"Well worth waiting for"
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 life is perfect except
for the expensive gifts from an unknown admirer
whose "generosity" frightens her. Logan purchases a country cottage, which he plans to
convert into a love nest for them. Following a
performance, Leigh is to meet her spouse at their dream
home where she will see it for the first time. However, a
blizzard leads to her to being in a car accident and waking in
a hospital. She also learns from the police that Logan has
vanished and she is the prime suspect in his
disappearance. Not willing to sit idly by, Leigh beings
making inquiries into the activities of the man she loved
only to find a façade that when removed is nothing like the
man she cherished. With no one to turn to for help and
unable to distinguish friend from foe, Leigh now struggles
to remain alive. This is definitely déjà vu as Judith McNaught is heading
back to the New York Times best seller list with a powerful
romantic suspense novel that is superb. The exhilarating
story line works on all levels as readers observe the
transformation of Leigh from a loving elated individual
into a frightened rabbit with no haven anywhere. Though
somewhat different from her usual work, this powerful tale
will remind the audience of the Goldie Hawn movie
Deceived. Fans of romantic suspense will enjoy this
delightful tale. It was well worth he long wait to read
such an enthralling work by an author who keeps raising the
bar with each book she writes. Harriet Klausner
Reviewed by PNR Group Member
Posted January 31, 2003
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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.
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