Twisted Webs

The stunningly beautiful and elegant Ashleigh Taylor gives birth to twin daughters while she's in Long Beach visiting her father figure, Charles Stuart, the founder of Bentley's Royale. Hours later, a parent's worst nightmare occurs: Cassie is kidnapped. Twisted Webs unravels the mystery of the abduction of Callie's identical twin. With the same drama, tension, and high style that hooked readers of Webs of Power, the author invites loyal fans and readers new to the series to step into this provocative sequel set in the 1990s. There is plenty going on to keep them turning pages all the way to the end.With candor and sensitivity, Darlene Quinn probes the shock and despair, the anger and frustration of parents suddenly missing a child and the long-term effects on a family wrestling with these emotions. Each of the novel's complementary storylines-Paige Toddman's reunion with her mother, Viviana De Mornay's secret, and others-ties to the redemptive theme of motherhood.Suspense electrifies the pages of each short, fast-paced chapter. Could Caroline Stuart have hired someone to kidnap the infant because of her deranged jealousy and desire for the Taylor family to suffer pain, as she does? Is the Jordon's department store executive a suspect because of personal grief? The abducted twin's father hires a deeply empathetic detective to answer those and many other questions that arise during her disappearance-at the close of which the author has crafted a knockout ending.

As a former member of a nine-person management team for the Bullocks Wilshire Specialty Department Stores (West Coast Division of the former Federated Department Store conglomerate, which is now Macy’s Inc.), Darlene Quinn has an inside perspective on the rise and fall of major department stores. Her first novel in this series, Webs of Power, dealt with the corporate greed and raw human struggles in that world of retail. It was the winner of the 2009 National Indie Excellence Award for Fiction and a finalist for the National Best Book Award for General Fiction. Darlene is currently working on the prequel, Irreversible Webs. Her first published novel, Sizzling Cold Case, was a collaboration with and labor of love for her dear friend Buddy Ebsen. His work-in-progress was a Barnaby Jones novel, which at his widow’s request Darlene was thrilled to complete.Darlene has two children, John and Jodie, six wonderful grandchildren, and happily lives with her husband and greatest supporter, Jack, a restorer of valuable art, in Long Beach, California.