Cry Mercy - A Mercy Street Novel

Zusatztext “A fantastic new series . . . The author's finely drawn characters! and her rapid-pace! intelligent stories! keep the suspense flowing and the pages turning.”— Fresh Fiction Informationen zum Autor Mariah Stewart is the award-winning author of the Last series: Last Look, Last Words, and L ast Breath; the Truth series: Cold Truth, Hard Truth, Dark Truth, and Final Truth; and the Dead series: Dead Even, Dead Wrong, Dead Certain, and Dead End ; as well as Forgotten, Until Dark, and T he President's Daughter. She is the recipient of the Golden Leaf Award and the Award of Excellence presented by the Colorado Romance Writers, and has been a finalist for the Holt Medallion. Her books have been nominated for several awards from Romantic Times magazine, including Best Contemporary Romance and Best Contemporary Novel. Stewart is a native of Hightstown, New Jersey, and lives in Pennsylvania with her husband and their two daughters. Klappentext From New York Times bestselling author Mariah Stewart comes a novel of sexy romantic suspense for fans of Nora Roberts! Catherine Coulter! and Karen Robards. After Ann Nolan! a California beat cop! adopts the daughter of a notorious drug dealer! the ruthless father vows to take back his only child. In response! Ann flees across the country! changes her name! and starts a new life as an investigator for the Mercy Street Foundation! the billionaire-endowed organization dedicated to finding missing persons. As Emme Caldwell! she takes the lead on the Foundation's first case: Nineteen-year-old Belinda Hudson disappeared from her sorority house leaving behind only one cryptic clue. Retracing the vanished student's steps leads Emme to Heaven's Gate! a fertility clinic! and the mysterious Donor 1735. Belinda's legal guardian! Nick Perone! is determined to shadow Emme's every move as she searches for his niece. But the closer Emme gets to Donor 1735 and the chilling truth! the more apparent it becomes that she's escaped one dangerous man only to run head-on into another-one who's far more determined and every bit as deadly. Chapter One Robert Magellan stood on the front steps of his Tudor-style mansion and looked over the crowd gathered on the paved circular drive that was wide enough to accommodate three vehicles. “I want to be able to park three cars across,” he’d told the contractor, and that’s exactly what he got. Today there were people, not cars, lining the driveway. “Are you sure this is a good idea?” Robert’s personal assistant and right hand, Susanna Jones, asked from just inside the front door. “It’s a great idea,” he assured her. “You’ve always avoided the press,” she reminded him. “Yes, but this time I have something important to say.” “There were those who thought you might have had something important to say when you sold your stock in Magellan Express a few years back,” she said dryly. “My ex-partner talked enough for both of us,” he recalled. “There wasn’t much for me to add.” And of course, he’d had little enough to say to the media when his wife and son went missing two years earlier. At the request of the police, he’d made the televised pleas for anyone with any knowledge of their whereabouts to call the numbers that flashed on the screen, but beyond that, he’d been silent. His reluctance to speak on camera about his family had led some to speculate that perhaps he’d had a hand in their disappearance, but no one who knew him took that seriously. Robert had always worn his heart on his sleeve, and even now, speaking publicly about Beth and Ian was acutely painful, something he’d rather not do. “Mr. Magellan, if you’re ready . . .” The young assistant to the head of the public relations firm Robert had hired to organize his press conference placed the mic...

Product details

• Authors: Mariah Stewart
• Publisher: Ballantine
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 28.04.2009
• EAN: 9780345506139
• ISBN: 978-0-345-50613-9
• No. of pages: 432
• Dimensions: 106 mm x 172 mm x 23 mm
• Series: Mercy; Mercy Street Novels (Paperback; Mercy; Mercy Street Novels (Paperback
• Subject: Fiction > Suspense