Threats and Promises — Barbara Delinsky

Mistaken identity ... or the real thing?

Lauren Stevenson still felt self-conscious about the way she looked after having undergone plastic surgery in the Bahamas. But she'd opened a frame shop in Boston with a friend and welcomed starting afresh.

Then some peculiar things began to happen. She was nearly run down by a car gone out of control. A few days later she was attacked by a wild dog. She noticed that several items in her home had somehow shifted their original positions.

Matt Kruger showed up soon after. He was handsome, passionate, and claimed to be a close friend of her brother's. But Lauren wondered why Matt had waited to appear now. Her brother had been dead for more than a year....