Dangerous Lies - Softcover

Smith, Lisa April

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1479211389 ISBN 13: 9781479211388

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2012

Synopsis

Dangerous Lies follows the lives of two characters: Jake Stern and Tina Davis. After losing his parents and sister in a fire, Jake is raised by his grandparents. As he goes from being a traumatized boy to exceptional student-athlete and finally to ambitious Assistant DA, Jake learns to hide a crippling fear behind a stony mask. Until she?s thirteen, Bettina (Tina) Berenson is a shy bookish girl rejected by both parents. But her life radically changes when her father starts taking her to places that he enjoys frequenting ? racetracks, prizefights, nightclubs ? occasionally in the company of gangsters he admires. Reveling in the attention her striking beauty generates, he?s oblivious to the potential danger to his impressionable daughter. Two years later, when he dies, Tina, a distraught lonely fifteen-year-old is easy prey for a charismatic crime-lord. Fate brings Jake and Tina together for the trial of a vicious mobster: Tina, former mob mistress, the key witness, and Jake, the prosecuting attorney, who envies her courage, is repelled by her past and is obsessed with her physical presence. But in order for her to testify, Jake has to keep her alive. Someone wants her dead.

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About the Author

Before discovering a passion for writing Ms. Smith traded in antiques, taught ballroom dancing and managed projects for IBM. College studies included psychology, archeology, literature, history, anthropology/sociology and computer science. She holds degrees in the latter two fields. Combine those widely diverse interests with a wry wit and creative ingenuity and readers won’t be surprised at the amazing reviews her books inspire. Perhaps one admiring reviewer said it best, “Lisa April Smith’s books have the pace of and heat of Jacqueline Susann and the style and sophistication of Dominick Dunne.”

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1479211389
• ISBN 13: 9781479211388
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 266