Perfect Touch: A Novel
By: Elizabeth Lowell
Releasing July 28, 2015
William Morrow
Blurb
Sara Medina 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 Sara 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 Sara 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, Sara is targeted for murder. Suddenly, the war-weary
soldier finds something he is once again willing to die for…
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Author Info
Elizabeth Lowell’s exciting novels of romantic suspense include New
York Times Bestsellers: Dangerous Refuge, Beautiful Sacrifice, Death
Echo, The Wrong Hostage, Amber Beach, Jade Island, Pearl Cove, and
Midnight in Ruby Bayou. She has also written NYT best-selling historical
series set in the American West and Medieval Britain. She has more than
80 titles published to date, with over 24 million copies of her books
in print. She lives in the Sierra Nevada Mountains with her husband,
with whom she writes novels under a pseudonym. Her favorite activity is
exploring the Western United States to find the landscapes that speak to
her soul and inspire her writing
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Excerpts (Please use Excerpt Assigned to Certain Dates)
Excerpt #1 (7/20 – 7/21)
CHAPTER 1
The motel room door was ajar.
I locked it, Sara Anne Medina thought. Didn’t I?
She pushed the door open with her big purse—and froze. The room had
been tossed ruthlessly. Her suitcase was upended and off the stand. Her
clothes were strewn across the worn carpet, toiletries scattered, her
underwear and workout gear tumbled together. The lavender scent of her
favorite shampoo filled the air.
I was only gone for five minutes.
The take-out coffee she had bought was hot against her suddenly chilled hands.
Some stranger went through my things. Did the tweaker get off on my underwear?
Is he still here?
The thought had her jerking back so quickly the coffee sloshed over her
cold-numbed fingers. She looked around the hallway. No one in sight.
I don’t have time for this drama. I have to be at the courthouse. I
have to finally meet my mystery man, so I’ll stop dreaming and get back
to reality, where I belong.
Where I want to be, even with the damn tweakers.
Using her foot, she kicked the door all the way open until it slammed
against the stop. No one was behind it. No one was in the room itself.
The closet was open, no place inside to hide. The bathroom door showed a
view of the toilet, shower, and sink. The mirror was smudged where
she’d cleared the shower’s steam with her hand just minutes ago.
Whoever had been here was gone.
The mess wasn’t.
It will have to wait. Then, They took my computer. It’s all backed up on the cloud, but damn it!
The cord dangled from the wall, over the chair that had held her overcoat. The coat, like the computer, had vanished.
Wonder how many pawnshops there are in Jackson, Wyoming? And why would
they take a woman’s coat? There aren’t too many women my height who are a
size six.
With a hand that trembled slightly, Sara set down her
coffee, took a pen out of the bottomless bag that passed for her purse,
and poked through the mess of clothes on the floor to the suitcase
half-hidden beneath. The inside pockets were still zipped closed.
They missed my little jewelry case. I’d rather they take the jewelry and leave the computer, but they didn’t ask me, did they?
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