WHEW ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !

One of the scariest moments in writing is getting the first review. Rejections are normal for any writer... but once the book is going to be published much is dependent on the reviewers. The Booklist Review is important because bookstores making buying decisions based on it.

So when my publisher sent me this, I feel so much younger...sort of a mental facelift.


Starred Booklist Review - it is in their 10-1-08 issue.
This title will publish November 19, 2008.
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*STARRED BOOKLIST*
Sometimes you have to be careful what you wish for. Leah Stockbridge has achieved all of her dreams. She is an accomplished artist. She has two beautiful children with her husband, Jean-Luc Perroset, one of the richest, most powerful men in Europe. She can have any luxury she wants. There's a golden tether tying her to her husband and limiting her freedom, but she tolerates it, even as she longs for her old life as a free-spirited artist. But, little by little, Leah learns how her husband has manipulated her life, much the same way as he manipulates his collection of rare puppets. Worse yet, she discovers that not only is her husband evil and corrupt, he is also a murderer. Now he knows that she knows, and Leah must run for her life. Jean-Luc's influence is worldwide, so the prospects of finding a safe haven are bleak. Nelson has written a fun-to-read thriller filled with odd details about life in America (remember tonettes and A-bomb drills?), Paris, and Switzerland from the 1960s to the 1990s and a real, Hitchcockian nail-biter.
—Shelley Mosley