Revenge - Softcover

Jackson, Lisa

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1420136038 ISBN 13: 9781420136036

Publisher: Zebra, 2016

Synopsis

Dear Reader,

In the early 1990s, I visited eastern Oregon for the first time. Inspired by its breathtaking scenery, I wrote Love Letters, a trilogy about a town called Rimrock--whose secrets come to light when the patriarch of its wealthiest family is murdered. Now here it is, collected in one volume, with a new cover, and a new title, Revenge!

Over the years, Jonah McKee acquired vast wealth, power, and an unsavory reputation. Though his fatal car crash is ruled accidental, his widow is convinced otherwise and begs her children to find the truth.

Eldest son Max knew his late father could be manipulative, but a letter found among Jonah's possessions shows just how many lives were subject to his meddling. That list includes Max's brother, Jenner--rodeo rider and rebel--who is confronted by a confession that changes his life. But even while the siblings reel from new revelations, stubborn, beautiful Casey McKee is kidnapped by an enemy who hates the family enough to destroy them, one by one…

If you've enjoyed my earlier novels like Unspoken, Running Scared, and Whispers, then I believe you're going to love reading Revenge!

Lisa Jackson

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About the Author

LISA JACKSON is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of over ninety-five novels, including You Will Pay, After She’s Gone, Deserves to Die, You Don’t Want to Know, Running Scared, and Shiver. She is also the co-author of the Colony Series, written with her sister and bestselling author Nancy Bush, as well as the collaborative novels Sinister and Ominous, written with Nancy Bush and Rosalind Noonan. There are over thirty million copies of her novels in print and her writing has been translated into nineteen languages. She lives with her family and three rambunctious dogs in the Pacific Northwest. Readers can visit her website at www.lisajackson.com and find her on Facebook.

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Revenge

By Lisa Jackson

KENSINGTON PUBLISHING CORP.

Copyright © 2016 Lisa Jackson
All rights reserved.

ISBN: 978-1-4201-3603-6

Contents

OUTSTANDING PRAISE FOR THE NOVELS OF LISA JACKSON, 
Books by Lisa Jackson, 
Title Page, 
A Is for Always, 
B Is for Baby, 
C Is for Cowboy, 
Copyright Page, 

CHAPTER 1

Rimrock, Oregon
1994

Curling the yellowed pages in his fist, Max McKee swore beneath his breath and kicked a dirt clod across the pasture. The dry piece of earth landed with a thunk on the side of the stables and shattered into dust. Barn swallows, disturbed from their nests, squawked and dive-bombed the intruder, but he didn't give a damn.

He hadn't for a long time.

But the letters changed things.

He'd discovered the aged pages earlier while going through the old man's business papers, and there, in a thin file labeled MAX, were two handwritten notes that could have changed the course of his life. Max had read the damning words in his father's den, then heard his mother's soft crying whispering through the hallways of the old ranch house. Rather than disturb her grief, he'd walked outside, read each letter again and felt as if a vise had been clamped over his lungs and was slowly being tightened, ensuring that each one of his breaths was more difficult than the last.

"Bastard," he snarled, disregarding the fact that deep down he'd felt a kinship with the crusty old man who'd been his father — Jonah Phineas McKee. The great manipulator.

But it wasn't Jonah's letter that disturbed him most. It was the other single sheet with the flowing script signed by a woman he detested, a woman who had betrayed him, a woman for whom, at one time, he would have walked through the gates of hell just to see her smile.

His back teeth ground together as he remembered her as clearly as if she were standing beside him. Her loose blond curls caught in the summer wind, and wide eyes the color of a morning mist sparkled with an impish light whenever she teased him. Her laughter seemed to roll off the surrounding hills. Her chin stubborn, her mouth wide and sensuous, she stood nearly five foot eight, with a slim and athletic body honed by years of hard work.

She'd left him seven years before, and he'd never really understood why.

"Face it, son, she just wasn't the right woman for you. Too serious about that damned career of hers, too proud to admit when she'd made a mistake."

His father's sentiments had always been spoken brashly, without hesitation.

"She reminded me of one of them wolf dogs, you know the kind they've got down at the Purcell place," Jonah had continued, his dark brows inching up to his shock of thick, snow-white hair. "Them dogs are deceptive — all cuddly and soft as puppies, cute as all get-out. But watch out. Those damned pups turn into killers, like as not. Remember Amy Purcell nearly lost half her face to one of them shewolves. Yep, you're better off without the likes of Skye Donahue."

Max, after his initial denial, had finally decided his father was right about Skye. He'd told himself that Jonah had pegged Skye from the start, though, more often than not in recent years, Max had found himself at odds with his father and had started second-guessing his own loyalties. For years, Max, firstborn and groomed to inherit most of Jonah's estate, had believed that his father walked on water, a veritable god on earth. But as the years passed and he grew more independent, Max began to see Jonah with new eyes. He realized his cantankerous father wasn't as innocent as he would have everyone believe. Sure, Jon

Edition details

• Publisher: Zebra
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1420136038
• ISBN 13: 9781420136036
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 720