The Perfect Family by Carla Cassidy

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In this contemporary romantic thriller, Carla Cassidy beautifully portrays the evolution of Marissa Jamison, a young woman slowly coming to terms with her husband's accidental death a year ago. Her children are finally adjusting, her business is going well, and her old high school boyfriend, Alex Kincaid, has moved back to town. Life finally seems to be on the upswing until a dead body, decorated with a red bow, is found in a nearby park. Detectives Luke Hunter and Sarah Wilkerson zero in on Marissa as a suspect or possible connection, while Marissa receives a mysterious bouquet of red roses and nightly phone hangups. With a sure touch Cassidy slowly tightens the strands of the plot as Marissa and Alex resume their old romance, the detectives pursue their slender leads, and an unknown man escalates his pursuit of Marissa and her children. Ginger Curwen

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If he can't have her, no one can

To one man, recent widow Marissa Jamison and her two children are the perfect family-and he will stop at nothing to make sure that they belong to him.

Library Journal

It's been a year since her firefighter husband was killed by a hit-and-run driver, and Marissa and her two young children are finally getting on with their lives when a killer begins leaving ribbon-bedecked bodies as "gifts" for her, as well as red roses and late night silent phone calls. An obsessed madman determined to claim the "perfect family" he "deserves," an old love who will do anything to keep Marissa safe, and a tenacious cop who goes above and beyond the call are highlights of this chilling, exceptionally well-crafted tale of romantic suspense that makes especially effective use of the villain's point of view. Cassidy, a veteran writer of contemporary series romances (Promise Him Anything), lives in Kansas City, MO Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.

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