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Book Review of Ransom

Ransom
Ransom
Author: Danielle Steel
Genres: Literature & Fiction, Romance
Book Type: Paperback
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Outside the gatesof a Califormia prison, Peter Morgan is released after 4 long years and vows to redeem himselfin the eyes of the young daughters he left behind. Simultaneously, Carl Waters, a convicted murderer is set on the same poath of freedom. Three hundred miles south, in San Francisco, police detective Ted Lee comes home to an empty house; for nine years he has been living for his job-and slowly falling out of love with his wife. Across town, in exclusive Pacific Hieghts, Fernanda Barnes faces a mountain of debt, a world destroyed and a marriage lost.

Within weeks, the lives of these people will collide in ways none of them could have foreseen. For Fernanda,whose life had once been graced by security, success and stunning wealth, the death of her brilliant but troubled husband had crashed everything down around her and was already too much to bear. Now a devistating crime rocks her family and brings detective Ted Lee into her life - to try and save her family from from a terrifying fate. Racing againstg time in the underbelly of the criminal world, buffeted by the dark side of power, and unmoored by loss and betrayal, one one can predict where this tragedy will lead them.