num_pages: 404
description: Jill Breck was just doing her job as a river guide when she saved the life of Lane Faroe son of two of St. Kilda Consulting's premier operators. But when a string of ominous eventsincluding a mysterious fire that kills her great-aunt and a furor in the Western art world raised by a dozen Breck family paintingsculminates in a threat to her life Jill reluctantly calls in a favor.Zach Balfour works part-time as a consultant for St. Kilda. His expertise is gathering and analyzing information from unlikely and often dangerous sources. Though he's got the skills to be a highly effective bodyguard being a bullet catcher isn't his preferred way to spend time.Protecting Jill will take him into familiar territoryamong a strange savagely competitive bunch of collectors who'll do anything to stay at the top. But Jill is in deeper waters than she's ever known; as she soon discovers the perils of running wild rivers are tame compared with the hidden dangers in the high-stakes game of art collecting.From the cozy rooms of the Breck homestead cabin to the cold multimillion-dollar galleries of the Western art circuit Zach and Jill must race against time to unmask a ruthless killer hidden in a blue smoke of money threats lies and death. . . .
language: English
title: Blue Smoke and Murder
publisher: William Morrow