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THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

“[A] creepily effective suspense novel.”—The Seattle Times

After surviving a horrific attack by masked gunmen, Katharine Lawrence awakens in the hospital—with an unfamiliar face staring back at her in the mirror.
 
Katharine may not recognize her appearance, but she does know that she’s twenty-nine, the special assistant to the head of the CIA, and that she can trust no one—not even the smiling, handsome doctor at her bedside, Dr. Dan Howard.
 
But when Katharine’s instinct tells her to run for her life, Dan becomes her newfound protector. For Katharine has no one else to turn to when they’re drawn into a shadowy world of conspiracy, where nothing is as it seems…and no one is who they appear to be.
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Penguin
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May 27, 2008
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400
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9781440633898
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Fiction / Thrillers / Espionage
Fiction / Thrillers / Psychological
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