Wrong Place Wrong Time

Andrea Kane

Publisher: Avon

Summary

A murder in upstate NY leads a young woman to search for answers among one of the region’s most powerful families in this romantic thriller. 
 
Sally Montgomery’s romantic getaway in the Hudson Valley is brutally cut short when her companion, Frederick Pierson, is murdered. Now Sally is on the run from the police—and the killer. In desperation, she turns to her ex-husband, a former NYPD detective, and their daughter Devon, a veterinarian who inherited her father’s investigative instincts.  
 
Devon’s search for the truth leads her straight to Blake Pierson, the handsome, enigmatic heir apparent to the powerful Pierson clan. But with his family’s empire threatened, whose side is Blake on? Racing the clock, Devon must prove her mother’s innocence and outmaneuver the killer before her tactics put her in the wrong place—with no time left to lose . . .

Available since: 10/13/2009.

Print length: 400 pages.

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