title: Danger at Her Door
author:  Beth Cornelison 
description: Award-winning author Beth Cornelison has been writing stories since she was a child. A University of Georgia graduate, Cornelison worked in Public Relationsbefore becoming a full-time writer. She has won many honors for her writing, including the coveted Golden Heart, awarded by the Romance Writers of America. Shelives in Louisiana with her husband and son. For more information, visit her website at www.bethcornelison.com.
zlib_text: > > Caught (2010)
  
  > > Coben, Harlan
  
    
   **Published:** | 2010  
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  _**Caught**_
  
   _ **Harlan Coben**_
  
   _ *****_
  
  PROLOGUE:
  
  I KNEW opening that red door would destroy my life.
  
  Yes, that sounds melodramatic and full of foreboding and I'm not big on
  either, and true, there was nothing menacing about the red door. In fact, the
  door was beyond ordinary, wood and fourpaneled, the kind of door you see
  standing guard in front of three out of every four suburban homes, with faded
  paint and a knocker at chest level no one ever used and a faux brass knob.
  
  But as I walked toward it, a distant streetlight barely illuminating my way,
  the dark opening yawning like a mouth ready to gobble me whole, the feeling of
  doom was unshakable. Each step forward took great effort, as if I were walking
  not along a somewhat crackled walk but through still-wet cement. My body
  displayed all the classic symptoms of impending menace: Chill down my spine?
  Check. Hairs standing up on my arms? Yep. Prickl