REQUIEM FOR A GLASS HEART

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SYNOPSIS

 ” …their relationship becomes an ever-more-intricate dance of the heart… “

Irina Ismaylova kills people . But she doesn’t kill for pleasure, or money, or to save her own life. She kills at the behest of Sergei Krupatin, a Russian crime lord who exerts a monstrous hold over her. Desperate to escape his madness, Irina has no choice but to believe his promise to free her . . . after one last mission for him. But she soon learns her odds of surviving her new assignment seem improbable.

FBI Special Agent Cate Cuevas has just learned of a devastating personal betrayal by her recently slain husband. Crushed and shaken, she jumps at the chance to divert her misery by accepting the most challenging and dangerous undercover assignment of her career.

The leaders of the three great international crime organizations are planning a secret meeting in Houston. The implications are stunning. The FBI’s only chance to stop this ominous alliance depends upon Cate being able to infiltrate the Russian contingent. And her odds of surviving are nearly as bleak as Irina’s. And ironically, Irina is her target.

But when Cate and Irina meet, each playing her clandestine roles and maneuvering through layers of lies and deceptions, they discover a mutual and powerful empathy for each other. As the two women fight to survive amidst the elaborate and cunning stratagems of violent men, their relationship becomes an ever-more-intricate dance of the heart, and neither woman foresees the consequences.

AUTHOR’S COMMENTS

“…a smooth and sustained stream of energy…”

This was one of those novels that formed quickly in my mind like a summer storm. I had made a proposal to my agent for an entirely different kind of book, and had felt so sure about it being the right thing for me to do that I took off on a research trip that lasted more than a month. In the end my agent didn’t like the proposal, nor did my editor…at all. So in a brainstorm that began on my flight back from New York to Austin, and over the next few days, I came up with this story. This proposal was quickly accepted, and I immediately plunged into the novel. It took me a year to write, but the story came to me in a smooth and sustained stream of energy.

When I finished Requiem for a Glass Heart, I felt as if I’d gotten something especially right about it. It was the same way I felt when I finished In the Lake of the Moon. However, this novel contains the only scene in all my books that I wish I’d written differently…or maybe, even, not at all.

When the book was published, Demi Moore quickly bought the film option. Unfortunately, nothing ever came of it.