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The story has a spin to it that touches our lives in 2003. Practice Run is the name of the best selling computer game in history in the book, and the man who created it, Tyler Bryant, is the game king. Every kid on the face of the earth is addicted to it. This is one video game that even parents love because to get to the next level of play, the player must read long passages of text, and must retain what he or she reads to be able to continue. It promotes reading, education, literacy. It also does something that no one knows about.

Sub zero temperatures slice across the beaches of Santa Monica. A blinding blizzard whips through Hollywood. Swimming pools turn to solid blocks of ice. Roads are impassible. Cars have been abandoned. And as night falls, so does hope.

Jonelle Patterson has everything a woman could want: a loving family, a beautiful home, and a solid position as a CNN correspondent. She also has something Barry Keller, the most powerful man in newsmaking, wants: an impeccable public image and enough star quality to carry them both to the most influential heights of the new millennium. With Jonelle on Keller's Network ONE team, they can make more than news -- they can make history. And they do. But her meteoric rise to success may be blinding her to someone else's ambitions.

Steeped in Southwest Indian lore and legend (fascinating stuff to research, especially the poison plants), with a psychopath who envisions himself an Indian shaman whose mission it is to protect the girl he loves from men he doesn't approve of–by murdering them. It has an ending that will really shock you. And I hope you'll beg for more!

It is about the passionate relationship between an older woman and younger guy, and the girl who becomes part of their lives and love affair--and changes everything. It explores the dark side of desire, culminating in murder, or what can happen when love goes terribly wrong. The cover says DESIRE CAN KILL. You bet.

She has planned the perfect weekend... To persuade her boyfriend to propose, Audrey Goh kidnaps him. Her destination: the unfinished luxury apartment building that she owns on Hawaii's scenic coast -- where she will fulfill his wildest fantasies. The state-of-the-art security system will make sure no one else gets in -- or out.


Julia Larsen has stepped into a nightmare. What was supposed to have been a joyous family reunion has become deadly, as she finds her parents' bloodied corpses inside their secluded mountain retreat. Julian, estranged from her husband, turns to longtime friend Matthew Hinson, a charismatic and handsome man to whom she's always been attracted.