After discovering her boss's dead body, Susanna Trent receives an unusual package from him filled with strange metal tokens and odd clues.Then Susanna, who is the guardian of her three-year-old niece, starts getting anonymous phone calls taunting her with thinly veiled threats. Worried for her life and that of her sister's child, Susanna struggles to trust the one man who can help: wealthy executive Jack Townsend.As they work together to solve the mysterious puzzle, Jack and Susanna are led into a dangerous game neither knows how to play. But they do know the stakes – life or death.
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Virginia Smith. A Deadly Game
“Here, let me check the house first.” Jack leaped ahead of her up the concrete steps of her small porch. “I’ll take a look around inside, just to be on the safe side.”
VIRGINIA SMITH
A Deadly Game. Virginia Smith
Acknowledgments
CONTENTS
PROLOGUE
ONE
TWO
THREE
FOUR
FIVE
SIX
SEVEN
EIGHT
NINE
TEN
ELEVEN
TWELVE
THIRTEEN
FOURTEEN
FIFTEEN
SIXTEEN
SEVENTEEN
EIGHTEEN
NINETEEN
TWENTY
TWENTY-ONE
TWENTY-TWO
TWENTY-THREE
EPILOGUE
QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION
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Susanna followed him in and stood, hugging little Lizzie tight while Jack made a tour through her small home. The alarm created by the detective’s warning was fading. She would feel much safer now, knowing a killer wasn’t waiting to jump out at her the moment she and Lizzie were alone.
Jack reappeared in the living room. “Everything’s fine. I made sure all the windows were locked, too.”
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“Who bought it?”
Jack squeezed his eyes shut before he said the name. “Tom Ingram’s secretary.”