title: Portrait of Deception
author: Louard, Janette McCarthy
description: Portrait Of Danger
  Thirty-something multi-millionaire Sam Trahan has accomplished more than most men, black or white. Yet his greatest goal remains unfulfilled: to recover a stolen family heirloom, a painting called The Black Madonna. Sam is determined to succeed where detectives have failed--and that means enlisting the thief's former fiancee, Zora Redwood, to track him down. ...
  
  After lying to her, making her an accessory to a crime, and finally disappearing, Milton Alexander still isn't out of Zora's life. For as much as she'd like to forget everything having to do with her dangerously unstable ex, Zora can't bring herself to turn down powerful--and persuasive--Sam Trahan's request for her help. But Zora can't help feeling that in signing on with Sam, she may have signed her own death warrant. Because there are others who want The Black Madonna--and they're willing to do anything to get it...