Books SINK OR SWIM Coming 12/2010 More about the Book Read an Excerpt For Book Clubs: Reader’s Guide When reality TV turns to murder, it's sink, swim or die. Ambitious personal trainer Cassidy Novak has gained national fame for starring on Sink or Swim, nicknamed SOS, a hit reality game show set aboard a Tall Ship. She hopes the prize money will help to launch her dream of owning a chain of fitness centers.

Not only does she lose the competition and have to walk the plank in the finale, after the game show ends, the terror begins. Upon returning to her small Massachusetts hometown, Cassidy discovers she has attracted a stalker masterminding his own twisted game. She struggles to focus on her health club job and celebrity endorsement opportunities, but her stalker has other plans. As her former competitors get knocked off one-by-one, Cassidy refuses to play by his bizarre rules.

She's also being shadowed by hunky photographer Zach Gallagher, who has been assigned to capture her personal moments for a spread in the local newspaper. She wants to trust Zach, but fears he may not be the nice guy that he seems. With or without Zach's help, when the stalker forces a showdown by threatening her family, Cassidy must once again walk the plank - this time for her life.

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Should we dig for the truth when Pandora's Box is a coffin of buried secrets?

Kris Langley has always been obsessed with murder. She blames herself for the violent death of her cousin when they were kids and has let guilt invade every corner of her existence.

Now an editorial assistant and obit writer for a Massachusetts newspaper, Kris stumbles across an unsolved murder while compiling “25 Years Ago Today” items from the microfilm. She grows fascinated with the cold case of a young cocktail waitress who was bludgeoned to death and dumped in the woods. Determined to solve the case and atone for the death of her cousin, Kris immerses herself in the mystery of what happened to Diana Ferguson, a talented artist who expressed herself through haunting paintings of Greek mythology.

Not only does Kris face resistance from her family and her managing editor, she also clashes with Diana’s suspicious nephew, Eric Soares – until neither she nor Eric can deny the chemistry flaring between them.

She soon learns that old news never leaves the morgue and that yesterday's headline is tomorrow's danger, for finding out the truth about that night twenty-five years ago may shatter Kris’s present, costing her love, her career, and ultimately, her life.

FACE-OFF ISBN-10: 0380768631 ISBN-13: 978-0380768639 ©1992 by Stacy Drumtra Published by Avon Flare Out-of-print but has limited availability from used booksellers BUY THE BOOK

What might have been a dream come true has turned into a nightmare. Brad’s twin brother T.J. has gotten himself out of the fancy prep school his father picked for him and into the public high school Brad attends. Now T.J., the bright light in his father’s eyes, is a shining new star on the hockey team where Brad once held the spotlight. And he’s testing his popularity with Brad’s friends, eyeing Brad’s girl and competing to be captain of the team.

The whole school is rooting for a big double-strength win…not knowing that their twin hockey stars are heating up the ice for a winner takes all face-off.

The Hockey Hall of Fame’s Junior Education Program has included Face-Off on its recommended reading list for the junior and intermediate levels. The Education Program is designed to assist schools in planning a class trip to the museum in Toronto.

This book was recommended in the sports category of Best Books for Young Teen Readers: Grades 7-10 by John T. Gillespie.

Booklist: “Hockey fans will be attracted by the cover and held by the game descriptions, and those who like realistic fiction will appreciate the complexity of the boys’ home life, with battling parents, hero-worshipping younger siblings and a father who expects too little of one twin and too much of the other. A good read for both proficient and reluctant readers.”

VOYA: “Lots of action and emotional upheaval ensure that this will be a popular book for boys as well as girls. This reviewer’s YA Book Review Group gave it nine points out of a possible ten for ‘Good Read’ status.”

Kliatt: “This book is an Avon Flare Competition Winner, which means that its author is a teenager. Two sentences about her at the end of the book indicate that she is a college student who enjoys sports as well as writing. She certainly seems to know a lot about ice hockey. With lots of sports action and only 117 pages, the book has appeal for reluctant readers.”

Review & React:: "This book is about hockey, but it is about more than that, too. It also shows how parents can impact their kids' life and how to deal with change... This book reminds me of Miracle."
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Stacy is hoping to update and re-release a new edition of Face-Off and to publish its never-before-seen sequel Offsides. If you have read Face-Off and have suggestions about ways to update the book for today’s generation of young adult readers, she’d love to hear your ideas at: