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Summer Hawthorne, a women museum curator, treasures an ice‑blue ceramic bowl given by her beloved Japanese nanny. The relic turns her life into a high‑stakes thriller when an international operative named Takashi O'Brien sees it as a catalyst for a global power struggle. Determined to stop the conflict at all costs, O'Brien commands that everyone involved can be eliminated, even her. As the deadly game unfolds across the Pacific, it shifts into the remote, beautiful mountains of Japan, where the stakes become even more perilous and the truth as seductive as it is deadly.
First publish date: April 1, 2007
Genre: Suspense/Romantic Suspense
Authors: Edith Layton
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