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"Well worth waiting for"
Reviewed by Harriet Klausner
Posted January 31, 2003

Highly regarded Broadway actress Leigh Kendall believes life is great. She is at the acme of her stage career and is starring in a successful play and her personal life may even be at a higher peak because she loves her husband Logan Manning. On the whole, her Read more...

"First-Rate Romantic Suspense"
Reviewed by Sheri Melnick
Posted February 21, 2003

After a two year wait, Ms. McNaught's latest has finally arrived, to the delight of romance readers and McNaught fans. While Ms. McNaught initially achieved critical acclaim for her historical romances, she smoothly made the transition from historicals to contemporaries. And with this recent novel, she has imbued the romance Read more...

"High drama and complex mystery keep you turning the pages"
Reviewed by Kelley Hartshorn
Posted February 25, 2003

Leigh Kendall had it all -- a highly successful career on the Broadway stage, a handsome husband who adored her, and a beautiful Manhattan penthouse. To celebrate her birthday and the outrageously popular opening of her new show, her husband, Logan Manning, threw a party, and organized a more Read more...

When the rich, successful husband of a beautiful New York actress mysteriously disappears, she plunges into a desperate search to find him...and into a menacing web of secrets, deception, and danger. Once again Judith McNaught, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller , crafts a thrilling tale filled with unrelenting suspense, unforgettable characters, and powerful undercurrents of greed, ambition, and desire.

Summary

Leigh Kendall reveled in her stellar Broadway acting career, and her marriage to Logan Manning, scion of an old New York family. When her husband finds an old country cottage, he decides to build their dream house, and to surprise Leigh with her first view of the mountain property. After a Sunday night performance, Leigh heads north to join him, and into a blinding blizzard. Lost and alone, she's run off the road. When she awakes in the local hospital, seriously injured, she asks for her husband. The police arrive to inform her that he has mysteriously disappeared, and Leigh, although obviously distraught, becomes the focus of their suspicions.

The more she discovers about her husband and his business affairs, the less she realizes she knew about Logan Manning and the more terrified she becomes. Now, with no one to help her, she is heading deeper and deeper into unknown territory...where friends and enemies are impossible to distinguish, and where the truth becomes the most terrifying weapon of all.