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.
Kayla Shaw is a private banker in Arizonaβ-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 entwineβ-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 worldβwith
unknown enemies on all sides and even the government itself
suspectβas 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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