Jayne Ann Krentz Collection: Soft Focus / Lost and Found / Smoke in Mirrors

Soft Focus
(Dick Hill/Susie Breck; Laura Grafton; Russell Byers)
Elizabeth Cabot is all business. She knows how to maximize her investments and cut her losses – in both her career and her personal life. So when she discovers that Jack Fairfax has deceived her, she’s determined to end their relationship. Putting a stop to their budding romance is easy, but breaking up their business deal will be more difficult. Despite all her efforts, she has no luck disentangling herself from Jack’s client company, Excalibur. But the situation becomes even more strained when a lethal act of sabotage threatens to put both their companies out of business for good.

Lost and Found
(Sandra Burr, Joyce Bean, Melissa Coates)
Cady Briggs is very useful to Mack Easton – her expertise in art and antiques helps his shadowy, low-profile company, Lost and Found, find missing treasures for high-paying clients. But as Cady’s beloved Aunt Vesta warns her, being useful to a client is one thing – being used is another. Still, Cady finds it hard to resist the magnetic pull Mack exerts, an attraction she felt from the first time she heard his voice on the phone. And as their work together puts them in an explosive situation, Cady wonders just how much she’d risk for the thrill of being with this man.

Smoke in Mirrors
(Aasne Vigesaa/James Daniels; Laura Grafton)
A con artist and seductress, Meredith Spooner lived fast – and died young. Now it seems Meredith’s last scam – embezzling more than a million dollars from a college endowment fund – is coming back to haunt Leonora Hutton. An email just arrived in which Meredith – in fear for her life – explains that the money is waiting for Leonora in an offshore account … and a safe-deposit key is on the way. Leonora wants nothing to do with the tainted money. She’s already been accused of being in on the theft by Thomas Walker – who, it seems, was a victim of Meredith’s knack for both scams and seductions. Eager to prove him wrong, Leonora sets out to collect the cash and hand it over. But she discovers two other items in the safe-deposit box. One is a book about Mirror House – a mansion filled with antique mirrors, where Meredith engineered her final deception. The other is a set of newspaper stories about a thirty-year-old murder that occurred there – unsolved to this day.