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Danger, desire, second chances, and unexpected romanceβ€”discover this month’s Fresh Fiction Featured Books.

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She’s the lady everyone overlooks. He’s the prince who can’t look away.

THE PRADA PARADOX

The Prada Paradox, April 2007
Play-Survive-Win trilogy, book 3
by Julie Kenner

Downstream Publishing
Featuring: Devi Taylor; Blake Atwood
352 pages
ISBN: 0743496159
EAN: 9780743496155
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"Exciting conclusion to this suspenseful romance series."

Fresh Fiction Review

THE PRADA PARADOX
Julie Kenner

Reviewed by Sabrina Marino
Posted March 15, 2007

Romance Suspense

Devi Taylor is a young actress whose career was flourishing until a crazy fan attacked her. She dropped off the Hollywood radar screen and is just now making a comeback. Devi signs a contract to portray Melanie Prescott, the character from Julie Kenner's THE GIVENCHY CODE (the first book of this trilogy). Devi is depicting Melanie in a movie script about Mel surviving a true-life Play.Survive.Win computer game.

Devi is quite the actress, capable of emotionally connecting within the scenes. After all, she's been stalked, attacked and almost killed herself. However, when the storyline becomes reality, Devi finds herself in the real-life version of the computer game. The past meets up with the present.

The man in Devi's life, the hero of the film, Blake Atwood, has mistakenly ingested the poison that was meant for Devi. Now they have 24 hours to solve the clues to find the antidote. The rules to the game are simple. There's an assassin, a protector and the target. The target, Devi, is not to have any help other than the protector. Nevertheless, Blake has a stake in the outcome; he has his life to worry about. When the mysterious person, who put Devi in the game, finds out that she's had help, someone is killed as punishment. Devi and Blake, with help from the protector, work furiously to solve the clues to save Blake.

THE PRADA PARADOX concludes this romantic suspense series. Although it contains characters from the first story of this trilogy, THE GIVENCHY CODE, it stands alone and is quite exciting in itself. Kenner does a fantastic job, and the title is so apropos.

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SUMMARY

Devi Taylor was one of Hollywood's fastest-rising starlets - - until a crazed fan held her at knifepoint and she retreated to a life of privacy and Valium. Now recovered and ready for a comeback, Devi dreams of endorsing all things Prada, whose Rodeo Drive store she can't resist. Instead, she lands the starring role in The Givenchy Code, a high-budget action-adventure flick. But with the tabloids all over Givenchy and her recent split with her drop-dead handsome costar, Blake, Devi can't shake the feeling that another crazed fan is going to strike. Then a frightening message -- "Play or Die" -- is delivered to Devi's house, and she finds herself sucked into a deadly and cryptic game not unlike the one in the movie she's starring in. Hollywood has always been her life, but does Devi know its secrets well enough to follow the cinematic clues that might save her and her favorite Prada bag?

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