to see him or not. Not only that, she has a twin brother she's never known about.

FBI Special Agent Nathan McLean is convinced that Nicholas Merritta, the son of a crime boss, is laundering money for this father--and McLean has plenty of reasons to take down the entire crime family. What he didn't plan on was falling in love with Nick's twin sister, Samantha.

Nick Merritta is the heir apparent to the crime family, though for years, he's visibly shunned his family's organized crime interests, started a successful business, and tried to outrun his past. He'd believed his mother and sister dead for nearly three decades, but Samantha's unexpected appearance ignites a series of events that threatens to destroy them all.

The past is with you. Always.