White lies
By: Jayne Ann Krentz
Series: Arcane Society -- 2.
Publisher: Piatkus; Putnam Adult; Putnam
Published: 2007
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 371
ISBN-13: 9780749908362; 9780749937423
Subjects: Psychics; Fiction
Description: Petite, thirtysomething Clare Lancaster is a Level Ten para-sensitive?and a "human lie detector." Over the years, she's come to accept that someone with her extraordinary talents is likely to have trouble in the relationship department. Her father summons her from California to play a role in his business empire. But after meeting Jake Salter, Archer Lancaster's "financial consultant," Clare is convinced that things aren't what they seem. Salter's careful conversation seems to walk a delicate line between truth and deception, revealing and resisting. Caught in a dizzying storm of secrets, lies, and half-truths, Jake and Clare will plunge into an investigation that demands every bit of their special gifts?together they must overcome their mutual distrust in order to unravel a web of conspiracy and murder.