Deadly Vows

By Brenda Joyce

On the morning of her wedding to Calder Hart, amateur sleuth Francesca Cahill is lured away to a private viewing of the one thing that can destroy her whole family a nude painting of herself. Francesca's desperate quest to find the indecent portrait and preserve her family's reputation leads her into a thief's trap with no way to escape until it's too late. Her wedding is ruined and so is the trust and love that Calder once felt for her.

Then the damning painting goes missing.

Scouring the sordid streets of Manhattan, Francesca is on the hunt for answers who is the perverse sociopath responsible for stealing the scandalous portrait? How can she regain her place in Calder's heart? And is their passionate love affair well and truly over?

• Language: English
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Australia
• Release date: Sep 1, 2011
• ISBN: 9781742906232

Brenda Joyce

Brenda Joyce is a New York Times bestselling author of more than 50 novels and novellas, including the popular and critically acclaimed de Warenne Dynasty Saga, a series of novels set in Regency and Victorian England. She lives on a ranch in Arizona with her dogs, broodmares and the year’s current crop of foals. If she isn’t on the back of a reining horse, she can be found madly at work in her office, penning her latest romance novel.