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by IRIS JOHANSEN |
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From Booklist
In Johansen's hands, the romantic suspense genre is done a good turn. Nell Calder was born plain of face, and her mother let her know in no uncertain terms that this ugly duckling would never turn into a swan. Flash to the present day, and Nell, despite her mousiness, is married to a handsome executive on the rise and has a wonderful little daughter. Nevertheless, she is never not selfconscious about her lack of dazzle. At a big socialbusiness affair on a Greek island, the party is attacked by masked assailants, and Nell is horribly wounded and her husband and child killed. She emerges from the resultant plastic surgery as the stunning beauty she could never imagine being. With a new intrepidness to match her new looks, she sets out to find the man who slashed her face and murdered her daughter. And, of course, at the same time, there is a burgeoning love interest. Brad Hooper This text refers to the Paperback edition.
From Kirkus Reviews
In a successful hardcover debut, megaseller Johansen abandons the lush historical romances that have made her reputation and stakes out the proven market of Nora Roberts and Sidney Sheldon. Nell Calder is the Ugly Ducklingplump and plain, with mousy brown hair and a ``predilection for chocolate cake.'' Her world revolves around her fouryearold daughter, Jill, and not around her arriviste bankerhusband Richard. Why then would a ruthless French drug lord target such a mouse for assassination... read more | | | |
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