Sandra Brown is the author of seventy-six New York Times bestsellers, including Out of Nowhere, Overkill, Blind Tiger, Thick As Thieves, Seeing Red, Outfox, Tailspin, Sting and Mean Streak. Writing professionally since 1981, Brown has published over eighty novels and has upwards of eighty million copies of her books in print worldwide. Her work has been translated into thirty-four languages. Brown holds an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Texas Christian University, where she instituted the Excellence in Literary Fiction, or ELF, a scholarship awarded annually to a creative writing student. She has served as president of Mystery Writers of America, and in 2008 she was named Thriller Master, the top award given by the International Thriller Writer's Association. Other honors include the Texas Medal of Arts Award for Literature and the Romance Writers of America's Lifetime Achievement Award.
A blackout in New York traps claustrophobic Laney McLeod in the elevator of an apartment building with successful attorney Deke Sargent. Already mellow from drinks during a dinner out with friends, Laney falls prey to an ensuing panic that leaves her vulnerable to first, Deke's rescue and, then, his spontaneous seduction. The next morning she flees his bed to resume her life as a kindergarten teacher in Arkansas. Six months later Deke shows up in her schoolyard, determined to win both the woman he cannot forget and the child she carries. This classic romance, while dated in its representation of laws and attitudes, is an erotic fantasy that still appeals. Richard Ferrone's rumbling voice enhances the story of Deke's assault on Laney's independence. Recommended for adult fiction collections; this book contains explicit sexual material.-Janet Martin, FirstHealth of the Carolinas, Pinehurst, NC Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.
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