Race
With Danger
Run
for Your Life Trilogy Book 1
by
Pamela Beason
Genre:
YA Suspense, Action, Adventure
Champion
runner Tanzania Grey, 17, has to win the Verde Island Endurance
Race's million-dollar prize to save the life of her friend Bailey.
The treacherous five-day race traverses a remote volcanic island
that's home to beasts that slither, fly, swim, and slink through the
jungle. But the wildlife turns out to be the least of Tana's problems
when she draws the name of Sebastian Callendro as her partner.
Sebastian's personal life has put him in the national spotlight, and
his nosy followers are the kind Tana can't afford. Her name isn't
really Tanzania, and everything else in her biography is invented,
too. She’s been running for three years─from the men who murdered
her parents. If her cover is blown, she could be next.
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Race
to Truth
Run
For Your Life Trilogy Book 2
Champion endurance
racer Tanzania Grey, now 18, is haunted by disturbing email
messages from the mysterious P.A. Patterson, who seems to suspect
her real identity as Amelia Robinson. Four years earlier, she
was the only one to escape when the Robinson family was
professionally “eradicated” in Bellingham, Washington.
When Tana receives
an invitation to compete in an extreme version of the Ski to Sea
relay in her home town, she decides to use the race as a cover
to gather information about who killed her mother and
father, and what became of her then-nine-year-old brother.
Tana soon discovers
clues that hint of something terribly wrong in the company her
mother helped to create, Quarrel Tayson Laboratories. Worse, her
sleuthing attracts the attention of a very frightening man in
Bellingham, who knew both her parents. It now seems more a matter of
“when” than “if” she will be the next to be killed. Can she
turn the tables and reveal who was behind the death of her
parents before she becomes their next victim?
Race
For Justice
Run
For Your Life Trilogy Book 3
When
champion runner Tanzania “Tana” Grey receives a mysterious
invitation to the Extreme Africa Endurance Challenge, she fears it
might be a trap. The multi-day race is in Zimbabwe, the
violence-prone homeland of her brilliant biochemist mother, who was
murdered along with Tana’s father. The killers, never apprehended,
seem to suspect that Tanzania Grey is actually Amelia Robinson, the
girl who escaped their deadly grasp. But when Tana sees a Mom
Lookalike in the promotional video for the race, she can’t say no.
She doesn’t know whether to be alarmed or delighted when her former
race partner Bash Callendro, the “love child” of the U.S.
President, arranges to run with her. Tana’s determined to find any
remaining family in Africa, and expose the secrets that led to her
parents’ deaths. As the clues pile up, Tana realizes that her quest
for the truth could destroy not only her and Bash, but will also
endanger the lives of everyone she cares about back home.
SNEAK PEEK
The email message includes a link to a website. When I click and go
there, I am bombarded with advertising about wonderful
accommodations for racers and media and fans—exotic game lodges
and luxury hotels. There’s even a video. I click the play button and
watch a trio of lean dark-skinned runners lope along an exotic
course. Zebras graze in the distance. As the runners pass a
checkpoint, the camera zooms in on the smiles of enthusiastic fans
clustered together behind a barrier tape. Among them is a woman
photographer with curly chestnut hair pulled up into a ponytail.
With her eye pressed to a camera, she turns with the crowd, tracking
the racers. The crowd then disperses, leaving the photographer, who
lowers her camera and looks directly at whoever is filming this vid.
It feels like she’s staring into my eyes.
My heart stops. My whole body throbs with a sudden longing to throw
myself into that woman’s arms. I play the vid over and over again,
stopping it every few frames to stare at her straight nose, her curly
brown hair. When she looks up, she’s smiling, just a little with her
lips closed, like my mother did when she had a secret.
Could it be? I found my brother last year, after four years of
believing he was most likely murdered along with my mom and dad.
I saw my parents’ bodies lying in a pool of blood on our living room
floor. Could it be possible that my mother didn’t die that night? Could
she really be alive?
The woman turns away, following the crowd, and I’m not sure. Her
hair is longer and several shades lighter than my mother’s. She’s
wearing a khaki uniform that implies she’s working there.
Mom?
I know it’s too much to hope for. Maybe I no longer remember what
Mom looked like. The only picture I have is small and grainy, a photo
of her with her colleagues at work.
Videos can be altered. If my enemies suspect I’m Amelia Robinson,
then they know I have a personal connection to Africa. This
P.A. Patterson could be luring me to Zimbabwe, where I’ll be
eaten by a lion or ambushed by armed thugs, and die an easily
explained death. This might be a setup by the black-clad ninja
invaders I escaped from four years ago.
I know this might be a trap designed especially for me.
But I also know that my next race will be in Zimbabwe.
Pamela
Beason, a former private investigator, lives in the Pacific
Northwest. When she's not hard at work on another book, she explores
the natural world on foot, on cross-country skis or snowshoes, in her
kayak, or underwater scuba diving.
Pam
is the author of eleven full-length fiction works: RACE WITH DANGER,
RACE TO TRUTH, and RACE FOR JUSTICE in the Run for Your Life YA
suspense trilogy, THE ONLY WITNESS, THE ONLY CLUE, and THE ONLY ONE
LEFT in the Neema mysteries, ENDANGERED, BEAR BAIT, UNDERCURRENTS,
and BACKCOUNTRY in the Summer "Sam" Westin series, and the
romantic suspense novel SHAKEN. She's also the author of the romantic
adventure novella CALL OF THE JAGUAR, and nonfiction titles SAVE YOUR
MONEY, YOUR SANITY, AND OUR PLANET and SO YOU WANT TO BE A PI? She is
currently working on a sequel to SHAKEN and the next Sam Westin
novel.
As
an avid nature and animal lover, Pam challenges the human assumption
that we are the superior species. Each of her titles takes readers on
an adventure while reminding us that drifting through life is not
enough; you have to live it.
Pam
writes and tweets about writing, animals of all sorts, outdoor
adventures, and the value of being present in the moment. She looks
forward to connecting with readers on her website, Twitter, or
BookBub.
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