
When Max Savage opens his practice in a remote, seductively beautiful bayou town, he hopes it's the start of a new life. He's got his reputation as a skilled surgeon, his two brothers by his side and a fresh chance here in the sultry heat of Toussaint. But soon Max discovers he can't escape a past riddled with accusations of murder...or the faces of two dead women. Especially since another woman is missing, and he was the last to see her alive.
Annie Duhon knows all about nightmares that shatter life's dreams and the need to escape the past. But her fascination with Max grows, even when disturbing rumors start to surface and her darkest visions seem to play out in living color. Can she trust Max with her secrets and her deepest desires? Or is he the specter she sees when she sleeps--a killer stalking women with his cleansing fi re? Is she about to become his next victim?
The object of obsessive hatred, Max is a marked man who has unwittingly attracted danger to anyone he's cared about. Now he loves Annie, and knows with chilling certainty that he faces one last chance to unmask a killer before there's nothing left to fi ght for.
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Born 1943
Stella Cameron was born on December 5, 1943 on the southern coast of England. As a young girl, Stella was a self-professed reading "addict", devouring all types of literature. "I grew up surrounded by a dear, but wildly dysfunctional family," Stella says. "Very early I learned to retreat from the raging, sometimes threatening demands of others into a gentler world -- my own. As a child and a young adult, books saved me because they helped free me while they entertained me. Those books were part of what I mean by 'my own world.' My love of reading always marched side-by-side with a love of writing. When the other children in my English classes watched the clock and prayed for the period to end, I wrote furiously on such grabbing topics as: A Walk In My Garden!" Nineteenth-century author Jane Austen was a particular favorite, and Stella admits that she particularly enjoys reading and writing books set in the 1800s, as well as contemporary novels. Author Mazo de la Roche's turn-of-the-century series about the Whiteoak family is another favorite. Stella is also a fan of such modern authors as Suzanne Simms, Jayne Ann Krentz, Ann Maxwell, Anne Tyler and Anita Brookner. These authors capture Stella with their "multi-faceted characterization, with plot that never stops me, and with conflict that keeps me on the edge of my seat," she says. "I want to laugh and cry with the books I read, just as I want to laugh and cry with the books I write. The authors I admire are those who put their hearts -- and their guts -- on the page. I'm not interested in pure fluff, but I can often see through the frills to the poignancy beneath and I set to work to ferret it out -- with enormous pleasure." Stella met her American husband at a party in London. So mesmerized was she by the sight of the Fab Four through the window, she was taken aback when asked by a handsome stranger to dance the Mexican Hat Dance. "The rest, as they say, is history," says Stella laughingly. When she still lived and worked in London, they had one very cold winter and she didn't have a warm coat or the money to buy one. Her fiancé, Jerry showed up with a new wool coat he'd gone out and bought on his own! Then she decided that really he was the man of her life. After their marriage, she left England and went with husband Jerry to Washington State to make a home and raise a family. "My husband is a dear, loyal man. The day we met was the most blessed day of my life," said Stella, in a interview from her home. "He has allowed me to be all that I can be and this is a reciprocal trust." In 1980, Stella decided she wanted to write professionally. She attended writing classes and wrote short literary fiction for a year. It was during this period that Stella discovered how well-written and intense romantic fiction could be. Using her newly acquired writing skills, she began to write contemporary romantic fiction for Harlequin since 1985. She collaborated with Linda Rice as Alicia Brandon and with Virginia Myers as Jane Worth Abbott. Now, she is the New York Times, USA Today, and Washington Post bestselling, award-winning author of more than 45 historical and contemporary romantic suspense novels and novellas. Stella has won numerous awards and accolades. Stella lives near Seattle with her husband. They have three children, one married. Her pets, a dog named Spike and a cat named Raven, are her constant buddies. When she's away on trips, buying gifts for the two furry friends is at the top of her list of "musts." Are they spoiled? You betcha. "If I don't have tickets for a performance waiting on my desk, I go into a funk. I should have put my animals before the theatre...."
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