title: Dangerous Passage: A Novel (Southern Crimes) (Volume 1)
author:  Lisa Harris 
description: Harris, whose Blood Covenant won Romantic Times' Best Inspirational Suspense Honor in 2011, opens her new Southern Crimes series with a novel that exposes the darkness of human trafficking. Det. Avery North discovers a serial killer at work in Atlanta when she's called to the scene of a murdera young Asian woman with a magnolia tattoo on her right shoulder, the second victim with that tattoo. As she follows the clues, Avery must also figure out her heart when it comes to dashing assistant medical examiner Jackson Bryant. Between Jackson; Avery's tween daughter; her needy family; her own heart, slowly healing after her husband's death three years earlier; and now a challenging murder case, this tough detective has her hands full. When another Asian woman goes missing, Avery and Jackson must discover the killer before he strikes again. But will love strike again for this wounded pair? Readers looking for a strong female protagonist and a unique murder mystery will find much to admire in Harris's work. Agent: Joyce Hart, Hartline Literary Agency. (Sept.)
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  **Intensity**
  
   _ **by**_
  
   **Dean Koontz**
  
  * * *
  
  Copyright 1995 by Dean R. Koontz
  
  All rights reserved under International and Pan-American
  
  Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Alfred
  
  A. Knopf, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada by
  
  Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto. Distributed by
  
  Random House, Inc., New York.
  
  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
  
  Koontz, Dean R. (Dean Ray), [date]
  
  Intensity: a novel / by Dean Koontz.-1st ed.
  
  p. cm.
  
  ISBN 0-679-42525-X
  
  I. Young women-Crimes against-Fiction.
  
  2\. Psychopaths-Fiction.
  
  I. Title.
  
  PS3561.055158 1995b
  
  813'.54-dc20 95-33591
  
  CIP
  
  Manufactured in the United States of America
  
  First Trade Edition
  
  A signed first edition of this book has been privately printed by The Franklin
  Library.
  
  * * *
  
  This book is for Florence Koontz.
  
  My mother. Long lost. My guardian.
  
  * * *
  
  _Hope is the destination that we seek._
  
   _Love is the road that leads to hope._
  
   _Courage is the motor tha