She saw the man only twice in the past ten years, and he struck her as a cold, ruthless piece of work. Lowell does, however, infuse the minutiae of pearl diving and of international gem sales into a racy light read.It is desperation that inspires young widow Hannah McGarry to call Archer Donovan. Neither her plotting nor her airy prose take the romance genre anywhere new. Lowell uses the double search as backdrop for the push-and-pull between a reticent heroine and an oddly insistent, 'elementally masculine' hero. But Len was a cruel, unworthy husband, and Hannah, still recovering from her marriage, has trouble committing to Archer.

As soon as they fall into bed, Archer knows he wants Hannah to have his baby. True love turns out to be harder to locate. government connections to find the (rather predictable) bad guys. Archer uses his family's resources, his inside knowledge of the pearl trade and his U.S. Archer fell for Hannah 10 years ago, when she was Len's teenage bride, and he's only too happy to help her track down both Len's killer and the necklace. Feeling herself in danger, Hannah seeks help from Len's partner and half-brother, the ruthless but hunky Archer Donovan.

When wheelchair-bound pearl harvester Len McGarry turns up dead on an Australian beach with an oyster shell sticking out of his chest, his beautiful widow, Hannah, knows that Len was murdered for his $3 million rainbow pearl necklace, the Black Trinity, now missing. And the closer they come to finding the coveted pearls, the closer they come to danger and death.and to each other.įormulaic but fun, Lowell's latest romantic suspense novel returns to the glamorous Donovan family she created in Amber Beach and Jade Island. With deadly competitors on their tails, Archer and Hannah race through uncharted waters in search of the fabulous Black Trinity. And at his side in pursuit of the stolen fortune is a woman he shouldn't want, yet cannot resist.a woman who may know more than she's telling about her husband's death.and more than is safe to know about the dark and elusive black pearls. But when Hannah McGarry calls in an old debt Archer is back in the game. That life taught him to trust no one but family. He might help her.if the price is right.Īrcher Donovan would rather forget he'd ever heard of Pearl s memories of living on the dark side, the soul-numbing certainty that there was no law, no justice, no mercy just hunters and the hunted.

Desperate, she calls Archer Donovan, a silent partner in Pear Cove, her late husband's pearl farm venture. Surrounded by potential enemies, Hannah McGarry faces the mystery of her husband's suspicious death, the prospect of bankruptcy.and the disappearance of the fabulous Black Trinity necklace that was to be her financial security.

Pearl cove by elizabeth lowell