Isabelle McAvoy (58), private art consultant in New York City. The first half of the book focuses on her past, having three daughters with three different men and following her through each of those relationships. Her first love was a reclusive American living in France, much older than her, who was always a part of their daughter's life, though they never married. Her second husband went to prison for fraud when Isabelle was pregnant with her second...

"Cady Briggs is very useful to Mack Easton - her expertise in art and antiques helps his shadowy low-profile company, Lost and Found, find missing treasures for high-paying clients. But as Cady knows very well, being useful to a client is one thing and being used is another. Still, Cady finds it hard to resist the magnetic pull Mack exerts, an attraction she felt the first time she heard his voice on the phone. And as their work together puts them...

"Christian O'Brady was pulled into a life of crime at a young age by his con artist parents. Now making amends for his corrupt past, he has become one of the country's foremost security experts. When a string of Southwestern art heists targets one of the galleries Christian secured, he is paired up with a gifted insurance investigator who has her own checkered past. Andi Forester was a brilliant FBI forensic analyst until one of her colleagues destroyed...