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IN A FARM ON THE EDGE OF NOWHERE
LIE THE SEEDS OF MURDER

Jack Stone fled Los Angeles, a failed marriage, and a failing career as a screenwriter to spend six months in the remote English countryside, hammering out the new script that would put him back on top. But what he found wasn’t solitude and peace—it was temptation. Because Maggie Barlow, the wife of the man putting him up, had something irresistible about her. Something that could drive a man to kill...

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• Publishers Weekly on ROBBIE’S WIFE: "Seductive intensity...graceful writing and three-dimensional characters [and] gratifying last-act plot twists."
• Author of the critically acclaimed novels Lucy Boomer and The Edge of the Earth
• Recipient of an award from the National Endowment for the Arts for poetry

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