Tell Me No Lies

by Kathryn Shay

• ISBN13: 9780373781041
• ISBN10: 0373781040
• Edition: Large
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-07-11
• Publisher: Harlequin

Summary

Dan Logan thinks he's got it all: a great job as a D.A., the ideal marriage and two wonderful children. Now he's been nominated Citizen of the Year. Seems his rigid pursuit of honesty and integrity has paid off.

He has no idea that his picture-perfect

Excerpts

AS TESSA LOGAN POURED the jasmine bath salts into her claw-footed tub, she thought about her husband. Tonight they'd celebrate their tenth wedding anniversary. Picturing the evening to come, she smiled, turned on the taps and breathed in the scented steam. Her daughters were staying with her sister for the next twenty-four hours, and Dan would be home from work any time now. She hummed as she stood, pinned up her hair and undressed.The dinner was ready. She'd placed a prime-rib roast in the oven, set the potatoes in the microwave to bake later, stuck the green salad she'd put together in the refrigerator and uncorked the merlot. The next sixty minutes were just for her.She crossed into the bedroom, newly done in shades of green with white accents. Dan had been surprised at the redecoration, so different from the rest of the traditional colonial furniture and earth tones in the rest of their rambling Victorian. She didn't know why she'd taken this tack with the bedroom, except that once in a while she felt stifled by the constraints of her life.The phone rang as she removed a box from her dresser drawer."Hello." She expected it to be Dan, and hoped he wasn't calling to say he'd be late getting home from work."Hey, Tessa." Her sister."Hi, Janey. Everything okay?""Yep. Just checking to make sure you're wearing the gift I bought for you.""I've got it in my hand. I'm running my bath now." She chuckled. "You know Dan will be scandalized.""St. Daniel could use some loosening up." Tessa hesitated. "Don't tease about him, Janey. Please.""Sorry." She could visualize her sister's hazel eyes, just like her own, filled with sympathy. Though they were six years apart, they seemed closer in age because they looked so much alike. "You know I love Dan to pieces. It's just that he's so straitlaced.""Straitlaced is fine by me.""But I hate to see you both missing some spice in your life.""I promise, tonight there'll be plenty of spice. Are Sara and Molly having fun?""Are you kidding? My boys are falling all over them. They always wanted a sister. The four of them are out in the pool as we speak." She chuckled. "Of course, Molly's giving her cousins a run for their money, as usual. She's already hidden Jason's baseball glove and checked Jim's e-mail."Tessa worried about her older child. Molly never got into real trouble, but she did enough damage to keep them all hopping. She seemed to take delight in shaking things up. "Put her on. I'll talk to her.""No way. Go take your bath. Use scented oil," Janey added before she hung up.A few minutes later Tessa climbed into the deep tub and sighed as she sank into the hot water. She lay back on the terry-cloth pillow, closed her eyes and listened to the Debussy CD she'd put on the stereo system in the bedroom. At one time she couldn't tell Debussy from Chopin. She hadn't known the difference between a van Gogh and a Picasso. When she'd become part of Dan's world, however, everything had changed.Tessa pushed away her memories. She never let herself think about how she had lived before she met Dan because it was too painful. Tessa hadn't always been a good person.And her husband knew nothing about her past.If Tessa had her way, he never would.DAN LOGAN ENTERED the kitchen through the garage. He'd left work early, something he seldom did, but tonight was special, and he couldn't wait to get home. The girls were with Janey, and he and Tessa had the whole house to themselves. Stopping to put the red roses into a vase, he caught the scent of roasting meat and got a peek at the set table in the dining room. He smiled. The home Tessa had made for him was everything he wanted -- well decorated, yet not ostentatious. A calm, peaceful haven after a day in the criminal world. Leaving her favorite flowers as a surprise for her when they came down to eat, he followed the sound of music up the back stairs.He found his wife with her eyes closed, lounging in the