She owns a cleaning service with her sister, Mags. Wow, what a great character! At the age of nine, Harry Booth's mother has cancer. Only then can he hope to possess something more valuable than anything he has ever stolen… To truly free himself, he must face down his enemy once and for all. But no matter what name he uses or where he goes, LaPorte casts a shadow over Harry’s life.

The man is a predator more frightening than the alligators that haunt the bayou-and when he strongarms Harry into robbing a Baltimore museum, Harry abandons Miranda-cruelly, with no explanation-and disappears. And after Harry takes a lucrative job commissioned by Carter LaPorte, LaPorte sees a tool he can use, and decides he wants to own Harry. Some are driven by a desire to own people the way they own paintings and jewels. Some pay others to take risks so they can hoard more treasures. But the powerful bond between them cannot last-because not all thieves follow Harry’s code of honor.

Still, he can’t help letting his guard down when he meets Miranda Emerson. He can’t afford to attract attention-or get attached. Wandering from the Outer Banks to Savannah to New Orleans, he dons new identities and stays careful, observant, distant. When his mother finally succumbed to cancer, he left Chicago-but kept up his nightwork. Harry Booth started stealing at nine to keep a roof over his ailing mother’s head, slipping into luxurious, empty homes at night to find items he could trade for precious cash.

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