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When she was fourteen, Rowan Winterbourne's Coast Guard stepfather was forced to kill the criminal son of the drug and arms dealer Gregory Torval. In the brutal retaliation that followed, her mother died. Her sister vanished. Her stepfather took Rowan on the run, taught her skills no young woman should have to know, and half a lifetime later...the adult Rowan lives in a lighthouse on the California coast, anonymous and forever alone. Joe Grantham appears on Rowen's doorstep, and for the first time, she gets it wrong. Horrifically, passionately wrong. She lets him in, reveals too much, and he blackmails Rowan to go with him to Raptor Island, Torval's island, for she'll provide the deadly, volatile Torval with distraction from Joe's secret agenda.. On the island, she faces.
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New! - EVERY SINGLE SECRET Full-length suspense "I need a gardener to plant my spring flowers, the toilet is leaking, and I need an assassin to kill me. " Upcoming: - A DAUGHTER OF FAIR VERONA Historical Fiction June 25, 2024 "My name is Rosie, Rosaline if I'm in trouble, and I'm the daughter of Romeo and Juliet. Yes, that Romeo and Juliet. No, they didn't die in the tomb ... " Readers become writers, and Christina has always been a reader. Ultimately she discovered she liked to read romance best because the relationship between a man and a woman is always humorous. A woman wants world peace, a clean house, and a deep and meaningful relationship based on mutual understanding and love. A man wants a Craftsman router, undisputed control of the TV remote, and a red Corvette which will make his bald spot disappear. When Christina's first daughter was born, she told her husband she was going to write a book. It was a good time to start a new career, because how much trouble could one little infant be? Ha! It took ten years, two children and three completed manuscripts before she was published. Now her suspense, paranormal, historical, and mystery novels have been translated into 30 languages and sold more than 15 million copies in print. Praised for her "brilliantly etched characters, polished writing, and unexpected flashes of sharp humor that are pure Dodd" (Booklist) , her award-winning books have landed on numerous Best of the Year lists and, much to her mother's delight, Dodd was once a clue in the Los Angeles Times crossword puzzle. She lives with her family in the Pacific Northwest, where her 700 lavender plants share the yard with her husband's various "Big Projects," including a treehouse, zipline, and their very own Stonehenge. Enter Christina's worlds and join her mailing list for humor, book news and entertainment (yes, she's the proud author with the infamous three-armed cover) at christinadodd. com. For more information on A DAUGHTER OF FAIR VERONA, visit daughterofmontague. com. Her legions of fans know that when they pick up a Christina Dodd book, they'll find the story, "Wildly entertaining, wickedly witty!" Christina is married to a man with all his hair and no Corvette, but many Craftsman tools.(Source:
