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Innocent as Sin

Innocent as Sin, June 2007
St. Kilda
by Elizabeth Lowell

William Morrow
Featuring: Kayla Shaw; Rand McCree
416 pages
ISBN: 0060829826
EAN: 9780060829827
Hardcover
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"Dripping with tension; a taut, enjoyable read"

Fresh Fiction Review

Innocent as Sin
Elizabeth Lowell

Reviewed by Patricia Woodside
Posted July 24, 2007

Romance Suspense

In INNOCENT AS SIN, Elizabeth Lowell has crafted a story dripping with tension from the first page to the last. Kayla Shaw is an unassuming private banker. Her biggest and primary client, Andre Bertone, unbeknownst to Kayla, is an international arms dealer who wants to use Kayla to launder millions of dirty dollars. Rand McCree is a photographer turned artist. He has an axe to grind with Mr. Bertone. Bertone killed his identical twin while Rand took incriminating pictures of Bertone on an airstrip in a small African country during an arms deal. Kayla and Rand become allies to help St. Kilda Consulting, a private security firm, bring Bertone down. Along the way, sparks fly as Kayla helps Rand to start living again and Rand keeps Kayla alive. The action is non-stop. The romance is rewarding. INNOCENT AS SIN is one romantic suspense story that could easily be translated to the big screen. Ms. Lowell delivers taut, enjoyable read.

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SUMMARY

Kayla Shaw is a private banker in Arizona—-smart and capable but underpaid and underappreciated. Rand McCree is a haunted man who paints landscapes in the Pacific Northwest, burning with a need for answers about the terrible event that shattered his world. They are two strangers with nothing in common . . . until their lives entwine—-and explode.

On what at first appears to be an ordinary day, everything changes for Kayla, as she barely escapes a kidnapping attempt and finds herself accused of a shocking crime: the illegal laundering of hundreds of millions of dollars. Damned by lies and false "evidence," she is trapped with no place to run.

After five agonizing years, Rand has finally been offered what he desires the most: the name of his twin brother's murderer. Hungry for vengeance, he accepts a job with St. Kilda Consulting that will place him in the killer's orbit . . . and tantalizingly close to Kayla Shaw. The cold-blooded international criminal responsible for Rand's brother's death has targeted Kayla as his next victim. Since she can't turn to the police, who believe she's guilty as sin, she must place her life in the hands of the shadowy, secretive man who has come out of nowhere to protect her.

Suspicious of each other, needing each other, they are two against the world—with unknown enemies on all sides and even the government itself suspect—as the violence of the past erupts in the present. And now innocence alone will not be enough to keep Kayla Shaw alive. . . .


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