Wealthy, well-bred Silke Brown-St. James was hardly an innocent. In fact, the amber-eyed redhead was rumored to have the morals of an alley cat. No man was immune to the fiery beauty and tempting sensuality that made her Philadelphia's most desirable -- and dangerous -- femme fatale. Including the man who wanted to love her... to death.
Rugged private eye Killian Carpenter wondered which was the greater danger -- the beauty he'd been hired to guard, or the madman who stalked her? He knew he had what it took to protect her, but who would protect him from this surprising woman who aroused irresistible desire and awakened a tenderness he'd never known?
Sydney Ann Cook born in 1948, Her pen names include Sara Chance, Sherry Carr, Lacey Dancer and Sydney Ann Clary. She started to publish novels in 1983, and continued through the late nineties when family demands took center stage in her life. As Sara Chance & Lacey Dancer, she won the Romantic Times Career Achievement Award in 1991-1992 for Series Romance Love and Laughter, and a second Romantic Times Career Achievement Award in 1996 for Series Romantic Adventure. She was also awarded two Woman of the Year, 1991 & 1993. She has a number of Certificates of Excellence from Romantic Times under both Sara Chance and Lacey Dancer. Sydney has ridden a bucking horse, driven racing boats and cars just because she was offered the chance. She collects salt cellars, rescues dogs and donkeys. Currently, she resides in a house she designed and had built. She has taken up farming, raising pecans, pine trees and peaches. Just a little of each to start. Her current at home mode of transport are John Deere tractors.