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Juguemos a un juego.Tienes 24 horas para ganar. Si rompes mis reglas, ella morirá.Si llamas a la policía, ella morirá. Si lo cuentas, ella morirá.Preparada?Cuando Crystal Donovan recibe en su teléfono un mensaje acompañado de un vídeo en el que se ve a su hermana pequeña atada y amordazada, accede a seguirle el juego al secuestrador. Al principio, recibe instrucciones tan peculiares como dispares: robar un examen y meterlo en una taquilla del instituto, hornear un postre, hacer una llamada de broma?Sin embargo, Crystal no tarda en darse cuenta de que cada una de estas indicaciones ha sido diseñada para herir e incluso matar a sus amigos, y puede que, si se niega a jugar, su hermana no viva para contarlo. Con qué propósito cometería alguien semejante barbaridad? Podría esto guardar relación con el torneo de videojuegos en el que Crystal y su pandilla participan, y cuya esperada final se está a punto de disputar? O quizás con un secreto por mucho tiempo enterrado?Mie

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Let's play a game. You have 24 hours to win. If you break my rules, she dies. If you call the police, she dies. If you tell your parents or anyone else, she dies. Are you ready? When Crystal Donavan gets a message on a mysterious app with a picture of her little sister gagged and bound, she agrees to play the kidnapper's game. At first, they make her complete bizarre tasks: steal a test and stuff it in a locker, bake brownies, make a prank call. But then Crystal realizes that each task is meant to hurt-and kill-her friends, one by one. But if she refuses to play, the kidnapper will kill her sister. Is someone trying to take her team out of the running for a gaming tournament? Or have they uncovered a secret from their past, and wants them to pay for what they did... Author of All Your Twisted Secrets, Diana Urban's explosive sophomore novel, These Deadly Games, will keep you riveted until the final twist is revealed.

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A thrilling debut, reminiscent of new fan favorites like One of Us Is Lying and the beloved classics by Agatha Christie, that will leave readers guessing until the explosive ending. “Welcome to dinner, and again, congratulations on being selected. Now you must do the selecting.”What do the queen bee, star athlete, valedictorian, stoner, loner, and music geek all have in common? They were all invited to a scholarship dinner, only to discover it’s a trap. Someone has locked them into a room with a bomb, a syringe filled with poison, and a note saying they have an hour to pick someone to kill...or else everyone dies.Amber Prescott is determined to get her classmates and herself out of the room alive, but that might be easier said than done. No one knows how they’re all connected or who would want them dead.As they retrace the events over the past year that might have triggered their captor’s ultimatum, it becomes clear that everyone is hiding something.And with the clock ticking down, confusion turns into fear, and fear morphs into panic as they race to answer the biggest question: Who will they choose to die?

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An epic survival-thriller about four teens who get lost in the Paris catacombs for days - a gripping and propulsive story of love, danger, betrayal, and hope even when all seems lost.

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