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Light in Shadow (Whispering Springs, Bk 1)
Light in Shadow - Whispering Springs, Bk 1
Author: Jayne Ann Krentz
Zoe Luce is a successful interior designer in the Arizona town of Whispering Springs who's developed an unusual career specialty -- helping recently divorced clients redesign their homes, to help them forget the past and start anew.  But Zoe knows that some things can't be covered up with a coat of paint.  And when she senses t...  more »
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PBS Market Price: $8.09 or $4.19+1 credit
ISBN-13: 9780515136180
ISBN-10: 0515136182
Publication Date: 9/30/2003
Pages: 384
Rating:
  • Currently 3.8/5 Stars.
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3.8 stars, based on 204 ratings
Publisher: Jove
Book Type: Paperback
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reviewed Light in Shadow (Whispering Springs, Bk 1) on + 20 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 6
I've read this 3 times--and I may read it again if no one grabs it fast. It is terrific and fascinating and haunting and needs a rainy day reading to really shiver you up!
reviewed Light in Shadow (Whispering Springs, Bk 1) on + 264 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 3
Krentz delivers! From the first page to the last, this book holds your interest. Great read
MELNELYNN avatar reviewed Light in Shadow (Whispering Springs, Bk 1) on + 669 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 2
Zoe Luce was an interior designer and owned a shop called Enhanced Interiors. She had talent that she considered to be a curse, walls spoke to her. Well, in a way. If any strong emotion happened in a room, such as lust or fear, it would sink into the walls. So when Zoe went into a client's bedroom and the walls "screamed", Zoe could not leave fast enough! Whatever horrible thing happened in that room was recent. The client said he was going through a divorce. Zoe believed he murdered his wife in that bedroom. Without proof, cops would laugh at her. Besides, she could be wrong. The wife could be sunning herself on a tropical beach somewhere. Zoe simply needed a computer whiz to discretely find out.
Ethan Traux had taken over Truax Investigations from his uncle. Zoe would be his first case. It should have been simple. Only a few minutes on the computer to see if a lady was using her credit cards or an ATM. Instead, Ethan found a corpse.

Zoe and Ethan became attracted to each other. All seemed to be going well. However, Zoe's dark past was about to catch up to her. After a year of hiding under a different name, they had finally found her!

A great book! Zoe always seemed to be bubbling over with optimism no matter how awful things became. But she sure had to tap deeply into a bottomless well of optimism to get through all this! Zoe was a strong willed character that needed an extra ordinary man in her life. Author Jayne Ann Krentz did a wonderful job in creating just such a man.

This novel was like having two books in one, a murder mystery and a romantic thriller. The "client" part was a work of genius on Krentz's side to bring the couple together. The author brought back the Vastu and Feng Shui techniques that I recall being used in one of her novels a few years ago. This is a fast paced, romantic, and heart pounding thriller that I highly recommend to all.

Read "Truth or Dare" to see what Zoe and Ethan are up to next!
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Helpful Score: 2
Loved this story. I have enjoyed many stories from Jayne Ann Krentz. The characters were great and a great plot.
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reviewed Light in Shadow (Whispering Springs, Bk 1) on + 204 more book reviews
Good book but not great.. Cute in some parts but easy to foretell what will happen.
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An enjoyable, smooth flowing read. Sailed right through this tale with very likable characters I found myself rooting for. Minor ones move the story along. Background characters turn out to be more than they appear. Krentz weaves just the right amount of humor in the mix bringing the entire experience neatly together at the end just the way this reader hoped she would. Not sure if I will read the sequal, "Truth or Dare". Like a good gourmet meal, I am walking away very well satisfied.
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Zoe Luce is a successful interior designer in the Arizona town of Whispering Springs who's developed an unusual career specialty-helping recently divorced clients redesign their homes, to help them forget the past and start anew. But Zoe knows that some things can't be covered up with a coat of paint. And when she senses that one of her clients may be hiding a dark secret, she enlists P.I. Ethan Truax to find the truth.

Working together, they solve the mystery . . . and barely escape with their lives. But Ethan's exquisite detection skills are starting to backfire on Zoe: she never wanted to let him find out about her former life; she never wanted to reveal her powerful, inexplicable gift for sensing the history hidden within a house's walls; she never wanted him to know that "Zoe Luce" doesn't really exist. She never wanted to fall in love with him.

Now, no matter how much she resists, Ethan may be her only hope-because the people she's been running from have found her. And just when Zoe dares to dream of a normal life and a future with the man she loves, her own past starts to shadow her every step-and threatens to take her back into a nightmare.


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