Romantic suspense.
Blackmail, robbery and murder has her running scared but who can she trust.
Transferring from her secretary job in London to the Manhattan branch, New York, Liz is running from a troubled past. A staged chance meeting in a bar with the charismatic Shaun O’Riley leads to blackmail, robbery and murder.
With no place to go, Liz turns to the only man whom she feels might be willing to believe in her innocence.
Jack Willis, a robbery/homicide detective has encountered Liz on several occasions - links to a suspected blackmailer, a witness to an assault and then he’s interviewing her at the scene of a bank heist. Jack doesn’t believe in coincidences so when the call comes through on his private line claiming her boyfriend has been murdered and she needs his help, Jack has a big problem on his hands. Does he succumb to the attraction he knows is mutual or cart her pretty arse off to jail?
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Jack straightened up and faced her. An innocent dragged into blackmail, robbery and murder or a brilliant deceitful gangster’s tart looking for an escape plan and a dupe to help her carry it out. It was decision time. He went over to her and gently lifted her chin with his fingers so her gaze met his.
“You’ve got a lot of explaining to do, sweetheart, like what’s your involvement in all this. I need some answers fast because at the moment it doesn’t look too good for you.”
Her pupils were widening as the alarm built up, making him aware his words were obviously sinking in. It was callous of him, but he was only being truthful, there was no soft option. “I radio this in and the cops and Feds are going to be swarming in and seeing what I’m trying not to think. That you helped your boyfriend with the bank raid, he double crossed his buddies, got taken out and now you are trying to act the victim here to save your own neck.”
“No,” she cried out and started shaking her head uncontrollably.
A search for the ghost of a chorus girl chorine haunting a costume designer’s Manhattan apartment leads to an encounter with an eccentric, mischievous witch with the ability to send folks back through time…in this case, the 1919 Ziegfeld Follies.
