Black Orchid Author:Karen Harper Separated by their families and their different cultures, Jordan Quinn and Seth Cypress are now thrown together by a violent turn of events. When Jordan sees her estranged husband's panther research team attacked by several men dressed as Seminoles, she knows she has to warn Seth. As leader of the Seminoles it is his job to protect his people. B... more »ut why would the Seminoles steal a panther and attack scientists? And did her husband really leave for good as his note says or did someone take him? Seth and Jordan have both gone on with their lives and tried to forget those passionate years of their youth. But now Jordan's life is threatened and Seth wonders if his brother has anything to do with it. There are people who still resent the Seminoles and dislike Seth, but what does this have to do with Lawrence's research into feline AIDS and a cure for human HIV? Jordan intends to find out and Seth isn't about to let her go a second time.
Karen Harper starts with a fascinating premise-- finding a cure for HIV using the endangered Florida panthers as test subjects-- and weaves a story around it that encompasses the Seminole Indians of Florida and the wild, untamed beauty of the Florida Everglades. Karen Harper takes us on an adventure seething with secrets and deception, and a surprise around every dark corner!« less
I give this book four stars. Karen Harper spins a good story and you can't anticipate the twists and turns the plot will take. I recommend it to anyone who is a mystery fan.
Jordan Quinn was back in the Florida Everglades, where her teenage elopement with the fiercely proud Seminole Seth Cypress had ended. Now she was following her husband, brilliant scientist Lawerence Quinn, who was pursuing the cure for a disease shadowing humankind. It was a cure that might flow in the veins of the panther held sacred by the Seminoles, and hunted by someone who wanted it at any price. Then suddenly, horribly, Lawrence was gone, the panther was missing and Jordan was terribly afraid. A stalking enemy wanted her arrested for murder or else to be the victim of one. And the only person she could turn to was Seth Cypress, now Seminole chairman, who had bitterly fought her husband's plans and whose passionate love could be a mask for deadly hate....