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Автор: Lisa Jackson
Издательство: Ingram
Серия: An Alvarez & Pescoli Novel
Жанр произведения: Ужасы и Мистика
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      LISA JACKSON

      The Alvarez & Pescoli Series

      Left to Die

      Chosen to Die

      Born to Die

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      Left to Die

      Copyright © 2008 by Susan Lisa Jackson

      Chosen to Die

      Copyright © 2009 by Susan Lisa Jackson

      Born to Die

      Copyright © 2011 by Lisa Jackson LLC

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      CHOSEN TO DIE

      Jillian remembered someone near her car at the accident, a dark figure hovering nearby.

      “Okay,” she said quietly. “So you heard the shot. Then what?”

      For a second, MacGregor didn’t answer and the soft hiss of the fire slipped through the room. “Then,” he finally said, “there was the sound of the crash.”

      Her throat turned to sand. Memories of the car’s horrific spin and plunge through the dusky canyon cut through her mind.

      “Yes,” she said hoarsely.

      MacGregor came a little closer, closing the distance between them. “Do you think you were a target?” he asked again.

      “I…yeah, I think so,” Jillian said.

      “And who would be out in the middle of the worst storm in a decade, lying in wait with a rifle, ready for target practice? Tell me, Jillian,” he insisted, near enough now that she could feel the heat of his body. “Who do you think would want to kill you?”

      Books by Lisa Jackson

      Stand-Alones

      SEE HOW SHE DIES

      FINAL SCREAM

      RUNNING SCARED

      WHISPERS

      TWICE KISSED

      UNSPOKEN

      DEEP FREEZE

      FATAL BURN

      MOST LIKELY TO DIE

      WICKED GAME

      WICKED LIES

      WITHOUT MERCY

      Anthony Paterno / Cahill Family novels

      IF SHE ONLY KNEW

      ALMOST DEAD

      Rick Bentz/ Reuben Montoya novels

      HOT BLOODED

      COLD BLOODED

      SHIVER

      ABSOLUTE FEAR

      LOST SOULS

      MALICE

      DEVIOUS

      Pierce Reed / Nikki Gillette novels

      THE NIGHT BEFORE

      THE MORNING AFTER

      Selena Alvarez / Regan Pescoli novels

      LEFT TO DIE

      CHOSEN TO DIE

      BORN TO DIE

      Left to Die

      Lisa Jackson

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      Contents

      Acknowledgments

      Prologue

      Chapter One

      Chapter Two

      Chapter Three

      Chapter Four

      Chapter Five

      Chapter Six

      Chapter Seven

      Chapter Eight

      Chapter Nine

      Chapter Ten

      Chapter Eleven

      Chapter Twelve

      Chapter Thirteen

      Chapter Fourteen

      Chapter Fifteen

      Chapter Sixteen

      Chapter Seventeen

      Chapter Eighteen

      Chapter Nineteen

      Chapter Twenty

      Chapter Twenty-One

      Chapter Twenty-Two

      Chapter Twenty-Three

      Chapter Twenty-Four

      Chapter Twenty-Five

      Chapter Twenty-Six

      Chapter Twenty-Seven

      Chapter Twenty-Eight

      Chapter Twenty-Nine

      Chapter Thirty

      Chapter Thirty-One

      Epilogue

      Acknowledgments

      Dozens of people helped me with the creation, writing and research for this book. I’m sure I won’t remember them all, but I would like to thank the following individuals for their time, effort, support and, as always, sense of humor while the author sometimes lost hers:

      Ken Bush, Nancy Bush, Matthew Crose, Michael Crose, Kelly Foster, Marilyn Katcher, Ken Melum, Roz Noonan, Gayle Nachtigal, Fred Nachtigal, Mike Seidel, Larry Sparks, Niki Wilkins and probably a zillion others who remain nameless.

      Prologue

      Bitterroot Mountains, Montana

       November

      He’s going to kill you.

      Right here in the middle of this snow-covered godforsaken valley, he’s going to kill you! Fight, Wendy, fight!

      Wendy Ito struggled, battling with the ropes that cut into her bare flesh, feeling the sting of a fierce arctic wind as it howled through the mountain ridges that surrounded them.

      She was alone. Aside from the psychopath who had captured her.

      God, why had she trusted him?

      How in the world had she thought that he was her rescuer? That his mission was to heal her until, after the blizzard, he could call for help or take her to the nearest hospital?

      Had