Masquerade Author:Janet Daily Masks hide. They also enhance, tantalize, intrigue--and deceive. — In MASQUERADE,Janet Dailey creates a riveting story of a determined, courageous,and intelligent woman who must untangle the mystery that surrounds an accident involving her family's international shipping company-or risk losing forever the man she loves, and possibly even her own ... more »life. While attending the Carnival in Nice, France, beautiful Remy Jardin, the daughter of a prominent New Orleans family, is suddenly attacked by a mysterious masked assailant who knocks her unconcious. When Remy awakes, she is suffering from amnesia, and so at first she is bewildered by the potent attraction she feels toward the strangely familiar man who wisks her from her hospital bed and returns her safely to her home. Who is he? Who is she? Handsome, headstrong Cole Buchanan has fought his way out of a life of poverty and despair in the hardscrabble Algiers Point section of New Orleans to become president ofnthe Crescent Line, the Jardin family's shipping company. He also used to be Remy's lover, and the passion that once existed between them remains undeniably Powerful. But it is obvious to Remy that Cole, while still drawn to her, is furious with her family-for reasons that Remy can no longer remember. Each of them now seems to be wearing a mask.« less