Former U.S. Senator Quintrell is dead. — His son, New Mexico's governor, is preparing his — run for the highest political office in the land. And dark family secrets are about to explode with the — devastating force of a Southwestern earthquake.
An eccentric Quintrell aunt has invited genealogist Carolina "Carly" May to thei... more »r Taos compound to compile a record of the illustrious family. But digging into the past is raising troubling questions about a would-be president's private life . . . and the grisly street crime that left his drug-addicted sister dead. As a dark world of twisted passions and depravity slowly opens up before Carly, there is no one whom she dares trust -- perhaps least of all Dan Duran, a dangerous, haunted enigma who's tied to the Quintrells' history. But she will need an ally to survive the terrible mysteries a father carried to the grave -- because following the bloodlines of the powerful can be a bloody business. And some dead secrets can kill.« less
ISBN-13: 9780732282264 ISBN-10: 0732282268 Publication Date: 6/28/2006 Edition:New title Rating: