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Overview

Sole heir to her family's once formidable fortune, Ellie Parrish Duveen divides her time between running her small restaurant and trying to take care of her beloved grandmother. The last thing she has time for is men.. "Dan Cassidy, formerly a New York City cop, now the owner of a run-down California winery, is also too busy for love - or so he thinks. When he walks into Ellie's bistro, a friendship is sparked that threatens to turn into a serious romance. But the attraction between them can't compete with a terrifying secret from the past that could have deadly consequences.

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Adler has written a fast-paced, suspenseful romance that is easy but fun reading. Ellie Duveen, with "misty blue-gray eyes and curly red hair worn long and flowing," lets us know that she is too busy for a relationship as she struggles to make her California caf a success. Dan, an NYPD homicide detective, "dark-haired and blue-eyed, built tall and rangy," starts a new life after taking a medical retirement and moving to California to open a winery. Buck Duveen, with a "fine head of copper-red hair, dark eyes and a lean-jawed, handsome face," is a genius psychopath obsessed with Ellie, whom he last saw more than 20 years ago when she was a child. Guess who gets out of the insane asylum? Guess who is the family secret? Guess who walks into Ellie's caf? And guess where this all leads? For public libraries.J. Sara Paulk, Coastal Plain Regional Lib., Tifton, Ga.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780440224655
  • Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
  • Publication date: 1/1/1999
  • Format: Mass Market Paperback
  • Edition description: Reissue
  • Pages: 432
  • Sales rank: 641,174
  • Product dimensions: 4.14 (w) x 6.88 (h) x 1.10 (d)

Meet the Author

Elizabeth Adler is the bestselling author of Sooner or Later, Now or Never, The Secret of the Villa Mimosa, and other internationally acclaimed novels.

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"Be right with you," she called. "The coffee machine's acting up again though, so if it's caffeine you're after, you might want to try Starbucks. It's on the next block."

"Juice is fine. It's eggs I really want, scrambled with a toasted bagel."

"Okay." She wrote the order and headed toward the kitchen in the back.

It was just a tiny storefront café done out like a Parisian bistro. The mirrors covering the walls were old and foggy, the bronze sconces were verdigrised, the tables were marble and the chairs cane. A scattering of fresh sawdust covered the tile floor and lace curtains hung from a brass rail halfway up the window, on which the name Ellie's Place was inscribed in green shadowed with gold.

Cute, he thought. Like the waitress. She came back carrying cutlery, napkins and a basket of fresh bread covered with a green-checked cloth, and he quickly amended that statement. You could never call a woman as tall as she was "cute." And she was no cookie-cutter California girl either.

She gave him another glancing smile as she set the bread in front of him and he noticed a smudge of flour on her cheek. Her eyes were the pale bluish-gray of opals, her nose was freckled and her red hair was bunched through a black baseball cap in a long curly ponytail. It was odd, but he felt he'd seen her somewhere before. He guessed it was because she looked a bit like Julia Roberts.

"Out here on vacation?" She arranged the tablemat and cutlery and folded the green-checkered napkin. Her voice was deep and soft as melted chocolate.

"How do you know I don't live here?"

She put her hands on her hips, regarding him. "It's that East Coast pallor. It's a dead giveaway. Most people out here have a tan, even if it's fake."

Dan laughed. "You mean I'll have to apply bronzer in order to qualify as a native?"

Her long legs covered the distance to the counter in three strides. She picked up the glass of juice and brought it to him. "Oh, a couple of days at the beach and you'll be fine. Better watch it though. I know it's only April, but the sun is strong."

He watched her walk back to the kitchen to get the eggs. "How come you're so pale then?"

"That's my grandmother's doing. She always made me wear a hat when I was a kid, never let me sunbathe. She said with my red hair and freckles it would be like frying myself. And you know what? She was right. Now I'm older and wiser, I thank her every time I look in the mirror. No lines, no sunspots. I'm a lucky woman."

Ellie smiled at him again as she put the plate of eggs in front of him. Back behind the counter, she cast him a speculative glance.

Cute, she thought, if you could call a guy that rugged "cute." Deep blue eyes that looked as though they had seen it all; thick dark hair, a hawkish nose and blue-stubbled jaw. Lean, broad-shouldered, muscular.

She shrugged regretfully. She didn't have time for men anyway. A career girl was what she was now, and forever would be. She was determined to make her way in the world. Ellie's Place was only her first venture into the restaurant trade; she already had steps two and three planned.

Dan finished his eggs in record time. He glanced at his watch, then went to pay his check. "Thanks," he said with a smile, "I enjoyed it."

"Enjoy your vacation," she called as he strode to the door.

He stood on the sidewalk, hands in his pockets, taking in the street scene before getting into the white Explorer. Ellie thought he surely had a great walk, confident, sexy.

Putting the thought of sex determinedly from her mind, she concentrated on the problem of the coffee machine. She had already been on the phone twice yesterday, this would make the third call. Maybe today they would send someone out to fix it.

When Jake arrived, she had to dash to Kinko's with the menu. Then she had to go over the week's orders, find out why there was so much waste in the fresh produce. Then there would be the busy lunch trade. After that she would set up the tables for dinner and check with Chan to make sure he was coming in. She would help with the preparations, take a half-hour break for coffee and a muffin, go home, shower, change, and be back at five for the evening stint as waitress, wine steward, dish stacker, and any other job that nobody else wanted.

Sometimes she wondered if she was in the right business. Then when she'd had a good week, or even a good day, she knew she was. And every night when she fell into bed, exhausted -- and alone -- she told herself it would all be worth it and that, one day, she would be the owner and proprietor of a Michelin-starred restaurant.

So there was absolutely no time, or room, in her life for a cute, blue-eyed rugged guy just passing through on vacation. Or anyone else for that matter. She had her grandmother to take care of and she definitely didn't need a man to complicate her life.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted February 22, 2008

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    This is the second time that I read this book and still enjoyed it. Elizabeth Adler has a nice writing style where she tells a story without going off on tangents. The plot of this book was unique and there was never a dull moment. The characters were all likable with the exception of the psycho killer. Definitely worth reading.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted June 5, 2003

    I was not that enamoured with this story.

    Ellie Parrish Duveen was five when the brakes of her parents' Bentley convertible failed and the car plunged off a steep California road. Or had the brakes been tampered with? The orphaned Ellie survived, her forehead only scarred, and she grew up under the care of wealthy grandmother Lottie. But as it happened, Ellie's father had a son, Buck, from an earlier marriage. Buck was strictly psycho, and although he dressed and comported himself like Cary Grant, he had the lousy habit of strangling prostitutes during sex. Arrested for such indulgences, Buck beat a jail rap and wound up in a private New York hospital for rich sickos. After 20 years, his grandmother's money ran short and Buck was booted out, essentially for nonpayment. He still had a small sum in the bank, though, which by now had accrued to $35,000 traveling money. Set free, Buck kills another prostitute to get back in shape and goes to California, where he learns that Ellie has opened a restaurant. He then begins to consider recovering his part of the family property and fortune through murder. This puts him directly in Ellie's sphere, and the suspense builds from there.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted November 14, 2000

    GREAT READING

    ELIZABETH ALDER KEEPS YOUR ATTETNION FROM PAGE ONE TO THE VERY LAST SENTENCE.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted April 8, 2000

    Mystery and Romance - all in one place

    This was my first Elizabeth Adler read. I don't usually go for mysteries but the book jacket got my attention...and it didn't fail to please!

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