Twice Kissed (Zebra Romantic Suspense) [Mass Market Paperback]

Lisa Jackson (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 1, 2006 | Series: Zebra Romantic Suspense

Marquise Walker has vanished without a trace. There are few clues and much speculation on her sudden disappearance. But the truth is more terrifying than anyone can even imagine...Maggie McCrae would do anything to find her identical twin sister - even if it means stepping into her unfamiliar shoes. Walking through Marquise's wild, uninhibited life is a revelation for Maggie, proof that she knew very little about her twin's darker side and her connection to the only man Maggie ever loved, Thane Walker. Now he's the man she shouldn't trust, a man who could be her best hope...or a cold-blooded killer...The deeper Maggie digs, the more she is drawn into the web of her own past...to a twisted family legacy of desperate deceit, betrayal, and revenge...each secret bringing her closer to a final, shocking truth - and to the identity of a killer who's closer than she thinks...

Editorial Reviews

Review

'As a beach read, this is a cracker. Read it at night and it certainly will keep you up. For after the prologue, Jackson slips into her real agenda, and out of your comfort zone.' -- Courier Mail, Brisbane on DEEP FREEZE 20070115 'A fast-paced and surprisingly complex story ... The depiction of the protagonist ... reaches an unusual depth, and the crisp, skillful language infuse every sentence with suspense ... will keep readers riveted.' -- Publishers Weekly on DEEP FREEZE 20070115 'A spine-tingler.' -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer on DEEP FREEZE 20070115 --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

About the Author

Lisa Jackson has been writing romantic fiction for fifteen years. Over sixty of her books have been published and reprinted in more than a dozen foreign languages. A single mother, she is a native of Oregon, where she still resides with her two teenage sons. Lisa is often asked what is the key to her success, and her unfailing answer is a keen imagination, incredible friends, loving family, and always, loads of laughter. As Oscar Wilde is purported to have said, "Life is too important to be taken seriously."

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 448 pages
• Publisher: Zebra Books (August 1, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0821779443
• ISBN-13: 978-0821779446
• Product Dimensions: 6.6 x 6.7 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 2.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (29 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #52,431 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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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

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

19 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A compelling read..., July 4, 2003

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iheartjackbauer - See all my reviews

This review is from: Twice Kissed (Paperback)

Maggie McCrae retreated to Idaho with her thirteen year old daughter after the death of her husband. With the guilt she felt over his death, Maggie was barely coping, and she also had her daughter, Becca's hostility to deal with. When she gets one of the rare 'messages' from her twin Mary Theresa nee Marquise, she knows something is wrong. For only at times when Mary Theresa is in the most distress is she able to talk to Maggie through her mind. The only thing that sticks is that she blames her ex-husband, and Maggie's one time love.

Thane Walker has his own agenda, and he doesn't care what he has to do to accomplish it. When his vindictive ex-wife dissapears after dropping a bombshell on him, he knows that it's probably nothing more than a stunt for publicity. When the police suspect him of being responsible for her dissaperance, he decides to go to Maggie, the only woman he's ever loved.

Twice Kissed is a very emotional tale which started almost twenty years earlier. With jealousy and betrayal the key, Thane and Maggie race to find out what happened to Marquise while both dealing with trust issues. I really enjoy all of Jackson's books as she puts so much emotion into them, you can't help but be sucked right in.

14 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A Decent way to spend the Weekend, March 24, 2002

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Kristi Ahlers (Illinois) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Twice Kissed (Paperback)

Although this has not been a favorite of mine by this author, it was still a good way to spend the weekend. The characters for the most part were nicely developed but situations within the story could have had better clarification or resolution sooner. The relationship between Thane and Maggie had more promise I think. Although there was a good narrative of their relationship from the past, the "Present" relationship could have been better formed. They went from "I love you" to "I can't trust you" to "I love you" again with a lot of mistrust in between. Maggie had been hurt so many times in the past that I found her reluctance to "forgive and forget" understandable. What I did not understand was why the ends were tied up so fast without a whole lot communication between the two main characters. This could have been done and added something extra to the book without letting the reader feel that the end was just cut off with no real "closure".

Still overall a good suspense packed novel with real emotions, and an added bounus of the author touching on a very touchy subject. A good book and worth the read.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Don't waste your time, October 25, 2007

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eMMe - See all my reviews

This review is from: Twice Kissed (Zebra Romantic Suspense) (Mass Market Paperback)

This was my first Lisa Jackson book and it definitely left a sour aftertaste. It was a mis-mash of a storyline that fizzled, boring and selfish characters I didn't care to root for.

Story: Maggie's twin sister, Mary Theresa seems to have gone missing and this sets up events reuniting her with Thane Walker... who happens to be her former love, but ended up marrying her twin(now divorced). He still "only" loves Maggie.

Ugh, this book was just plain awful! I just didn't care for the pairing of Maggie and Thane in this book. Mostly, I hated Thane and Mary Theresa I wouldn't have cared if both dropped off the face of the earth.

He slept with Mary Theresa(even if he was drunk and it didn't matter that he thought it was Maggie) but I didn't need him to go into detail about the fact that they slept together many many times during that drunken "mistaken" identity night, and that when he had to marry Mary Theresa-- he tells Maggie he had felt lust for Mary Theresa for a while (even though he supposedly only loved Maggie)... It just seems to downplay the intimacy between the main characters that he can go from sleeping with the heroine to others.

Mary Theresa was selfish as hell... stealing her sister's boyfriend, blaming the "incident" with Mitchell on Maggie, and hidden jealousy issues. And the scene where she screams her apology to Maggie after Maggie discovers that Mary Theresa and Thane slept together-- I just wanted to kick her. It didn't even feel geniunely remorseful. Maggie's such a pushover to let her twin walk all over her all the time.

I can't believe she would fall into bed with Thane again without resolving any of her issues she had with him.