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Laura Barrett has it all: she's just been made coanchor of the national network news; her baby daughter, Sophie, is a joy; and she and husband David are very much in love. Then Jack Pierce appears, asking Laura why she left him years earlier, never to return. Soon, we learn of Laura's past as the illegitimate daughter of a slovenly German immigrant married to an abusive motel owner in a jerkwater Florida town. There, at age 16, Laura accidentally killed a guest who had been paying her for sex?and left Jack to take the blame as she reinvented herself. Then one morning the unthinkable happens: Laura's daughter, Sophie, is kidnapped. The investigation forces Laura to reveal her past, which threatens her marriage, her job, and her life. This novel by the author of Acts of Love (LJ 6/15/94) offers a suspenseful and interesting look at the life of TV's elite. For popular collections.
-?Barbara Maslekoff, Ohioana Lib., Columbus
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Laura Barnett has just been named coanchor of the nightly news, but no professional triumph can protect her from the dark secret in her past. Now, the man who took the blame for a horrifying incident that occurred when Laura was a teen has come back into her life. The tenuous net of security Laura has spun threatens to dissolve. Her marriage is coming apart, her job is in jeopardy, and then her child is kidnapped. As the police work frantically to find her daughter, Laura realizes she must confront her past to escape it. Only after a heart-stopping climax does she finally understand that although she has lost nearly everything, she has redeemed herself. Although Listfield's prose and plot twists occasionally resemble the latest soap opera, she does write a gripping mystery. And while it's hard to sympathize with the shallow, self-serving way Laura behaves, it's not hard to become absorbed in the nail-biting, knuckle-whitening suspense that Listfield expertly creates and develops. Emily Melton --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Laura Barrett has it all: she's just been made coanchor of the national network news; her baby daughter, Sophie, is a joy; and she and husband David are very much in love. Then Jack Pierce appears, asking Laura why she left him years earlier, never to return. Soon, we learn of Laura's past as the illegitimate daughter of a slovenly German immigrant married to an abusive motel owner in a jerkwater Florida town. There, at age 16, Laura accidentally killed a guest who had been paying her for sex?and left Jack to take the blame as she reinvented herself. Then one morning the unthinkable happens: Laura's daughter, Sophie, is kidnapped. The investigation forces Laura to reveal her past, which threatens her marriage, her job, and her life. This novel by the author of Acts of Love (LJ 6/15/94) offers a suspenseful and interesting look at the life of TV's elite. For popular collections.
-?Barbara Maslekoff, Ohioana Lib., Columbus
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From Booklist
Laura Barnett has just been named coanchor of the nightly news, but no professional triumph can protect her from the dark secret in her past. Now, the man who took the blame for a horrifying incident that occurred when Laura was a teen has come back into her life. The tenuous net of security Laura has spun threatens to dissolve. Her marriage is coming apart, her job is in jeopardy, and then her child is kidnapped. As the police work frantically to find her daughter, Laura realizes she must confront her past to escape it. Only after a heart-stopping climax does she finally understand that although she has lost nearly everything, she has redeemed herself. Although Listfield's prose and plot twists occasionally resemble the latest soap opera, she does write a gripping mystery. And while it's hard to sympathize with the shallow, self-serving way Laura behaves, it's not hard to become absorbed in the nail-biting, knuckle-whitening suspense that Listfield expertly creates and develops. Emily Melton --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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