Nine New York Times bestsellers and more than twenty million books
in print have affirmed Judith McNaught's stature as the reigning monarch
of superb storytelling. Now, she creates breathtaking suspense and
harrowing plot twists in her most masterful, enthralling novel yet.
A policewoman in a small Florida community, Sloan Reynolds knows that
her modest upbringing was a long way from the social whirl of Palm
Beach, the world inhabited by her father and her sister, Paris. Total
strangers to Sloan, they have never tried to contact her--until a sudden
invitation arrives, to meet them and indulge in the Palm Beach social
season.
A woman who values her investigative work more than a Dior dress, Sloan
is unmoved by the long-overdue parental gesture. But when FBI agent Paul
Richardson informs her that her father and his associates are suspected
of fraud, conspiracy, and murder, Sloan agrees to enter into her
father's life--while hiding her true profession.
Sloan's on top of her game until she meets Noah Maitland, a
multinational corporate player and one of the FBI's prime suspects--and
finds herself powerfully attracted to him, against her deepest
instincts. When a shocking murder shatters the seductive facade of the
wealth and glamour surrounding her, Sloan must maneuver through a maze
of deceit and passion, to find someone to trust--and to decipher the
truth behind those terrifying whispers in the dark.
