The Bride's Secret (Harlequin Intrigue, No. 524) [Paperback]

Adrianne Lee (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 1, 1999

He disturbed her dreams, her waking moments, with his looks, his touch…

Nikki Navarro came to Chris Conrad's isolated cliff-top mansion in search of the truth about her parents. Instead, she found Chris, the new owner…a lover beyond her wildest fantasies. His brooding gaze drew her, his body tempted her…and his questions meant trouble.

For Nikki was the spitting image of the bride whose portrait graced the master bedroom—a bride murdered many years ago. And now, only Chris stood between Nikki and someone determined she would never learn the bride's secret….

--This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 249 pages
• Publisher: Harlequin (June 1, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0373225245
• ISBN-13: 978-0373225248
• Product Dimensions: 6.6 x 4.2 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,675,242 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

I've been married to my high school sweetheart since those good old rock and roll days when Elvis was The King and The Beatles were galloping over the horizon.

We live on the beautiful Olympic Peninsula; the Olympic mountains range is the eye candy out my office window. My adopted cat, Spooky, is always curled up near me as I create my stories these days.

My career as a writer started in junior high school in the form of poetic rhymes and continued to my senior year, when I contemplated writing a book, dreaming up characters disturbingly reminiscent of my classmates. But other than a few notes, the book never left the planning stage. I had a discouraging experience in a creative writing course I was taking at the time and being a sensitive teenage girl. . . I didn't attempt writing stories again for twenty years.

I restarted my writing career by taking a community college writing 101 course. The teacher was wonderfully encouraging and luckily for me, I met my first critique group in that class. At the time, I was writing Mysteries and the others in my new critique group were all writing Romance. Since I've always been a romantic at heart, I ended up adding romance to my mysteries. Lots of romance.

I call my stories Sexy Whodunits.

Or as one of the characters in my new mystery series would say, "Sex and Murder!"

visit my website @ www.adriannelee.com

Customer Reviews

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A wondeful modern gothic, September 11, 1999

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This review is from: The Bride's Secret (Harlequin Intrigue, No. 524) (Paperback)

Adrianne Lee strikes gold with THE BRIDE'S SECRET, a wonderful modern gothic with enough twists and turns to keep even the most avid mystery reader turning the pages. Like the TV show "Mystery, She Wrote" Ms. Lee gives the reader plenty of suspects and keeps them guessing to the very end. Well done!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars ANOTHER LEE MASTERPIECE!!, September 7, 1999

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Kim (Pacific Northwest) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Bride's Secret (Harlequin Intrigue, No. 524) (Paperback)

I am a HUGE fan of Adrianne Lee's. Very few romantic suspense authors can keep me guessing until the last moment - but Adrianne Lee does. THE BRIDE'S SECRET is no exception. Not only does Lee weave a tight plot but her characters are so wonderfully drawn that I hate to say goodbye. Don't miss this one! Adrianne Lee strikes gold once again!!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good, but not Great, July 1, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: The Bride's Secret (Harlequin Intrigue, No. 524) (Paperback)

"The Bride's Secret" is a book that left me with a strange feeling: it's entertaining, but not entirely satisfying. The secondary characters are appropriately quirky, the sex scene is pretty hot stuff, and Ms. Lee throws in twists galore-perhaps a few too many. The numerous twists and turns almost get dizzying; there's no chance to take them all in, since there's always another one on the way.

If anything, I think it was too much like a gothic and not enough like Ms. Lee. The emotion that usually fills her work wasn't there this time, and the characters were missing their usual depth. Instead, Chris is the dark, enigmatic hero to the extreme, almost infuriatingly so, and none of the big revelations have quite the impact they probably should. The sex appeal and mystery aspects are present. I just didn't care about the characters: they were too standard and never became more than that. I didn't dislike the book; I just usually expect more from an Adrianne Lee novel. But there are more than a few readers out there who will love Ms. Lee's take on the classic gothic formula, and I'm sure they won't be disappointed. It's a matter of personal taste. You know who you are.