Inner Harbor

Zusatztext "America's favorite writer."— The New Yorker "With bright dialogue and lots of heart! Roberts provides a safe harbor for Phillip...and for her many fans."— Publishers Weekly Informationen zum Autor Nora Roberts Klappentext The third novel in #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts' stunning Chesapeake Bay Saga, where the Quinn brothers must return to their family home on the Maryland shore, to honor their father's last request... Phillip Quinn has done everything to make his life seem perfect. With his career on the fast track and a condo overlooking the Inner Harbor, his life on the street is firmly in the past. But one look at Seth and he's reminded of the boy he once was. Seth's future as a Quinn seems assured-until a stranger arrives in town. She claims to be researching the town of St. Christopher's for her new book, but the true objects of study are the Quinns. Her cool reserve intrigues Phillip. He is determined to uncover her motives, but she is holding a secret that has the power to threaten the life the brothers have made for Seth. A secret that could tear the family apart-forever... Don't miss the other books in the Chesapeake Bay Saga Sea Swept Rising Tides Chesapeake BlueChapter One      Phillip loosened the windsor knot in his Fendi tie. It was a long commute from Baltimore to Maryland's Eastern Shore, and he'd programmed his CD player with that in mind. He started out mellow with a little Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers.     Thursday-evening traffic was as bad as predicted, made worse by the sluggish rain and the rubberneckers who couldn't resist a long, fascinated goggle at the three-car accident on the Baltimore Beltway.     By the time he was heading south on Route 50, even the hot licks of vintage Stones couldn't completely lift his mood.     He'd brought work with him and somehow had to eke out time for the Myerstone Tire account over the weekend. They wanted a whole new look for this advertising campaign. Happy tires make happy drivers, Phillip thought, drumming his fingers on the wheel to the rhythm of Keith Richards's outlaw guitar.     Which was a crock, he decided. Nobody was happy driving in rainy rush-hour traffic, no matter what rubber covered their wheels.     But he'd come up with something that would make the consumers think that riding on Myerstones would make them happy, safe, and sexy. It was his job, and he was good at it.     Good enough to juggle four major accounts, supervise the status of six lesser ones, and never appear to break a sweat within the slick corridors of Innovations, the well-heeled advertising firm where heworked. The firm that demanded style, exuberance, and creativity from its executives.     They didn't pay to see him sweat.     Alone, however, was a different matter.     He knew he'd been burning not a candle but a torch at both ends for months. With one hard slap of fate he'd gone from living for Phillip Quinn to wondering what had happened to his cheerfully upwardly mobile urban lifestyle.     His father's death six months before had turned his life upside down. The life that Ray and Stella Quinn had righted seventeen years ago. They'd walked into that dreary hospital room and offered him a chance and a choice. He'd taken the chance because he'd been smart enough to understand that he had no choice.     Going back on the streets wasn't as appealing as it had been before his chest had been ripped open by bullets. Living with his mother was no longer an option, not even if she changed her mind and let him buy his way back into the cramped apartment on Baltimore's Block. Social Services was taking a hard look at the situation, and he knew he'd be dumped into the system the minute he was back on his feet.     He had no intention of going back into the system, or back with his mother, or b...

Relazione

"America's favorite writer." The New Yorker

"With bright dialogue and lots of heart, Roberts provides a safe harbor for Phillip...and for her many fans." Publishers Weekly

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Nora Roberts
• Editore: Berkley Publishing Group
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 01.01.1999
• EAN: 9780515124217
• ISBN: 978-0-515-12421-7
• Pagine: 342
• Dimensioni: 107 mm x 173 mm x 25 mm
• Serie: Chesapeake Bay Quartet; Chesapeake Bay Saga; Jove Paperbacks; Chesapeake Bay Saga; Chesapeake Bay Quartet
• Categoria: Narrativa > Romanzi