title: Seven Hours: Challenge Accepted
author:  Angelina Kerner 
description: <span>"What would it be like to be born blind and, after 19 years, begin to see? This is a theme Angelina Kerner explores in her novella, Seven Hours. A light, enjoyable read, primarily aimed at teens or young adults, Angelina Kerner builds her story around 19-year-old Chanel. Chanel has lived very well with her disability over the years, has a couple of good friends to assist her when necessary, and gets out and about relatively easily. Nonetheless, her newsworthy parents decide she needs a bodyguard, and hire Leon to protect her against paparazzi onslaughts. Chanel is angered by what she sees as an affront to her independence. She deems it unnecessary babying. But despite herself, and for more reasons than the protection he provides, Chanel comes to love Leon.</span><br /><br /><span>While the romantic angle of Seven Hours will appeal to young readers, one would hope they will also be caught up in Kerner's exploration of what it feels like for a blind person beginning to see people and the world around her/him for the first time. Eyesight is something the sighted take for granted, but through this little story we are forced to look at the world through the eyes of a blind person. What a different world one experiences when all is black. At one point, Chanel asks Leon to describe his eyes. How do you describe eyes to someone who can't even see shapes or colour? When Chanel's girlfriend, Bridgette, says her nail polish is orange, what is the colour "orange"? These considerations Kerner presents in Seven Hours give young readers more to think about than just another story about falling in love. An enjoyable exploration of a worthwhile theme. Well done, Angelina Kerner." -</span><span>Reviewed By Viga Boland for Readers' Favorite</span>
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  Liz Maverick
  
  Kimberly Dean
  
  Lynn LaFleur
  
  if this bed
  
  could talk
  
  Contents
  
  _Liz Maverick_
  
   _AGENT PROVOCATEUR_
  
  1
  
  _Kimberly Dean_
  
   _UNREQUITED_
  
  75
  
  _Lynn LaFleur_
  
   _VICTIM OF DECEPTION_
  
  177
  
  _Credits_
  
   _Cover_
  
   _Copyright_
  
   _About the Publisher_
  
  Liz Maverick
  
   _AGENT_
  
   _PROVOCATEUR_
  
  One
  
  They say you only get a few seconds to make a good first impression. Vienna
  James needed to make a great one.
  
  It all came down to numbers. Numbers and time. How many strikes do you have?
  How many years did you get? When should you make your move? How long do you
  give it before you run like hell?
  
  She gazed up at the shadowy figures of the men in the glass booths encircling
  the top tier of the auction round. They watched her as if they were spectators
  at a sporting event. As if she was the sport itself—with just seconds
  remaining in the final period.
  
  Numbers and time. How many men have told you in so many words that they could
  fi