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From # 1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts come two classic tales about the promises we dare to keep…to those we dare to love!
The Art of Deception
He has supposedly come to her father's estate, looking for respite. But Kirby Fairchild can't shake the feeling that handsome Adam Haines isn't quite the man he pretends to be. She couldn't be sure. But what she does know without a doubt is that as the days and nights wear on, the attraction she feels for this man is only growing stronger….
Storm Warning
When Autumn Gallagher returns to her aunt's rural inn, she is surprised to find Lucas McLean. He'd broken her heart three years earlier, yet Autumn could not deny the love still blazing inside her. When a guest of the inn is found dead, Lucas becomes a suspect. Can she risk listening to her heart again and help Lucas clear his name?
- Sales Rank: #1356553 in Books
- Published on: 2013-09-24
- Released on: 2013-09-24
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 6.66" h x 1.11" w x 4.12" l, .38 pounds
- Binding: Mass Market Paperback
- 416 pages
About the Author
Nora Roberts is a bestselling author of more than 209 romance novels. She was the first author to be inducted into the Romance Writers of America Hall of Fame. As of 2011, her novels had spent a combined 861 weeks on the New York Times Bestseller List, including 176 weeks in the number-one spot. Over 280 million copies of her books are in print, including 12 million copies sold in 2005 alone.
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It was more like a castle than a house. The stone was gray, but beveled at the edges, Herodian-style, so that it shimmered with underlying colors. Towers and turrets jutted toward the sky, joined together by a crenellated roof. Windows were mullioned, long and narrow with diamond-shaped panes.
The structure—Adam would never think of it as anything so ordinary as a house—loomed over the Hudson, audacious and eccentric and, if such things were possible, pleased with itself. If the stories were true, it suited its owner perfectly.
All it required, Adam decided as he crossed the flagstone courtyard, was a dragon and a moat.
Two grinning gargoyles sat on either side of the wide stone steps. He passed by them with a reservation natural to a practical man. Gargoyles and turrets could be accepted in their proper place—but not in rural New York, a few hours' drive out of Manhattan.
Deciding to reserve judgment, he lifted the heavy brass knocker and let it fall against a door of thick Honduras mahogany. After a third pounding, the door creaked open. With strained patience, Adam looked down at a small woman with huge gray eyes, black braids and a soot-streaked face. She wore a rumpled sweatshirt and jeans that had seen better days. Lazily, she rubbed her nose with the back of her hand and stared back.
"Hullo."
He bit back a sigh, thinking that if the staff ran to half-witted maids, the next few weeks were going to be very tedious. "I'm Adam Haines. Mr. Fairchild is expecting me," he enunciated.
Her eyes narrowed with curiosity or suspicion, he couldn't be sure. "Expecting you?" Her accent was broad New England. After another moment of staring, she frowned, shrugged, then moved aside to let him in.
The hall was wide and seemingly endless. The paneling gleamed a dull deep brown in the diffused light. Streaks of sun poured out of a high angled window and fell over the small woman, but he barely noticed. Paintings. For the moment, Adam forgot the fatigue of the journey and his annoyance. He forgot everything else but the paintings.
Van Gogh, Renoir, Monet. A museum could claim no finer exhibition. The power pulled at him. The hues, the tints, the brush strokes, and the overall magnificence they combined to create, tugged at his senses. Perhaps, in some strange way, Fairchild had been right to house them in something like a fortress. Turning, Adam saw the maid with her hands loosely folded, her huge gray eyes on his face. Impatience sprang back.
"Run along, will you? Tell Mr. Fairchild I'm here."
"And who might you be?" Obviously impatience didn't affect her.
"Adam Haines," he repeated. He was a man accustomed to servants—and one who expected efficiency.
"Ayah, so you said."
How could her eyes be smoky and clear at the same time? he wondered fleetingly. He gave a moment's thought to the fact that they reflected a maturity and intelligence at odds with her braids and smeared face. "Young lady…" He paced the words, slowly and distinctly. "Mr. Fairchild is expecting me. Just tell him I'm here. Can you handle that?"
A sudden dazzling smile lit her face. "Ayah."
The smile threw him off. He noticed for the first time that she had an exquisite mouth, full and sculpted. And there was something…something under the soot. Without thinking, he lifted a hand, intending to brush some off. The tempest hit.
"I can't do it! I tell you it's impossible. A travesty!" A man barreled down the long, curved stairs at an alarming rate. His face was shrouded in tragedy, his voice croaked with doom. "This is all your fault." Coming to a breathless stop, he pointed a long, thin finger at the little maid. "It's on your head, make no mistake."
Robin Goodfellow, Adam thought instantly. The man was the picture of Puck, short with a spritely build, a face molded on cherubic lines. The spare thatch of light hair nearly stood on end. He seemed to dance. His thin legs lifted and fell on the landing as he waved the long finger at the dark-haired woman. She remained serenely undisturbed.
"Your blood pressure's rising every second, Mr. Fair-child. You'd better take a deep breath or two before you have a spell."
"Spell!" Insulted, he danced faster. His face glowed pink with the effort. "I don't have spells, girl. I've never had a spell in my life."
"There's always a first time." She nodded, keeping her fingers lightly linked. "Mr. Adam Haines is here to see you."
"Haines? What the devil does Haines have to do with it? It's the end, I tell you. The climax." He placed a hand dramatically over his heart. The pale blue eyes watered so that for one awful moment, Adam thought he'd weep. "Haines?" he repeated. Abruptly he focused on Adam with a brilliant smile. "I'm expecting you, aren't I?"
Cautiously Adam offered his hand. "Yes."
"Glad you could come, I've been looking forward to it." Still showing his teeth, he pumped Adam's hand. "Into the parlor," he said, moving his grip from Adam's hand to his arm. "We'll have a drink." He walked with the quick bouncing stride of a man who hadn't a worry in the world.
In the parlor Adam had a quick impression of antiques and old magazines. At a wave of Fairchild's hand he sat on a horsehair sofa that was remarkably uncomfortable. The maid went to an enormous stone fireplace and began to scrub out the hearth with quick, tuneful little whistles.
"I'm having Scotch," Fairchild decided, and reached for a decanter of Chivas Regal.
"That'll be fine."
"I admire your work, Adam Haines." Fairchild offered the Scotch with a steady hand. His face was calm, his voice moderate. Adam wondered if he'd imagined the scene on the stairs.
"Thank you." Sipping Scotch, Adam studied the little genius across from him.
Small networks of lines crept out from Fairchild's eyes and mouth. Without them and the thinning hair, he might have been taken for a very young man. His aura of youth seemed to spring from an inner vitality, a feverish energy. The eyes were pure, unfaded blue. Adam knew they could see beyond what others saw.
Philip Fairchild was, indisputably, one of the greatest living artists of the twentieth century. His style ranged from the flamboyant to the elegant, with a touch of everything in between. For more than thirty years, he'd enjoyed a position of fame, wealth and respect in artistic and popular circles, something very few people in his profession achieved during their lifetime.
Enjoy it he did, with a temperament that ranged from pompous to irascible to generous. From time to time he invited other artists to his house on the Hudson, to spend weeks or months working, absorbing or simply relaxing. At other times, he barred everyone from the door and went into total seclusion.
"I appreciate the opportunity to work here for a few weeks, Mr. Fairchild."
"My pleasure." The artist sipped Scotch and sat, gesturing with a regal wave of his hand—the king granting benediction.
Adam successfully hid a smirk. "I'm looking forward to studying some of your paintings up close. There's such incredible variety in your work."
"I live for variety," Fairchild said with a giggle. From the hearth came a distinct snort. "Disrespectful brat," Fairchild muttered into his drink. When he scowled at her, the maid tossed a braid over her shoulder and plopped her rag noisily into the bucket. "Cards!" Fair-child bellowed, so suddenly Adam nearly dumped the Scotch in his lap.
"I beg your pardon?"
"No need for that," Fairchild said graciously and shouted again. At the second bellow the epitome of butlers walked into the parlor.
"Yes, Mr. Fairchild." His voice was grave, lightly British. The dark suit he wore was a discreet contrast to the white hair and pale skin. He held himself like a soldier.
"See to Mr. Haines's car, Cards, and his luggage. The Wedgwood guest room."
"Very good, sir," the butler agreed after a slight nod from the woman at the hearth.
"And put his equipment in Kirby's studio," Fair-child added, grinning as the hearth scrubber choked. "Plenty of room for both of you," he told Adam before he scowled. "My daughter, you know. She's doing sculpture, up to her elbows in clay or chipping at wood and marble. I can't cope with it." Gripping his glass in both hands, Fairchild bowed his head. "God knows I try. I've put my soul into it. And for what?" he demanded, jerking his head up again. "For what?"
"I'm afraid I—"
"Failure!" Fairchild moaned, interrupting him. "To have to deal with failure at my age. It's on your head," he told the little brunette again. "You have to live with it—if you can."
Turning, she sat on the hearth, folded her legs under her and rubbed more soot on her nose. "You can hardly blame me if you have four thumbs and your soul's lost." The accent was gone. Her voice was low and smooth, hinting of European finishing schools. Adam's eyes narrowed. "You're determined to be better than I," she went on. "Therefore, you were doomed to fail before you began."
"Doomed to fail! Doomed to fail, am I?" He was up and dancing again, Scotch sloshing around in his glass. "Philip Fairchild will overcome, you heartless brat. He shall triumph! You'll eat your words."
"Nonsense." Deliberately, she yawned. "You have your medium, Papa, and I have mine. Learn to live with it."
"Never." He slammed a hand against his heart again. "Defeat is a four-letter word."
"Six," she corrected, and, rising, commandeered the rest of his Scotch.
He scowled at her, then at his empty glass. "I was speaking metaphorically."
"How clever." She kissed his cheek, transferring soot.
"Your face is filthy," Fairchild grumbled.
Lifting a brow, she ran a finger down his cheek. "So's yours."
They grinned at each other. For a flash, the resemblance was so striking, Adam wondered how he'd missed it. Kirby Fairchild, Philip's only child, a well-respected artist and eccentric in her own right. Just what, Adam wondered, was the darling of the jet set doing scrubbing out hearths?
"Come along, Adam." Kirby turned to him with a casual smile. "I'll show you to your room. You look tired. Oh, Papa," she added as she moved to the door, "this week's issue of People came. It's on the server. That'll keep him entertained," she said to Adam as she led him up the stairs.
He followed her slowly, noting that she walked with the faultless grace of a woman who'd been taught how to move. The pigtails swung at her back. Jeans, worn white at the stress points, had no designer label on the back pocket. Her canvas Nikes had broken shoelaces.
Kirby glided along the second floor, passing half a dozen doors before she stopped. She glanced at her hands, then at Adam. "You'd better open it. I'll get the knob filthy."
He pushed open the door and felt like he was stepping back in time. Wedgwood blue dominated the color scheme. The furniture was all Middle Georgian—carved armchairs, ornately worked tables. Again there were paintings, but this time, it was the woman behind him who held his attention.
"Why did you do that?"
"Do what?"
"Put on that act at the door." He walked back to where she stood at the threshold. Looking down, he calculated that she barely topped five feet. For the second time he had the urge to brush the soot from her face to discover what lay beneath.
"You looked so polished, and you positively glowered." She leaned a shoulder against the doorjamb. There was an elegance about him that intrigued her, because his eyes were sharp and arrogant. Though she didn't smile, the amusement in her expression was soft and ripe. "You were expecting a dimwitted parlor maid, so I made it easy for you. Cocktails at seven. Can you find your way back, or shall I come for you?"
He'd make do with that for now. "I'll find it."
"All right. Ciao, Adam."
Unwillingly fascinated, he watched her until she'd turned the corner at the end of the hall. Perhaps Kirby Fairchild would be as interesting a nut to crack as her father. But that was for later.
Adam closed the door and locked it. His bags were already set neatly beside the rosewood wardrobe. Taking the briefcase, Adam spun the combination lock and drew up the lid. He pulled out a small transmitter and flicked a switch.
"I'm in."
"Password," came the reply.
He swore, softly and distinctly. "Seagull. And that is, without a doubt, the most ridiculous password on record."
"Routine, Adam. We've got to follow routine."
"Sure." There'd been nothing routine since he'd stopped his car at the end of the winding uphill drive. "I'm in, McIntyre, and I want you to know how much I appreciate your dumping me in this madhouse." With a flick of his thumb, he cut McIntyre off.
Without stopping to wash, Kirby jogged up the steps to her father's studio. She opened the door, then slammed it so that jars and tubes of paint shuddered on their shelves.
"What have you done this time?" she demanded.
"I'm starting over." Wispy brows knit, he huddled over a moist lump of clay. "Fresh start. Rebirth."
"I'm not talking about your futile attempts with clay.
Adam Haines," she said before he could retort. Like a small tank, she advanced on him. Years before, Kirby had learned size was of no consequence if you had a knack for intimidation. She'd developed it meticulously. Slamming her palms down on his worktable, she stood nose to nose with him. "What the hell do you mean by asking him here and not even telling me?"
"Now, now, Kirby." Fairchild hadn't lived six decades without knowing when to dodge and weave. "It simply slipped my mind."
Better than anyone else, Kirby knew nothing slipped his mind. "What're you up to now, Papa?"
"Up to?" He smiled guilelessly.
"Why did you ask him here now, of all times?"
"I've admired his work. So've you," he pointed out when her mouth thinned. "He wrote such a nice letter about Scarlet Moon when it was exhibited at the Metropolitan last month."
Her brow lifted, an elegant movement under a layer of soot. "You don't invite everyone who compliments your work."
"Of course not, my sweet. That would be impossible. One must be…selective. Now I must get back to my work while the mood's flowing."
"Something's going to flow," she promised. "Papa, if you've a new scheme after you promised—"
"Kirby!" His round, smooth face quivered with emotion. His lips trembled. It was only one of his talents. "You'd doubt the word of your own father? The seed that spawned you?"
"That makes me sound like a gardenia, and it won't work." She crossed her arms over her chest. Frowning, Fairchild poked at the unformed clay.
"My motives are completely altruistic."
"Hah."
"Adam Haines is a brilliant young artist. You've said so yourself."
"Yes, he is, and I'm sure he'd be delightful company under different circumstances." She leaned forward, grabbing her father's chin in her hand. "Not now."
"Ungracious," Fairchild said with disapproval. "Your mother, rest her soul, would be very disappointed in you."
Kirby ground her teeth. "Papa, the Van Gogh!"
"Coming along nicely," he assured her. "Just a few more days."
Knowing she was in danger of tearing out her hair, she stalked to the tower window. "Oh, bloody murder."
Senility, she decided. It had to be senility. How could he consider having that man here now? Next week, next month, but now? That man, Kirby thought ruthlessly, was nobody's fool.
At first glance she'd decided he wasn't just attractive—very attractive—but sharp. Those big camel's eyes gleamed with intelligence. The long, thin mouth equaled determination. Perhaps he was a bit pompous in his bearing and manner, but he wasn't soft. No, she was certain instinctively that Adam Haines would be hard as nails.
She'd like to do him in bronze, she mused. The straight nose, the sharp angles and planes in his face. His hair was nearly the color of deep, polished bronze, and just a tad too long for convention. She'd want to capture his air of arrogance and authority. But not now!
Sighing, she moved her shoulders. Behind her back, Fairchild grinned. When she turned back to him, he was studiously intent on his clay.
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Excellent Read
By Bonnie Vause
I chose the rating because I am an avid reader of Nora Roberts. I have most of her books. The Book was interesting, easy read, and there were many twists in the book that enable it to be very intriguing. I would suggest this as a book to read. I think it makes a great "Fall" Book with the cover. I purchased in this time frame , caught my eye. I rate it 5 because Nora Robert is an outstanding author with a good story line and plot.
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
One great romantic suspense story; one not so great
By CJ-MO
This book contains two romantic suspense stories. The first one, "The Art of Deception" is excellent.(The copyright of this story is 1986.) Kirby and Adam are both interesting, dynamic characters and I rooted for them as a couple. The subject matter of art and paintings added to the uniqueness of the story and really held my interest. If I was rating just this story, I would give it a "5" because everything worked - the setting, the characters, the plot, and the romance. Fans of Nora Roberts will be pleased with this story.
I wish I could say the same about the second story, "Storm Warning". (The copyright of this story is 1984.) I would rate this story individually a "2". I couldn't connect with Autumn and I couldn't stand the leading man, Lucas. I was interested in how the mystery element turned out, but didn't care what happened between Autumn and Lucas. A particularly ugly scene between the two near the end of the story turned my stomach and turned me off of this story. I thought this was uncharacteristic for a Nora Roberts romance, and maybe it's because it's an older story. I usually love all of Ms. Roberts romances and romantic suspense stories, but wish I would have stopped with reading the first story in this duo.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
2 short stories
By Fran
These are from the writer's early days
Good easy quick reads
Could be a book to pack for the beach
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