Tempting Fate

By Carla Neggers

Book Overview

In a town of flamboyance, wealth and family feuds, a mystery of the past is about to resurface, in this classic romantic suspense by New York Times bestselling author Carla Neggers. Despite her... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0778325865
• Release Date: July 2008
• Publisher: MIRA
• Length: 345 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 6.6" x 0.9" x 4.2"

Customer Reviews

Tempting Fate

Very well written. One of the author's earlier books that I had not read. A good mystery with all the usual twists and turns but also fascinating background and history about the locale in which it takes place.

Full of suspense and mystery but almost predictable.

Much to the chagrin of her Chandler relatives, Danielle Chandler Pembroke (Dani Pembroke) has returned to Saratoga Springs and has become an entrepreneur. Opening the Pembroke home as a hotel and re-opening the bottling plant (Pembroke mineral water), rumors begin to fly that she is over-extending her funds and is in trouble. The family is one edge as well - 25 years ago, Lilli Chandler Pembroke, her mother, had gone missing, never to be seen or heard from again. But Dani is determined - not only to persevere in spite of what others and her family thinks of her thriving business, but to figure out what happened to her mother as well. Ezekiel Cutler (Zeke), a security expert, receives a note from Dani's estranged great-aunt; seems there is more to Lilli's disappearance than most people would like to believe. He's come to Saratoga Springs to figure out what happened and seek justice for his dead brother, Joe. First, Dani finds a Pembroke gold gate key, believed to be the key that Lilli was wearing around her neck when she disappeared. Someone breaks into her cottage and ransacks it, taking the matching gold and brass keys and gives Dani a shove before escaping. While waiting in her garden, Zeke enters her life. Believing him to be her attacker, she throws a bottle at his head, runs through the house, grabbing a cast-iron frying pan and her car keys and races to the front, only to find Zeke leaning against her car door. Zeke wants Dani to trust him, but he's mysterious, evasive with answers to her questions and Dani doesn't trust him in the least. Especially when he gets close - mysterious and evasive are enough to distrust him, and his looks and manner don't help in the least. He's too good-looking, and Dani believes she has enough on her plate than to be distracted by him. More events begin to happen; someone ransacks room 304, Zeke's room. More facts arise but don't fit each other. Her father, who has come back to Saratoga at his father's request, is attacked while roaming the grounds. While in the forest on Pembroke grounds, Ira has come looking for Dani, only to be attacked, believed by the same man who attacked her father. And while all this is going on, her grandfather and grandmother both come back to Saratoga. As if Dani didnt' have enough to worry about, now the press is hounding her as well. More attacks, shootings, and confrontations make up a lot of the suspenseful and tenseful scenes. Despite it all, Dani and Zeke are determined to find out what happened to Lilli. I found Dani to be a strong woman, one who goes after what she wants, despite threats and concerns from her relatives. When rumors begin to fly that she's over-extending herself and facing financial ruin, she is determined more than ever to make her businesses succeed, regardless if the notorious Pembroke name has everyone believing otherwise. I think in spite of it, Dani is proud to be a Pembroke, even if the two most important men in her life, her father and grandfath