Every Waking Moment
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- $8.99
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- $8.99
Publisher Description
A woman's search for her half-sister forces her into an alliance with a sexy PI—and into the path of a killer waiting for the right moment to strike—in Meryl Sawyer's captivating tale of romantic suspense
South Beach isn't far from Coral Gables, but to Taylor Maxwell, it's a world away from the place where she was born and raised. Yet nothing, not even the tall, dark, and handsome man who just moved in across the courtyard, can distract her from her problems. Her terminally ill mother just dropped a bombshell: Taylor has an older sister who was given up for adoption thirty years ago, and Taylor's mother has hired a security firm to find her.
Enter Taylor's sexy neighbor, PI Shane Donovan who just got a lead on the woman who could be Taylor's long-lost sibling. Taylor and Shane track her down in New Orleans, but with the family's multimillion-dollar cosmetics company at stake, the Maxwells want the woman in question to undergo a DNA test. Then, just as Taylor's relationship with Shane heats up, a web of tangled secrets is exposed and a killer strikes, with a plan to destroy Taylor's family—and ensure that Taylor never wakes up again.
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A number of soap-opera-worthy dramas propel this middling romantic thriller, but Sawyer (Closer Than She Thinks) fails to offer a fresh spin on any of her salacious topics. Taylor Maxwell's dying mother, Vanessa, is determined to track down the baby she gave up several decades earlier. When tough New Orleans stripper Renata Rollins and her unconventional father, Caleb, call claiming to be kin, Taylor has no choice but to let her mother see them. Vanessa believes Renata and Caleb are the genuine article and immediately changes her will in Renata's favor, but Taylor's family and assorted other relatives and hangers-on think Renata is only after a share of To the Maxx, the family's lucrative cosmetics business. Shane Donovan, the company's dreamboat security consultant, assists Taylor in her quest for the truth, but before they receive conclusive DNA results, Renata is murdered. A few days later, Taylor's own life is threatened. Despite the plethora of red herrings peppered throughout, the villain's identity is readily apparent. While Florida natives will cringe at Sawyer's pale portrayal of South Beach and the Florida Keys, fans of twisted family dramas may enjoy the Jerry Springer like revelations.
