Books with author Betty A. Smith

Meet Annie McGairy Brown, the heroine of this extraordinary novel which critics have called a literary miracle. She's only eighteen and very, very pretty. The world naturally tries its best to corrup her, but she'd not having any part of it. Annie is the possessor of a marvelous secret - the secret meaning of life with stubborn Irish courage - of refusing to be beaten by an adverse turn of fortune.

Caught between the delicate line of justice and revenge, a twisted mastermind arbitrarily chooses a group of friends to act as human pawns in his own personal game. Employing gruelling adversaries and arduous obstacles, the villain presents the group with two options: success or death. On their desperate mission for survival, the friends are soon confronted by betrayal and propelled into a world of crime with nothing but the faint promise of redemption and the slimmer chance at capturing the culprit. As individuals reach the absolute edge of their wits and secrets threaten to tear the group apart, the only possible salvation lies in the fact that misfortune had nothing to do with their choosing. And as they struggle to navigate this web of deceit they realize that the mastermind they seek may be much closer than they think...