Product Description

Wellington, New Zealand. Gayle Sterling is vacationing with her daughter Dylan when they're in an accident with a drunk driver. They are quickly taken to hospital, Gayle with a fractured femur and all the bones in her right foot broken, Dylan with a punctured lung. Just before surgery, her doctor assures Gayle that both she and her daughter are going to be fine.

Long Beach, California. Psychiatrist Sanford (Sandy) Sterling is called away from a charity function to the site of the new Sterling Hotel. Gina Sealy, one of his patients is out on a fifteenth floor balcony of the newest hotel in the family hotel group, threatening to jump. She'd called the media, because she's in love with Sandy and she thinks he doesn't want her. Newsman Nick Nesbitt is on the ground with a news van, Gina is wired for sound and Sandy has to talk her out of jumping with the whole world listening in.

Newport Beach, California. Haley Harrison and Taylor Sterling are lounging around by the Sterling's pool when all of a sudden Taylor feels a sharp pain in her chest. "Dylan," she cries. She knows immediately her twin is in pain. She tries to get a hold of her father, Senator Stacy Sterling, who is running for the Presidency of the United States, but his cell phone is off. She calls his administrative aid in Washington and has him book tickets for herself and Haley on the next flight from L.A. to Auckland.

San Francisco, California. While his wife and daughter are in surgery in New Zealand, while his younger brother is trying to keep a desperate girl from jumping in Long Beach, and while his other daughter and her best friend are frantically worrying about Gayle and Dylan, Presidential Candidate Stacy Sterling is in the penthouse sweet of the San Francisco Sterling, making love to a teenage prostitute.

Wellington, New Zealand. Sandy, Taylor and Haley arrive in New Zealand just in time for Haley and Taylor to say goodbye to Dylan before she dies. The tragedy draws Haley and Taylor close, they become lovers and that alone would be enough to shake Stacy's campaign to it's roots, but Dylan kept a journal on her laptop that falls into the hands of Nick Nesbitt who desperately wants a story that will put him on the map. Plus there is that little matter of the little girls the candidate likes to sleep with.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #515809 in Books
• Published on: 2003-01-01
• Released on: 2005-09-15
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 340 pages

From the Publisher
Sometimes it's hard to classify a book. Ken Douglas writes thrillers, usually about a woman in trouble—the walls are closing in on her, bad guys are coming fast and furious, she has nowhere to turn. Jack Stewart writes adventure thrillers that take place on the sea—good guys and bad guys in sailboats. He sort of does for sailboating what Dick Francis does for race horses. So when they teamed up to write their second thriller together, naturally one would expect them to turn out something like their excellent DIAMOND SKY, a woman in peril thriller that includes lots of sailboat action, but not so this time out. This time we have a book that reads like a thriller, holds your attention like a thriller, quickens your pulse like a thriller, but it's not a thriller, not in the usual sense. There are no demented serial killers here, no ticking clock, no building full of innocents about to blow, no sailboat about to sink.

However there is a fair amount of tense action in this well plotted mainstream title that focuses on two young women, Haley and Taylor, who have to grow up fast when Haley's best friend and Taylor's twin is killed by a drunk driver in Wellington, New Zealand, half a world away from their Newport Beach, California home. The girls fly to Wellington barely in time to say a tragic goodbye. They are devastated.

Taylor's father is running for president and on the surface he is every bit the loving husband and caring father she believes him to be, however he is hiding a dark secret and there are even darker secrets in the family closet. He wants to use his daughter's death to further his candidacy and he wants Taylor, the surviving twin, to come back to America and appear with him at campaign rallies to remind the voters of his loss. But in their grief Haley and Taylor discover they have feelings for each other, forbidden feelings if your father wants to be president.

And there you see our problem, how do we classify this book. Douglas and Stewart write thrillers, not love stories. Especially not this kind of love story. Tender and romance are not words usually associated with these men, and though there is tenderness and romance in this story, it's definitely not a romance novel. Maybe you could call it a political thriller, as the book drips with suspense and anticipation and rushes to a climax as we wonder if Taylor's father is going to ride a wave of emotion into the White House or if he's going to get what he has coming. Yes, that's it, we'll call TANGERINE DREAM a political thriller. We'll call it that and we at Bootleg Press sincerely hope that you enjoy it.

From the Author
I didn't know we had this kind of story in us, perhaps we wouldn't have, if not for two gorgeous and generous ladies who prefer to remain anonymous. They are the real Haley and Taylor. They sailed away and are living their dream and to them we own an enormous debt. If you've a mind to read a good and true story, then give TANGERINE DREAM a chance. I think you might enjoy it. —Jack Stewart

When Jack and I started this book, we started a woman in pearl thriller. We intended lots of action as our heroines, inexperienced sailors, Haley and Taylor were first threatened by, then chased by some really bad, ugly, lowlife pirate guys from island to island in the South Pacific. But somehow, I don't know how, we got sidetracked. We wanted a love interest and thought we had it with Gayle and Sandy, but the book rapidly turned into Haley and Taylor's story and we thought, why can't they fall in love with each other. A risky deal for us, because neither one of us has any experience along those lines. Fortunately we met two wonderful women who were sailing around the world together. We got to talking, they read our manuscript, then they put us right and now we have a book that we are proud of. —Ken Douglas

From the Inside Flap
"Oh, Lord!" Gayle jerks the wheel to the right, but too late. "Dylan," she cries as the oncoming car strikes them head on. Within minutes fire and rescue have her out of the car and on the way to surgery, but tragically her daughter Dylan dies in the hospital.

Dylan’s father can’t be located. He’s running for the Presidency of the United States and supposedly somewhere on the campaign trail, but actually he’s in the arms of a teenage prostitute.

Gayle decides to recover in New Zealand to avoid the media, but Nick Nesbitt, television newscaster, senses a story and will stop at nothing to get it.