Published: Aug. 10, 2012
Words: 82,875 (approximate)
Language: English
ISBN: 9780985836016

Short description

Emerald Fortune, a novel of international intrigue, revenge, and love. “Edgy! A far more complex plot than you might expect from a [romance].” --Roberta Gerber, reviewer. The hero — dangerous, instinctive, his battle-scarred body hardened from months of deprivation — is a man with a mission. And love is a complication.

Extended description

Emerald Fortune, a novel of international intrigue, revenge, and love.

Michael “Mickey” Stone made a cameo appearance in Mail-Order Mate as a driven man out for revenge. As Emerald Fortune opens, self-respect, kindness, and love are foreign to the former intelligence agent whose career was ruined because his wife stole a million dollar emerald. And mixed up in the theft are missing documents that compromise the security of Great Britain.

The hero—dangerous, instinctive, his battle-scarred body hardened from months of deprivation—is a man with a mission. And love is a complication. (Read more) Emerald Fortune, a novel of international intrigue, revenge, and love.

Michael “Mickey” Stone made a cameo appearance in Mail-Order Mate as a driven man out for revenge. As Emerald Fortune opens, self-respect, kindness, and love are foreign to the former intelligence agent whose career was ruined because his wife stole a million dollar emerald. And mixed up in the theft are missing documents that compromise the security of Great Britain.

The hero—dangerous, instinctive, his battle-scarred body hardened from months of deprivation—is a man with a mission. And love is a complication.

“Edgy! A far more complex plot than you might expect from a [romance].” --Roberta Gerber

London-based business woman Laura is “a strong woman and stable, and that's what it takes to get our hero through the maze of red herrings, murder attempts, car chases—and to find the real reason for the strong and widespread repercussions from the theft,” writes reviewer Roberta Gerber.

However, the ex-agent is not without his manly appeal....

...It felt treacherous gazing at Mickey. One hand lay open beside his face. His dark lashes swept against high cheekbones, making him look vulnerable and boyish. His magnificent shoulders were roped with muscle. A sickle scar marred his right shoulder, another the tapering cobblestones of his ribs. Dark hair bristled from the confines of a towel secured around his hips, and the terry cloth had fallen away to reveal a thigh that had been honed by hard workouts.

Laura felt a mixture of emotions—a longing to touch the seasoned, slightly battered body that had conjured the fiercest pleasure of her life from her; compassion for his exhaustion and the monkish way he lived; curiosity to know the whole of him, intimately....

“Nelson is clearly a master storyteller.” –Blake Likins, Middletown, CT (reviewer of Mail-Order Mate, available at most online bookstores)
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Tags

love, new orleans, travel, sex, espionage, california, london, handsome, yacht, romance adventure, shark, gem

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Review by: Linda Johnston on Sep. 20, 2012 :
EMERALD FORTUNE is a romantic suspense story that’s a highly charged, highly emotional venture into the recent past. The romance is heightened by danger as a still sorrowing widow and an angry ex-fed must join forces to find a stolen emerald. He’s a disgraced agent of the National Security Institute. She’s a businesswoman trying to save her company after a client was cheated by the emerald’s theft. Their attraction blazes, yet neither can afford to get too emotionally involved as they seek the emerald and those who stole it.

EMERALD FORTUNE-- definitely worth reading!
(reviewed long after purchase)

Review by: DeAnna Cameron on Sep. 11, 2012 :
What a ride! EMERALD FORTUNE pulls readers into a race against the clock as cynical and disgraced ex-agent Mickey Stone joins forces with the stunning Laura Marley to navigate the gem trade’s dangerous black market in a quest to recover a stolen emerald that led to her husband’s death, and cost Stone his career. The chase takes the unlikely pair from London’s posh neighborhoods to Southern California’s sun-soaked coast, and along the way they are forced to face their personal demons. By the time they unlock the secrets of the theft, though, it isn’t just the emerald at stake – it’s their own hearts. Louella Nelson’s novel is an intriguing story of desperation and revenge, and ultimately the redemptive power of love.
(reviewed within a month of purchase)

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