Standoff

By: Sandra Brown

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Hardcover | 2 May 2000

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224 Pages

Age
13+

Dimensions(cm)
22.23 x 14.61 x 2.54

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TV reporter Tiel McCoy is driving down Interstate 20 on her way to New Mexico for a well-earned vacation. But her itinerary is rewritten when she hears on the radio that the teenage daughter of well-known Fort Worth multimillionaire Russell Dendy has been kidnapped. At least that's the official report. In truth Sabra Dendy is pregnant and has run away with her boyfriend, Ronnie Davison. After calling her editor, Tiel abandons her holiday plans in favor of pursuing the story.
Then, in a town called Rojo Flats, during an innocuous visit to a convenience store, Tiel will come up close and personal with the barrel of a gun, the desperate young lovers - and the scoop of a lifetime.
In the electrifying standoff that follows, she will meet and grow to trust a strangely familiar local rancher whom fate has also sent to the scene of the crime. She will learn why the two young runaways fear the wealthy father of one of them even more than the FBI ... and why, casting off a reporter's impartiality, she must defend them against a world bent on their destruction.

Industry Reviews

The action takes place in New Mexico, but all the main characters are from Texas, always fertile home ground for perennial bestseller Brown (The Alibi, 1999, etc.). Dallas TV reporter Tiel McCoy, en route to a vacation, takes a detour to look for Sabra Dendy, the daughter of a Texas millionaire whos hotfooted it out of town with her boyfriend, Ronnie Davison. Tiel bumps into the duo as theyre holding up a small-town convenience store. Turns out Sabras not only pregnant but in labor; her baby is delivered by the mysterious Doc, who proves to be a Dallas oncologist ruined by the unjust accusation that he helped his mortally ill wife commit suicide. Naturally, Tiel falls for Doc. Naturally, Sabras dad is a creep who sics the FBI on the misguided lovers. Naturally, theres plenty of time for steamy sex in between the flying bullets. True love conquers (almost) all with time-honored predictability, and Browns many fans will undoubtedly enjoy her latest. (Kirkus Reviews)

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