Missing [Hardcover]

Jasmine Cresswell (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1, 2007

Book Description For twenty-five years, multimillionaire businessman Ron Raven played the loving husband and father- to two very different households. But when Ron disappears, his deception is revealed. Now both families are left with questions, while the man who holds the answers is...MISSING. Megan Raven is desperate to save her mother's Wyoming ranch, used as collateral on a three-million-dollar loan-money that disappeared with Ron. Worse, the loan is being called in by Georgia bank manager Adam Fairfax-brother to Ron's other wife. Brought together by their families' turmoil, Megan and Adam head south of the border in search of the missing millions. But what they find is a whole new web of lies, secrecy and greed.

Product Details

• Hardcover
• Publisher: Mira; Doubleday Large Print Home Library Edition edition (January 1, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0739489631
• ISBN-13: 978-0739489635
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.8 x 1.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,034,497 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Not Bad For the First Trilogy, September 4, 2007

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Rosa "Bookworm" (Detroit,MichiganUSA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Missing (Mass Market Paperback)

While I liked the basic storyline about Raven Family. I have to agree with other reviewers this was a rushed job. The story created more questions than answers. Hopefully the next two trilogy are better.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars 4.5 Stars: Mixing business with pleasure creates a suspenseful, spiraling nightmare, December 22, 2007

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D. Merrimon Crawford (Colorado) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Missing (Mass Market Paperback)

Jasmine Cresswell's MISSING is the first book in a trilogy that turns the idea of romance into a suspenseful anti-romance where bigamy transforms a previously thought happy marriage into a spiraling nightmare. Attention to characterization and an intriguing fast-paced plot makes Missing a fun and quick eye-opening read.

Ron Raven was a wonderful husband and father....to two families! When he turns up missing, his secret is exposed. Ron's daughter Megan must do something when the other family's relative shows up in the person of Adam Fairfax, demanding repayment of a three million dollar bank loan which threatens her mother's beloved Wyoming ranch. To make matters more complicated, Adam is the brother to Ron's other Wyoming wife. Adam and Megan realize working together is in their mutual best interest so they head out searching for clues to the missing millions and Ron's past.

MISSING creates a suspenseful romance nightmare in which the mixing of business and pleasure and the consequences were disastrous! Love turns into bigamy and an unfolding, spiraling nightmare that just gets worse for all those left behind. Jasmine Cresswell juxtaposes the character of Ron, a sort of romance anti-hero in an anti-romance to the developing romance between Adam and Megan in which two opposing forces come together and build trust as they uncover the clues and experience the ramifications of Ron's deception. The clues lead Adam and Megan not to multiple locations, creating a race that extends beyond Georgia and Wyoming to Mexico. The more clues they uncover, the more entangled and deep the greed and secrecy becomes. Jasmine Cresswell creates a dramatic moment by using bigamy as the crux of the suspense while her characterization, shown in the more intimate moments between mother and daughter and other characters allow the reader to experience the emotional fallout of Ron's duplicitous life. United by financial needs and the shock of Ron`s secrets, Adam and Megan find themselves revealing their own vulnerabilities to one another. Jasmine Cresswell's MISSING combines tense suspense and riveting romantic drama in this first book of the Raven and Fairfax family trilogy.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Could have been better, August 31, 2007

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Brownidsusan (Houston, TX) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Missing (Mass Market Paperback)

The basic plot idea seemed good at first, but it all appeared to be the same ole same ole. I thought that everything just seemed rushed together and not really thought out.