Relationships are challenging enough for most single over-thirty women.
For level ten parasensitive Clare Lancaster, they're a minefield. The
elite few who know her secret call her a human lie detector, and any
falsehood, no matter how subtle or well hidden, sets her blood racing.
Over the years, Clare has come to accept that someone with her
extraordinary talents is unlikely to find a suitable mate. And she's
even resigned herself to the fact that everyone, to one degree or
another, hides behind a façade. Including her recently deceased
brother-in-law. When Clare finds the body of Brad McAllister, the golden
child of Stone Canyon, Arizona, the posh residents turn a suspicious eye
in her direction. As Archer Glazebrook's daughter, Clare is shielded
from the law, but not the gossip. It seems that meeting the half sister
and family whom she did not know until seven months ago was a mistake.
Now her father summons her from California to play a role in his
business empire, and Clare doesn't intend on making the same mistake
twice. But after meeting Jake Salter, Archer's "business consultant,"
she is convinced that things aren't what they seem. Salter's careful
conversation walks a delicate line between truth and deception,
revealing and resisting. Something sparks and sizzles between them -
something more than the usual electricity between a man and a woman.
Caught in a dizzying storm of secrets, lies, and half-truths, Jake and
Clare will plunge into an investigation that demands every bit of their
special gifts. Together, they must overcome their mutual distrust in
order to unravel a web of conspiracy and murder.
