Betrayals

By Carla Neggers

Book Overview

Rebecca Blackburn caught a glimpse of the famed Jupiter Stones as a small child. Unaware of their significance, she forgot about them--until she discovered the priceless, long-missing gems were the key to a deadly chain of events spanning thirty years and three continents...sparing no one. When a seemingly innocent photograph reignites one man's simmering desire for vengeance, Rebecca turns to Jared Sloan, the love she lost to tragedy and scandal. His own life has changed forever because of the secrets buried deep by their two families. Their relentless quest for the truth will dredge up bitter memories and shocking revelations of misplaced loyalty, dangerous pride and naked ambition...and they will stop at nothing to expose a cold-blooded killer.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0778326233
• ISBN13: 9780778326236
• Release Date: February 2009
• Publisher: Mira Books
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 4.2" x 6.6"

Customer Reviews

More of an eoic type novel than I would expect from Carla Neggers

I didn't realize while reading this that it's a reprint of a 1990 novel written under a psuedonym. Therefore, I was surprised by the larger and more complicated plot than I have asociated with the author. The novel follows two families ever a period of 30 years and involving three continents. Ten prikceless gems are the key to a series of events creating enmity between the two families and spurring tragic events. However, much more than simple greed motivates the various characters. This is a page turner, but coincidence plays to heavy a part and the eventual ending is too neat an unravelling of the multiple knots in the story's thread. This is however a satisfying Summer read and reveals Neggers' skill at handling a multi-layered story.

Not like her more recent books

I really enjoy Carla Neggers's books and was really up for a new one. Right from the start, this doesn't contain her recent cast of characters or related law enforcement characters. I purchased this on the Kindle so it wasn't until I finished the book and read the end papers that I got it - "First published by Berkley Books 1990 under the pseudonym Anne Harrell". Mystery solved! If you take it as "current day" is about 1990, you may stop wondering why the characters don't have cell phones. I'm not a reviewer that is going to rehash the book jacket. It was a good book - just not what I was expecting and a little too "coincidental" for my taste.