Masquerade
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Finished December 31. 2006: Dailey, Janet (1990). Masquerade. Boston, Toronto, London: Little, Brown and company (362 p.)
I found this book in 1996, in a café where I used to work as a student. It was part of a large pile of second hand books someone left. Now, ten years later, I finally came round to reading it. Not a good read, but I wanted to finish it before I get rid of it. I think I would call it a low profile romantic suspence novel.
Amazon readers review
Remy Jardin is in France at a masquerade ball when she stumbles upon a conversation that she is not to hear. Realizing she is in danger she turns to leave - being discovered by one of the participants in the conversation. He catches up with her. They argue. He hits her, knocking her to the ground where she hits her head on the tree. She is discovered by a couple of tourists. They get her to the hospital where she is discovered to have amnesia, remembering nothing. An article about her identity is placed in the newspaper with her picture. Her family sees it and sends someone after her to bring her back to the US: Cole Buchanan, president of the family shipping company, and former lover/boyfriend of Remy. While Remy is busy trying to regain her memory with different flash backs - she stumbles on an insurance scam dealing with a company oil tanker that was lost at sea recently. She starts asking questions that someone is feeling threatened by - enough to beat her up again and tell her to stop being nosy. Did that have to do with the conversation that she over-heard in France? Is Cole involved and is that why they had broken off their relationship? At one time the maid tells Remy how the family got their fortune in the beginning having to do with a love affair between a rich Cajun debutante and a Yankee ship owner that was disapproved of by her family, ending in death, grief, loss of love, and the birth of an illegitimate son left with a fortune.
I found this book in 1996, in a café where I used to work as a student. It was part of a large pile of second hand books someone left. Now, ten years later, I finally came round to reading it. Not a good read, but I wanted to finish it before I get rid of it. I think I would call it a low profile romantic suspence novel.
Amazon readers review
Remy Jardin is in France at a masquerade ball when she stumbles upon a conversation that she is not to hear. Realizing she is in danger she turns to leave - being discovered by one of the participants in the conversation. He catches up with her. They argue. He hits her, knocking her to the ground where she hits her head on the tree. She is discovered by a couple of tourists. They get her to the hospital where she is discovered to have amnesia, remembering nothing. An article about her identity is placed in the newspaper with her picture. Her family sees it and sends someone after her to bring her back to the US: Cole Buchanan, president of the family shipping company, and former lover/boyfriend of Remy. While Remy is busy trying to regain her memory with different flash backs - she stumbles on an insurance scam dealing with a company oil tanker that was lost at sea recently. She starts asking questions that someone is feeling threatened by - enough to beat her up again and tell her to stop being nosy. Did that have to do with the conversation that she over-heard in France? Is Cole involved and is that why they had broken off their relationship? At one time the maid tells Remy how the family got their fortune in the beginning having to do with a love affair between a rich Cajun debutante and a Yankee ship owner that was disapproved of by her family, ending in death, grief, loss of love, and the birth of an illegitimate son left with a fortune.
