Intimate Betrayal
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4.5 • 35 Ratings
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Publisher Description
Reese Delaware is an investigative reporter with a burning desire to seek the truth. But one story eludes her—her own. Fifteen years before, she survived a tragic accident that robbed her of her family and left her with missing memories of her life. Now, determined to succeed despite the past, she accepts an assignment to profile Maxwell Knight, the millionaire computer wizard who is also fleeing a shadowy past of his own. The attraction between them is powerful, sparking a desire neither can deny. But it isn't until they have gone beyond professional boundaries and come closer to surrendering toa need greater than their willpower that Maxwell and Reese begin to uncover the shattering secret that links their lives.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
The adage, "more is better" doesn't ring true in Hill's latest (after Deceptions). Since the age of 15, after witnessing the violent deaths of her parents, Reese Delaware has suffered from repressed-memory amnesia. Now, as a writer on assignment with Visions Magazine to do a major piece on computer "wonder boy" Maxwell Knight, something triggers her memory. When she learns that both their fathers worked for military intelligence, she realizes that her past and Max's are dangerously and irrevocably intertwined. There's so much crammed between the covers of this book--Max's disastrous affair with Reese's white half-sister, government cover-ups, computer program thefts, a corporate take-over, Max's displaced parentage and a deadly deceit resulting from an unrequited love affair between Reese's father and her mother's sister--that's it's difficult to keep up. Add a dizzying array of characters, pages of overwritten narrative ("Maxwell's dark sweeping eyes roamed caressingly over the suits of Samurai regalia") and redundant referrals to Reese's milk-chocolate body parts, and the reader might find this story too overburdened to be enjoyable.
Customer Reviews
To Love is to Trust
This was such a beautiful story. There were lessons to be learned about how well we think we know somebody but really don't.
Reese and Max dealt with their issues differently. They had both suffered parenteral loss but in a different way. Whereas Reese was willing to take a chance after losing her parents are tragically, Max was not so trusting. And his cynicism almost caused him to lose the one true love of his life. Though Reese was willing to slay his dragons as she continued to fight her own, Max didn't quite pick up on it until it was almost too late. Reese was always patient and understanding with him. Ultimately he did become her Knight in shining armour.