Beyond Eden [Large Print] [Hardcover]

Catherine Coulter (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 1998

A successful model is hiding behind a false name to protect herself from a past of betrayal and treachery-and a present filled with sinister shadows. When she meets an ex-cop turned private investigator, she is forced to face her own secrets and to answer the disturbing question:

Who is trying to kill her...and why?

--This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

This potboiler from the prolific Coulter combines a brisk mystery with a spicy romance between a late-blooming beauty and a tough ex-cop.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

From Kirkus Reviews

By the author of False Pretenses (1988), Impulse (1990), and a series of paperback others: a crammed packaged romance featuring sex (bad, bad sex), family screaming, a tidbit of mystery, hasty glamorata, and real love--all set mainly in Manhattan. Lindsay Foxe is the ugly duckling daughter of Judge Royce Foxe, a mean-as-sleet womanizer who adores his other daughter, Sydney, a gorgeous Harvard Law School grad now married to an Italian prince. The 18-year-old Lindsay loves the prince, and he, unfortunately, loves little girls: Lindsay suffers a ghastly rape in Paris as a result, a mega misery topped off when sister Sydney arrives, pumps the prince full of lead, and then, later with dear old dad, blames Lindsay for leading the prince on. In the meantime, Taylor, the N.Y.C. cop who heard her crying out in a Paris hospital, surfaces years later, and it's he who, loving Lindsay, now a famous man-hating model, will help her to gradually overcome her fear. But there's still a family mystery in the works, as well as an attempted murder for Lindsay. After this attempt, when she is injured, assaulters begin arriving as if from a chute: the still- functioning prince; a bogus doctor; and a hired gun. Taped and bandaged Lindsay, in her hospital gown, holds her own.... Elementary but heavy on action. -- Copyright ©1991, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 494 pages
• Publisher: Wheeler Publishing (September 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1568956584
• ISBN-13: 978-1568956589
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 6.3 x 1.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (48 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,659,652 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Catherine Coulter is the author of the New York Times-bestselling FBI thrillers The Cove, The Maze, The Target, The Edge, Riptide, Hemlock Bay, Eleventh House, Blindside, Blowout, Point Blank, Double Take and TailSpin. She lives in northern California.

Customer Reviews

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19 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Coulter does Contemporary, September 13, 2002

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Psboston7 "~ And so it Goes ~" (Upland, CA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Beyond Eden (Contemporary Romantic Thriller) (Mass Market Paperback)

I believe this book was one of Catherine's first attempts at Contemporary.

First of all I must state that I had taken a hiatus from reading Ms. Coulters work since 1994. I'd been meaning to read this book for some time since it has been in my TBR (to be read)pile for sometime and I had heard from many different sources that this was a worth while read. I recommend that if you read the reviews on here still take a chance and read the book, I read the reviews and thought to myself it was going to be awful, but was pleasently suprised. I did not give this one a high rating because the end [was diasappointing], the plausibility of the whole Family [thing stunk]and the relationship did progress incredibly quick for someone who had been sheltered from men since she was 18 years old and then suddenly after 2 weeks of knowing someone feels so comfortable with them, to accept a proposal?????

The end had so many ludicrous twist and turns it was like OH COME ON NOW!!!!! (NO SPOILERS HERE) but when you read the book you'll understand EXACTLY what I am referring to. It was a fast read and one that I didn't actually won't to put down because of the mystery that was going on but still I really just HATED the last 3 or so chapters. Didn't make any sense.

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22 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent read, October 16, 2000

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K. Lininger (FOUNTAIN VALLEY, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Beyond Eden (Contemporary Romantic Thriller) (Mass Market Paperback)

I read this book many years ago and I was happy to read it again. Coulter has a way of getting you close to her characters. Lindsey was raised by a horrible father. Always treating her like an outcast and constantly putting her down and abusing her verbally. The biggest deception and hurt happened when she was 18 years old and raped and beaten by her sister's husband. Lindsey's father blamed Lindsey and claimed to the press that she was a slut and a Lolita. Finally several years later Lindsey discovers herself. She becomes Eden a famous model and meets the man of her dreams. And now someone is out to kill her. Is it her Father, who was disinherited by his mother and gave Lindsey/Eden all the fortune, is it her old professor from college who is a crazy, is it her sister, or her sister's husband, or is it someone else who wants her dead. Good surpise at the end. This book keeps you guessing.

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Romance yes, Suspense its not..., September 28, 2001

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Tracy Talley "Book Addict" (Boston, MA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Beyond Eden (Contemporary Romantic Thriller) (Mass Market Paperback)

This is my second Coulter book and I only read it because I had hoped, no, actually I had prayed that my first book(Devil's Embrace) was a bad example of her work, but this only intensified my opinion of her and I am a little surprised she is a New York Times Best Selling Author. I am not going to get critical of all the flaws in this book, but I will say this, romance it was, but a suspense it was not.

The story is a long and drawn out portrayal of a woman who is gone from ugly duckling to supermodel. The blurb on the back of the book states it is about a woman who becomes a model and is being terrified and stalked by some maniac, but who is it? Someone from her past? What is she hiding? I will tell you, nothing...she is hiding nothing,. She is brutally attacked by her sister's husband when she is 18 in France. Her family treats her badly and her father especially hates her. They all blame her for her loser brother-in-law's brutal rape. Lindsey(the heroine) years later becomes a supermodel named Eden. She is popular and is beginning to get on with her life until her sister comes back into it to stir the pot. Somewhere in here (I assume) Coulter was trying to bring some tension and suspense into the story by adding the hero of S.C Taylor, Lindsey's bodyguard. For what, I'm not sure, Coulter never makes that clear either. After some unnecessary chapters where nothing happens but Taylor falling for her, the story gets off-track and you're not sure where the stalker is or if there IS one at all.
Taylor must sort through her messy past and try and win her trust, while keeping her meddling family at bay. He succeeds and then by the last 10 pages or so, the stalker is revealed and I was left wondering,....why?

This story was lacking in true suspense and it was choppy to the point of not understanding what the plot was. If you like a good romance, this was ok, but I would steer clear if you're looking for a good romantic suspense story, it is poorly written in that department...