You'll want to read these inspiring titles by
Lurlene McDaniel
Angels in Pink
Kathleen's Story • Raina's Story • Holly's Story
One Last Wish novels
Mourning Song • A Time to Die
Mother, Help Me Live • Someone Dies, Someone Lives
Sixteen and Dying • Let Him Live
The Legacy: Making Wishes Come True • Please Don't Die
She Died Too Young • All the Days of Her Life
A Season for Goodbye • Reach for Tomorrow
Other fiction
Hit and Run
Briana's Gift
Letting Go of Lisa
The Time Capsule
Garden of Angels
A Rose for Melinda
Telling Christina Goodbye
How Do I Love Thee: Three Stories
To Live Again
Angel of Mercy • Angel of Hope
Starry, Starry Night: Three Holiday Stories
The Girl Death Left Behind
Angels Watching Over Me
Lifted Up by Angels • Until Angels Close My Eyes
I'll Be Seeing You
Saving Jessica
Don't Die, My Love
Too Young to Die
Goodbye Doesn't Mean Forever
Somewhere Between Life and Death • Time to Let Go
Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep
When Happily Ever After Ends
Baby Alicia Is Dying
From every ending comes a new beginning.…
Dedicated to the memory of
Dr. Chris Kiefer and Dr. Jim Parrish,
my teachers and my advocates
The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?
JEREMIAH 17:9, NIV
A Note from the Author: Part 1
Many of you who are familiar with my work will know that Prey is not my typical book. In fact, as it's turned out, it isn't even the book I intended to write about the subject of a female teacher involved with a male high school student. The book I planned was different from this one, but once I got into the research and actual writing of Prey, the story took on a life of its own. I hope it makes you come to conclusions, as I did.
This is a novel I felt compelled to write and one that supports my philosophy: no one gets to choose what life gives to him or her; one can only choose how one responds to these happenings. This book is a study of characters who make bad choices, choices that will follow them, even haunt them, for the rest of their lives.
Exploring the issue of relationships between female teachers and male students in a work of fiction has been illuminating, and researching the issue has been both enlightening and disturbing. Here are some facts: no uniform laws govern this issue nationwide— laws differ from state to state. The age of consent varies widely, as do judicial rulings. Punishment is meted out by judges and even juries with few specific guidelines—one state might prosecute harshly, while another might give no more than a slap on the wrist. However, one thing is certain—the number of these cases, or at least the reporting of them, is growing in our schools, both public and private.
