Jed's family were rich, but very dysfunctional. His parents died years before, leaving him a house full of antiques and hierlooms. He closes down the house, and puts the furniture in storage when his sister, whom he never got along with, gets blown up by a car bomb. Knowing it had something to do with one of his cases, he solves the case, then quits the police force.
Then rents the rooms from Dora's father.
Dora goes to an auction with her sister Lea, who is also her assistant at the shop and buys a bunch of antiques. Among them is a mystery crate.
Unknown to Dora, and her sister, the crate was meant for a big time, very shady collector, who will stop at nothing to get his collectables.
He first sends the dealer who smuggled them out of their original country to get them back by hook or by crook. Mainly crook and strong arm tactics.
When the man fails, he sends another.
Dora and Jed are thrown together more and more, as they solve the mystery of the attacks on Dora and her home / shop, and he rescues he from her unknown attackers, and find out who, and why
it's going on.
They get to the bottom of it in the end, with a couple of murders, and a savage attack on Dora by the ruthless collector.
It's a good book, but I wasn't held to it like most of the books I have read from Nora Roberts.
I do reccommend it, just not excited by it.
Sharon Pribble
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