Perfect Touch: A
Novel
By: Elizabeth Lowell
Releasing July 28, 2015
William Morrow
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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Sara’s phone chimed and vibrated in
her hand. She looked down, saw her partner’s phone number, and connected. For a
few minutes Piper Embry would take Sara’s mind off the cold and the man whose
deep voice wove through her dreams.
“Bought any great rugs lately?” Sara
asked.
“I’ve got my eye on some that have
me checking Perfect Touch’s bank balance.”
“What happened to consignment?”
“I’m working on it,” Piper said.
“What’s this message you left about Wyoming?”
“I wrapped up the Chens early and
came to Jackson.”
“I thought you were getting tired of
flying all over the place.”
“I am.”
“But you’re still lusting after
those Custers? Or is it Jay Vermilion of the incredible voice?”
“Wait until—if—I get my hands on
those paintings,” Sara said, ignoring Piper’s teasing. “They will wring the hearts
and pocketbooks of at least five of my clients, and go a long way toward
reducing my world travel.” Chilly air swirled hard against her, blowing her
hair into a nearly-black cloud around her face.
“What’s that sound?” Piper asked.
“Wind. Spring here is long on
bluster and short on cherry petals.”
Sara glanced around quickly, looking
for shelter. All she saw was another odd arch leading into another part of the
park. Or maybe out of it. Whichever, she opted to stay in the sun.
“You okay?” Piper asked. “Your voice
is different. Kind of strained.”
“You know me too
well. My room was robbed. Computer and coat are gone. But I’m fine. Don’t have
time right now for some junkie’s drama. In five minutes the judge is supposed
to finally deliver herself of a verdict on the Vermilion case.”
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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