Sleeping beauty
By: Phillip Margolin.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: HarperTorch
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 403
Subjects: Authors -- Fiction; Crime writing -- Fiction; Serial murderers -- Fiction; Fugitives from justice -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: Miles Van Meter is on a book tour to promote his sensational bestseller, 'Sleeping beauty, ' a true-crime account of the attack by a serial killer that left his twin sister, Casey, in a coma. Tonight the audience waits to hear Miles discuss the startling developments that occurred after his book was published, which involve Ashley Spencer, the only other person who survived an attack by this merciless killer. Six years earlier, life was much simpler for seventeen-year-old Ashley, a popular high school soccer star. Then one night an intruder entered Ashley's home and murdered her father and her best friend. A scholarship to the Oregon Academy, an elite private school with a top-notch soccer program, temporarily provides solace, but tragedy strikes again and Ashley has to run for her life, unaware that the key to her survival is in the one book she's afraid to read - 'Sleeping beauty.'