TAINTED ROSES A True story of Murder, Mystery and a Dangerous Love

Hardback. Having survived an unhappy first marriage, the author, a divorced mother of three, believes her dreams have come true when she meets handsome and romantic Sean Paul Lanier. Pledging his love, he showers her with roses and gifts and indulges her children. Though he is elusive about many things, including his two children and a former girlfriend he says died in a car accident, Margie Danielsen succumbs to his charms. Then, only weeks after their mercurial love affair leads to marriage on Valentine's Day, Margie's haven of happiness is shattered when a friend calls to tell her to turn on the television to see 'Amnerica's Most Wanted'. Suddenly, Margie's new husband's face flashes across the screen. Telling herself the man on TV must be a look-alike but knowing she must find out the truth, Margie hires a private detective and begins her own investigation. But each found piece of the puzzle leads to another lie. Is Sean her perfect soulmate or a virtual stranger with a secret past too dark to be forgotten or forgiven? Is he a man who has committed rape, a wanton killer and a master of mind games, or a man in the Witness Protection Program who is being set up by The Mob as he says? With her own life and those of her children at stake, Margie Danielsen in this harrowing account of empowerment, betrayal and murder, takes matters into her own hands. Margie, desperately seeking the truth, blasts the secrets of her husband's buried past wide open. She becomes caught in a deadly game of cat and mouse involving her and her 3 daughters. It is up to Margie to free her family - a struggle none of them may survive. Illus. + Epilogue. 304pp. 8vo. h/back. From the library of true crime writer, Wilfred Gregg, with his personal b/plate. F. in Nr. F. dw.