Elizabeth Lowell sets up another of her well-plotted scenarios that will keep you guessing throughout her newest blockbuster, PERFECT TOUCH. Reading through the long list of stories by a truly talented author is like revisiting old friends. Fans of Elizabeth Lowell all have their favorites and I am quite certain PERFECT TOUCH will wind up on many of those lists. It's a must read for this summer and a welcome addition to Elizabeth Lowell's romantic suspense bookshelf.

Sara Medina has devoted all her energy toward making her business, Perfect Touch, a success. In order to do so, anything even remotely resembling a personal life has been put on a back burner. Sara has spent all her time flitting from one potential client to another. She is looking for the big one to really put her company on the map -- and Sara has set her sights on the original paintings by Custer. Sara has done her legwork and developed a solid working relationship with the man who stands to inherit those paintings -- Jay Vermilion. Much is at stake for both Sara and Jay with the ownership of the Custer's. Problem is, there are several other parties with their eye on the prize and some are willing to do anything to get their hands on the artwork.

So much more is truly is stake for Sara and Jay once it is apparent that their relationship has evolved past the artwork/client stage. Their friendship has definitely morphed into something wonderful and unexpected. Jay's future is on his ranch. Sara's is in the city with Perfect Touch. The bridge between their life goals seems too long to span without someone making a huge personal compromise.

Before they can tackle this new relationship, the rules of the game change. Sara has more to lose than the potential profit from the sale of this prized artwork. Now her life is in jeopardy as someone seems determined to scare her off and the list of suspects grows every day.

Elizabeth Lowell has written what appears to be a simple case of family greed as the central theme. But you quickly realize this is not so simple or obvious. PERFECT TOUCH showcases the talent of a longtime favorite author of mine: Elizabeth Lowell. PERFECT TOUCH is a beautifully written page turner sure to satisfy romance suspense readers. Even though you think you've got the culprit/culprits in focus, there's still the niggling doubt over who is the kingpin. Genius. I won't tell.

Book Summary

The New York Times bestselling queen of romantic suspense returns with a heart-racing tale in which a former soldier turned rancher and a beautiful designer race to stop a vicious killer—a battle for survival that threatens to explode in an intense and irresistible passion.

An art dealer and owner of her own design studio, Perfect Touch, Sara Medina travels the world to find the ideal artwork for her clients. Her sophisticated, comfortable life in San Francisco is light years away from the poverty of her family’s dairy farm, and Sara will do whatever it takes to keep her business strong. A dedicated urban career woman focused on her work, she doesn’t have time or energy for a family or distracting romantic entanglements.

Jay Vermillion recently inherited Vermillion Sky, a working ranch near Wyoming’s breathtaking Grand Teton Mountains— and the estates of the rich and restless. While he was fighting in two wars, his father tried to keep the homestead running, until illness stole his fight and then his life. Jay’s determined to restore Vermillion Sky, but first he’s got to settle a vicious battle with his former stepmother over some of his late father’s paintings. The last thing on his mind is a finding a wife and creating a seventh generation of Vermillions.

When Jay hires Sara to handle his father’s artwork, it’s love at first sight—a mutually inconvenient attraction that is soon complicated by a double murder at the edge of the ranch and a potential betrayal even closer to home. Working together to unmask a murderer, Sara and Jay try to fight the intense heat between them. Then the killer targets Sara. And suddenly, Jay, the war-weary soldier, finds something he’s once again willing to die for . . .

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