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Fiction. Romance. Suspense. HTML:New York Times bestseller Linda Howard brings scintillating sensuality and high-voltage thrills to this novel following a painter as she embarks on a sizzling romance while also coming under suspicion for a shocking murder. A talented painter in her early thirties, Paris Sweeney has achieved enviable success: her work sells at an exclusive New York City gallery, and her popularity is at an all-time high. Life is good, and Sweeney, as she prefers to be called, is content. But lately, Sweeney's dreams seem to echo a growing restlessness that has taken hold of her. Suddenly, impulsively, Sweeney falls into a night of intense passion with millionaire Richard Worth. Now, the true dangers of her all-consuming urges are about to be revealed where Sweeney least expects it: in her paintings. After a creative frenzy she can barely recall, Sweeney discovers she has rendered a disturbing image�??a graphic murder scene. Against her better instincts, she returns to the canvas time and again, filling out each chilling detail piece by piece. But when a shattering, real-life murder mirrors her creation, Sweeney falls under suspicion. With every stroke of her brush, she risks incriminating herself with her inexplicable knowledge of a deadly crime. And every desire�??including her hunger for Richard�??is loaded with uncertainty as Sweeney races to unmask… (more)
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That all being said, the plot is ridiculous. And Richard's relationship with his soon to be ex wife is difficult for me - he stayed when she was blatantly unfaithful, but left when she told him about her abortion - I can't see a man like Richard staying with a blatantly unfaithful wife.
Also, Sweeney's scruples - I can't sleep with you when you are married, even though you are legally separated, didn't hold up for me, especially the precise moment they chose to consumate their relationship. And an added thing that always presses my buttons, is her sudden tick tick tick line at the very end of the book. It was so out of character for her, and unnecceary. Of course, that being said, I reread it about once a year, so obviously I love it far more than I hate it, but these points do annoy me.
What she doesn't tell her friend is that she seems to mysteriously wake in the wee hours of the morning and paints vivid and horrifying scenes of mayhem and murder without remembering! The latest, a disturbing and gruesome murder scene that happens right after she paints scares her into revealing it to a trusted friend and lover. The information gets to the police investigating the murder and she is thrust into the limelight as the prime suspect.
A little bit of the supernatural, some romance, some intrigue. The book was very good.
Sweeney is a badass on all accounts. A shy, quirky, antisocial and clairvoyant one but a badass nonetheless. She paints,