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Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN num: 9780821776056
ISBN number: 0821776053
Label: Zebra
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Quantity: 1
Page Count: 474
Printing Date: August 01, 2004
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As a child, London Danvers was kidnapped from her wealthy family. Over the years, many women have come forward claiming to be the long-lost heiress - only to be exposed as frauds. Now, another woman has arrived in Oregon, claiming to be London. But Adria Nash is different. She knows personal details only London could have known, yet she can't remember what happened the night of her abduction - a fact that makes family rebel Zachary Danvers suspicious. Still, Adria is determined to prove her identity...there's a paralysing sense of dread she just can't shake. And she's right to be afraid - because someone does believe her. Someone who is watching Adria's every move. Waiting for the right moment to see how she runs...see how she screams...see how she dies.
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This is a re-issue book. It was great as tresures...just wish I had not bought it twice.
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Another heart stopper. They just keep getting better everytime Lisa writes one.
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I have read only a few of the Lisa Jackson books but this one looked very interesting and I actually read through the whole thing in a little more then a week without needing to put the book aside for a little bit because the characters or the plot was annoying me (ex: Whispers). So that's a good point for her right there.
The backflashes were the most interesting part of the book. They had a good pace it gave you basic fundemental information about the characters but I could tell right off the back who the ultimate killer would be. I thought she might take a twist and make the overtly bad character a blue herring but no.
The one character who annoyed me the most was Zachary Danvers. He was that type of rebel without a cause. The rich white kid who lives in luxury but craves for some excitement and goes out to cause trouble becasue he's bored. If he were just a little more sadistic, he'd probably be that kid that drives around with his friends, shooting bee bees at the people they pass on the street. I couldn't help but laugh at him half the time. If he wasn't brooding over the fact that Adria looked like his stepmom (and I believe that is a major part of why he was so attracted to her. Projection is just fun like that), then he was ranting and raving at adria for looking like his stepmom. The man needed some therapy. The best part however is when they made love and are on that thin line of she could be his sister or she isn't his sister. Apparently since he crossed that line once before (even though it was just incest in the eyes of the law) then doing it with a blood relative wasn't bad enough to stop him.
I had alot of questions while reading this book: Why didn't they have DNA tests done? I know that back in 94 they did have the technology so that they could test siblings and show that they are related to each other considering it all that probably would have just made the book a few chapters long and not a very interesting read. (Though nearly 3/4 of the book was spent with the siblings arguing over whether she was their sister or not and not much being accomplished from said arguments)
Also why wasn't Ginny Watson, London's Nanny, every considered a suspect? Just becasue her bank account was left untouched? I just don't understand the logic in that. She was the last person with London, there were no signs of struggle like she was attacked with the girl. Why would a kidnapper take the girl and her? She would have just been unwanted baggage.
So many questions that really only Lisa Jackson could answer. All in all, it was an okay book. I don't regret spending my money on it and it's good for just letting your mind drift off and relax.
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Adria Hart has arrived in Portland at the Danvers Hotel in search of the family that she might have been kidnapped from two decades earlier. The Danvers heirs, all grown children of deceased patriarch Witt Danvers are used to long lost sisters surfacing. Witt has an unusual will - half his estate goes to London Danvers - the rest divided among his other heirs, and they will do anything to keep Adria from collecting. While the family is convinced she's a fake, ne'er do well middle son Zach is intrigued by her. She is the spiting image of his stepmother, the woman who took his virginity. On the one hand he thinks she might be his half sister, and on the other hand, he is extremely attracted to her.
Someone does not want Adria to rediscover her family and inheritance - they have gone to great lengths to scare her off, resulting in Zach bringing her out to live with him at his ranch. Several stolen kisses lead to passion in each other's arms, but they realize that until they know whether they are blood-related, they cannot continue the relationship. It is a bit "icky" for lack of a better term, and the outcome is a little too pat and convenient as if to justify the two losing their self control.
Jackson has done what few authors do - she has taken her fist novel ("Treasures") and beefed it up (from 400 to 510 pages). It is clearly packaged as a re-issue with a new name on the back cover, so if this comes as a surprise, you did not read the plot summary. But just because she added 500 pages does not mean it is necessarily better - this is one huge book and a pretty slow read at times, shifting from 1973, 1980, and 1993 to tell the drawn out story.
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This is the very first book of Lisa Jackson's that I have read. I thought the mystery surrounding the main character was good, but the romance that was thrown in was a little off. I figured it out about halfway through the book. I might read another book by Lisa Jackson, but not right away.
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