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  “Florida’s warm,” she tells him, holding her breath.

  “I don’t know. It might be difficult to get a hotel.…”

  “I know a great place you can stay. It’s beautiful. Right on the ocean.”

  “Well, I’ll have to arrange my schedule, see when I can get away.…”

  “I think you should do that,” Amanda tells him quickly, inching toward the front of the line. “And maybe, in the meantime, you could make some inquiries about what someone would have to do to pass the Canadian bar. I mean, I’ll probably have to spend a fair bit of time there, making sure my mother doesn’t kill anyone else.”

  “I think that’s probably a good idea.”

  There is a long pause. What am I doing? she is thinking. “I love you,” she says.

  “I love you too,” comes the simple reply.

  “Next,” the guard announces, directing Amanda to booth number 15.

  “Bad time for you?” the customs agent asks sarcastically, motioning toward the phone in her hand.

  “What? Oh, no.” She drops the phone back into her purse and hands the man her passport, trying not to smile too hard. “It’s a great time.”

  An hour later, she sits staring out the window of the crowded jet. The pilot has just announced they are flying at a cruising altitude of thirty-seven thousand feet. He has cautioned that although the sky is bright and clear, they can probably expect some pockets of turbulence along the way. Amanda lays her forehead against the small porthole, losing herself in the expanse of limitless blue.

  What Amanda sees: the future.

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  SEE JANE RUN

  Jane Whittaker finds herself on a downtown street, her pockets stuffed with a large number of crisp $100 bills, the front of her dress soaked with blood. She has no idea of her identity.

  After a terrifying night of hiding, Jane ends up in hospital. There, while undergoing a battery of medical tests, she is recognized by one of the nurses. Soon her husband comes to claim her. He is every woman’s dream: popular, respected, wealthy, a tall, blond doctor. He takes Jane home and vows to cure her with loving care and modern medicine.

  But Jane doesn’t get any better. The medication seems to be turing her into a zombie, and she begins to feel that her private nurse is holding her a virtual prisoner in her own home, isolating her from friends who might help her recover. Can Jane remember her past in time … in time to stop whatever it is that is happening to her, whatever made her lose her memory in the first place, whatever is trying to destroy her and her family? …

  SEAL BOOKS / ISBN: 0-7704-2985-8

  ALSO BY JOY FIELDING

  MISSING PIECES

  Family therapist Kate Sinclair, healer of lost souls, perfect wife and mother, has suddenly become trapped in a nightmare of her own. One of her teenage daughters has just discovered sex, lies and rebellion. Her ex-boyfriend has returned to threaten her marriage. And her once-peaceful hometown is being awakened by chilling headlines: Another woman is missing. Kate can sense the darkness gathering around her, can see the mistakes, the missteps, the missing pieces.

  Enter Colin Friendly—a man on trial for abducting and killing thirteen women—the handsome, “misunderstood” sociopath Kate’s troubled sister plans to marry. Colin can’t wait to meet Kate and the girls. And one night when they are home alone, ready for bed.…

  SEAL BOOKS / ISBN: 0-7704-2966-1

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  LOST

  Losing Julia has become a constant in Cindy Carver’s life. The first time Julia disappeared, she was five years old and vanished at the playground. That inspired motherly paranoia. The second was when, at age fourteen, Julia decided to move in with her father. That broke Cindy’s heart. But when twenty-one-year-old Julia disappears without a trace after a promising audition with one of Hollywood’s most powerful and influential directors, Cindy begins a frantic search. Secrets are revealed, lives are forever altered, and Cindy is forced to acknowledge the disturbing truth about the young woman she realizes she never really knew.…

  SEAL BOOKS / ISBN: 0-7704-2920-3

  ALSO BY JOY FIELDING

  DON’T CRY NOW

  Bonnie Wheeler had a picture-perfect life: a rewarding job as a schoolteacher, a happy marriage to a successful TV director, a sprawling suburban home, and Amanda, her adorable three-year-old daughter. She’d heard the sordid details about her husband’s ex-wife, Joan—the drinking, the instability. Then Joan calls her with a cryptic warning—you’re in danger, you and Amanda.

  But when Joan is found murdered and Bonnie is the prime suspect, she knows this is no game. Suddenly her secure world comes crashing down around her. Things she once believed in are lies. People she thought she knew have shocking secrets to reveal.

  Desperate to know who intends to harm her daughter, Bonnie is caught in a frantic race to keep Amanda safe—even as she feels her own grasp on reality slipping.…

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