Book description
On a rain-slick road, a car crash leaves only three survivors an
infant, a man clinging to his life, and Kendall Deaton. But she doesn't
dare reveal their true identities to the authorities or her own.
Instead, she plans her immediate escape. Her perilous flight begins. The
best public defender in Prosper, South Carolina, Kendall had stumbled
upon the towns chilling secret, making her marriage into a powerful
family a living hell. Now, Kendall, a terrified mother trying to protect
her child and a reluctant witness to evil, is surrounded by forces that
will stop at nothing to protect what is theirs. Sandra Brown is the
author of fifty-six New York Times bestsellers, most recently PLAY DIRTY
which was published in August 2007 by Simon & Schuster and debuted
at number two on the New York Times hardcover fiction bestseller list.
Her other recent bestsellers include RICOCHET (2006), CHILL
FACTOR(2005), WHITE HOT(2004), HELLO, DARKNESS(2003), THE CRUSH(2002),
ENVY (2001), all of which have jumped onto the
Times
bestseller list in the number one to five spot. Her new novel SMOKE
SCREEN will be published on August 12, 2008. Brown began her writing
career in 1981 and since then has published nearly seventy novels, most
of which remain in print. As of 1990, when Mirror Image
made The New York Times
bestseller list, each subsequent novel, including reprints of earlier
books, have become Times
bestsellers. Her novel THE WITNESS was recently optioned by Twinstar
Entertainment for a major motion picture. Brown now has seventy million
copies of her books in print worldwide, and her work has been translated
into thirty-three languages. A lifelong Texan, Sandra Brown was born in
Waco and raised in Ft. Worth. Before embarking on her writing career,
she worked as a model at the Dallas Apparel Mart, and in television,
including weathercasting for WFAA-TV in Dallas, and feature reporting on
the nationally syndicated program PM Magazine
. She is much in demand as a speaker at book festivals and charity
functions throughout the year.
