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Desperate Measures
He was handsome, sophisticated, and rich. Was he also a dangerous spy?
Pretty Vanessa Hale has a career as a promising violinist awaiting her. Fresh from Juilliard, she accompanies her mother to Europe, where she meets charming John Bannerman. He sweeps the young Vanessa off her feet, and before her Grand Tour is over, she agrees to marry him, putting aside her musical career for the glamorous life of a diplomat’s wife…
But Vanessa soon learns that John’s work is more than mysterious. It’s dangerous. And she must use all her intelligence and talent to avoid a confrontation that could spell death. In a gamble of international intrigue that races all over the globe, Vanessa comes face to face with an American billionaire, a British diplomat who promises her a new life, and a group of diplomats’ wives with something to hide—all the while running further and further from the arms of the man she loves…
Pretty Vanessa Hale has a career as a promising violinist awaiting her. Fresh from Juilliard, she accompanies her mother to Europe, where she meets charming John Bannerman. He sweeps the young Vanessa off her feet, and before her Grand Tour is over, she agrees to marry him, putting aside her musical career for the glamorous life of a diplomat’s wife…
But Vanessa soon learns that John’s work is more than mysterious. It’s dangerous. And she must use all her intelligence and talent to avoid a confrontation that could spell death. In a gamble of international intrigue that races all over the globe, Vanessa comes face to face with an American billionaire, a British diplomat who promises her a new life, and a group of diplomats’ wives with something to hide—all the while running further and further from the arms of the man she loves…
288 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published April 12, 1986
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Margot Arnold
31 books11 followersLibrarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name.
*Marguerite Marie Dominique Monro Arnold (1879-1969), British novelist.
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Margot Arnold.
*Petronelle Marguerite Mary Crouch Cook (1925-2016), British-American novelist, author of Penny Spring and Sir Toby Glendower Series
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Petronelle Cook and Margot Arnold.
*Marguerite Marie Dominique Monro Arnold (1879-1969), British novelist.
aka
Margot Arnold.
*Petronelle Marguerite Mary Crouch Cook (1925-2016), British-American novelist, author of Penny Spring and Sir Toby Glendower Series
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Petronelle Cook and Margot Arnold.
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