Three Complete Novels: Mirror Image, Best Kept Secrets, Slow Heat in Heaven [Hardcover]

Sandra Brown (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 14, 1992

For the first time in one volume, here are three enchanting romance novels by bestselling author Sandra Brown.

Heaven's Price is the story of Blair Simpson, a professional dancer who thought she knew her destiny, until an injury shows her that fate -- and her heart-- have something else in store.

In Breakfast in Bed, when Sloan Fairchild opens the door to her bed-and-breakfast inn to her best friend's fiance, she ends up opening her heart to an unexpected and forbidden love that turns her world upside down.

Send No Flowers is the sensual tale of a young widow and mother of two who is rescued by a handsome and mysterious stranger, a man whose secret could shatter her life.

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Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review

Three Southern settings, three unique adventures, three complete bestsellers make up this one satisfying volume.

When a plane crash leaves her disfigured beyond recognition, TV reporter Avery Daniels finds herself in the hospital, mistaken for a selfish Texas socialite, the wife of a famous senatorial candidate. Initially unable to communicate, Avery is given plastic surgery that makes her "good as new." Stripped of her identity and completely vulnerable, she learns of an insider's plot to assassinate her "husband"--and she's supposedly in on it. Reporter's instincts may be the initial reason for keeping up the charade, but soon other instincts kick in and Avery finds herself trapped in a world of power, politics, lies, and lust. Mirror Image is full-speed from the start, and doesn't ease up until the final, dramatic showdown.

"Before I'm finished, I'm going to know which one of you killed my mother," proclaims Alexandra Gaither, a striking young attorney out for revenge. Ignited by the cryptic words of her ailing grandmother, Alex storms into a dusty Texas town like a hired gun and reopens the 25-year-old murder case she's not even old enough to remember. Best Kept Secrets takes on the big business of small-town politics. Confronting the three most powerful men in the community, Alex attempts to find the flaw in their carefully constructed history. She's ready for almost every possible complication, every hidden danger except this: her growing desire for one of the prime murder suspects.

Schyler Crandall is back in Heaven--Heaven, Louisiana. The adopted daughter of the most powerful man in town, Schyler ran away years before, distraught over a broken engagement and painful betrayal. Now, with her father fighting for his life in a hospital bed, Schyler jumps back into a world of secrets and lies to salvage a family logging empire on the brink of disaster. Slow Heat in Heaven has been hailed for its "steamy prose," and won Brown the Waldenbooks Award for bestselling single title release. It's the perfect capper for this three-in-one pleasure-fest. --Sara Nickerson

Product Details

• Hardcover: 784 pages
• Publisher: Wings (April 14, 1992)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0517077744
• ISBN-13: 978-0517077740
• Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 6.5 x 1.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,066,813 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Sandra Brown is the author of sixty New York Times bestsellers, including RAINWATER (2010), TOUGH CUSTOMER (2010), SMASH CUT (2009), SMOKE SCREEN (2008), PLAY DIRTY (2007), RICOCHET (2006), CHILL FACTOR (2005), WHITE HOT (2004), HELLO, DARKNESS (2003), THE CRUSH (2002), ENVY (2001), THE SWITCH (2000), THE ALIBI (1999), UNSPEAKABLE (1998) and FAT TUESDAY (1997), all of which have jumped onto the Times bestseller list in the number one to five spot.

Brown began her writing career in 1981 and since then has published over seventy novels, bringing the number of copies of her books in print worldwide to upwards of eighty million. Her work has been translated into thirty-three languages.

A lifelong Texan, Sandra Brown was born in Waco, grew up in Fort Worth and attended Texas Christian University, majoring in English. Before embarking on her writing career, she worked as a model at the Dallas Apparel Mart, and in television, including weathercasting for WFAA-TV in Dallas, and feature reporting on the nationally syndicated program "PM Magazine."

She is much in demand as a speaker and guest television hostess. Her episode on truTV's "Murder by the Book" premiered the series in 2008 and she was one of the launch authors for Investigation Discovery's new series, "Hardcover Mysteries."

In 2009 Brown detoured from her thrillers to write Rainwater, a much acclaimed, powerfully moving story about honor and sacrifice during the Great Depression.

Brown recently was given an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Texas Christian University. She was named Thriller Master for 2008, the top award given by the International Thriller Writer's Association. Other awards and commendations include the 2007 Texas Medal of Arts Award for Literature and the Romance Writers of America's Lifetime Achievement Award.

Customer Reviews

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Sandra Brown is a literaray genius, January 28, 2002

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stacy murphy (Portland ,Or) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Three Complete Novels: Mirror Image, Best Kept Secrets, Slow Heat in Heaven (Hardcover)

I do not understand where all these bad reviews are coming form, I am a huge Sandra Brown fan, and I think that three stories in one was the perfect idea, by the time I have finished one, I'm ready to go to read all Sandra Browns books, and best kept secrets was one of my favorites, as for some of the other reviews, Sandra Brown writes fiction novels, so they are based soley on the creativity she finds within herself, and I think that she has done a dam good job at keeping us all entertain. No matter what she writes she does it in a way where I can not put the book down!

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars 3 stories dealing with mystery, betrayal and love., April 9, 1999

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Shelly Yeager ([e-mail]) (Memphis, Tn) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Three Complete Novels: Mirror Image, Best Kept Secrets, Slow Heat in Heaven (Hardcover)

Mirror Image is a rivoting novel of lies and secrets. How one woman is thrown in the middle of a family where decit is the family's pastime. Best Kept Secrets is a unigue tale of a woman who finds out who killed her mother and also finds love along the way. Slow Heat In Heaven is a wiked tale that takes place in Lousianna, I believe.It's a great tale of scorn and love. Sandra Brown is a WONDERFUL author and these are 3 of her best books.

10 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars so-so, April 25, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Three Complete Novels: Mirror Image, Best Kept Secrets, Slow Heat in Heaven (Hardcover)

The book was readable and somewhat entertaining but it completely lacked humor and I found the author's views a teensy bit revoltingly moralistic at times. Double standards at their finest...In one of the novels the heroine's mother is murdered and the wrong man is sent to prison for life, and then the heroine falls in love with one of the guys who knew about the frame-up. The hero's a sheriff but overlooks his friends using drugs. And MEN can jump from bed to bed without regrets but when the murdered woman does so ONCE they're very bitter. The heroine goes so far as to say that her mother was responsible for her own murder because she seems to have a dubious morality. GIVE ME A BREAK! What about the morality of the men doing the framing? It seems that an abortion is a greater sin to Ms. Brown than framing an innocent half-wit for a life sentence. Also, the believability of the plot in Mirror Image was zero. Do you really think one can survive a plane crash, be given a new, more beautiful face (someone else's) and manage to fool everybody? Of SB's books, I've liked better the ones in which the plot does not involve any crime or past secret, because she can't develop those plots very well and I'm feminist enough to take offence to her or her characters double standardistic views about rape, premarital affairs in men versus women, abortion etc. I started with Send no flowers and Breakfast in Bed and Fanta-C and liked them but later I've been disappointed.