Smoke and Mirrors - Hardcover

Michaels, Barbara

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0671670379 ISBN 13: 9780671670375

Publisher: Simon & Schuster, 1989

Synopsis

From inside dust jacket:
"Michaels delivers another sure-fire winner in this romantic adventure ... whose realistic set­ting, plot and vibrant characters should swell her legion of fans." - Publishers Weekly

New York Times best-selling author Barbara Michaels returns with her special magical blend of romance and danger - a potion guaranteed to delight fans and garner new devotees.

When young Erin Hartsock joins the staff committed to electing Congresswoman Rose­mary White Marshall senator from Virginia, she foresees nothing more than boring secretarial work for a slightly-more-interesting-than-usual boss. But as the campaign heats up, Erin finds herself fascinated by the charismatic candidate and her surrounding rogues' gallery of advisers and volunteers: bold and blustery campaign manager Joe Esler, fiercely overprotective per­sonal secretary Kay Goodrick, smoothly analyti­cal legal expert Jeff Ross, handsome and hotheaded media manager Nick McDermott, and the mysteriously reclusive researcher Will Gates.

Soon, however, the campaign flares up in more startling and sinister ways: a series of increasingly dangerous fires, an unmistakably violent attack, a seemingly accidental death .... Among Erin's newfound friends, colleagues, and lover, a secret waits. A secret so dark, so terrify­ing, its bearer will stop at nothing.

Here is a no-holds-barred look at the high­ stakes game played by the powers behind the power, where murder is the ultimate trump card-a game of smoke and mirrors from Amer­ica's mistress of romantic suspense.

About this title

About the Author:

Elizabeth Peters (writing as Barbara Michaels) was born and brought up in Illinois and earned her Ph.D. in Egyptology from the University of Chicago's famed Oriental Institute. Peters was named Grandmaster at the inaugural Anthony Awards in 1986, Grandmaster by the Mystery Writers of America at the Edgar® Awards in 1998, and given The Lifetime Achievement Award at Malice Domestic in 2003. She lives in an historic farmhouse in western Maryland.

From Publishers Weekly:

Michaels delivers another sure-fire winner in this romantic adventure set in the smoky, deceptive arena of American politics. Young, uncertain Erin Hartsock moves to Washington, D.C., after her father's death, and takes a job on the campaign staff of Rosemary White Marshall, an old friend of her parents who is running for the Senate from Virginia. Both exhilarated and intimidated by the nonstop pace of campaign life, Erin is similarly drawn to and put off by the enforced intimacy of Rosemary's inner circle. A series of accidents centering around fires besieges the campaign, and Erin discovers to her horror that she is suspected of harboring a family secret that may destroy Rosemary's chances. Although she and Nick, another member of Rosemary's staff, clear her name, the threat to Rosemary remains and the two young people face mortal danger when they uncover an old plotits victims ready to wreak vengeance, its perpetrators ready to kill again. Michaels eschews her usual suggestion of otherworldly participation in her latest (after Search the Shadows ) eminently satisfying tale, whose realistic setting, plot and vibrant characters should swell her legion of fans. Literary Guild alternate; Doubleday Book Club featured alternate.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0671670379
• ISBN 13: 9780671670375
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 348