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Public secrets

Nora Roberts

1994439 pagesabout 7–10 hours
1994
first published
  • 1997Bantam Books · 439 pages · ENGISBN 9780553106558
  • 1998Bantam · 481 pages · ENGISBN 9780553285789
  • 2014Brilliance AudioISBN 9781480587182
  • 2014Brilliance AudioISBN 9781480587144
  • 1995Heyne · 448 pagesISBN 9783453092280
  • 1994Wheeler Pub Inc · ENGISBN 9781568950556
  • 2006Bantam · 512 pages · ENGISBN 9780553589474
  • 2006Bantam · 512 pages · ENGISBN 9780553589535

SOMETIMES THE BEST KEPT SECRETS ARE THE ONES EVERYBODY KNOWS... Emma McAvoy. Beautiful, intelligent, radiantly talented, she lives in a star-studded world of wealth and privilege. But she is about to discover that fame is no protection at all when someone wants you dead.... All she has to do is close her eyes and she remembers the day Brian McAvoy swept into her life. She was a frightened toddler, until the magical day when her father rescues her. She didn't know then that she was his illegitimate daughter or that he was pop music's rising new star. All she knew was that with Brian, his bandmates, and his new wife, she felt safe. And when her baby brother arrived, Emma thought she was the luckiest girl in the world... until the night a botched kidnapping attempt shattered all their lives... and destroyed Emma's happiness. Yet now, even though Emma is still haunted by flashes of memory from that fateful night, she has survived. She's carved out a thrilling career and even dared to fall rapturously in love. But the man who will become her husband isn't all that he seems. And Emma is about to awaken to the chilling knowledge that the darkest secret of all is the one buried in her mind--a secret that someone may kill to keep....

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