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A TV star with a new lease on life must team up with an ex-cop to investigate a series of murders and dark secrets while danger lurks just outside her door in this thriller from award-winning author Sandra Brown.
A medical miracle gives TV personality Cat Delaney more than a new heart. With her second chance at life Cat trades Hollywood for San Antonio, where she hosts a TV show for children with special needs and meets Alex Pierce, an ex-cop turned crime writer.
But her new world turns show more sinister when fatal "accidents" begin killing other heart transplant recipients, and a mysterious stalker starts shadowing her every move. Soon Cat realizes Alex may or may not be her most important ally - and that her new heart comes at a terrible price: a tangled web of secrets and someone determined to take her life.
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WOW! So many books, so many authors, I sometimes forget how much I enjoy the writing of Sandra Brown. This book rekindled my enjoyment. The book begins slowly, so many characters to integrate into the storyline, but soon enough the plot takes off and like her best writing the author soon has you breathlessly awaiting the next development in the story. I try to never give away spoilers so I'll just say, read the book, it's one of Brown's best I've read!
Charade by Sandra Brown
After her heart transplant and her loss things happen that make her wonder why they are happening.
Hot steamy sex scenes...She works at the radio station and he is an author and they each have their secrets that they aren't quite ready to share with one another.
She is part of a charity for kids that are in the foster system as she herself once was.
Those who received heart transplants have all died by mysterious methods and she's sent many letters and she and others try to solve the mystery because she will be next...
"CHARADE" BY SANDRA BROWN

A heart recipient patient finds herself tossed into a world of horror as other transplant patients start dying all around her. After meeting up with Alex Pierce she begins to fall in love and is stalked by a mysterious person.

Both scary and intriguing this novel is one that is hard to put down and the ending is surprising!

-Kitty Bullard / Great Minds Think Aloud Book Club
I found this book in a box of stuff from middle/high school and thought I'd give it a reread.

Wow... the cutting edge of organ transplants, people named Judy and some wild sex scenes. Probably awesome if you're in 8th grade- not so great as an adult.
excellent story about cat delaney who is a heart transplant victim and Alex Pierce who is an author - and someone trying to kill all the recipients of hearts on the same day Cat got hers. Good story - as usuall good Brown.
Typical contemporary Brown. The characters make or break her books.
A medical miracle gave TV personality Cat Delaney more than a new heart. It gave her a second chance at life. Then "fatal" accidents begin killing other heart recipients.

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Canonical title*
Als Vlinders van Vuur
Original title
Charade
Original publication date
1994-05
People/Characters
Cat Delaney; Alex Pierce
Important places
San Antonio, Texas, USA
First words
Cat, wake up!
Last words
(Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)But she had quite a lot to do with yours.
Original language
English
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Fiction and Literature, Romance
DDC/MDS
813.54Literature & rhetoricAmerican literature in EnglishAmerican fiction in English1900-19991945-1999
LCC
PS3552 .R718 .C53Language and LiteratureAmerican literatureAmerican literatureIndividual authors1961-
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