Darling Nikki

Informationen zum Autor E.V. Adams is a writer by passion and trade. From journalism major to freelance magazine article writer, she has been published in small magazines such as The Shoot and Jackson Christian Family . She currently runs a career marketing and editorial service specializing in executive résumé writing. Klappentext A cunningly crafted thriller, Darling Nikki is sure to keep readers guessing until the very end as a vengeful seductress lures her ex to his murder during a staged romantic encounter, but does not realize that her jealous husband is on their trail. Nikki Johnson has had enough of family secrets. She was the perfect wife to millionaire real estate tycoon Duncan Johnson until she discovered his mistress and child. And now her careless teenage son's pregnant girlfriend is moving in. She turns to her ex-husband, Chance Brown, for solace. Chance is skeptical when his once-spiteful ex-wife, Nikki, comes back into the picture, remarried and claiming still to be in love with him. During a Las Vegas getaway, Nikki grows bitter with Chance about his neglect of their son and his infidelity with a close family friend. But it's a darker secret altogether that has forced her over the edge?and she's determined to take Chance with her. Leseprobe Darling Nikki Chapter One A Few Days Prior November 9, 2007 Duncan Johnson unlatched the kitchen window and shoved it open. The cool breeze brought physical comfort, but did nothing to ease his mind. Seconds earlier, he had opened a small white envelope and discovered his fate. YOU WILL DIE AND YOU KNOW WHY. The message appeared to have been assembled with clippings from magazines and newspapers. Each letter had a different font, color, style, and background, neatly glued to the page. His nose twitched at the spicy scent that radiated from the note. It was a perfume that was familiar, but hard to recollect. The page slipped from his sweaty fingers and fell onto the pile of mail beneath him on the marble counter. Who was this mystery lady and why would she want him dead? Closing his eyes, he recalled a collection of perfume on his wife’s vanity. Nikki changed scents as often as she changed attire, which was several times a day. She was no killer, though, and his wife was the last person he wanted to suspect. But after what had happened during the previous month, he began to wonder if this could be her way of paying him back for the pain he had caused.   “Is Duncan here?” Duncan heard the woman’s voice echoing from the living room in his office two rooms over. He stood up from the desk, abandoning his computer to see who was at the front door. “And who are you?” Nikki asked the lady. “Are you Nikki?” Marie! How did she find out where he lived? Duncan rushed down the hallway with hopes that he would be able to explain everything to Nikki, but it was too late. Marie was already filling Nikki’s ears with what he should have told her about three years earlier. His seventeen-year-old stepson, Rayshad, lay across the couch with his legs crossed, ignoring the magazine in his lap, listening to their conversation. “I know Duncan probably didn’t tell you about me,” she went on, “but my name is Marie, his baby’s mother.” Nikki looked back and forth between the lady and small child. “Excuse me?” Duncan stood quietly behind Nikki in the doorway frame of the hallway. “That can’t be possible,” Nikki said. “Duncan doesn’t have any children.” “Maybe not to your knowledge.” “How old is she?” Marie adjusted the toddler on her hip and smiled down into the baby’s face. “Demetria just turned three.” “What are you d...

Product details

• Authors: E. V. Adams
• Publisher: Pocket Books USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 25.02.2014
• EAN: 9781593093945
• ISBN: 978-1-59309-394-5
• No. of pages: 336
• Series: Zane Presents
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature