The Ugly Duckling - Hardcover

Iris Johansen

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0783817088 ISBN 13: 9780783817088

Publisher: G K Hall & Co, 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

About this title

From the Publisher:

A New York Times bestseller!

"A spectacular tale of revenge, betrayal and survival."
--Publishers Weekly

"A real knockout...[an] intense thriller...bravo!"
--The Atlanta Journal

At last, she will see her new face...so will the killer...

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

About this edition

• Publisher: G K Hall & Co
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0783817088
• ISBN 13: 9780783817088
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 537