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Angelina Marlow's birth parents were long dead, murdered by a ruthless consortium of powerful men who had seized control of her grandfather's company, Marlow, Inc., robbing her of her birthright --- and even her name. For the couple who had raised her had tried desperately to hide her true identity, because it was too dangerous for anyone to know the heiress to the vast Marlowe fortune was still alive. But now, after years of questions, Angelina was finally starting to uncover her family's secrets. Grown to womanhood and determined to put the shattered pieces of her past together, she soon finds herself caught up in the maze of danger and corruption that is her legacy. But she's not alone. Hawk Bladehunter, a key player at Marlowe, Inc., has long had his own suspicions about what lurks behind the company's facade. And now, he must decide where Angelina's own loyalties lie. Drawn together in their common pursuit of the truth, they soon find themselves in a deadly, high-stakes showdown of greed, power, and murder --- and the odds against them have just doubled!
"Describing this read as enjoyable is like saying Earl Grey tea is a good drink! As Francis Spillman said of Brandewyne's earlier musings: 'She writes like we dream --- short, colorful bursts of emotion speckled with grim blotches of dread against an ever-twilight sky.' Once I picked this book up, I couldn't put it down." ---A Reader from Limestone on High Stakes
"The first chapter begins eerily, and that grabbed my attention from the beginning. I felt the terror Angelina Marlowe's biological and adopted parents experienced at being on the run for their lives, having no one they could turn to....The story is set in the Southwest, and I could almost smell the dust, feel the dry the air. I really liked the hero because being a Native American and living on the reservation shaped who he was. I felt Angelina's confusion as she struggled to stay on course on one hand and deal with her feelings for Hawk on the other, especially since he's the one she might have to protect herself from the most....it was a great read." ---A Reader from North Carolina on High Stakes
"The last book that could hold my interest was Christine. And that was when I was 16 years old. Now that I am 40 years old and have read High Stakes, I can't wait to read them all. I find myself searching bookstores after bookstores for Rebecca Brandewyne's books. Telling each and every store to make sure they get them in. High Stakes was captivating and kept me on the edge of my seat. I just couldn't put it down. Not only was it the first book I had read in 24 years, I was done with it in 3 days. And searching for more." ---A Reader from Ohio on High Stakes
"[High Stakes] has a complex plot, an interesting cast of characters, and a neatly developed heroine." ---The Romance Reader on High Stakes