Meet Chick Best - a middle-aged, self-absorbed, disaffected, California dot-com millionaire. Other than his house and high-priced foreign cars, Chick's most expensive possession is his trophy wife, Evelyn. Evelyn is good at spending Chick's money, money that has pretty much run out. Another problem is his drug-addled sixteen-year-old daughter, Melissa. Though concerned about his life and family, Chick has resigned himself to a miserable state of acceptance. That is, until he, Evelyn, and Melissa take a Christmas vacation in Maui. With this, Chick's life changes...Chick experiences unrequited love-at-first-sight when he observes Paige Ellis emerging from the hotel swimming pool. His obsession, exceeded only by his need to possess her, isn't diminished when he learns that she is happily married. Instead, he befriends Paige and her near-perfect husband, Chandler. A short time later, back from Hawaii, Chick's obsession compels him to drive to Paige's house, where he violently confronts Chandler. But this is just the beginning of Chick's nightmare as his life spirals homicidally out of control, resulting in the destruction of everything he holds dear.
Will Paige learn the truth about Chick before it's too late? Fast-paced, filled with wry humor, murder, lust, and dead-on L.A. characterizations, At First Sight is Cannell's most explosively saleable novel yet.
- ISBN13 9781593154820
- Publish Date 8 July 2008
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 11 September 2012
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Carousel Press,US
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 352
- Language English