For her part, Faith has just dumped her loser boyfriend Tony, who’s convinced her that she’s sexually unresponsive.
Walker, a tough old country boy with hot lapis-lazuli eyes who’s just lost his younger brother on a ruby-hunting jaunt to Afghanistan, is afraid that he’s doomed to fail anyone who loves and depends on him. Archer, her eldest brother, agrees to insure the necklace if she’ll agree to have Owen Walker guard her “like a second skin” until she delivers it to the Montegeaus. That's the one being sought by Russian thugs who would be pleased to torture and murder Faith to get it back-if only she had it. Petersburg-along with a 20-carat carved ruby called the Heart of Midnight. Little do Faith and her overly protective big brothers know that the rubies have been stolen from a necklace at the Hermitage in St. The last volume in romancer Lowell’s gem tetralogy ( Pearl Cove, 1999, etc.) recycles pretty much the same successful story for the fourth time.įaith Donovan, jewelry-designing sister of Seattle’s gem-trading Donovan clan, has been commissioned to turn 13 rare Burmese rubies newly come into her inventory into a necklace that will become her best friend’s wedding present after she takes it to Savannah to crown her booth at a jewelry expo.
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