title: Better Off Dead
author:  Meryl Sawyer 
description: Too many coincidences mar Sawyers newest romantic suspense novel (after Lady Killer). Samantha Robbins, the former assistant to the CFO at the military supply company PowerTec, has gone into the federal witness protection program after exposing business irregularities at her company. But PowerTec is the least of her worries; a nasty operative for Obelisk, a shadowy organization that steals military technology, has sent a hired gun after her, believing she discovered something dangerous that could destroy Obelisk. When the Feds relocate Samantha from Sante Fe to Hawaii as "Devon," she meets Chad, a handsome but secretive Delta Force officer doing underwater forensics as well as weapons testing (off the record) for his old Defense Department boss. His suspicious nature and top-secret work with a next-generation infrared device, along with her evasiveness and own fears, play well off of each other. Is she after the device, and if not, what is she hiding? Is he after her? If he isnt, will he be killed by association? The protagonists are believably attracted to each other despite their fears, but the story begins to crumble around them as disjointed elements start coalescing in increasingly unbelievable ways. Worst of all, Devons moment of truth, when she finally reveals all to Chad, is remarkably anticlimactic. In the end, this book offers readers plenty of buildup, but very little payoff.<br />Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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  ## Truly, Madly, Deadly
  
  
    
  
  
  ### Hannah Jayne
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  They Said It Was An Accident...
  
  
  Sawyer Dodd is a star athlete, a straight-A student, and the envy of every
  other girl who wants to date Kevin Anderson. When Kevin dies in a tragic car
  crash, Sawyer is stunned. Then she opens her locker to find a note:
  
  
  
  
  
  _You're welcome._
  
  
  
  
  
  Someone saw what he did to her. Someone knows that Sawyer and Kevin weren't
  the perfect couple they seemed to be. And that someone—a killer—is now
  shadowing Sawyer's every move...
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## Truly, Madly, Deadly
  
  
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  ## Hannah Jayne
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  To my mother, who probably doesn’t know that the fact that she went after her
  dream gave me the courage to go after my own.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  “Thank you for coming.”
  
  
  The words rose and fell on the soft pile carpet, and Sawyer wondered whether
  she should brush the small ball of fuzz from Kevin’s earlobe. 