A Topaz for My Fair Lady — Jane Toombs

The Topaz brooch was the icy key to her former life - and death.

They Told Her She Was Dead!

Risa had awakened to a nightmare. Knocked unconscious in a minor accident only moments before, now, somehow, her whole life had changed. The man beside her was a total stranger. She didn't recognize her surroundings, her clothing -- even her face looked different.

There had to be an answer. That's what she thought until she arrived home to the most horrifying shock of all she had been dead for a year! Was she going mad? Only a strange family heirloom, a topaz brooch, could solve the mystery. But once Risa let it open the door to the forgotten past -- it would unleash a terror she would never forget....

JEWEL OF HORROR

Images swirled through Risa's mind. She saw Rory beside her, twisting the wheel of the Ferrari expertly. Rory was with her and everything was like it had been, everything was all right.

Then slowly a sense of unease grew in her chest; she couldn't breathe. Is she turned her head she'd see Rory beside her, of course it was Rory, she wouldn't bother to look. But she had to.

Suddenly the steering wheel was under her own hands. She was riding with a stranger, blood pouring out…