"exciting romantic suspense"

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 believes her father David died two years ago though they insist otherwise and also inform her that she has a twin brother. Samantha confronts her mother Tracy who admits that she is the daughter of Nicholas.

Samantha decides to meet her brother and her biological father. Meanwhile, FBI Special Agent Nate McLean is stunned to learn that Merlitta's wife and daughter live. He decides to use Samantha to get at Nick, Jr. who he thinks is laundering money. Nate seeks revenge for the shooting death of his mother by the Merlitta mob. However, he never thought he would fall in love with someone who shares the blood of his enemy yet now risks his life to keep her safe from an unknown assailant perhaps her twin.

Fans of romantic suspense will enjoy the fast-paced TWISTED SHADOWS. The story line starts at quite a clip as Tracy holding two eight month old infants flees the mob though there seems a disconnect since she ended with one child and her spouse the other (explained somewhat much later). Nate is an obsessed agent whose dreams are on the verge of coming true when love twists his equilibrium for living. Samantha is a brave and wonderful individual while the support cast provides depth leading to TWISTED SHADOWS captivating the audience.

Harriet Klausner

Reviewed by Harriet Klausner
Posted December 25, 2002

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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.