基本信息出版社：Pocket
页码：384 页
出版日期：2007年06月
ISBN：0743269594
International Standard Book Number：0743269594
条形码：9780743269599
EAN：9780743269599
装帧：简装
正文语种：英语
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A psychologist in an adolescent crisis center, Emma Hollis loves her work; she also loves charming journalist David Webster, who swept her off her feet at a dinner party six months ago. Now she's carrying David's child and half expecting him to flee -- but David surprises and delights her further by proposing marriage. After an impromptu wedding, the couple retreat to a rustic cabin in New Jersey's secluded Pine Barrens. But while David is out gathering firewood, a masked attacker assaults Emma with an axe, intending to kill. In the shock and pain that follows, Emma refuses to believe the police are calling David their prime suspect. But her life may depend on looking at her husband in a new and suspicious light....
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"I'm gonna have to make you quit driving," said David.
Emma opened her eyes and yawned. "Where are we?" she said.
"Almost there. Every time you get into a car these days you fall asleep. I'm not sure it's safe to let you behind the wheel anymore."
Emma smiled and sat up. "It's true. It's the pregnancy. I'm always sleepy. Although I usually can stay awake when I'm behind the wheel."
"Usually?" he said with disbelief in his deep, languid voice.
Emma laughed. "Hey, it's not your average day. I got married a few hours ago. It was a little bit exhausting."
She revisited a few of the day's events in her mind's eye. After the ceremony, the buffet lunch, the toasts, and the wedding cake, Emma had run back upstairs, removed her gorgeous dress, and squeezed into her jeans, which she could now just barely button, a long-sleeved thermal Henley shirt, and a down vest. She had pulled her shining, honey-blond hair up under a baseball cap, although a few curly tendrils fell loose around her face. She and David had escaped to their car in the obligatory shower of rice and good wishes.
Twenty minutes out of town Emma had confessed that she'd been too nervous to eat a bite at the wedding. David admitted that he had not eaten either. They got off the highway and took a scenic detour, stopping at a truckers' diner. The hostess seated them in a booth at the back, where they relaxed over a couple of hamburger platters. They got back on the road feeling full and, in Emma's case, pleasantly drowsy.
"All in all," she said, "I'd say it was a success."
"I think so," he said. "You looked incredible. I thought the other men there were going to fall over at the sight of you."
"The other men? What about you?"
He gave her a sly grin. "Oh, baby, you know about me."
Emma grinned. Then she took a deep breath and pulled down the brim of her cap. "I'm just so sorry about that business with the prenup."
David shook his head. "
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