Treasures [Mass Market Paperback]

Lisa Jackson (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 1, 1999

Trying to convince the wealthy Danvers family that she is actually London Danvers, who was kidnapped twenty years earlier, Adria Nash travels to Oregon and falls in love with the man who could be her half-brother. Original.

--This text refers to an alternate Mass Market Paperback edition.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

The mystery surrounding a kidnapping adds a jolt to this otherwise standard romance. Four-year-old London disappears after a party one night in 1974. London is the favorite daughter of Portland lumber scion Witt Danvers, and the only one of his five children conceived with his second wife, Kat. Apparently London will be his last, since even Kat's vigorous sexual play cannot cure Witt's impotence. Two decades later, in 1993, a woman named Adria Nash shows up claiming that she is London. The Danvers siblings are nervous, since according to their late father's will, London would receive 50% of his assets if she reappears. Only Zach, who as the family's black sheep receives only a small inheritance, has no financial interest in disproving her. A romance springs up between Zach and Adria, and they play down its possibly incestuous nature by clinging to rumors that Zach was fathered by Witt's arch-enemy, Anthony Polidori. Jackson ( Obsession ) moves the story along at a jaunty pace, and there are some surprises, but many characters are canned stereotypes. Kat is full of "raw sexual energy," while the Italian Polidoris are toughs with a penchant for fine food and beautiful women.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an alternate Mass Market Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 496 pages
• Publisher: Zebra Books (August 1, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0821763458
• ISBN-13: 978-0821763452
• Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 4.2 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,051,747 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

#1 NYT and USA TODAY bestselling author Lisa Jackson started writing after her sister read an article in TIME Magazine in 1981 about how young mothers were making money writing romance novels. Both Lisa and her sister, Nancy Bush, began their writing careers right then, and lo, these many years later Lisa has published seventy-five plus novels and has no plans to slow down anytime soon.

Customer Reviews

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars AWESOME BOOK!!!! JUST AWESOME!, April 3, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Treasures (Mass Market Paperback)

Whom ever is wondering if this is a good book... take it from me...it had me on the edge of my seat through every page! It was extremely passionate and mysterious! It is an awesome book and I would love to see a movie made from it! GREAT BOOK!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent romantic suspense, August 9, 2000

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K. Lininger (FOUNTAIN VALLEY, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Treasures (Mass Market Paperback)

Adria nash believes she's the heiress London Danvers, a child kidnapped 20 years ago from her family's hotel. She's back and wants to be reunited with the family she missed. The family wants to believe she's a fraud after all several want to be Londons have approached them for the family's millionaires. So ok Adria looks so much like London's mother did before she died maybe she is for real but the family wants to keep the money to themselves. Fighting his attraction for Adria is Zach, who might be her half brother or is he. Throw in whodunit, a family enemy, and greed and you have the ingrediants for a good story

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Incestuous melodrama, July 18, 2006

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Tracy Vest (Northern California) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Treasures (Mass Market Paperback)

Adria Hart has arrived in Portland at the Danvers Hotel in search of the family from which she might have been kidnapped two decades earlier. The Danvers heirs, all grown children of deceased patriarch Witt Danvers are used to long lost sisters surfacing. Witt has an unusual will - half his estate goes to lost daughter London Danvers - the rest divided among his other heirs, and they will do anything to keep Adria from collecting.

While the family is convinced she's a fake, ne'er do well middle son Zach is intrigued by her. She is the spitting image of his stepmother, the woman who took his virginity. On the one hand he thinks she might be his half sister, and on the other hand, he is extremely attracted to her.

Someone does not want Adria to rediscover her family and inheritance - they have gone to great lengths to scare her off, resulting in Zach bringing her out to live with him at his ranch. Several stolen kisses lead to passion in each other's arms, but they realize that until they know whether they are blood-related, they cannot continue the relationship. It is gross since they very possibly could be brother and sister and know each other biblically, and the outcome is a little too pat and convenient as if to justify the two losing their self control.

The story can be convoluted and pretty slow at times, shifting from 1973, 1980, and 1993 to tell the drawn out story. Jackson recently reissued the novel by beefing it up and cleaning up some dangling plot lines, making even longer (which is not necessarily better).