High Stakes cover

High Stakes

by Jane Silverwood

Three abandoned orphans, one missing heiress ... When elderly communications magnate Owen Byrnside learned that twenty-six years earlier his only son had fathered a daughter, he yearned to locate his heir. It wouldn't be easy: the night the girl's mother abandoned the baby at a foundling home, two other infants were left there, as well! It didn't take long to track down the first orphan: Kate Humphrey, a jazz pianist performing in London. But contacting her was another story. It seemed Kate was in Italy, hiding out from hired assassins in the company of an extremely handsome steeplechase jockey named Nick Conti....

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  1. Which character stayed with you after you turned the last page, and why?
  2. Was there a moment where you disagreed with a character’s choice? What would you have done?
  3. What theme did this book keep circling back to — and did it earn its ending?
  4. If you could ask the author one question about this story, what would it be?
  5. Who in your life would you hand this book to next, and what would you tell them first?