In the second installment of her new series,Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick takes us back to California,where Hollywood moguls and stars seeking privacy for scandalous trysts and wild parties come together in the glitzy set of the 1930s. . .The New York Times bestselling author of THE GIRL WHO KNEW TOO MUCH sweeps readers back to 1930s California - where the most dazzling of illusions can't hide the darkest secrets . . . After escaping from a private sanitarium,Adelaide Blake arrives in Burning Cove,California,desperate to start over. Working at a herbal tea shop puts her on the radar of those who frequent the seaside resort town: Hollywood movers and shakers always in need of hangover cures and tonics. One such customer is Jake Truett,a recently widowed businessman in town for a therapeutic rest. But unbeknownst to Adelaide,his exhaustion is just a cover. In Burning Cove,no one is who they seem. Behind facades of glamour and power hide drug dealers,gangsters and grifters. Into this make-believe world comes psychic to the stars Madame Zolanda. Adelaide and Jake know better than to fall for her kind of con. But when the medium becomes a victim of her own dire prediction and is killed,they're drawn into a murky world of duplicity and misdirection. Neither Adelaide nor Jake can predict that in the shadowy underground they'll find connections to the woman Adelaide used to be - and uncover the spectre of a killer who's been real all along . . .
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Publisher: Little,Brown Book GroupISBN: 9780349415970Number of pages: 352Weight: 240 gDimensions: 197 x 126 x 22 mm
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One of the most creative,inventive storytellers in the field,Quickinfuses her own addictive brand of breathless,sexy adventure withdashes of vengeance,greed and violence and a hefty splash ofdelectable,offbeat humour - Library Journal
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