Refusing to believe that her new husband, Geoffrey, has been killed in a Berlin hotel fire, Sarah Fontaine soon gets caught up with diplomat Nick O'Hara in a deadly game of espionage and betrayal in this fast-paced, country-hopping romantic adventure that was first published as a Harlequin Intrigue in 1987. (c) Copyright 2011. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

Long before she embarked on the popular Rizzoli & Isles mystery series, Gerritsen penned romantic thrillers such as this, a tale in which a woman questions everything she thought she knew about the man she married. Sarah Fontaine wakes to the call everyone dreads: her businessman husband, Geoffrey, has died in a hotel-room fire. Sarah is stunned, even more so when she learns that Geoffrey was in Berlin, not in London as she believed. Nick O'Hara, the State Department operative charged with giving Sarah the grim news, is immediately taken with her when she comes to his office, and neither feel certain that her husband is actually dead. Nick looks into Geoffrey's activities, only to find himself removed from duty, furthering his suspicions. When Sarah takes off for England in pursuit of Geoffrey after receiving a call from the supposedly dead man, Nick follows, and the two are soon embroiled in a deadly game of international intrigue. This early entry proves that Gerritsen has always known how to keep the pages turning and readers pleased.--Huntley, Kristin. Copyright 2010 Booklist