A romantic suspense by Weslynn McCallister, writing as Jamie Cortland.
He's looking for you...on the beaches, in cocktail lounges and upscale restaurants. When you meet him, he will be charming, engaging, and compelling. Others will feel his menacing aura, but you will not. And so it was for Evelyn who was still half-way in love with her super-star ex-husband.
Once caught in the stranger's web, she discovered he was not the man of her dreams, but of her nightmares. Her only thought was to escape.
Skin Deep is about a stunning divorcee with a young child who is still half-way in love with her super-star ex-husband. Vulnerable, she meets a devastatingly handsome stranger who takes her on a whirl-wind romance. Despite the objections of her family, she elopes with him within months after she has met him. It is then that he drops the mask of deception that he has worn in order to win her heart.
The question is: Will she be able to escape his madness before it is too late?
Excerpt
Excerpt from Page 1, Chapter 1
She closed her eyes and drifted off, dreaming of a perfect stranger. The man in her dream was tall, handsome, and slender, with blue-green eyes and dark, wavy hair. He was a widower in his mid-thirties, wealthy and able to travel. When he reached out to her, his touch seared, and his face grew distorted.
Evelyn screamed. Sitting straight up in bed, she stared into the darkness. Reaching over to the brass lamp that sat on the end table, she turned it on.
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SKN DEEP
Award-winning Author, Jamie Cortland presents SKIN DEEP, a dark tale of suspense following a divorced single mother's involvement with the wrong man. Evelyn Valentino brushes off the warnings of her friends and family not to rush too quickly into her new relationship with an exciting stranger, but bit by bit the glass crumbles away and the madness drivng her new paramour is revealed. Her ex-husband, Thomas, still loves her and pleads with her to end the destructive relationship before it is to late, but escape is easier said than done. Taut, chilling, and nail-biting suspenseful to the very end.
Book three in series. Excitement and tension begin on the first day of filming a Restoration drama on location at the historic Jacobean mansion, Ham House in Surrey.
