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February 10, 2009
Laura Barrett has it all -- a supportive husband, a beautiful baby daughter, and a career in television that has made her face familiar to millions. But there's a shadow over Laura's happiness. And when a man approaches her after she leaves work and calls her "Marta," Laura knows that what she's feared for so long has finally arrived. The postcard with the coffin on it confirms that her idyll is over.

Marta was a teenager, growing up on the wrong side of the tracks, when she did something terrible one night in a run-down motel, and she's been running from it ever since. For twenty years, Laura has been trying to erase Marta from her memory. Now a man from her past is confronting her, demanding answers. At first, Laura thinks she can control the situation. But suddenly, she's facing every mother's nightmare: her daughter is kidnapped.

To get her baby back, Laura's going to have to risk her marriage, her career, and her life, and finally face up to what happened that night so long ago.


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Laura Barrett has it all: she's just been made coanchor of the national network news; her baby daughter, Sophie, is a joy; and she and husband David are very much in love. Then Jack Pierce appears, asking Laura why she left him years earlier, never to return. Soon, we learn of Laura's past as the illegitimate daughter of a slovenly German immigrant married to an abusive motel owner in a jerkwater Florida town. There, at age 16, Laura accidentally killed a guest who had been paying her for sex?and left Jack to take the blame as she reinvented herself. Then one morning the unthinkable happens: Laura's daughter, Sophie, is kidnapped. The investigation forces Laura to reveal her past, which threatens her marriage, her job, and her life. This novel by the author of Acts of Love (LJ 6/15/94) offers a suspenseful and interesting look at the life of TV's elite. For popular collections.
-?Barbara Maslekoff, Ohioana Lib., Columbus
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Laura Barnett has just been named coanchor of the nightly news, but no professional triumph can protect her from the dark secret in her past. Now, the man who took the blame for a horrifying incident that occurred when Laura was a teen has come back into her life. The tenuous net of security Laura has spun threatens to dissolve. Her marriage is coming apart, her job is in jeopardy, and then her child is kidnapped. As the police work frantically to find her daughter, Laura realizes she must confront her past to escape it. Only after a heart-stopping climax does she finally understand that although she has lost nearly everything, she has redeemed herself. Although Listfield's prose and plot twists occasionally resemble the latest soap opera, she does write a gripping mystery. And while it's hard to sympathize with the shallow, self-serving way Laura behaves, it's not hard to become absorbed in the nail-biting, knuckle-whitening suspense that Listfield expertly creates and develops. Emily Melton --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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  • Paperback: 400 pages
  • Publisher: Washington Square Press; Reprint edition (February 10, 2009)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1416558756
  • ISBN-13: 978-1416558750
  • Product Dimensions: 8 x 5.3 x 1.1 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 12 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,727,125 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars This was one of the absolute best books I've ever read!, February 19, 1998
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4.0 out of 5 stars Great Read, December 27, 1999
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I was very impressed by this book. A book has to have characters that hold you, and make you feel right along with them... this book certainly does the job. An excellent read for the book lover that doesn't want to put the book down.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Mysterious, April 18, 1999
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I am 15 years old. I wanted to read this book because the story sounded like a good book. And I was right. It was a real page turner. I gave it 4 stars because it was a school project and I didn't get the chance to finish the book.
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