Panic Snap: A Novel

by Laura Reese Narrated by Chandra Skyye

Overview

The accused murderess in a sensational trial, Carly Tyler waits outside a California courtroom as a jury decides her fate: Is she the depraved Madame de Sade of the newspaper headlines or the innocent victim of one wealthy family's gothic past? Left for dead by the side of a road fifteen years earlier, she emerged from a coma with no memory and a face completely altered by the plastic surgery needed to repair her injuries. Who is she and what happened to her? The trail leads her to a magnificent vineyard and its mysterious owner, James McGuane, a man of wealth and immense sexual charisma who holds the key to her past. But to unlock it, she must risk her life on a terrifying erotic journey that tears apart a dynasty and reveals the truth about an appalling murder.

Editorial Reviews

Publishers Weekly - Publisher's Weekly

Blurring the line between pleasure and pain, Reese (Topping from Below) wraps a wickedly raunchy tale of sexual obsession and sadomasochism inside a taut, suspenseful thriller. Transfigured by extensive plastic surgery and hampered by full amnesia, Carly Tyler, 32, has been pursuing her past ever since she was beaten and left for dead on a California roadside 15 years ago. When a magazine photo of one James McGuane provides Carly with a spark of recognition, she decides to get a job at Byblos, the Napa Valley vineyard run by James's family, in an attempt to find clues about her previous life. There, she meets a man so charged with carnal energy that she is immediately and perilously drawn to him. Carly and James's dominant/submissive sexual relationship involves whips and bondage, psychological torture and devotion, all presented by the author at a pace guaranteed to steam up the windows. The nefarious James is quick to figure out who Carly is (or was). He promises to explain a connection between her and his dead wife if she continues to appease him, and he strings Carly along for months while his jealous twin sister, Gina, does nearly everything possible to get rid of her. As memories trickle back, the three characters veer toward a deadly climax that leaves one of them on trial for murder. Reese's workaday prose is burdened by repetitive character descriptions, but her prowess in mixing erotica and mystery creates frissons of excitement. Agent, Barbara Lowenstein. (Apr.) Copyright 2000 Cahners Business Information.|

From the Publisher

“Wickedly raunchy...suspenseful...charged with carnal energy.” —Publishers Weekly

“Blurring the line between pleasure and pain, Reese wraps a wickedly raunchy tale of sexual obsession and sadomasochism inside a taut, suspenseful thriller...Her prowess in mixing erotica and mystery creates frissons of excitement.” —Publishers Weekly

“[A] highly erotic novel...dangerous sexual appeal.” —Woman's Own

Product Details

BN ID:	2940171451172
Publisher:	Insatiable Press
Publication date:	01/01/2013
Edition description:	Unabridged

Read an Excerpt

Suddenly, the door swings open, startling me, and then I see him, the man in the Wine Spectator magazine: James McGuane…A wave of panic rushes over me, and I feel, momentarily, unable to move. Irrationally, even though it's been fifteen years, even though my surgeries have given me a face so different from the one I would naturally have, I think he will recognize me. And if he'd tried to kill me before, why wouldn't he do it again? He is a man with much to lose his winery, his reputation, his liberty if he discovers who I am. Then logic takes over and I push down my fear. There is no way he can recognize me. I do not have the face of a seventeen-year-old girl. I do not have the face with which I was born. I am no one to him. From Panic Snap

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