Manhattan Merger

Payne Sterling is a manhattan multimillonaire from a famous and legendry New York family. He hates publicity but he is used to being in the public eye and on several occassions has been a victim of stalkers, one such case of stalking led to a tragedy which left his fianace unable to walk. When he sees his portrait on the cover of a new romance novel, he became very angry knowing that he's never sat for a portrait. He then discovers that he had appeared on 7 previous novels by the same company but not in the comtemporary setting, but as a future or past hero, in the clothing of the time. His fiance and niece believe another stalker must be after him as the cover picture depicted the exact image of his office with the exact paintings on the wall and a picture of a bulldog on his table. The parallels to his life were too much to be considered a coincidence. He decides to track down the artist and the company, the plot further thickens when he read the book and realised that this could not be a coincidence or is it?. Mr Sterling with the help of his lawyers sues the artist, the company and the writer. Lorraine Bennet the beautiful artist who painted the covers from memory following her viewing of a group photograph of her bother's in which Mr Sterling was one of the group, became appalled at the turn of events, blaming herself and wanting to make restitution. Unknown to anyone this was her dream man and his image was so etched in her soul that she wanted to put him on the cover of every book. The plot thickens after they met in court and she realises that she was deeply in love with him but decides not to give heed to such feelings as he is engaged to Dianne. But Mr Sterling has a secert which parrelled the experiences of the hero Logan Townsend in the romance novel inside the book called 'Manhattan merger'.This is rivetting stuff.It is one of the great books I have read this summer, the purity, loyalty and a sense of an abiding Pure love potrayed in the book is very inspiring.