Light In Shadow

Synopsis

zoe Luce Is A Successful Interior Designer In The Arizona Town Of Whispering Springs Who's Developed An Unusual Career Specialty - Helping Recently Divorced Clients Redesign Their Homes, To Help Them Forget About The Past And Start Anew. But Zoe Knows That Some Things Can't Be Covered Up With A New Coat Of Paint. And When She Senses That One Of Her Clients May Be Hiding A Dark Secret, She Enlists P.i. Ethan Truax To Find The Truth.

working Together, They Solve The Mystery...and Barely Escape With Their Lives. But Ethan's Exquisite Detection Skills Are Starting To Backfire On Zoe: She Never Wanted To Let Him Find Out About Her Former Life; She Never Wanted To Reveal Her Powerful, Inexplicable Gift For Sensing The History Hidden With A House's Walls; She Never Wanted Him To Know That Zoe Luce Doesn't Really Exist. She Never Wanted To Fall In Love With Him.

now, No Matter How Much She Resists, Ethan May Be Her Only Hope - Because The People She's Been Running From Have Found Her. And Just When Zoe Dares To Dream Of A Normal Life And A Future With The Man She Loves, Her Own Past Starts To Shadow Her Every Step - And Threatens To Take Her Back Into A Nightmare.

publishers Weekly

krentz's Latest Opens With An Intriguing Scene: Interior Designer Zoe Luce Enters The Bedroom Of Her Latest Client And Is Immediately Assaulted By Waves Of Terror, Rage, Screams And Violence Emanating From The Walls. This Sensitivity To Her Surroundings Is Zoe's Innate Gift, And She Immediately Suspects That Her Client's Wife Has Not Left Him, As He Claims, But Was Murdered. She Seeks Out Private Eye Ethan Truax To Discover The Truth. But Soon A Much More Tangled Plot Reveals Itself: Zoe Herself Is An Escapee From A Mental Hospital, To Which She Was Committed After The Murder Of Her Husband, And Hired Goons Are Trying To Track Her Down And Return Her To The Institution. Narrator Bean Deftly Differentiates Between The Myriad Character Voices, Including Pompous Dr. Ian Harper (the Asylum's Crooked Owner), Raspy-voiced Security Consultant Singleton, Simpering Kimberly Cleland (wife Of Zoe's Scheming Cousin), Southern-accented Bonnie (ethan's Sister-in-law), And Dramatic, Glamorous Acadia (zoe's Friend And Fellow Asylum Escapee). Krentz Weaves The Numerous Threads Into A Satisfying Mystery. Simultaneous Release With The Putnam Hardcover (forecasts, Nov. 4, 2002). (jan.) Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.