By Elizabeth Lowell
While an exquisitely crafted, real imperial Faberge egg mysteriously exhibits up at Laurel Swann's domestic studio, she understands it could in simple terms be from one person—her father, who has drifted out and in of her existence for so long as she will take note. yet this time Jamie Swann leaves her whatever too many folks will kill for. Out of her league and determined, Laurel is compelled to just accept aid from the very guy who's attempting to ensnare her father in his personal internet of double crosses. Cruz Rowan might help her remain alive, yet will he do a similar for her father? Elizabeth Lowell, writing as Ann Maxwell, deftly combines the nonstop motion of a secret agent mystery with the heart-pounding pleasure of real love and event.
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It had been almost eight years since that transformation. He’d gone through several tucks and lifts since then. The black eyes and the ugly bruising took weeks to heal, but they kept his face taut. There were other therapies, too, ones that were less well known and far more intimate. These treatments were Whirlpool 31 intensely painful, but they were effective, the equivalent of putting a new ink cartridge in a well-used yet still useful Mont Blanc. Hudson was convinced that he’d mastered the process of physical aging.
I believe Mr. Gapan went with Mr. ” Hudson began cursing with complete disregard for federal regulations regarding profanity, obscenity, and the airwaves. ” “Er . ” Hudson slammed the phone back in its cradle and glared at the Vargas nude. He knew he had an unreasonable phobia of homosexuals. He suspected that Novikov knew it and was taunting him. Without the Russian, there was no exhibit. And without the exhibit, Hudson was in trouble. Big trouble. With a muttered oath, he got up from behind his desk and paced.
Though Hudson was a man of relentless sexual appetite, he was far too shrewd to seek release in circumstances where his control wasn’t absolute. He hadn’t become grossly rich by being stupid about his pleasures. Hudson International was the third time up the ladder of success for him. Two of his previous business concerns had ballooned and then collapsed. Each time he’d escaped with his personal fortune intact. And each time he’d left behind wreckage that would have destroyed the reputation of a lesser man or a man with a lesser public relations staff.