A brand new novel of romantic suspense from New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Lowell! (Tentatively titled THE PERFECT TOUCH) Sarah "Sam" Maddox is a designer and art dealer from San Francisco. She matches her clients desires with fine and f... Read more

A brand new novel of romantic suspense from New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Lowell! (Tentatively titled THE PERFECT TOUCH) Sarah "Sam" Maddox is a designer and art dealer from San Francisco. She matches her clients desires with fine and folk art from the world over-living up to her thriving business named Perfect Touch. She still remembers her rural childhood of hard work and poverty on the family dairy farm, but she keeps it firmly in the past as she searches out new artwork and artists that are on the breaking edge of acclaim. After she experienced the cultural riches San Francisco had to offer, she decided her life would be that of an urban career woman rather than a working mom commuting from the suburbs. With the intensive hours and travel required to grow her business to the next level, she has no time or energy left for romantic or family entanglements. Jay Vermillion recently inherited Vermillion Sky, a ranch that nestles up to Wyoming's Grand Teton Mountains-and the estates of the rich and restless. As a returned veteran of numerous deployments over the course of two wars, he finds himself wrestling with the demands of a ranch that has been run down during his father's long illness. Between the urgent need to modernize and revitalize the Vermillion Sky, as well as an unexpected and vicious fight with his former stepmother over the custody of now-valuable paintings that were part of his father's estate, Jay has no time for finding a wife and creating a sixth generation of Vermillions to ensure the family legacy continues. When Jay hires Sam to appraise and market his father's cache of paintings by Harris "Custer" Armstrong, neither one expects the explosive results of their eventual meeting in Jackson, Wyoming. In addition to a mutually inconvenient attraction, they a discover double murder at the edge of the ranch lands and a potential betrayal even closer to home. All trails lead to Custer's artworks as valuable enough to kill for, especially an unknown painted rumored to be called The Muse. As Sam and Jay unravel the motive for the killings, they both discover that love, like murder, doesn't wait for a convenient time. On the heels of that soul-shattering realization, Sam is targeted for murder. Suddenly, the war-weary soldier finds something he is once again willing to die for... Less