Inner Harbor by Nora Roberts (English) Mass Market Paperback Book

Description: Inner Harbor by Nora Roberts Following "Sea Swept" and continued in "Rising Tides" this is the story— and the conclusion of the captivating trilogy—of the three Quinn brothers and the fight to honor their dead father's wish to raise a young boy named Seth as their own. With his career on track and a condo overlooking the Inner Harbor, his life on the streets firmly in his past, Phillip Quinn intended to fulfill his father's wish. But he never expected that he would grow to love Seth, and soon his promise to his father became more than just obligation. FORMAT Mass Market Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts presents the final novel in the captivating trilogy of three brothers who have come together in a time of need. They honored their father's wish to raise young Seth as their own. And with all of the brothers home again, the Quinn family has never been so strong. But in the months to come, their strength is tested—once again...Phillip Quinn had done everything to make his life seem perfect. With his career on the fast track and a condo overlooking the Inner Harbor, his life on the street was firmly in the past. But one look at Seth and he's reminded of the boy he once was...Phillip has intended to fulfill his father's dying request and considered Seth to be a duty. He never expected he would grow to love Seth, and soon his promise to his father became more than just obligation.Seth's future as a Quinn seems assured—until a stranger arrives in town. She claims to be researching St. Christopher's for her new book, but the true objects of study are the Quinns. Her cool reserve intrigues Phillip. He is determined to uncover her motives, but she is holding a secret that has the power to threaten the life the brothers have made for Seth. A secret that could tear the family apart... forever... Author Biography Nora Roberts is the number-one New York Times-bestselling author of more than 190 novels, including The Search, Black Hills, Tribute, High Noon, and many more. She is also the author of the bestselling futuristic suspense series written under the pen name J.D. Robb. Roberts has more than 400 million copies of her books in print. Review "Americas favorite writer."--The New Yorker "With bright dialogue and lots of heart, Roberts provides a safe harbor for Phillip...and for her many fans."--Publishers Weekly Prizes Short-listed for Rita Awards (Contemporary Single) 2000 Review Quote "With bright dialogue and lots of heart, Roberts provides a safe harbor for Phillip...and for her many fans."- Publishers Weekly Praise for Nora Roberts "Americas favorite writer."- The New Yorker "Roberts is indeed a word artist."- Los Angeles Daily News "You cant bottle wish fulfillment, but Ms. Roberts certainly knows how to put it on the page."- The New York Times "When it comes to true romance, no one does it better than Nora."- Booklist (starred review) Excerpt from Book Chapter One Phillip loosened the windsor knot in his Fendi tie. It was a long commute from Baltimore to Marylands Eastern Shore, and hed programmed his CD player with that in mind. He started out mellow with a little Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. Thursday-evening traffic was as bad as predicted, made worse by the sluggish rain and the rubberneckers who couldnt resist a long, fascinated goggle at the three-car accident on the Baltimore Beltway. By the time he was heading south on Route 50, even the hot licks of vintage Stones couldnt completely lift his mood. Hed brought work with him and somehow had to eke out time for the Myerstone Tire account over the weekend. They wanted a whole new look for this advertising campaign. Happy tires make happy drivers, Phillip thought, drumming his fingers on the wheel to the rhythm of Keith Richardss outlaw guitar. Which was a crock, he decided. Nobody was happy driving in rainy rush-hour traffic, no matter what rubber covered their wheels. But hed come up with something that would make the consumers think that riding on Myerstones would make them happy, safe, and sexy. It was his job, and he was good at it. Good enough to juggle four major accounts, supervise the status of six lesser ones, and never appear to break a sweat within the slick corridors of Innovations, the well-heeled advertising firm where heworked. The firm that demanded style, exuberance, and creativity from its executives. They didnt pay to see him sweat. Alone, however, was a different matter. He knew hed been burning not a candle but a torch at both ends for months. With one hard slap of fate hed gone from living for Phillip Quinn to wondering what had happened to his cheerfully upwardly mobile urban lifestyle. His fathers death six months before had turned his life upside down. The life that Ray and Stella Quinn had righted seventeen years ago. Theyd walked into that dreary hospital room and offered him a chance and a choice. Hed taken the chance because hed been smart enough to understand that he had no choice. Going back on the streets wasnt as appealing as it had been before his chest had been ripped open by bullets. Living with his mother was no longer an option, not even if she changed her mind and let him buy his way back into the cramped apartment on Baltimores Block. Social Services was taking a hard look at the situation, and he knew hed be dumped into the system the minute he was back on his feet. He had no intention of going back into the system, or back with his mother, or back to the gutter, for that matter. Hed already decided that. He felt that all he needed was a little time to work out a plan. At the moment that time was buffered by some very fine drugs that he hadnt had to buy or steal. But he didnt figure that little benefit was going to last forever. With the Demerol sliding through his system, he gave the Quinns a canny once-over and dismissed them as a couple of weirdo do-gooders. That was fine with him. They wanted to be Samaritans, give him a place to hang out until he was back to a hundred percent, good for them. Good for him. They told him they had a house on the Eastern Shore, which for an inner-city kid was the other end of the world. But he figured a change of scene couldnt hurt. They had two sons about his age. Phillip decided he wouldnt have to worry about a couple of wimps that the do-gooders had raised. They told him they had rules, and education was a priority. School didnt bother him any. He breezed his way through when he decided to go. No drugs. Stella said that in a cool voice that made Phillip reevaluate her as he put on his most angelic expression and said a polite No, maam . He had no doubt that when he wanted a hit, hed be able to find a source, even in some bumfuck town on the Bay. Then Stella leaned over the bed, her eyes shrewd, her mouth smiling thinly. You have a face that belongs on a Renaissance painting. But that doesnt make you less of a thief, a hoodlum, and a liar. Well help you if you want to be helped. But dont treat us like imbeciles. And Ray laughed his big, booming laugh. He squeezed Stellas shoulder and Phillips at the same time. It would be, Phillip remembered hed said, a rare treat to watch the two of them butt heads for the next little while. They came back several times over the next two weeks. Phillip talked with them and with the social worker, whod been much easier to con than the Quinns. In the end they took him home from the hospital, to the pretty white house by the water. He met their sons, assessed the situation. When he learned that the other boys, Cameron and Ethan, had been taken in much as he had been, he was certain they were all lunatics. He figured on biding his time. For a doctor and a college professor they hadnt collected an abundance of easily stolen or fenced, valuables. But he scoped out what there was. Instead of stealing from them, he fell in love with them. He took their name and spent the next ten years in the house by the water. Then Stella had died, and part of his world dropped away. She had become the mother hed never believed existed. Steady, strong, loving, and shrewd. He grieved for her, that first true loss of his life. He buried part of that grief in work, pushing his way through college, toward a goal of success and a sheen of sophistication--and an entry-level position at Innovations. He didnt intend to remain on the bottom rung for long. Taking the position at Innovations in Baltimore was a small personal triumph. He was going back to the city of his misery, but he was going back as a man of taste. No one seeing the man in the tailored suit would suspect that hed once been a petty thief, a sometime drug dealer, and an occasional prostitute. Everything hed gained over the last seventeen years could be traced back to that moment when Ray and Stella Quinn had walked into his hospital room. Then Ray had died suddenly, leaving shadows that had yet to be washed with the light. The man Phillip had loved as completely as a son could love a father had lost his life on a quiet stretch of road in the middle of the day when his car had met a telephone pole at high speed. There was another hospital room. This time it was the Mighty Quinn lying broken in the bed with machines gasping. Phillip, along with his brothers, had made a promise to watch out for and to keep the last of Ray Quinns strays, another lost boy. But this boy had secrets, and he looked at you, with Rays eyes. The talk around the waterfront and the neighborhoods of the little town of St. Christophers on Marylands Eastern Shore hinted of adultery, of suicide, of scandal. In the six months since the whispers had started, Phillip felt that he and his brothers had gotten no closer to finding the truth. Who was Seth DeLauter and what had he been to Raymond Quinn? Another stray? Another half-grown boy drowning in a vicious sea of neglect and violence who so desperately needed a lifeline? Or was he more? A Quinn by blood as well as by circumstance? All Phillip could be sure of was that ten-year-old Seth was his brother as much as Cam and Ethan were his brothers. Each of them had been snatched out of a nightmare and given a chance to change their lives. With Seth, Ray and Stella werent there to keep that choice open. There was a part of Phillip, a part that had lived inside a young, careless thief, that resented even the possibility that Seth could be Rays son by blood, a son conceived in adultery and abandoned in shame. It would be a betrayal of everything the Quinns had taught him, everything they had shown him by living their lives as they had. He detested himself for considering it, for knowing that now and then he studied Seth with cool, appraising eyes and wondered if the boys existence was the reason Ray Quinn was dead. Whenever that nasty thought crept into his mind, Phillip shifted his concentration to Gloria DeLauter. Seths mother was the woman who had accused Professor Raymond Quinn of sexual harassment. She claimed it had happened years before, while she was a student at the university. But there was no record of her ever attending classes there. The same woman had sold her ten-year-old son to Ray as if hed been a package of meat. The same woman, Phillip was certain, that Ray had been to Baltimore to see before he had driven home--and driven himself to his death. Shed taken off. Women like Gloria were skilled in skipping out of harms way. Weeks ago, shed sent the Quinns a not-so-subtle blackmail letter: If you want to keep the kid, I need more. Phillips jaw clenched when he remembered the naked fear on Seths face when hed learned of it. She wasnt going to get her hands on the boy, he told himself. She was going to discover that the Quinn brothe Details ISBN0515124214 Author Nora Roberts Short Title INNER HARBOR Pages 342 Publisher Jove Books Series Quinn Brothers (Paperback) Language English ISBN-10 0515124214 ISBN-13 9780515124217 Media Book Format Mass Market Paperback DEWEY FIC Year 1999 Publication Date 1999-01-31 Imprint Penguin Putnam Inc Place of Publication New York, NY Country of Publication United States Alternative 9781606407899 Residence Keedysville, MD, US Birth 1950 DOI 10.1604/9780515124217 Series Number 3 Audience General/Trade We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:2616631;

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