Ryan Perry a internet mogul finds he needs a new heart. He is unhappy with the speed of the donor system and looks for another doctor for the transplant. He is haunted because of this and searches for the reason.

A twin of the person who donated the heart stalks and torments him. Ryan finally gives all his money away and retreats to Kentucky to help at a farm for handicapped people. (

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amacmillen | Nov 12, 2009 |

An intriguing plot that at times is confronting. An enjoyable read. Didn't quite live up to my expectation for suspense or the ending. (

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yosbooks | Sep 14, 2009 |

An internet mogul in his mid thirties; Ryan Perry has it all, a mansion with a live-in staff, antique cars, and a beautiful and intelligent girlfriend. The one downside to all of Ryan’s good fortune is that he has a bad ticker. For a person who is in such good shape as himself, Ryan wonders if his heart condition is genetic as his doctor suggests or is someone out to get him?
As Ryan is put on a waiting list for a new heart, he becomes suspicious of everyone and uses his power and influence to turn over every stone to unearth the truth to what is happening to him. Will what he discovers cause him to lose it all, including his life? (

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Ti99er | Sep 14, 2009 |

I used to read all of Dean Koontz' books, but this book had me thinking "strange". It wasn't horrible, but it wasn't up to the usual Dean Koontz standards. It is a different story, like nothing I have read so it's so odd at times, it really is strange. I especially think the end is strange. The boyfriend/girlfriend romance was weak, it would have been a better story if that relationship was better. (

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jewelsanne | Jun 14, 2009 |

This book did not live up to Koontz's standards. I did not like the main chacter or his girlfriend. The whole thing was weak. Worst of all it did not leave me wishing for a sequel.

gsaadiq1 | Jun 10, 2009 |

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Your Heart Belongs to Me

Original publication date

2008-12

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Ryan Perry

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New York Times bestseller (Fiction, 2008)

Epigraph

Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;

Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,

The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere

The ceremony of innocence is drowned...

--W. B. Yeats, "The Second Coming."

The houses are all gone under the sea.

The dancers are all gone under the hill.

--T. S. Eliot, "East Coker"

Dedication

This book is dedicated to Tim and Serena Powers for reasons obvious to anyone who knows them

First words

Ryan Perry did not know that something in him was broken.

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From the #1 New York Times bestselling master of suspense comes a riveting thriller that
probes the deepest terrors of the human psyche—and the ineffable mystery of what truly makes us who we are. Here an innocent man finds himself fighting for his very existence in a battle that starts with the most frightening words of all…

At thirty-four, Internet entrepreneur Ryan Perry seemed to have the world in his pocket—until the first troubling symptoms appeared out of nowhere. Within days, he’s diagnosed with incurable cardiomyopathy and finds himself on the waiting list for a heart transplant; it’s his only hope, and it’s dwindling fast. Ryan is about to lose it all…his health, his girlfriend, Samantha, and his life.

One year later, Ryan has never felt better. Business is good and there’s even a chance of getting Samantha back in his life. Then the unmarked gifts begin to arrive in the mail—a heart pendant, a box of Valentine candy hearts. And, most disturbing of all, a graphic heart surgery video accompanied by a chilling message: Your heart belongs to me.

In a heartbeat, the medical miracle that gave Ryan a second chance at life is about to become a curse worse than death. For Ryan is being stalked by a mysterious woman who feels entitled to everything he has. She’s the spitting image of the twenty-eight-year-old donor of the heart beating steadily in Ryan’s own chest.

And she’s come to take it back.

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