The Ugly Duckling - Hardcover

Johansen, Iris

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0553097148 ISBN 13: 9780553097146

Publisher: Bantam, 1996

Synopsis

The wife of a high-stakes international financier, Nell Calder finds her life shattered when her husband and child are killed and she is disfigured, events that transform her from a quiet, unassuming wife to a determined woman bent on revenge. 60,000 first printing. $60,000 ad/promo.

About this title

From the Publisher

From her award-winning first novel to her latest spectacular success, Iris Johansen has triumphed as a national bestseller and been heralded every time for her page-turning storytelling, powerful characterization, and dramatic plotting. But that was before....

The Ugly Duckling now reveals a new side to this consistently exceptional talent: she can also weave contemporary romantic suspense that will delight not only her millions of devoted fans but also thrill readers of Sandra Brown and Nora Roberts.

In her hardcover debut novel, Iris Johansen pens the story of devoted mother Nell Calder, the perfect complement to her husband's high-wire career in international finance and the least likely target for assassination. Until the unimaginable happens, and Nell's life is shattered by someone willing to destroy all she loves in an effort to crush her spirit.

When Nell emerges from her nightmare, it is as a woman transformed--literally--and burning with one purpose: vengeance--at any price. But she is not alone, for an enig-matic stranger is more than willing to make Nell's revenge his personal mission, too....

Relentlessly paced, wonderfully orchestrated, and glittering with the familiar yet brilliant touches readers will expect and relish, this is Iris Johansen at her gripping, commercial best. Copyright 1996 by I.J. Enterprises.

From the Inside Flap

rd-winning first novel to her latest spectacular success, Iris Johansen has triumphed as a national bestseller and been heralded as a dazzling
storyteller of incomparable brilliance.   Now she reveals a new side to her talent, weaving a thrilling tale of contemporary romantic suspense that gives the age-old myth of transformation a stunningly unique twist...as an ugly duckling becomes a breathtaking beauty whose burning wish for revenge entangles her in a precarious world of sinister intrigue and dark desire.

For Iris Johansen's millions of fans and for anyone who loves the novels of Sandra Brown and Nora Roberts, this is explosive, enthralling, powerfully engrossing entertainment.

Plain, soft-spoken Nell Calder isn't the type of woman to inspire envy, lust--or murderous passions.   Until one night on an exotic island in the Aegean Sea, at an elegant gathering that should have cemented her husband's glorious career in finance, the unimaginable happen

Edition details

• Publisher: Bantam
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0553097148
• ISBN 13: 9780553097146
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 378