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Honor Donovan needs help and she needs it fast. Her brother Kyle is missing, along with a fortune in rare Baltic Amber. Honor hires the lethally attractive fishing guide Jake Mallory to guide her through the waters surrounding the San Juan Islands where she believes Kyle to be. Little does Jake know the web of intrigue he has entered--or does he? Is Jake really the experienced guide he says he is or does he have his own agenda? And just how long can Honor resist the rugged charms of this mysterious fishing guide? The San Juan Islands of Puget Sound provide a lush backdrop for Elizabeth Lowell's enthralling novel. Nothing is as it seems in this gripping pageturner. And readers have more to look forward to in
Jade Island, the continuation of the Donovan's story due out in the fall of 1998.
--Maudeen Wachsmith
From Kirkus Reviews
A well-made, completely predictable and unchallenging second hardcover from Lowell (Winter Fire, 1996)--a romance that offers all the sexual tension, adventure, and squishy clich‚s that fans of the genre could possibly want. Tough Jake Mallory (Jake being this year's romance-novel nom de choice for soldiers of fortune and macho men) passes himself off as a fishing guide in order to keep tabs on Honor Donovan, a jewelry designer who's searching for her lost brother Kyle in the San Juan Islands. (Honor needs a boat to find Kyle, and she doesn't know how to pilot a boat; in fact, she hates boats, and she hates fishing.) Kyle, it seems, has disappeared from Russia with a million dollars' worth of Baltic amber and, perhaps, a priceless panel from the famous Amber Room, which had been disassembled and taken from a czar's palace by the Nazis. Jake (``Been there . . . done that . . . got the T shirt'') is a former government agent who now manages his own international investment company. Like most heroes of his ilk, he comes complete with scars, black stubble, and the requisite ``clean fingernails'' (which is typical for the genre: only villains have problems with personal hygiene). Jake believes that Kyle and the Donovans, a colorful family, have framed him for the crime; Kyle's family believes that Jake has set Kyle up; and the CIA is trailing Jake and Honor to get its hands on the Amber Room, as are the Russian mafiya, a Lithuanian freedom fighter, ex-employees of the former KGB, and the Coast Guard. While he strives to clear his name, Jake teaches Honor how to drive a speedboat, catch salmon, and have good sex, which heretofore she'd always found pretty ``boring.'' Some parts of his job are, obviously, more fun than others. Much livelier than Winter Fire, and perhaps the beginning of a series. --
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