Joe Flynn is just like any other twelve-year-old his age, except for one thing. Joe has witnessed a murder. The only thing is, no one believes him. Not his mother, Angela, and certainly not the detective assigned to the “alleged” case. At least not until dead bodies start popping up.
After thirteen years, Detective Roman MacKenzie has had enough of big city crime in New York and craves the crime-free existence of the small town where he was born. But no sooner than Roman returns to Salmon Lake, PA, he not only finds himself in the middle of a serial murder investigation, but he’s drawn to the woman he left behind all those years ago--Angela Flynn. Angela’s son is the only witness they have, and it’s Roman’s job to protect him from the killer. Only the detective has no idea that the boy he’s risking his life to save is also his son. Nor does he realize that, looming in the shadows, is the killer, and he’s bent on making Angela his next victim.
Steamy adultery and romance, secrets and murder--that's
what the McLaughlin is made of.
Ross McLaughlin is finally going home. Home to his estranged family and
a town full of secrets. Emma, his sixteen-year-old daughter, is excited
about meeting her family and is eager to learn the answers surrounding
her mother’s death. She can’t understand why, after fourteen years, her
father is still reluctant to talk about the past, or her mother. But then,
how could she know that the small Pennsylvania town where she was born,
and where her father grew up, harbored a killer? A killer who just might
be a member of the family.
"The suspense of LUST’S BETRAYAL begins on page one. It is fourteen years earlier, and we meet Ross’s wife Meredith, learn some insight about her, and witness her death. The lies and secrets surrounding her have kept Ross away, but as with most secrets, the truth will finally be revealed. Debby Conrad has written a page-turner with a whole family of suspects, but who are also individuals that the reader will care for."
-- Reviewed by Kathy Andrico for The Road to Romance
February 14, 2007
LUST'S BETRAYAL is a finalist in the Booksellers' Best Award contest and also a finalist in the Readers' Choice contest sponsored by AuthorIsland.com.
