Butterfly [Mass Market Paperback]

Sharon Sala (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 1, 2003

Penniless and homeless from a turn of bad luck, China Brown witnesses the murder of a journalist and almost becomes a casualty herself. While recuperating in the hospital, she becomes emotionally attached to a detective as she struggles to remember details of the crime, unaware her safety is still threatened.

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Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 384 pages
• Publisher: Mira (October 1, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1551669684
• ISBN-13: 978-1551669687
• Product Dimensions: 6.5 x 4.2 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #398,112 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Sharon Sala is a long time member of Romance Writers of America writing as Sharon Sala and Dinah McCall. She writes romantic suspense, Young Adult, and Women's Fiction. First published in 1991, she's a seven-time RITA finalist, winner of the Janet Dailey Award, four-time winner of the Career Achievement award from RT Magazine, five time winner of the National Reader's Choice Award and five time winner of the Colorado Romance Writers Award of Excellence as well as the Bookseller Best Award. Her books are New York Times, USA Today, Publisher's Weekly mass market best-sellers. Writing changed her life, her world, and her fate.

Customer Reviews

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A fast read...., April 3, 2003

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iheartjackbauer - See all my reviews

This review is from: Butterfly (Mira Romantic Suspense) (Mass Market Paperback)

China Brown has known nothing but heartache and lonliness in her life. She vows that will change as soon as she has the baby that she loves so desperatley. For she has made a promise that her baby will have the life that she never did. Then one night she finds herself out on the street when the father of her baby takes off with all her money. It was that night that destroyed her dreams and she has vowed revenge. With the help of Ben English, she begins to heal and lets Ben find his way to her heart.

Bennett English is drawn to China from the first moment that he saw her. There is something beatiful and rare that he sees when he looks at her. He finds himself falling in love before she even wakes from her coma and when she wakes and looks into his eyes, he knows he is lost. The only thing standing in the way of their happiness is a killer.

Butterfly is an enjoyable book that is more romance than suspense. The killers identity was a surprise to me, but I enjoyed this book and will look for other books by this author.

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Lacking in Suspense...., December 9, 2001

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Tracy Talley "Book Addict" (Boston, MA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Butterfly (Mira Romantic Suspense) (Mass Market Paperback)

This book lacked suspense a little too much for it to be labeled 'Suspense/Romance'. It should be labeled simply 'Romance'. I am an avid romance reader, but I was bored with the romance in this one. The character of Ben English got on my nerves because he was a little too perfect and seemed obsessed with the female lead China. I never did understand how he fell in love with her just by seeing her one time on the streets and barely that when she was shot. It moved too fast and he became too much with the 'honey' endearments and 'sweet' words when he didn't even know her. Throughout the story I was never fully convinced he loved her and wasn't sure when it happened, or if it ever did. China was a bit unsecure for my taste and trusted him too fast without knowing him. Considering some wacko was after her and she was being used by everyone in her life, a few sweet words and she was 'in love'. I just wasn't convinced.

~China is pregnant and alone. She is left homeless and walking the streets after her loser boyfriend takes off with all her money. She finds herself the victim of a woman's bullet when the woman kills a photographer trying to take a picture of her on the streets. China Brown is the only witness to the senseless killing and when the woman turns the gun on her she is sure she is dead. Waking up later in the hospital, she finds her baby dead and a very attentive detective at her side. How can she live without her baby?

Ben English has to track the merciless killer who thought nothing of murdering a man and then a helpless pregnant woman. He finds a bond with her that he can't explain and wants her to trust him. Things get touchy when at first they are looking for a man and find out its a woman with long blonde hair that they should be looking for and someone who may have a grudge against a tabloid photographer. That could be hundreds of people!
He must protect the case's only witness, a shattered woman who doesn't want to live. Is the killer the person they least suspect? Is China in immediate danger? Are they tracking the wrong person?

Tracy Talley~@

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars I feel that the title should have reflected "promises kept"!, November 29, 2000

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"eagerreader" - See all my reviews

This review is from: Butterfly (Mira Romantic Suspense) (Mass Market Paperback)

I agree that this story was lacking in it's motivation and other details having to do with the murderer's psyche.The two main characters, Ben and China,while meeting under such tragic circumstances, compliment each other and seem destined to face their challenges together and overcome them.Ben may seem to overdue the "honey" but I can't fault the sincerity of his feelings for China and the love that builds between them.As for the mystery woman with the long blonde hair that commits the murders, I had a pretty good idea who was guilty, but the puzzle didn't fit exactly right,even in the end.I still enjoyed the book. Ben and China were worth the time!!