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Title details for Grand Passion by Jayne Ann Krentz - Available

Grand Passion

by Jayne Ann Krentz
Richard Ferrone
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Jayne Ann Krentz, author of more than fifty New York Times bestsellers, expertly blends rich sensuality dangerous twists, and electrifying suspense in Grand Passion.
What happens when Mr. Right is all wrong?

Cleopatra Robbins has imagined the moment when she'll meet the man of her dreams. But when Max Fortune strides into the Robbins' Nest Inn, a devastating sensation sweeps through her. She knows it's him. And he's all wrong!

Head of the giant Curzon Hotel chain, a cynical man with a passion for rare works of art, Max is looking for five priceless paintings left to him by his mentor, Jason Curzon. With one long look at Cleo Robbins, Max knows he's gazing on a masterpiece...and for the first time in his life, the solitary and powerful executive is overcome with the strangest desire for that wonderful institution called home. But despite their mutual attraction, Max suspects Cleo of hiding something—and by the time he realizes her secrets have nothing to do with the lost treasures, it may be too late to save her from the danger rising out of her past.

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  • Release date

    July 17, 2012

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781442358485
      • File size: 334241 KB
      • Duration: 11:36:20

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      January 31, 1994
      In her first hardcover under her own name (she published Deception under the Amanda Quick name last year), bestselling romancer Krentz spins a glib, breezy tale about dashing art collector Max Fortune and earnest, fey innkeeper Cleopatra Robbins, secret author of an erotic book. Max comes to the Robbins' Nest Inn searching for five valuable paintings his dying employer claimed to have left there for him. Confused and charmed by open, nurturing Cleo, who denies any knowledge of the artworks, Max decides to stay and investigate further. He is soon part of the inn's eccentric family--cooks from a nearby women's commune, a lonely, fatherless little boy, a young couple struggling with an unplanned pregnancy--and he begins to act out with Cleo the fantasies in her book. When someone makes a death threat against the love-smitten innkeeper, Max hires a detective friend to find the culprit. After a dramatic crisis and pursuit of the villain, the expected romance ending arrives. Much of the humor here seems arch or forced, but overall this frothy fare will please Krentz's readers. Literary Guild alternate; Doubleday Book Club main selection.

    • AudioFile Magazine
      This contemporary romance, which takes place on the coast of Washington State, involves a rich and handsome art connoisseur, Max Fortune, and an earthy innkeeper, the beautiful Cleopatra Robbins. Cleo, an overachiever if there ever was one, has written a novel of passion, which some think of as pornography, but which Max thinks of as a path to seduction. There's much more to this tale since Cleo's parents have died under mysterious circumstances, and there are five valuable paintings to be hunted down as Max's legacy from his mentor. Richard Ferrone's deep, gravelly voice interprets all without a slip. Even the delightfully feminine Cleo comes alive with no discomfort. B.H.B. (c) AudioFile 2003, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      August 29, 1994
      A corporate executive and a Seattle innkeeper search for missing paintings in this PW bestseller.

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  • English

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