Joy Fielding

Two brothers -- Will and Jeff -- and their friend Tom are out one night at their favorite South Beach bar, the Wild Zone, and decide to make a bet on who can be the first to seduce a mysterious-looking young woman drinking by herself. Pretty, dark-haired, blue-eyed Suzy has an innocent, almost ordinary girl-next-door way about her. Little do the friends know that their harmless bet is about to take on a life of its own, a life full of deadly consequences...

When Joanne's husband walks out of her life, she thinks she will never again feel more lost and vulnerable until she finds herself stalked by an unseen killer with no one to turn to for help.

A husband's threat to his wife, uttered during their divorce and childcustody suit, comes true when, after taking the children for the weekend as he is legally entitled to do, he fails to bring them back.

"A successful news producer with a bright future, Jill Plumley decides to forsake her career in favor of her new role, the devoted wife of her lawyer husband, David. One day, while at David's company party, a sexy young student named Nicole boldly tells Jill that she's going to steal her husband, a courageous yet ironic assertion, considering that four years prior, Jill stole David away from his first wife." --