Illusions
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4.5 • 10 Ratings
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Publisher Description
New York Times bestselling author Katherine Stone writes from her heart to yours . . .
Katherine Stone's "high quality romance ranks right up there with Nora Roberts." - Booklist
“With this tightly woven, suspenseful plot, peopled with memorable characters, Stone has produced another surefire hit.” — Booklist on Imagine Love
“Katherine Stone never fails to touch the heart. Her books brim with glowing warmth and satisfying emotion." New York Times bestselling author Jayne Ann Krentz
“Sweeping drama . . . Her most emotionally charged and intricate story of love yet.” — Romantic Times on Imagine Love
It didn’t matter to Victor Kincaid which twin son he kept and which one he gave away. But it mattered very much to the tiny infant who was left near the altar of the church in the middle of that cold and moonless November night . . .
Chase Carlton has been alone all his life. Yes, there have been women, many women, with whom he has shared the smoldering passion that comes from the dark danger that lies deep within him. But he has never known love, and with every case, every solitary journey into the unspeakably evil minds of the killers he pursues, his heart becomes ever colder. When he makes the stunning discovery that he has a twin who may have been murdered by his wife, his sets out to entrap the murderess, never imagining that it will be he who becomes entrapped, enchanted, by the most daring illusion of all . . .
In the beginning, Jillian’s marriage to celebrated filmmaker Victor Kincaid was picture perfect. But over time everything changed. And on a fateful night he is lost at sea, presumed dead in a sailing accident. Then the news comes that he has miraculously survived. The man who returns to her looks like the husband who was lost, but there is something very different about him, and she finds herself falling in love again. But there is such danger for her heart with this man . . . and there’s another danger, a lethal one, a psychopath who chooses as his victims women who look like her.
Katherine Stone is the New York Times bestselling author of twenty-two novels, including SLEIGH BELLS RING, RAINBOWS, TWINS, IMAGINE LOVE, PROMISES, and LOVE SONGS. Her books have been translated into twenty languages and are sold worldwide.
A physician who now writes full-time, she lives in the Pacific Northwest with her husband, physician and novelist Jack Chase (CRY CHAOS, MORTALITY RATE, FATAL ANALYSIS, THE MAGRUDER TRANSPLANT.)
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PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
The eighth novel from the author of Roommates , Rainbows , etc., tries unsuccessfully to tie a surfeit of tabloid dramas into a single plot. A mystery as well as a chaste romance, the narrative includes surrogate motherhood, separation of twins at birth, duckling-to-swan plastic surgery, serial murders, extrasensory powers and canine heroics, to name a few threads. Left as a foundling at a chapel in France, Chase Carlton, a clairvoyant in his mid-30s, lives in California where the police and FBI hire him to track serial killers. He sees the announcement of the death of movie mogul Victor Chase Kincaid, whom he deduces must have been his brother. Aided by self-induced amnesia, he impersonates his (recovered) twin and insinuates himself into the life of the widow, whom he suspects of murder and for whom he develops complicated feelings. With a supporting cast of cardboard characters whose intertwining relationships require a flow chart to track, Stone builds her story with a series of portentous melodramatic moments that have little impact on the reader, who will be well ahead of the characters in figuring out what to expect next. Only the question of Kincaid's death holds the reader to the end, and that is more a question of how than who in this overwritten and overambitious novel.
Customer Reviews
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