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Killer Dreams [Secure eReader (recommended)/Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader]
eBook by Iris Johansen
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eBook Category: Suspense/Thriller/Romance
eBook Description:  #1 New York Times bestselling author Iris Johansen returns with a new suspense thriller guaranteed to keep readers turning pages all night long--an adrenaline-laced shocker that pits a mother and son against a killer who's the stuff of nightmares. If you close your eyes, he'll get you. Sophie Dunston knows all too well how dreams can kill. As one of the nation's top sleep therapists, she specializes in the life-threatening night terrors that her ten-year-old son, Michael, suffers from. But she is also an expert in another kind of terror--the kind that can turn a dream life into a living nightmare in the blink of an eye. Someone is watching. He's a shadowy figure from out of her darkest fears and he hasn't forgotten her. In one shocking moment of violence, he'd shattered Sophie's world forever and left her with only one thing to live for: her son. But the nightmare isn't over for Sophie Dunston. It's just begun. He's been waiting. Sophie was supposed to die the first time around, but fate intervened. This time he'll make sure that not even a miracle will save her. It wasn't a miracle that saved Jock Gavin, but it was pretty close. A semiretired hit man, commando, and jack-of-all-deadly-trades, he knows what Sophie is up against--and that she'll need help. But the man he's chosen for the job is as unpredictable as he is dangerous. Matt Royd is a wild card--hard, cool, merciless--and putting him into play changes the game completely. But to whose advantage? Sophie will soon find out. She will have to trust Royd because she has no choices left. Because the bogeyman haunting her dreams is all too real and he's on the hunt again. Because the nightmare he's got planned for Sophie won't end when she wakes up screaming. It won't end. Ever.
eBook Publisher: Bantam Books/Bantam Books
Fictionwise Release Date: June 2006
Available eBook Formats [Secure eReader (recommended)/Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader - What's this?]: SECURE MOBIPOCKET FORMAT [265 KB], SECURE MICROSOFT READER FORMAT [477 KB] - Requires Microsoft Reader 2.1.1 for PCs, or Microsoft Reader 2.2.2 on Pocket PC 2002 handheld devices. Some older Pocket PCs can be upgraded. Learn More., SECURE EREADER (RECOMMENDED) FORMAT [230 KB], OEBFF Format (IMP) [547 KB]
All formats: Printing DISABLED, Read-aloud DISABLED
Microsoft Reader ISBN, Adobe Acrobat Reader ISBN, MobiPocket Reader ISBN: 9780553902600
eReader (recommended) ISBN: 0553902601
 
"A fast-paced, riveting, suspenseful read, with an underlying sense of romance between the two main characters." -- State, Columbia, SC
1 Two years later Fentway University Hospital Baltimore, Maryland What's going on? You're not supposed to be here." Sophie Dunston looked up from the chart to see Kathy Van-Boskirk, the head night nurse, standing in the doorway. "An overnight apnea study." "You worked all day and now you're monitoring an overnighter?" Kathy came into the room and glanced at the bed on the other side of the double glass panel. "Ah, an infant. The light dawns." "Not so much an infant any longer. Elspeth's fourteen months," Sophie said. "She'd stopped having incidents three months ago and now they're back. She just stops breathing in the middle of the night and her doctor can't find any reason for it. Her mother is worried sick." "Then where is she?" "She works nights." "So do you. Days and nights." Kathy gazed at the sleeping baby. "Lord, she's beautiful. Makes my biological clock start ticking. My kid is fifteen now and there's nothing lovable about him. I'm hoping he'll turn back into a human being in another six years. Think I have a chance?" "Don is just your typical teenager. He'll get there." Sophie rubbed her eyes. They felt as if they had sand in them. It was almost five and the sleep study would be over soon. Then she'd run the errand that was on the top of her list before getting to bed and grabbing a few hours of shut-eye before she had to get back for her first one o'clock session with the Cartwright child. "And he offered to clean my car last week when you had him at the office." "He probably wanted a chance to swipe it." Kathy grimaced. "Or maybe he wanted the chance to score with an older woman. He thinks you're cool-looking." "Yeah, sure." Right now, Sophie felt older than her years, frumpy, and ugly as sin. She turned back the chart and checked Elspeth's case history. She'd had an apnea episode about 1:00 A.M. and nothing since. There might be something there that would help her pin down— "There's a message for you at the nurses' station," Kathy said. Sophie stiffened. "Home?" Kathy quickly shook her head. "No. God, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to panic you. I didn't think. The message came in during the shift change at seven and they forgot to give it to you." She paused. "How is Michael?" "Sometimes terrible. Sometimes okay." She tried to smile. "But all the time wonderful." Kathy nodded. "Yes, he is." "But in five years I'll probably be pulling my hair out like you're doing." She changed the subject. "So who left the message?" "It's from Gerald Kennett again. Aren't you going to call him back?" "No." She checked Elspeth's meds. Allergies? "Sophie, it wouldn't hurt to talk to him. He offered you a job that will pay you more in a month than you make in a year here at the university. And he might even up the salary since he keeps after you. I'd jump at it." "Then you call him back. I like my work here and the people I work with. I don't want to have to answer to any pharmaceutical company." Copyright © 2006 by Johansen Publishing LLLP.
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